TomGoodheart

Ah well. Welcome to Predecimal anyway. Plus it's a fun find, even though it won't make you a fortune.

I think we might need another photo I'm afraid Ritchie. Though it's not really clear it looks to me as if the edge of your coin has a 'sawtooth' pattern ^\/^/\^/\^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^ Which suggests that two coins have been thinned and stuck together. If the edge is perfect it would be interesting. But I wonder if you inspect it carefully whether it won't have a give-away seam where the edges don't exactly match? ^\/^/\^/\^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^ (Yeah, rubbish attempt but it's easier than trying to draw it!) So a good photo of the edge would help.

Bother. So am I allowed just to tell everyone that they mustn't bid on any Charles I shillings ever again instead?

And I'm only buying a shilling. Blameless!

For fffff...Bugger! Perhaps the 4 of us should email our top bids to a 3rd party, and the highest genuine bid goes forth, whilst the others bow gracefully out...no point in the winning bidder paying over the odds, eh? I'm interested in 2 of the lizzies - one to keep, one to sell! Sounds sensible! Question is .. who's going for which lots?

Basically, yes. Chris (predecimal owner) gives this brief guide: http://www.predecimal.com/grading_standards.php And of course, there's Derek's book, the Standard Guide to Grading British Coins. But remember these generally apply to later milled (machine made) coinage. Hammered (and ancients, like Roman) because they were hand made with inherent variations are a bit trickier ..

Hi and welcome Jaggy! Well, most of us probably started in a fit of enthusiasm, bought loads of tat for too much money and finally settled down to a particular area and bought some books to learn more about it. Which of course is not what you should do, but .. In the end you need to enjoy what you collect. That's more important than what, so long as it isn't silver rounds that pretend to be coins but were never designed for spending No, seriously, collect what you like! Personally I collect only a very narrow range of coins (20 years worth of a particular value). My wife says all my coins look the same! Whereas others collect good examples of any coin that takes their fancy. If you're like most of us, you'll change direction or focus a few times. And you'll make mistakes (particularly with grading, which affects price) I expect. But remember, you can always ask for advice here, even about coins you want to buy. Just post a photo and ask for opinions. Because there's no shortage of those here!

Oh dear ... and there was me hoping for a bargain!

Hmmm... databases make my system sound very basic! I have two Microsoft Works Spreadsheets, one lists coins in reference number order with prices; so effectively the total on that gives me a figure for what I've spent (and rough value of it all). The other starts with the sum I had to buy the collection and takes off the purchase amounts in the order in which I bought the coins, so gives me a 'remainder' figure, which is my budget for future purchases. And then I have a folder with photos of each coin. Any 'details' such as provenance are part of the name of the photo, can be put into the spreadsheet and of course are on the tickets I write for each coin. I also keep a separate folder with scans of purchase invoices, downloaded auction listings, that sort of thing. Simple. Like me.

So long as nobody bids on my lot, I don't mind!

If you click on azda's avatar it will take you to his profile where there's a link to send a message directly to him CVarnz. Might be quicket if he's not logged on here.

This? http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=3151&pos=27 Afghanistan silver drachm Stylised bull/ horseman. 9th century.

I have just checked my post above and an hour later I still have the facility to edit it. But what I have found is that sometimes the reply box refuses to take any text until I click on the 'toggle' switch icon I highlighted with an arrow. I wonder if AardHawk is talking about that (since, unless you know 'the trick' it would then appear that you can't reply at all) I've not had any problems with jpegs below 100KB. In fact, because photobucket has been so crap lately I've stopped linking to my photos there in preference to just resizing them and directly inserting. The only tricky step is remembering to click on the 'insert into post' button so they appear where I want. And to avoid being entirely negative about the new software (which Chris had little choice other than to change) I do like the Auto Save function as it's saved me having to retype one of my monologues on a few occasions now when my laptop has messed up!

I quite agree, edit in this new system is annoying. I'm sure when we had the old format forum, editing was simpler! While I found the edit button easily enough .., (there it is!) ^ the fact that I have to then choose that strange toggle switch (arrowed) or click on 'Use full editor' before any of what I type appears in the bloody box bemuses me. And if I want to then cut and paste part of what I've written, or if I want to highlight text in bold or italics, I have to click it again!! As for nesting urls within a picture link from the internet (which I used to be able to do quite quickly, so long as I could see the code) well, I have to rethink that each time. Why it's clunkier .. I have no idea. And as for the fact that if you try to edit too quickly it 'activates flood control' and if you leave it too long the edit function disappears ... yeah, that's irritating too!

Sadly the bust (which would be a great help in deciding what you've got) is unclear. Which of course is a numismatic term for it .. being a mess! However, I believe the reverse reads ABEL ON LVNDO[] (which is the name of the moneyer who struck it). This would make it a coin of John or Henry III as those are the only two kings he coined for. Beyond that and without a recognisable bust it's pure guesswork. But the R in HENRICVS is quite ornate and looks like the illustration in Spink for type 6c (Spink 1355) making it Henry III (1216-72) Though there are others here with more experience, so I'd wait for them to confirm or blow my idea out of the water before you view that as conclusive! Oh, and welcome to predecimal!

Looks like a short cross hammered penny, though we'd need bigger photos to identify it better. It reads HENRIC[] so a King Henry (or maybe John). About 800 - 850 years may have passed since it was made, so yeah, reasonably old.

http://www.demilked.com/coin-paintings-tales-you-lose-andre-levy/ Though didn't I hear that the US Mint already make these?

Mmmm .. when I view 'new content', threads that go beyond one page all have little boxes below with the page numbers. I click on the last one, which admittedly takes me to the top of that page. But better than 252 pages away! Alternatively (and I've not tried this) try Content I've Not Read in the pick box to the left of the main thread listings maybe? I think with the old format it was possible to display threads either to start with the first or alternatively, most recent, post. But I can't see a way to do that now ... Sorry.

Well, oddly, that's what it says here! http://www.baldwin.co.uk/coins/great-britain/siege-pieces/charles-i-carlisle-siege-shilling-1645.html?usrc=1

You should append 'Acceptable to Geoff' to the bottom of the list.

It's easily fogotten That dave has To contend with an iphone Programmed to talk German (which Surely has to be The Worst of Both Any Worlds!). hence the Odd Das Capitalisation and Quirky spellung! .

Let me guess. Lot 591. Of course. And I even had reservations because the reverse was off centre, but that clearly didn't matter to the eventual buyer. I'm just hoping it was a bit of a feeding frenzy as the market has been so lean of late. If these prices reflect a new level I'm not sure where the mid- to better end collectors (which is how I think of myself) are going to find material to keep the collection going.. .. I might have to muscle into Scott and Generic's bargain bucket game! DON'T DO IT. RESIST Let's just say 591 went to a member of this forum. I thought everyone was a member of this forum Rob! But if it's a regularly posting member, does that mean we can hope to see better photos of it in the new acquisitions thread?

Let me guess. Lot 591. Of course. And I even had reservations because the reverse was off centre, but that clearly didn't matter to the eventual buyer. I'm just hoping it was a bit of a feeding frenzy as the market has been so lean of late. If these prices reflect a new level I'm not sure where the mid- to better end collectors (which is how I think of myself) are going to find material to keep the collection going.. .. I might have to muscle into Scott and Generic's bargain bucket game!

Yeah, I just missed out on the only thing I wanted... ... by £500 ..