Geordie582

That's certainly shorter odds!

Roulette is a safer bet!

Think of all the lovely coins you could have bought with the money!

Are you going to mention the Nazi fakes?

My offer still stands!

Wonder if he'd swop for my Churchill crown valued at Oh! say, £500,000

Oxidisation used to be correct when I was a lad, but then lots of words have been shortened since then. Laziness??? By the way, you should point out that not all the caveats above apply to ancient coins!

KGB sabotaging your site, Chris???

Thought youl'd like this! Talk about "your 5 minutes of fame"! Here

They make g reat washers!

Here's the link Here

Hurrah!! It worked! That was the insert to the wallet. This is the wallet! Ignore my e-mails, Chris! Trouble with image size!!

As you probably noticed, I'm having trouble getting pictures into posts. Forgive the latest try!!

Get away! I'd never have thought of that!!!

Why not try this??? Here

Ta! for that. I'm off to the USA next week. I'll keep a look out for them. It will save me having to cut the cards down to size.

It looks as though Charles was up all night!

Gulp!!

I think you are talking about the coin albums not the wallets which have pockets of about 37x37mm. The albums are for 50x50mm coin cards.

I have been toying with a method of keeping coins fairly static in the coin wallet pockets. I have bought (From Chris) some staple cpoin cards and cut each in two, then trimmed them to fit the pockets. Each resulting card has a transparent centre on which you can lay the coin to facilitate easy insertion and withdrawl. I trim the card sections to 35 x 35 mm which is the easiest size to slide in an out of the pockets. It would be great if you could buy them ready made to fit What do you think? _

I see what you mean!!

I just had this picture of a serf being paid for the month with a few silver pennies - and dropping them in the mud!

The historians claim that only the upper ruling classes used coins, but youl'd think that they would at least make them "handleable". Imagine buying land in Edward Ist reign with a chest full of hammered pennies. It must have taken quite a while to count them!!

OK! I'm getting serious now! It has puzzled me for years as to how people used the very small coins proliferating history. I mean the likes of Celtic units, Roman Quadrans and English hammered silver farthings. All of these were around 10 mm in diameter. When you think of being paid in that size coin you must wonder about how they kept the coins, in a purse or pouch etc without many losses. When you realise the value in material terms of an Edward III farthing it must have been very traumatic to lose one!! Any thoughts?

I don't think I could mount one now - and NO! I didn't ride one in my youth!