Sylvester

right explain all that to me agin, cos i've been without an internet connection properly, since the end of April.

Lovely coins those ducats!

better than Spinks.

I like £2 coins, the normal reverse. Gotta love the Britannia 50s, and the 20p. Kinda like 10ps, they are a nice size. I really like pennies 1971-1984. I really, really, really, really....(to the power of 657.8), hate 5ps, i wish they'd demonetise them. I stipulate against taking them, prefering 3 copper coins instead.

All seven James II sixpences in EF. No seriously guys these things just don't turn up.

Well i wouldn't pay extra for a lower grade 'celebrity' coin, i'd rather have the less well known BU one.

You said the magic word! I'd say now that at least 4/5ths of my collection is sixpences, with more to come. I just like the size, interesting how i kinda like Dimes too, you think? William III ones are good! You do know that the two reigns before are particulary difficult. I still haven't managed to get any James II's... Still only 7 of James' to get... By the way i've been collecting on and off for 14 or 15 years, got serious in 2000, and specialised in 2002. (Only took me 12 years to specialise then)

mine was a really common and battered 1816 large cent.

Ha Early Milled my speciality. Just bought a 1732RP 6d upgrade and an about average 1703 Vigo 6d. Ah a good haul yesterday. (ow and a 1573 sixpence!!!) Another monarch to scratch from the list.

Mercury dimes and Washington quarters. I like $20 Libs too.

Nope.

i think i read that too.

ah but have you actually clicked the suggested link that google gave you on that french one?

alright he doesn't.

You mean they are MS67s! I trhink he'd like the Sheldon grading system.

oh man that is a killer!

yeah i remember that one oli...

no i'm wrong i think it's gallery 3 that's not as good picture quality wise...

here... http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/pics/pen4.html (not great though) if you go to gallery 3 of pennies you'll see another coin that'll interest you.

i'd like to just specialise in tin farthings eventually. Copper never really bothered me much, although i did see some nice James I farthings for sale... hmm hammered copper, not something i ever thought about. I don't collect copper because my house is to humid and they'd all go green eventually. No problems with gold or early milled silver though.

no but i know where there is a picture of them...

I had to tick other because you missed off tin for a starters. Well the real reason was because i collect quite a few of those, firstly i collect milled silver. Sixpences 1674-1694 (all date/type varities, sixpences 1695-1787 just by date and i get the plumes and roses combinations, but i miss out the provincial mints and the minor varieties. Hammered silver is another area of interest, i'm attempting one coin from every monarch from AEthelwulf to Victoria. (i've just sold all the post Victoria stuff off). Silver pennies are my favourite. Also hammered gold, as part of my monarch collection, if a nice gold one turns up for a monarch i haven't got and i can afford it then so be it. Although i could quite easily collect Edward III Quarter Nobles. Also as a small aside i also collect milled gold in the for of a date set of James II Half guineas. (three to get in total, i need two more... no rush with this though, if i finish it in the next 40 years i'll be content). So to briefly summerise in order of importance. (1 most important) 1) Sixpences 1674-94 2) Hammered Silver or Gold for the monarch type set 3) Sixpences 1695-1787 (just the main london mint varieties, one of each date) 4) James II Half guineas

that's not going to be much use with threepences though is it!

i like Spink's prices, rather than Coincraft's. But when you compare the two on factual information Spink's is blown out of the water. I also like the way Coincraft have arranged theirs by demonination rather than by monarch, it means i can easily look through all the sixpences without having to get jealous from having to pass through 5 guinea land, or getting tin fever from passing through farthing land. And they have more pictures of type varities. Spinks tend to list next to the date something like this... 1928... many varities..... (and then the prices) Coincraft would do this. 1928 small lettering.... 1928 large lettering... 1928 redefined borders.... 1928 8/7 etc. (that was a total made up example) I prefer Coincraft over Spinks info wise, price wise t'other way around. Another reason why i prefer Coincraft is with the hammered stuff i can now actually identify the coins cos they have pictures of every class, Spinks just list them and put only a few pics up. I couldn't attribute my Edward I penny to any class in Spinks (class 10A wasn't illustrated), Coincraft i did it in about 10 minutes. All those years of wondering what it was too...

hmm spade guinea hey... i'll have a look for nothing, but i've got my eye either on another Quarter Noble or on that Eadwig penny. The Eadwig is the one i really want, but it's a bit over my budget, i could get it sure, but you never know what's around the corner, and i might leave myself short of cash. Then there was that 1677 sixpence i needed. I will actually buy that one day.