Jamesred

Ok I have now put up a test page for the images Test Page Top Image is basic you click on it and it goes to full image - Simple Image 2 - hover over with mouse and it enlarges to full size image - mouse off it reverts to original Image 3 - Goes into the Picture ox - I like this and was why i was reducing the size of the images to fit on main screen Image 4 - My Favourite - Magnifys the image in parts move mouse around and use arrow keys up and down to zoom in and out as well. What does everyone else think? would love to hear some feedback on this, Once you have checked out the test page have a look at the main site and send a message through the form there. cheers again guys

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 have the following collection (which are all doubles) I want to start getting shot of them, but cant be bothered listing them all individually, any ideas??? I will be keeping my main collection which is complete. I want to start to focus on Pennies now. Year Head Grade Reverse Obverse Comments 1799 George III f 1806 George III UNC BUST 2 1807 George III GEF 1821 George IV VF 2 A 1821 George IV GEF 1 A 1822 George IV GVF 2 A 1822 George IV EF 1 B 1823 George IV EF 1 A 1825 George IV EF 1 B 1826 George IV GVF 1 A 2ND ISSUE 1827 George IV EF 1 A 1828 George IV GVF 1 A DATE RESTUCK 1829 George IV GEF 1 A 1830 George IV EF 1 A 1831 William IIII CEF 1 A 1834 William IIII EF 2 A Raised lines 1834 William IIII VF 1 A incuse lines 1835 William IIII EF 1836 William IIII EF 1 A 1837 William IIII CEF 1 A 1838 Victoria VF 2 A DEF . 1839 Victoria EF 3 A 1839 Victoria EF 1 A 1840 Victoria GVF A/A in Gratia 1841 Victoria GVF 1 A 1842 Victoria GVF 1 A 1843 Victoria EF 1 D 1843 Victoria EF 1 A 1845 Victoria GVF 1 B SMALL DATE TILTED 8 1846 Victoria GEF 1 A 1847 Victoria VF 1 A 1847 Victoria EF 1 B 1848 Victoria GVF 2 A 1850 Victoria EF 1 ?? 5 over 7 1852 Victoria EF 2 A very rare 1853 Victoria GVF ?? ?? 1854 Victoria VF 1 B 4 OVER 4 1855 Victoria EF 1 A WW incuse 1856 Victoria VF 1 A 1857 Victoria EF 1 A 1858 Victoria UNC 1 H 1860 Victoria VF 1 C 5 BERRIES 1860 Victoria EF 1 F 4 BERRIES 1861 Victoria EF 1 B 5 BERRIES 1862 Victoria EF 7 B 5 BERRIES 1863 Victoria EF 1 A 1864 Victoria GF 2 A SERIF ON 4 1865 Victoria EF 5 A 1865 Victoria EF 1 A 5 over 3 1866 Victoria EF 2 A 1867 Victoria EF 2 A 1868 Victoria VF 1 A 1869 Victoria EF 1 A 6 OVER 6 1872 Victoria EF 2 A 1873 Victoria GVF 2 A 1873 Victoria EF 1 A 1874H Victoria AUNC 1 C 1875 Victoria EF 1 A Large date 1875H Victoria EF RF G. TYPE 1875H Victoria 1876H Victoria F 1878 Victoria EF E over F or E in REG 1878 Victoria UNC mint error miss strike 1879 Victoria EF 1 D 1879 Victoria GVF 4 D LARGE 9 1880 Victoria VF 4 berries 1881 Victoria EF 3 berries 1881H Victoria EF Type c 1882H Victoria EF broken F 1883 Victoria AUNC 1 A Forked R in victoria 1884 Victoria EF 1884 Victoria EF 1885 Victoria GVF 1886 Victoria GEF 1 A 1886 Victoria EF 1 A 1887 Victoria GEF 1888 Victoria EF 1890 Victoria EF 1891 Victoria EF 1892 Victoria UNC 1892 Victoria EF 1893 Victoria UNC 1894 Victoria EF 1895 Victoria EF old head 1895 Victoria EF bun head 1896 Victoria UNC 1897 Victoria EF HIGHER HORIZON 1898 Victoria UNC 1899 Victoria GVF 1900 Victoria GVF 1901 Victoria EF 1902 Edward VII EF 1903 Edward VII GEF Black Scarce 1904 Edward VII VF 1905 Edward VII GEF 1906 Edward VII EF 1907 Edward VII EF 1908 Edward VII GVF 1909 Edward VII GVF 1910 Edward VII EF 1911 Edward VII VF Hollow Neck 1911 George V VF FLAT NECK 1912 George V ABU 1912 George V EF 1913 George V EF 1914 George V VF 1915 George V VF 1916 George V EF 1917 George V ABU Black 1918 George V UNC BRIGHT FINISH 1918 George V AUNC Darker finish 1919 George V BU Almost Full Lustre 1920 George V VF 1921 George V EF 1922 George V UNC 1923 George V GVF 1924 George V AUNC 1925 George V BU Full Lustre, lightly toning 1926 George V BU Almost Full Lustre 1927 George V UNC 1928 George V UNC 1929 George V BU 1930 George V UNC 1931 George V UNC 1932 George V BU 1933 George V UNC 1934 George V UNC 1935 George V UNC 1936 George V UNC 1937 George VI UNC 1938 George VI UNC 1939 George VI UNC 1940 George VI UNC 1941 George VI UNC 1942 George VI AUNC 1943 George VI UNC near full lustre 1944 George VI UNC near full lustre 1945 George VI UNC 1946 George VI UNC 1947 George VI BU 1948 George VI UNC 1949 George VI UNC 1950 George VI BU 1951 George VI BU 1952 George VI UNC 1953 Elizabeth II BU 1 A 1953 Elizabeth II BU 2 B 1953 Elizabeth II BU 2 A 1954 Elizabeth II BU 1955 Elizabeth II UNC 1956 Elizabeth II BU

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!!