Gary

GREAT BRITAIN. Prince Albert, 1819-1861. London. Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations. Tin medal, 1851, by W. J. Taylor. (Allen 340; BHM 2459; E 1463; Taylor 165aa) I don't get the impression they are at all rare I'm afraid. I've seen a couple advertised for £50-£70 but they haven't sold at those prices, so more like ... maybe £10-£30 unless anyone here knows better? Thanks for the info Tom. Did not expect it to be rare, even if it was it is far from perfect as you can see from the pic, a bit edgy!

has anyone an idea of value? Apprenetly it is made of tin. If anyone collects these medals and is interested then PM me. Thanks.

Photoshop's compression scale runs from 1 (awful) to 12 (virtually uncompressed). Needless to say, the smaller the number, the higher the compression and the smaller the file. In my own experience, if you're displaying on a computer screen - i.e. not printing - you can reduce an existing large picture to 5 on the scale without seeing very much in the way of deterioration. Make sure that you do any Size reduction and PPI reduction and Cropping at the same time, then save. Refuse to pay that sort of money for Photoshop, I use a free program called paint.net which I believe comes from micrsoft, when you save to .jpeg it gives you a sliding scale from 100% down to 0% and shows you the file size as you adjust. It also has many functions of expensive programs such as the ability to work with layers and much more. If anyones interested you can get it here paint.net

***For Comparing our 1850/46 ...PICS of 1846, 1849, and 1850 "Plain" Dates*** sorry but they are way too small to do anything with. The 1850 pic is 121x48 pixels and just 6kb of data. You have obviously cut the dates out of an existing pic which in its self must have been quite small. To have anything workable then the date pics have to be at least 500 pixels in width. If you are using a camera use the largest pic setting and get it as close to the coin as poss, if you are scanning use the highest resolution setting to obtain the largest pic possible and then cut the dates outs into a seperate pic. In any photo editing software you have an option to save as .jpeg which will tell you the size of the saved file and allow you to compress it to a given data size ie 150kb. If the quality of the pic is reduced too much by the compression then reduce the size of the original pic (usually under "Image" and then "Size" or "Resize"), say the original is 1000x500 pixels then reduce it to 500x250 this way you reduce the data size by half (not quite true but good enough) and then save as .jpeg. Example- The pic of the 1850 shilling from azda above is 1024x1009 pixels and has a file size of 372kb and I bet he has reduced that before posting it.

this pic is 61kb. I have had a quick look at some 1846 shillings and at a quick glance all seem to have the 6 lower than the 4 this would put the digit under the 0 of the 1850 too high to be a six. Like I said a quick look and have to look at some 1849 and 50's if I can find any pics!

The limit of 150kb is overall. One pic of 150kb or two of 75kb. From the pic you have already posted the 4 can be clearly be seen under the 5. Wether it is a 6 under the 0 or not is hard to tell, could just be a recut 0 as the 8 also seems to be recut or doubled. As to a value I am sure someone here with his vast library of auction catalogs will be able to come up with something Look forward to the close up pics. For Info, Rayner lists 1850 over 49 but not over 46 Davies lists 1850 over 46 but not over 49 Coincraft lists 1850 over 46 or 49 Spink 1850 over 49 hmmmm!

The references Y37, Y2 probably refer to Yeoman which is a an american coin catalogue so I am presuming the coins refered to here are american. The letter A may refer to the mintmark although I dont know of a mint with the latter A in america!

Well spotted Azda, found this.CC CP OANH Py6n6near enough if you dont have a russian keyboard

hello Toshgirl, first off, welcome to the forum. You say your father "spent hours sorting and writing all the grades down etc" is there a list handwritten or on a computer? You have had some good advice regarding the silver and gold coins but for the base metal coins value depends on the condition. Pop out to the local book shop or Amazon and obtain a copy of "Collectors Coins GB" only costs a few pounds and maybe worth your while. Who knows maybe you too will get hooked and start your own collection

Hi Gary, I can't really make very much out from the image quality, apart from the obvious 'patchy tone'! Any more information to go with it? If you click on the link you will see the Ebay listing on the german Ebay. It is from a chinese seller and the description is in english. A Buy It now price of €79. The listing has now ended with no takers

No reason to believe that it is but I have heard of fake 1849 Florins. Die rotation is a commen error that goes mostly unnoticed and is not an indication of a fake. What is the weight of this coin?

