Sylvester

If it's got a mintmark then it must be one of the later Edwards... i didn't think Edward's I & II had mintmarks...

i agree i always though the monarch thing was pointless too...

Are you thinking what i'm thinking Chris... hmm 1967 halfpennies? Oww 1965 Churchies?

See the previous post now... I like blue and gold together... i like dark green with bright light green and a bit of red... can look classy if done right, can look totally naff if not. I'm a sucker for dark colours though... i like dark greens. The thing is to catch people's attention on book shelves you need contrasting colours (they usually don't go together, but if they did you wouldn't see the book, it blend in). Black and light blue go well. So does black and pink. Mind you black goes with anything really... except puce.

Oh white... Erm i'll have to get back to you on that one...

Actually if we come to it, i find lighter blues warmer and darker blues colder... You have to watch me though i use light blue liberally cos i like the colour... don't get me started on purple... i could have done the whole thing in about 14 shades of purple... (like my bedrooms) Notice the lack of white, it's not a colour i would use (i avoid it if possible)

that's what i was thinking, how about blue and orange, just like this forum? But i was thinking the blue might make it a little too overpowering, it's bright enought with the orangified Florin and the bright orange back grout, i thought a darker colour somewhere might prevent it burning people's eyes out... wouldn't want them sueing now would we? But i figured that aso Collector's Coins has being using blue for some time now so perhaps a total break? (The 2004's blue and white isn't it? i'm sure the 1992 one was blue too)

I did think of doing it yellow but i thought it might look a bit cheap... (yellow always looks cheap to me). I just saw my 1993 Seaby catalogue which was just bright orange, nothing more nothing less just orange... So i thought i'd experiment with orange... i kinda like it, but i like orange so i would. Feel free to change the brown for black.

I think nothing works as well as orange for grabbing people's attention. Although they say blue is the first colour the human brain recognises.

Alright how about now (look above)... I'd call it GMPTE style; Oli knows what i mean...

Ah well we differ on that then, i'm always the one that goes for the dull plain books as a rule that look the same, don't like things looking out of place. Your picky over your grammar, i'm picky over having everything properly lined up and in order, uniformity.

i did a blue version too... i'll delete it shortly... to save Chris's bandwidth...

It looks better to me, more consistent with fewer colours... Next years could be green, year after red, then purple, orange, reddish-brown... Consistency but with some variance from year to year that's the key. I personally hate the way some books totally change their cover layout every year so that if you have them on the shelf together they just look totally out of place together.

Well looking at that pic i thought it looked bigger than a 10/-

Change it to prices for all non-gold coins. That should cover it. I think the writing should be darker to contrast more with the background. Actualy don't change that yet, leave all the writing color as it is but... Change the red for Dark blue... See what it looks like. (i was going to say dark green, but i guessed it might be a red/green thing)

He said it was half sovereign sized though.

Welcome, i see you made it over here... Well i'll thrown my idea on the table, i thought i probably was a gaming token, but looking at those pictures it looks more like lead with gold paint... which suggests more counterfeit to me. But if it is a counterfeit it's not a convincing one... What does everyone else think?

Doddle means, easy... dead easy in fact.

In over a year of looking i think i've got about 6 b/b max, with three at/at varieties.

I found another between/between variety today (first one in quite a while)

no not Coincraft...no i was thinking more like this... http://www.ringramcoins.com/

They usually are battered to hell...

Colin Cooke isn't the only one that inflates his prices... i know a few other dealers like that.

So which one doesn't have the lima then? You said... '1746 one with Lima one without' which implied to me you had two '46s one with one without... Now if you have one of those 1746 with the shields but without the Lima you'd really have something there.

You all seem to have missed the important question though. That 1746 without the Lima... what's on the opposite side to King George... is it 4 shields or is it a number? (either 4, 3, 2 or 1)?