Sylvester

I'm usually of the old skool, quite ardently anti-cleaning, cleaned coins, i won't touch em. Although i do realise for dug up coins and coins over a certain age like ancients it's a whole different ball game, then i'm a bit more understanding and liberal. My advice is, if cleaning is non-essential (i.e you know what the coin is and you can see the date and everything) then leave it well alone. You should only risk cleaning a coin if it is encrusted and you can't identify it until you've 'curated' it.

Hey i had to specialise eventually because my collection had no focus to it, but what i can say is the James II sixpences are going to be the problem all 7 of them. There's something nice about farthings, i did once seriously consider them myself, i just like the size of the things. But copper could never fascinate me quite the same, it's the lack of lustre they develop i think. Ah you're a type collector then! World coins are interesting some countries moreso than others. but you just can't help feeling that you've just opened up a whole tidal wave... it's a vast area out there. But intereting nonetheless, i had some late 19th early 20th century Spanish 50 cent coins loitering about somewhere, very smart coins, very sixpencey.

What coins do you focus on? Chris will be pleased to know that my retinue of denominations has become ever more focused, and at last i'm finally beginning to specialise...FINALLY! I'm down to three areas... 3 = the least important, 1 = the most important to me. 3) King Stephen pennies (yes i've decided that i'm gonna give this a bash, just for fun, i have one so far). 2) James II Half Guineas 1686-1688 (a total of 3 coins to get, i have one). 1) Charles II - William and Mary Sixpences 1674-1694 (a total of 24 coins to get, i have five and a half... the half is one i'm half way through buying). Those are the main collections, but i'll take in most other nice conditioned EM sixpences i can get. So what do you collect?

i'd already typed US and i couldn't be bothered to go back, so i got inventive...

Well i think full lustre coins would sell at a slight premium. Unless of course they were dated 1672 or something and then there'd be one hell of a premium. But i don't know where you'd find the prices for these. The USians distinguish between red and brown (the first having lustre, the second without) in their catalogues, about time we followed suit i think.

IF YOU'VE GOT A FEW MILLION SPARE, HELL WHY NOT...

hey i found a 1658 shilling for sale... http://www.historyincoins.com/xxx-1-3-4-21.jpg

i prefer the Madge Kitchener variant...

Just out of interest what is your dream coin? I always used to say a Henry III gold penny, or perhaps an Edward III Florin, hmmm. But i've got a new one now, a little more down to earth as it's cheaper but, nonetheless even if i won the lottery (which i don't play anyhow so that's even less likely to happen) but i'd probably still not be able to get one with all that money... A Cromwell 1658 sixpence... currently going at £15,000 in Fine. Arrghhh!

i like farthings, i once considered collecting them myself, but sadly i tend to only like the full lustre ones. But i do have a nice run of BU Sixpences; 1936-1939, 1942-1950, 1953-1959, 1962, 1964-1970 One day i'll get round to completing that lot, not at the top of the agenda at the moment though. I did try shillings but i got fed up of all the bloody English and Scottish varients. Then i tried Brass threepences and got annoyed at all the rounded corner, sharp corner varities and how dealers don't list which is which.

I need these sixpences... 1677, 1678/7, 1679, 1681, 1682, 1682/1, 1683, 1684, 1686, 1686/8 (yes 8!), 1687 concave shields, 1687/6 concave shields, 1687 convex shields, 1687 concave and convex shields, 1687/6 concave and convex shields, 1688, 1693 upside down 3 and 1694. Then i'm done, for now...

Ah well i don't think anyone at Uni actually knows, it's not something i broadcast simply from a security point of view, i've only got to tell someone who tells someone elsewho knows the address and knows when no-ones in and, bye bye collection. So i keep stum.

Was five hundred and odd, but running at 10% off i've managed to get it down to £470, and as part of that £105 of it was a part trade with my cleaned die flawed 1693 sixpence... But for a coin with that eye appeal i think it's worth it, it'll always be a seller, unlike my other ex-1693 which i couldn't get shut of.

I'm in love... And my am i struggling to raise the funds for this beaut. but i'm working on it, i've got a down payment on it already... (+ a 10% discount)

That's it, i can never remeber it off of the top of my head! I'm just used to the MAG. BRI. FRA. ET. HIB. REX. The German titles throw me sometimes...

That legends no right for a real one, it should be M B F ET H R L B D S R I A TH ET E Or letters to that effect, that's off of the top of my head.

Yep i agree. I think smoking is going to be the first thing on the list, as the Republic of Ireland is banning smoking in all pubs/clubs/bars/resturants after the 29th of this month, or something along those levels, with a 3000 euro fine for anyone caught breaking it. Alright it's not quite the same as a whipping but hey it's a start.

There's a simple soloution to all that, make all the bottles and everything out of the same material and limit the number of colours, or have them all transparent, like a cola bottle.

Wow i don't think i ever did anything like that! I remember doing simulaneous equations, and algebra which i quite liked to be honest, although i hated maths as a rule. Mental arithmatic was by far the worst, i can't do sums in my head without writing them down. And i hated trigonometry. I was very happy that i ended up on intermediate rather than higher, and as such i was very lucky to miss geometry too! phew... I also hated physics.

No, a Briton is a citizen of Britain, just as an American is a citizen of America, Frenchman is a citizen of France, Azerbaijani is a citizen of Azerbaijan. I keep wanting to say a Britain as well, i don't like the term Briton it cujours up images of a bunch of Boudicans running around in toga like things. (you know what i mean) Then there's Canadian and Canada, surely Canadia would have been better!

Well it should be 1926 otherwise we've got problems...

What is the date on that exactly, 1926 or 1826?

well i was going to say as bad as a Jefferson nickel, but nothing's as bad as that, not even the Churchill Crown.

My spelling and grammar is pretty bad, thus why i don't criticise other people, because when i do i always make a really stupid mistake myself. Also bear in mind that not everyone who posts on online forums has English as their first language.

almost as bad as a Lincoln Cent!