He's that guy in the adverts of course: Oh yes, Morgen Freeman. I was not aware that he wrote a book on British Bronze coins....

1864 Florin 1864 Florin

I have just read this thread and John, very nice reply, classic. By the way who is this Freeman bloke?

I think we can add another fake to look out for. What do the rest of you think? 1864 Florin

I'm sure it will turn up. I once sold coins that I had bought for myself all because I placed them in the wrong draw! :-(

Thats a nice looking coin, I'm in.

someone already has http://www.ebid.net/ For £49.49 you can list and sell with no fees for a lifetime. Interesting for those online dealers and for the normal everyday user the fees are reasonable.

Agreed, Tom. I use my hotmail account for serious e mails, as I know I can always rely it to do exactly what it says on the tin. I can also pick them up on my phone. All the crap goes to my outlook express. I use this for online orders/general enquiries and I don't care who gets the address. There's no spam filter on it either. Not sure what BT do, but I would certainly be irritated by any spam filter that was beyond my personal control. My ISP is Virgin Media. Interesting! Hotmail, hmmmm. I am germany and my brother in england has a Hotmail E-mail address. It is impossible to send him an Email from my every day email account due to the fact that Hotmail blocks it full stop. He gets no notification and I get my email returned with the message that Hotmail does not accept emails from my provider! Hows that for filtering? Hotmail blocks a complete provider! I use a popular german provider that has been in exsistance for probably nearly 20 years and hosts millions of email accounts. I use Outlook and Kaspersky together and have very little problem with spam, now and then I get a few spam mails that do make it into my inbox but a quick click and they are banned for ever to the spam folder. I would rather have all mails come through and I decide which is spam than have legit mails blocked by my provider.

as if! I think I did say "except Proofs" and I believe the Gothic crowns fall under this category and although there are worn examples it was not meant to be a currency coin. Am I wrong?

Ah, sorry Darren I thought you were on about the actual date. I see what you mean now. Although by no means an expert I still do not see a problem. There is not much room to get two digits in there between the date and the wreath and unless the die number is extremely rare why forge it?

Thanks for the warning. Very interesting Info.

Hi Darren, looks fine to me. I have had a look at other 1877 6D on the internet and can see nothing odd with the date on the one you have posted. Have a look at Johns site, http://www.argentumandcoins.co.uk/ (hope Chris does not mind the link!), he has two 1877's on offer and the date looks exactly the same.

On that note, there are some listed on ebay that state they are made from 'furniture board'. Not sure if this is mdf or something else, but proper mahogany trays are tried and tested and safe. MDF is not recommended for coins of any value as we don't know the long term effects of the glues etc that are used in manufacture. I had my cabinet made by Peter Nichols, but they can also be picked up at auction, though that way you have less choice about the size of the various holes. But a bit cheaper. I guessed that from a picture you posted on another thread! There's something instantly recognisable about the wood he uses, then there's those red felt inserts... I have two of 'em. St Leonards on Sea, isn't he? Or something like that. Yes Peck 2 Norman rd, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex, TN37 6NH www.coincabinets.com I think I remember him telling me that he does not make them personally anymore but his name is still on them.

Normally I would agree with you choolie but crowns in VF and above kind of overstep my budget! I have most of the crowns post 1818 except the Proofs, 1847 Young Head, a few of the old heads and the only Wreath I have is the 1928. Just thought it would be nice to try and get a few earlier examples staying in budget of cause which this one did.