Jamesred

Happy new year to you all..... thats the hangover finished!!

Ok I have 2 now All pics on site, Amazing thing is the amount of errors, is there no quality control at the mint? Coin 1 T & Y on twenty repunch/overstrike/die split? www.myfarthings.co.uk/twenty1.htm Coin 2 Blob on quens head above the crown, spots on face visible to the naked eye, T in Twenty as above, Blob on the nose that looks like a boogie! IRB melted into the neck. http://www.myfarthings.co.uk/twenty2.htm I have 50 staff looking for these for me - they dont know why though!! there are not very many over here in Jersey, i still need 5p, £2, and 50p Cheers

Thanks Hus Never won a coin before. I have PM'd you my address. Mark Well Done Mark! and you too Hus, great way to start off the site!

All This is a strange one, I was up doing a few more pages today and swas looking at the 1861 Farthing and saw this error which looks like an O/G?? in Victoria, there seems to be die flaw in teh same area, but looking closely it has the bottom of the G as well! But the on the same coin has what looks like a repunched I also in Victoria, and then an R/R or repunched in BRITT All pics of this on my site http://www.myfarthings.co.uk/victoriabh.html What do you think? Cheers

G Gratia

fantastic! have a look at these, all from 1826 B on Britt U on G Gratia (next post) Quite impressive, havent really had time to look at all of them yet

Its too late at night for me! James, Thats the first sign of madness having a topic all to yourself and talking to yourself in it http://www.myfarthings.co.uk/Coins/Gerogeiv1821.htm Not convinced its the G/O but I will wait for closer images before passing a definite decision I was mad when i started looking at farthings!!! Anyway its not the G/O have a look at this Here Ah Well... I have a new toy to play with!! Cheers

Its too late at night for me!

proper address is Here Oh i look as if i have spelled George wrong as well!! that can wiat i suppose!

I found a way to show the full image on the website, When i was starting this i looked at my 1821 farthing and it looks like it could be a G/O< I have a new plug and play microscope coming so should be able to get the close-ups of them in due course. www.myfarthings.co.uk/Farthings/Coins/georgeiv1821.htm Cheers James PS I have done 1821, 22, 23, 31, 37 with this ne imaging thing.

I just registered as well - Good Luck with it all!! Now someone get some farthings on there!

Just looked closer - look at teh A in Gratia as well and the rest of the letters look at bit odd!!

Hi Got this couple of days ago Scan is in 1200 look at the G in Gratia Colin - I tried to email this to you but i think it disappeared!! Cheers

Will do this later tonight Cheers

Cheers Chris Did you get the payment??

Thats great Chris, Will send my address later - for the e-bok how do i get it? Cheers

Cant believe its been so long since i have had time to look at coins!! Chris - I know its nearly 2009 but i cant get the book from WHS in Jersey :-(( Do you have it in E-book format? Cheers

If any of ythe forum member were coming to jersey id give a discount ofd course you just need to give me a date etc

No problem, maybe i shouldnt have called it an "investment", rather an "heirloom" I do totally agree that prices will fall. However, as I have no consideration of selling my main collection. I have been introduced into coin collecting many years ago, but only fairly recently took a huge interest in it. A family member was a huge collector, he has passed away, and this is where my main collection comes from. I received almost a lifetimes supply of coins, and as i stated when i came on here a while ago i was looking at each denomination separately. on Farthings, I have a grand total of 238 1797 - 1956 in my main collection, many of which have been graded professionally, these coins were collected over a period of almost 40 years. All have been marked and left in envelopes, many were not looked at for years! I have not touched them without cotton gloves. I have 146 doubles (which are posted here, and i am in the process of scanning all of those) which i have collected myself and probobaly near 300 which i havent even looked at! The above has taken, to date, for me 3 years and such is the extent of my collection, i reckon i will be 60 by the time i look at everything. I have all denominations to look at (pre 1797 as well, but not enough info on those, for me to study on.) As a "newer collector" i deliberately bought from Colin Cooke coins a varied selection in different grades so that i could see what way the professionals grade them. So as for investments? If i look at the book price of the collection that i want to sell at the moment, i get a price of just over £4000 (remember thats with my grading of them) , how much did they cost me over 3 years? considerably less than that (approx. 1500) if i sold them now i would get say 60% (based on my grading being correct) which is £2400. (Im waffling now) so the profit margin say £900 over 3 years? crap really isnt it. My main collection that i have classed, maybe wrongly, as an investment (my opinion here is that when i received them i could have gone and sold them to get the money, instead i "invested them" in a bank.) is to me at the moment growing in value every year. Maybe i am niave, i dont know, but im certainly not well heeled. I am a hotel manager, work 70 hours a week and get no overtime!! I have made a few property investments in my time (move too bloody often) Any way ill stop waffling now. Anyone else got opinions on what they think what their collections are? Cheers

Chris Daft question - do you have any of the error double T books for sale?? May be too late lol

Oh never Not normally, luckily my wife’s dad is a coin nut so she has been brought up round them. Although I'm not as lucky as Rob because she won't encourage me either. She just lets me get on with it. James I know the Hydro well it’s a nice hotel. Mine gets me sovereigns for Christmas and birthdays, she knows what i have and what i need and is getting better at buying them now!

I still own a house in Peebles, I was a manager at the Hydro!! Quick one for you, I did have a lot of valauble coins at home, but when i got broken into, i switched the main part of my collection to the bank. It may cost a bit of money to do this, but i know my coins are well secure. On teh stocks and shares side of things - my collection value grows almost every year, stocks and shares are a risk that i am not prepared to put into. I believe my return on investment would be huge if i sold the full collection. But, I am only interested in selling my doubles and do not have the need for the money. I have 2 daughters who are very interested in coins and they will receive them from me when i pop me clogs.

i used to live in Peebles and got a whole lot nicked, thats why the majority of mine are in the bank as well!! oh by the way it wasnt me!!

This is a long shot but im gonna send a link too. I think this is some sort of stamp for teh Banco de Chile the screw hole at the back for a handle? I found this pic http://www.mayoph.com/images2/00c816.jpg If you look at the actual green stamp it shows the same!! so could this be a post mark? the date is irrelevant as the Banco de Chile wasn't founded til 1893 (could it be to do with the fact that the war ended on the the 20th October 1883 and the 1st January 1884 may be celebrated?) Just a thought (I like researching things) Looking at it closer its not the same but close, also if it was a "rubber" stamp it would have raised lettering etc. As i said it was a long shot