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  1. Sylvester
    So do i! I don't want to have to wait 30 odd years to get the coins in circ to the same age our oldest coins are now. Imagine how mundane and boring the euro would be...
  2. Sylvester
    I know someone on another forum, he's either from Germany or the Netherlands and he doesn't seem to think that the UK will join at all.
  3. Sylvester
    That sounds like it may be a barrel of laughs! Ah Mr Leake, yes Coincraft referenced him quite a bit. I've been wanting to get hold of that book, not just for the coins i just thought it would go well with the book collection.
  4. Sylvester
    Oh is he buying them from you? You'd better buy them mintmark... (pssst Chris i'll get my tenner later).
  5. Sylvester
    governments you've gotta hate them...
  6. Sylvester
    Yeah the low relief and the lack of good striking... makes UNC coins look VF. I'd love to see PCGS's grading of one of those!
  7. Sylvester
    Now that's another reason why i won't buy a wreathie, smells like a commem type to me. They were issued by the mint for people to give as presents at Christmas, or the like, and not for circulation, and since i collect primarily circ coins that have seen a bit of history at first hand, then nope i'd give em both a miss. But i remember spending a 1994? £2 coin so you know. But i'd still give it a miss.
  8. Sylvester
    Although the pound is still a pound! So the question is did it really end?
  9. Sylvester
    Ah some people! You know i never thought much of the Gillick head at first, but the more of it i see the more i appreciate it! It also helps if it's well struck and the Queen doesn't look naked. Once you realise she does have a jacket on, but if you spent most of your early collecting life looking at worn florins you'd never have guessed!
  10. Sylvester
    I think i'd save my money for a Gothic Crown! (if i had that kind of cash)
  11. Sylvester
    What were all those Charles II sixpences again? And what about James II ones? Just so i know what i'm letting myself in for. And whilst we're at it what about the William and Mary variants, 1693 (inverse 3) and 1694? or a plain old 93 for that matter?
  12. Sylvester
    Aye but with coins as old as the 12th century there were no mintage figures so it'd be hard to tell which category they'd fit into anyhow even if they did put the figures down in concrete. Although i have a feeling Chriss that R3 is probably more likely to be 20-250 or the like. Or 20-500 and R2 as 500-1000 Just a guess!
  13. Sylvester
    That's what i thought, i thought it went to R7 but i was beginning to think i'd dreamt it up! So my Stephen is R3!!! At last i own an Extremely Rare coin!!!
  14. Sylvester
    Yeah i've heard of it, buit i never knew how far it went or what the quotas were... I know Coincraft uses them from time to time, i though Mr Hawkins did too but 'i've lost the page...
  15. Sylvester
    Can someone explain exactly how far the rarity ratings go up, is it R-1 to R-10? (As the US does) or have we got something a little different? And what are the approx figures for the rarity ratings, e.g in US for R3 it requires between 500-999 coins in existence, what's ours like? DON'T HAVE THIS INFO AT HAND...
  16. Sylvester
    Crowns? Sorry don't really do crowns. Never was that fussed over Wreathies... i definately wouldn't pay the prices for them that they go for. I mean you could buy a hammered gold coin with that kinda cash!
  17. Sylvester
    Lemme guess Anthony Halse?
  18. Sylvester
    Well i've got nothing against Charles, hopefully IRB won't design those obverses cos the ones we have now are just not nice. (from either a grading point of view or an aesthetic [i.e too low relief] point of view)
  19. Sylvester
    2017 is the next one i can think of (is it 2017 or 2016?) the 200th anniversary of the milled sovereign, perhaps they'll reinvent the Geo III reverse?
  20. Sylvester
    Lol I doubt they were mocking them! i mean mock as in copying (like mock-gothic) not as in taking the pis... well erm actually maybe they were.
  21. Sylvester
    yep they ain't good! i don't post much on there...
  22. Sylvester
    The shield reverse was still no where near as nice as the original shield reverse coins of Victoria that they were mocking... now that my friend is my favourite kinda sovereign.
  23. Sylvester
    Too right!
  24. Sylvester
    I'm going to do that shortly, i've been hanging around on the Royal mint forums... with that aim in mind!
  25. Sylvester
    Eliza if you can find out the denomination ratio figures for mintages. E.g out of 100% silver minted in 1555 10% is comprised of halfcrowns, 22% shillings... etc... (if you can find those figures) [p.s i made those figures up completely off of the top of my head] If you can then i can do the maths again and hopefully we'll get those pesky mintage figures sussed!
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