Geordie582

Congratulations Oli! Well done. Sorry, I don't know of any coins shops, but I haven't been in the area for around 8 years!

http://www.predecimal.com/forum//index.php...&cmd=si&img=363 Hope you all keep your 6d's in a suitable designer housing - like mine!

for an expaination of Jettons and further reading try http://www.mernick.co.uk/jetton/index.htm Entering 'Jetton' in Google will give you many sites to look at!

E-bay has removed the item for sale. Good for them - this time

Great sites, Hussulo. Some of the Roman pictures are especially of interest to me, as are the Byzantine. They've solved a few problems for me!

I've always asked - Who grades the graders in these comercial companies?

Nice spin! Having lessons from Tony Blair?

A nice picture of motherhood. What's shocking?

I assume the gentleman in question has been blocked, Chris?

The spine lets all of these 'soft back' books down. My copy of Wren's 'English Long Cross Pennies' fell apart within a month ( mind you I'm always refering to it) so now it's in a ring binder folder after I took it apart, page by page, and punched the required holes!

I have been searching for an authoratative reference for the size and weights of hammered coins. You can find ready references for milled, the Colchester site for one, but only passing, rare information on hammered. So far I've perused all the Rotographic publications (sorry Chris), Spinks, North Coincraft, Wren, Brooke, Linecar and even Coffin ( mainly US collecting for those puzzled), without more than the occasional passing reference. As, once you get onto Penny, Halfpenny and Farthing comparisons and throw in the various re-coinages and reigns, things do seem to be very vague Anyone know of a good site or publication for this data? I would have thought that reference books on coins would have classed this information as basic. What are your thoughts?

My opinion, of course! Just noticed! The 'posts' clock seems to have stopped!

Not really! Sometimes I'm right

Just to muddy the waters a bit! After more research I've found that only Class 9b were minted at Exeter and the obverse of my coin would be more likely to be Class2a! Further I got the image above after trawling the net, and the'X' is a simple saltire. So it looks as though my coin IS York (with a sloppy moneyer etching the reverse)

The difference is so great I think I'll have to reclassify it as Exeter - that is until further information comes to hand.

Obverse Reverse Perhaps if I show the Obverse and Reverse of the same coin so you can compare the 'B' in 'HYB' with the supposed 'B' on the reverse then you'll appreciate my problem!

Exeter was spelt EXONIE Quartered that is CIVI/TAS/EXO/NIE Hence my doubts. That B looks strange (if it is a B!) As an afterthought - I've always put Medieval Coins in this Ancient Forum but it doesn't really sit well. However there seems to be no other home for them!

Edward I I have had this coin listed as York mint for a long while, but on one of my many browsing sessions, I noticed the 'B' of 'EBO' seemed to be more like an 'X' which puts it as Exeter mint. What do you think? (That's the trouble with coins with important information missing!)

This site is helpful - but you'll have to work it out yourself! http://www.johnowensmith.co.uk/histdate/moneyval.htm

Another way to think is - If you have a collection on display it can't be worth stealing Mine is in a small coin cabinet and scrutinised almost daily. I could't have it any other way.

Intermittent faults on computers are almost impossible to find without long (and expensive) attention. I wouldn't trust it any more. Even with back-up, you could be in the middle of something important when it decides to teach you a lesson! Caveat!

Great Stuff Chris! It's nice to hear good things - especially after watching the new on TV!

Leave him alone! If he wants to talk to cows, let him. After all Prince Charles talks to flowers

Welcome to the mad-house Can you take a picture and post it?

AS I have claimed a number of time, my avatar is a Stater of King Arthur. At least that's what I claim, until someone contradicts me I have been trying to identify this intreguing little scyphate coin for a couple of years but all leads have proved unsatisfactory. Using it as an avatar is a way of keeping it "in your face" in the hopes that someone PM's me with all the 'gen'