declanwmagee

I think if I was a genuine coinie in Kazan, I'd move. You just wouldn't stand a chance, would you?

True, I believe. The adjective comes from a troublesome Irish family who lived in London in the C19th I think...

By the mid 60's virtually all the KNs had been lifted from circulation, worn specimens are probably now commoner than the RM strikings. I only ever found one 1926ME and one 1897 High Tide in circulation. The latter much rare than the 2mm, but catalogues less in Spink - odd, expect it's the demand thing for a better known, easier to spot variety David Talking of which... 2mm Penny not been spotted

In the mid 1980s I used to go into a coin shop in Reading most Saturdays; unfold my little list of what I needed and spend what was, to me at 18/19 years old, significant amounts. I was a scruffy little chap in a leather jacket in them days. Got my first 1926ME penny there. If anyone knows Reading it was the one on Castle Street, not the one on the Oxford Road. According to Google street view, it's still there! The Berkshire Stamp, Coin, Model and Card centre. Anyone know it? Who knows, whoever it is might even be on this forum, and I'm sure they'll be a familiar ebay name.

Yes. I used to to be shy of giving eBay sellers a slap, but not any more. I sent back a '63 UNC set yesterday because there was unmentionmed green corrosion on 'em. No mercy these days; having said that, I'm still 99% satisfied, just more careful.

Another new one to find, wait a minute mine's like that a well, now to find a normal one. Wait all of mine are the H errors arrrrr is going to take forever to get them all in the normal H. ah, good! I've just gone through exactly the same thought process...

Halfcrown Russ, tenner if you do it on a Sunday night!

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.