Peter

Welcome to the forum. It is the best UK formam.Members include many dealers and coin book authors.

I was at the Midland a few years ago and heard dealers saying that another dealer was trying to sell an UNC 1918 2/6 for £25 and he must be mad. I paid £2.50 each for my GV pre 1920 2/6's ranging from EF to Unc from a jeweler's. Right place at the right time. Marks coin is a beauty.

Weak strike and a £25 coin.

Like leaving half a takeaway pizza in the lounge whilst mrs Peter and my good self were out of the room and our Springer took a chance.

The benefit of CGS certifying these bad boys is you can get your money back. Alibaba have put me off collecting what they reproduce.

Nice one chaps This is what the forum is about.

What is in your medicine cabinet?

Time for a softened toothpick and cotton bud methinks.

These people are scum of the earth Invest coins got away with a fortune.

I have bought from this seller and believe him to be an honest dealer. He doesn't do fairs but does a good deal.

Buyers are too stupid to research their coins and deserve to get ripped. If you have half a brain you would steer clear of a seller that doesn't deal in coins.....or a stamp dealer with 1864 die 4 florins or a prat in Cornwall.

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/great-britain-1933-wreath-crown-copy-coins/1905369754.html These have been selling like hot cakes on ebay

I was born and grew up in Bury St Eds We have moved out to the sticks but I still hanker after Bury minted coins.

Alibaba express has a nice selection of wreath crowns which sell well on ebay. $10 is OK I think you can buy them for $2 or 3 bucks.

I'm cunning as an owl and slippery as a fox.

Get them recorded. I'm feeling good.

Go on and own up. I would of sneeked a few. The Mildenhead haul Hoard of silver...I can assure you a few bits missed the bus. Mother in law cared for the grandson. We called him model T...Google it We have eaten out a few times. He left quite a bit to MIL the fur coats were not accepted. She is now toes up but we do have a nice goblet.....maybe

I did treat myself to early serving spoons which appear once or twice a year 1810 & 30. I also bought mustard / salt /pepper pots at the same time. When I get these bad boys out the Mrs Peter and the Misses Peter's know I'm cooking on gas.

Nice looking coins. Pre Nazi get overlooked.

Och aye MCazda A very nice well presented coin.

Once it is a slab you won't see it. I've witnessed this before. Trust and integrity is missing in my opinion.

Hi Kev and welcome to the asylum. I am the Coin community recommender. Do have a good delve into the forum,raise old topics and fire any question in. None of the books mentioned are over £30 and start from just over £7. You might be able to pick them up cheaper on Amazon/ebay. With regard to 20C forgeries we only have a few dates 1905 half crown&shillings and wreath crowns 1927-34 these are live and kicking on ebay Enjoy

Breckland sandy soils throw up the best...as I know When I was working at Lakenheath we ordered 40t of type 1 to sort out safe access to the office. I found 2 Romans,5 or 6 farthings and about 10 musket balls. There was also the Saxon king on his horse within 800m

Peter Lawrence claimed varieties at every possible occasion. CC often commented a better specimen needs to come along. A nice record of dies/repaired/blocked dies would be lovely. As I said for the time being CC has probably got the best base. We can use his collection and merge in the Oxford farthing collection and throw in anything else we discover. I like to be a completest, my mile stone I reached a few years ago was every cu currency 1672 to 1956 (except for a few impossibles...1676???,1693,1718 etc) I now spend many hours sorting on dates and using Colin's fantastic resource to add a few varieties on the cheap, When a publication comes out they won't be so.

A monkey with a chisel could of done the job better. I think we must start with Nicholson for the 1/2d's and CC for the 1/4d's and improve from there. The 1d boys had Peck/Freeman/Gouby/Satin. I'm going to bed cos my head hurts.