Sylvester

I think the best coins to get for eye appeal... are; George III Cartwheel coinage obverses, Gothic stuff and the reverse of Edward VII florins.

Feel free to use the obverse of my Florin, if the picture is good enough... http://www.coinpeople.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5227

I'm mourning the passing of the guinea...

I think we've got to have a Gothic on the front cover don't you... nothing like an attention catching coin.

Although that totally grammatically correct, an just doesn't sound as good as a. I like the Una, and the '26 but to be honest i prefer the high grade William IV stuff. A top grade W4 Sovereign or £2 coin would be a thing of beauty... Then again so would a Queen Mary Sovereign... gorgeous was that specimen that Colin Cooke had... it was purely beautiful.

and farthings if it comes to that!

Yes Britanniar is correct. I'm sure pennies and Halfpennies say it too?

Still looking good... can't wait till we get to page 30 or so then the denominations that interest me really start... Sixpences-Crowns. I'm looking forward to the pics of the Gothic stuff!

Well they were minted briefly, quite a few minted i should imagine, they were valued at 20d, but the gold value rose to 24d, so there was a 4d profit from melting them down, so many merchants and what not melted probably as many as they could get their hands on. The government realised they'd made a bit of a cock up and recalled as many as they could and they probably melted them for a profit too no doubt. Only about 6 or 7 specimens are known to exist... the rest got melted. (because they were undervalued) Which brings me onto the hammered gold florins they went the other way, they're wasn't enought gold in those so the merchants wouldn't accept them (they were overvalued), so most of those went into the pot too... probably at a loss.

Oh right! Oh well...

I saw a colour picture once... most a b&w though

Henry III Gold twenty pence, you ever seen one Chris?

It looked like a class 4 crown, that god damn pellet, i didn't see that... have a look at the other class 4's...

Have a look at Edward I Class 4c

I'm having trouble with this one cos there's not much left of the portrait... well it's either pre-10A pre! not post! Edward I or it's Edward III Looks kind of Edward III to me on the reverse... i've just got the 2 volume of North today so i'll have to get that on it... Bear with me i haven't forgotten

It's still a very nice coin to have around!

Yes they are worth exactly what they say on them, either 1p or 2p. If you look all coins dated from 1971 to 1981 say 'New Pence', from 1982 all coins say the value followed by pence, e.g 20p's say 'Twenty Pence', 2p's say 'Two Pence', pennies say 'One Penny'. The only coin that is worth anything of value is a 1983 2p(note the date), that says 'New Pence' rather than 'Two Pence', since it was struck after the 1982 change it should have had the new wording, but due to accidental use of an old die it came out with a pre-82 reverse and says 'New Pence', but considereing that no 2p coins dated between 1982-1984 were released for circulation these rare ones are only found in the year sets that were sold to collectors by the mint in 1983. Therefore your chances of finding one in change are nigh impossible.

Well it's cheaper than the normal proof, or the copper one, so i guess more of the CuNi ones exist.

Interpret that as not 1887 or 1893 which are common in comparison. I think you'll find it's much the same scenario with Elizabeth II, you're tripping over 1970 proofs, but 1965 proofs... well i hope you saved up.

As moderator Chris i think i should be donated a nice Decimal specimen set don't you? Oh and good luck with the moving! Always a stressful time...

Well then yours makes even less sense cos nowhere is cupro-nickel anywhere near as important as silver (or not as the case may be, cos i'm not sure which way round you've put them). I'd say copper was better than bronze, and copper/silver better than bronze, cupro-nickel and nickel-brass put together. I'm a purist, i like my metals pure, the purer the better. It's all very subjective that way though cos i would list them like this; most important to least (interpret expensive to cheapest, in general terms, high grade nickel-brass coins tend to cost slightly more than cupro-nickel ones, only cos some of those threepences are scarce though)... Silver, Copper, Bronze, Nickel-Brass & Cupro-nickel.

and there was us thinking that you could never specialise... Well i'm not ready yet, so i've decided to try again after i've bought stuff from left right and centre... I'm semi-specialised at the moment, i stick to serieses but i have alot of them, it's a compromise.

I'm usually reaching for a dictionary at that point...

spink say's that all victorian proofs are ext. rare...but i would not no a specific rarity ALL Victorian proofs rare? I think you've read it wrong or they're lying to you...

Erm i think Chris has them listed in the order the metals make their appearance. I haven't got a clue why you've arranged them like you have JMD... Why have them like that, if you wanted to change them why not put them in alphabetical order, or even reverse alphabetical order if you want to get adventurous... But if Chris reverse the format next year then the silver would be first and the bronze last.