declanwmagee

let the market decide....ebay, 99p start. It's the only way.

of course, his relationship with the Oranje-Nassau Dutch banking family is pure coincidence...remind me again when the bank of England was established?

...and please don't hold your coins like that! Finger prints tend to be permanent...hold them by the edge as if they were made of rice paper

damn we're good

I think you're right, Colin. the font, although reversed, looks more like that from post 1860 bronze than the BRITT on that 1848 farthing. If it was a brockage, it would have been pressed against an identical coin...

Coin diameter; 34mm Penny, 28mm Halfpenny and 22mm Farthing THANX BUT HOW DO I MEASURE THE COIN, AND HOW DO I UPLOAD A PIC AS ITS SAYING FILE TO LARGE, THANX BRY best way is to put the pic on a third party photo hosting site like Photobucket or flickr, then when you post you can put the URL of the photo in using the little picture frame button at the top... Measure the coin at it's widest point with a ruler - doesn't have to be massively accurate (it won't be anyway!) but you should be able to tell easily whether its 22, 28, or 34mm across.

That's unlike you Dave I know where you are coming from, but the couple of farthings I have slabbed are 85's and they are very nice coins, with great eye appeal, so a 90 must be the dogs danglies!!! I dread to think what a 99 must be like......holy grail material as it should be. Even most 1967 pennies aren't real BUs

I'm taking mitage figures off now too. They give a false idea of occurrence. If I say 23m of a coin were issued, people are going to think there's 23m of them out there, and we know that's not the case!

Do you think you'd have noticed it if you hadn't been interested in coins, Rob? Doesn't the Universe do funny things sometimes?

Well what about that! I just took an executive decision for my coins on eBay that I wasn't going to give grades anymore unless they are aUNC or UNC. With the misuse of grades out there, being eBay stingiest grader is not a very clever thing to be. thank you Sylvester, you have given me one of those unexpected confirmations!

Here's a thumping good read... The Complete Guide to the British Colonial Three Halfpence

You're absolutely right, the more I think about this one, the more I disagree with my original, instinctual view. Something to do with trawling through ebay too much, and wishing all the coins on it were the coins I'm interested in! I like the 1970 schoolboy thing - I caught myself thinking about it while I was feeding the cows this afternoon, and imagining a stuffy old Victorian collector in about 1862 who can't be doing with this modern bronze rubbish. "Pah! Proper coins are copper!" Imagine what he would have thought of the microvarieties of 1860 and 1861...

that would be the London Mint then, as opposed to the Royal Mint (no relation!). You'd be amazed at how many people thought they wdere dealing with the people that made the coins in the first place. They are not!

Quite right, Sir! Think of me if you stumble upon them, though!

wow. He used to buy stuff off me - he's gone up in the world!

any spare change, Guv? Hey that's an altruistic idea...

be a laugh though, wouldn't it? I bet a lot of people wouldn't accept one for £2!

lol If I'm honest I would never pay that amount for a 5p Coin. Rarity or not. If I were to find one in my change then that would be a different matter, it could go with my other Decimal Coins in my collection, but I would never personally purchase one. I'm with you, RobJ. I'm not sure I'd be happy selling one either. Someone said recently on this forum that finding interesting stuff in change was coin collecting at its purest - I like that. Equally, fishing things out of change and flogging them on eBay has to be coin collecting at its least pure.

Spend 'em! That way those who are interested will find 'em; those who aren't, won't. Just don't give 'em back to a bank...

Yes, it's interesting to see which coins have eluded me. After 5 years or so of buying whatever comes up first, so long as it was better than I had, there are distinct gaps. If they had turned up, I would have bought them, so they obviously just didn't show. Time to get a bit more deliberate in my purchasing this year...as well as getting on some mailing lists. It's worth contacting a few old school dealers who not only are not on eBay, but aren't even on the internet, I think.

I'm fairly amazed you have a computer with an internet connection! Still, you obviously have your priorities worked out Wireless can be a bit flaky through 60 yards of wet trees sometimes, but it works. We'll have to get a bit more imaginative one day when we get our little piece of land. Then we'll have to learn how to make our own electrickery, and I think you can do something with satellites for internet. I have seen someone who made a dish from a wok. Wi-Fry?

Ouch. I bought about half a dozen from Paul Wincott for around £2 apiece 10 years or so ago. I'm sure I might still have a spare one somewhere. I'd love to buy one from you, Mr Peckris! I could put ex-Paul Wincott in my database somewhere... My memory was good - it WAS PW and it WAS £2 apiece. Now, the question is... where are they? I will have a look sometime but don't hold your breath just yet! Hold on, didn't you say you just bought one? I did, yes, but you can always find a better UNC. The fact that it's taken me this long to get one indicates that I shouldn't turn down another. 2 come along at once, etc - often happens!

No doubt it will some form of a 'Micro Implant' embedded somewhere in our bodies. Perish the thought! it's started already: I just spent all morning trying to buy car insurance with a cheque. They think you're some kind of nutter if you don't use plastic. By the 4th or 5th phone call I start to get a bit silly with these people, so I told Craig in a Glasgow call centre that I didn't even have a barcode tattooed on my forehead. He said "No, you won't need that till next year!" Didn't have the heart to tell him we haven't got a postcode, a mobile phone or a landline, an employer, a landlord or a taxman. I think his paradigm may have shattered...

Ouch. I bought about half a dozen from Paul Wincott for around £2 apiece 10 years or so ago. I'm sure I might still have a spare one somewhere. I'd love to buy one from you, Mr Peckris! I could put ex-Paul Wincott in my database somewhere...

Well, would you believe it. I just did a trawl through a load of online dealers lists to get familiar with who sells what, off-ebay, and came across our own Predecimal selling a BU 1958 sixpence for £3. Mental note made, I finished the exercise, and with a few things noted out there to come back to, I came back to the '58. Bloody gone! I bet it's been there for months, and me rattling on about them got it sold! Me and my big mouth.