krasnaya_vityaz

One fascinating aspect of collecting hammered pennies from the Edward I-III period is the fascinating coins from the Lowlands of Europe and Germany which were closely modelled on the English pennies. Has anybody ever compiled a listing of lookalike coinages by nation and ruler?

Should have been around whence I was peddling my Edw I pennies, most of which were VF or better, some went for a mere £10 as recent as a couple of years ago. I sold my EF William I for only £300, I was rather disappointed by selling them on eBay.

I know I have 1920 on up complete. They are spotty back to the 1860's. I purchased 1500 of the halfpennies in one eBay purchase once. I like Pre-decimal British coins. At one time when I was in High School I more or less was responsible for paying my younger siblings allowances, they were paid in pennies, shillings etc, which they could later convert to spendable cash. £SD are my drug of choice:)

Industrial rivalries back then sometimes did resort to violence. Even business rivalries did. There was a plot on the part of one of the Directors of the East Lothian Bank to kidnap a bank inspector and drop him off on some uninhabited north sea island off of Germany. The discovery of this plot did not ingratiate the bank inspector to William Borthwick, the director of East Lothian, and only hightened the need to close the bank in the early 1820's.

If I go by numbers it would probably be the halfpenny, I have over 2700 of them. Elsewise it would be the penny which I have about 1800 of.

I'd even spend my £30 for this coin, I go for a nice portrait even over edge details. This is a pretty well centered and struck.

With regards to updates. In my 1968 reprint of the 1888 Coins of Scotland by Robertson, one of my Scottish Groats from David II is described as a unique example. Now there are approximately 5-6 of the 7 arc of the Tressure variety coins known. Still a nice rare coin, perhaps my rarest. The coin is not even described in Seaby or Coincraft.

I am still using some 1960's references for British coins. My most recent Coincrafts catalogs are only for Scotland and Ireland. I don't really need current references for British coins, after all they stopped making them in 1970!

In a lot of larger cities in North America they have a problem with "road rage" It isn't relational to anything about ethnicity etc, it is just plain aggressive people out to take out their misbeggoten childhoods out on someone on the road. I have travelled in many many countries, and have seen stupid stuff on the road in just about everyone of them. It is almost as though since the days of the pike and axe are thusly past, that we now arm ourselves with our automobiles in the quest of destructive emotional release.

How on earth did the SNP - Scottish Nationalist Party get left the otherwise fair poll? My vote was thusly nulled. It does appear at least from BBC that John Major will be re-elected in his district, but I have to wonder about his Prime Minister position being in jeopardy though.

My brother once found a 1901 Victoria Penny in a tree in a park, evidently a pocket piece, by that time and place it was long out of regular circulation.

I wouldn't want to bake any coin dated after 1919 in a pie anyway, I don't think the copper is good for you, but silver is fine in the diet, and gold even better me thinks.

The problems at Coinpeople have aggravated me to the point at which I am not looking at it as often as before. I am not a patient person, and waiting waiting waiting is not in my equation. So here I am, at pre-decimal, and even over on the Spanish speaking Numismata.org, where I need to stir up some interests.

I have heard naughtier versions of the "Maggie"

Has anybody ever seen fish scales in circulation? Ie the silver threenubs?

The only bit of decimalisation that I remember is when the tanners were finally demonetised in 1980, and it sent people to hoarding them. Including me.

Not sure exactly, but one thing I am sure of, not long enough to see all I want to see.

Contacting ebaY, might as well go out and bark at the moon IMHO, they are a venue they say, not more, not less. Actually less IMHO. The coin did show in my post box a few minutes ago, £3 I paid for postage, and ins. but only a first class stamp and no insurance etc. Another dipsy seller added to my blocked seller list.

Actually I am coming over on an education exchange, I will be spending most of my time in Oxford and next winter or spring.

At this very moment I have a negative eBay buying situation, paid via paypal 10 minutes after the auction closed, two weeks later, no coin, nothing communicative from seller etc. I could leave a negative, but I see that he is the retaliatory idiot type so it is fruitless. £9 down the tubers I am afraid.

I look forward to images in a certain section, but don't care to divulge my interests, for fear of others looking at it and buying out from under me! Very very nice offerings, sooo tempting thus.

I think I will miss Coincraft during my stay in London, but do plan on some other numismatic pursuits. Unfortunately the Phoenix have given me a rather less than desirous impression of said Coincraft. I do believe the BoE will be on my agenda though:)

Yikees, I shouldna looked at a certain portion of the site which have more of a certain item than I have seen anywhere else of late.

Righto, very very nice stuff, I like the 1818 Crown and the 1820 Shilling particularly so.

I was interviewed by Fred MacCauley on Radio Scotland about Scottish banknotes in February 2003. Then I was quoted in in an article in the Sunday Post about same.