Sylvester

I think i'd dump all the pattern coinage and i'd definately dump all the Edward VIII stuff.

Can't you swap it around and start with the crowns first and work down to the fractional stuff, instead of having the copper first, just never looked right to me.

wow your School has prefects? I didn't think they had those anymore, i don't think our school ever had them. Come to think of it we didn't get a uniform till i was in the fourth year.

That's what I mean - if you look. Not many of us get these dealer lists through the post. dealer lists, i get three (in theory although one guy hasn't sent one for a while but i know where his website is), that and i also buy from a few other sites, as well as a coin shop, plus i can look in other coin catalogues, before i even bother with ebay. I prefer dealer lists, they let me browse whenever i want, even when i can't get on the internet, i tend to buy more from list sending dealers. But you can't beat a coin shop, there's nothing quite like seeing the coin in hand as you hand the money over, but this is usually how i end up spending more than i ought! So i should be able to look at about 8 different sources. And i suppose i really should do sixpences, i mean although these modern ones are completely out of my area of expertise, (especially the young head Victorian ones), but i'm sure i'll give it a go. But i can't do florins and sixpences, so someone else will have to do florins, and doubles. Because sixpences are such a long series. What date zone do you want me to concentrate on first? 1787-1837, Victorian YH, 1887-1901, 1902-1919, 1920-1936, 1937-1970?

is it just me Chris or i'm i seeing the writing on the wall already? and what does this writing say? it say tanners.

Well i should imagine that there will be no end of volunteers for the copper/bronze, many many copper and bronze fans out here. I dunno if Geoff had volunteered but i know he likes halfcrowns. I'm might considered researching some stuff on florins and i might volunteer to take the 4/- ones as well. I think that will be enough for me, so question is who's doing the crowns, halfcrowns, shillings, sixpences, groats and threepences?

if a gold one does arise i'm happy to take on shield reverse sovereigns and guineas and half guineas, so far as it is possible to get a good range of the guinea gold, cos much of it is never seen! (i.e anything pre George III!)

Anyone signed up for the double florins then?

do we have a gold section in this catalogue (i really can't remember, i'm not up on coin catalogues, or is this the one that just does copper and silver?), i'm willing to look up prices for the shield reverse sovereigns!

you walked into that one. Chris will bite your head off for it...

so we got 24 virgins coming down from Scotland Through war they perfected? (something else i can't translate, but i guess it involves nothing?) something father and son. That's without a dictionary, but have i just fell into the trap of mixining up similarly spelt latin words that mean totally different things?

the only think i could ever figure out, (and i'm sure this is wrong), was 'A Domiono factum istud, et est mirable in occulis nostris' - Elizabeth I in 1558 (apparently) Although i'd doubt she really said that.

something, of something with verb? many something something. I really haven't got a clue, but give 2 hours with my dictionary i might figure it out.

yes but i've come across many books that i could have used in my history essays, unfortunately i don't read latin, if i had then it might have helped me considerably when all the english ones had been taken out of the library before i had got to them, the latin ones never leave! And then again it's always useful in the coin world. Oh and Geoff, clear something up for me on the numbers, how do you pronounce viginti? (g'in (as in the g with a guh sound), or as in the drink?) And would 23 be viginti tres?

i'd much rather have learned Latin it would have been far more use to me than French has been so far.

don't most people?

Well i'm glad to find this one æ, but is there a long 's' in there anywhere? You know one that looks like this, ƒ but without the crossbar. I've got a feeling i'm going to need one shortly.

€ is ctl+alt+4 some older keyboards don't have the € sign. And Chris if i press ctl+alt+e i get é (but i might have altered that so that when it comes to words like élite i can spell them correctly!)

Ah right! i haven't been for over a year, and 10 years before that, so perhaps in 9 years time i'll go again!

so it's cheaper to travel from Manchester Pic to London Euston, than it is from Sheffield to St Pancreas? (or whereever it goes now that they've shut St Pancreas for re-development).

Maybe he's just got a bizarre sense of humour?

i bet they have James II sixpences in VF, can i get one? can i... (don't have the money for one now, but i do need all of the varities eventually, that includes all reverse types and all overdates).

too far for me, i've got very little cash as it is now, and any money i did have to spend, (like £60 or so) would go on the train fare to get there i'd probably be short too... (what is it about £70 or £80 standard return these days?).

Cheers! I still haven't added the 1834 one, (and i need a Geo IV type I in at least GEF or preferably AUNC) I've got to update the 1732 Roses and Plumes one, and i've got to add a 1703 VIGO one. Might need a top (not high, but top!) grade Victorian Young head. Then there's just James II and i'll have owned every major type of milled sixpence since Charles II - Elizabeth II. (Despite the fact i've just sold all the post William IV sixpences off) And Chris i've just been browisng through your for sale section and is that 1895 shilling the one i sent you? (just wondered!)

i've got it the other way around as well, not only is the money not there, but quite frequently neither are the coins. So how many 1710 sixpences have i seen for sale? (none!) [i've seen more decent 1858 sovereigns for sale] Some time i think i should have stuck at collecting shield reverse sovereigns of the London mint, i would have had half of them by now at least. I know one dealer that always have 40 or 50 or so on sale at any one time, mostly in F-GVF.