Sylvester

see here for some other figures... (near the very bottom) http://www.ecb.int/change/eurobnfaq_en.htm

Denomination Number of euro coins produced (so far to end of 2003, i think...) € 2 coin 330,760 € 1 coin 381,800 50 cent 305,400 20 cent 377,400 10 cent 195,000 5 cent 195,000 2 cent 195,000 1 cent 195,000 Complete mintage 2,175,360 Vatican have 145,000 for each denomination.

pssst, 1905 florins trust me, you don't see them.

yep those are the ones, difficult to get hold of, just like the Vatican sets. I can't believe i'm talking euros here...

I'll agree with Victorian, but if you hope to make some profit on it, do not go beyond 1919, as the silver gets debased from there. Infact i'd say the best thing to invest it on would be high grade Edward VII silver coins, halfcrowns and florins specifically.

i think it was the San Marino ones that i liked, i might be wrong, but it was one of those rare sets.

ah right, i thought you meant Geo III actually, i thought the 1826 was unrelated.

with that money you could invest in a guinea pick something not George III and it'll probably appreciate very nicely. e.g i bought a James II Half guinea for £225 a year and a half ago, it's already cataloging at £350

I hate to break it to you but George I had no sovereigns...

look out world aluminium is on the way...

i remember checking my 1953 farthing for that, (only just remembered now you mention it), sadly mine was common.

see i do have a wreath reverse crown... And it looks better than those Maklouf ones

if all else fails you'll just have to settle for one of these... http://www.omnicoin.com/coin_view.aspx?id=889341

AVF = Almost (or about) Very Fine (but not quite, has VF details though) GVF = Good Very Fine (better than very fine, but not as good as Almost EF) NVF = Near very fine is the same as almost very fine. Now for the price, right... Lets say a VF goes for $20, and an EF goes for $60. GVF would go for about $30 NEF/AEF would go for about $50 If you had an AEF with a scratch or something that slightly hinders the grade then it would be 'AEF with Scratch = $40' That make sense. It can get more complicated, especially if your in America, then you get EF40, EF45 and the like.

Yeah it was the flattened hair that was making the grading difficult. And you know i didn't notice the weak border beads either! That could mean that our coins both came from the same dies.

Sorry i don't have any George V shillings, i sold them all. I used to collect shillings but i never got round to getting a 1935, i quit before then cos i got fed up of all the English, Scottish varients...

well i'm always wondering whether it is VF or AVF? You know i've had that coin in my possession longer than i care to remember, at least 10 years, maybe a touch more. It's one of the few coins i've retained for such a long time, up until recently i still had alot of my original coins that i started out with but as my collection has moved away from those i've been selling them off. If i go on at this rather that shilling will be my oldest coin. (in terms of ownership) I like it, i know my father bought it for me, can't remember how much he paid for it, but it wouldn't have been more than £30, oh and i got given an Edward I penny free on the same day (i still have that too). No wonder why that coin shop went bust. (infact i also got a imitation Francis I ducat from there too, also free... i've still got that).

what would you grade that just out of interest? I'd say VF.

and the reverse...

Now you might think the Gothic Florin Chris sold me would be my fave modern milled coin, it is a beauty, but my fave's gotta be this one... I've had this a while.

Well no mention in Coincraft either, or in Seaby's of them changing the milling. Either it's a unrecorded minor variety, or perhaps it's a proof?

ingonre the quote above i accidentally deleted the bit i wanted to quote (but it won't let you post without some quote... ) That fine edge milling George V shilling, what's the date? Is it silver? (is it magnetic?)

It's the obverse that matters on these, in striking relation the obverse is much higher relief than the reverse, thus wear shows there first primarily. The reverse had to be in lower relief to allow the obverse to be as high as it was, otherwise you would have had clashed dies and ghosting. Funny how over different time periods they alter things differently. With EM they sacraficed the reverse for the obverse, in Modern Milled, thinking of Geo V pennies they did it the other way around, thay shrunk the effigy to prevent ghosting on the reverse. Now if the reverse had been a flatter and plainer design there wouldn't have been as much ghosting.

Ef?! Why did you buy that half guinea when you had an EF HAMMERED, ROUND groat on offer? Alright maybe GVF, sorry but it was alot more expensive than the half guinea, and the lure of James II just got to me, i also turned down a Charles II guinea that day too. Yes i bought the cheapest coin of the three.

i thought steel would be more expensive too, but i guess they're shipping it in cheap from abroad.