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i have the old style 10p i think... are there any old style 50p's at all?

whats the condition of pre 1895's? i like those victoria bun head coins. pictures of the rarer and early pieces would give us a general idea

well i dont see why an extra 5-6 pages just to cover a few extra veriants would do no harom.. i know there are plenty there and that was why i bought it (budget and covered more recent stuff... coins market values has nothing for 1885 farthing let alone variants....) was checking some of my recent farthing purchases and found them on myfarthing but not in the book. while we are on the subject, we want a grading book for hammered, the one key thing i find missing is, early hammered been picking up pre 1799's to cover a monarch run, now i know there are loads of differant veriaties for those but a rough guide to those would be good.

ohh. i have a few ideas myself. i do think a hammered grading book is needed though. my ideas book of modern variants, so many victorian coins and some are very hard to work out without pictures, looking on myfarthings.com shows a few variants not listed in the book. well i guess the larger books cover them all but just a book on victorian variants would be great budget collecting.

its prussian no idea of denomination though

yea i was thinking french too

could always run through most common hammered first, that would get a good base.

well i have a copy of coin market values 1999 which shows 3 examples for grading early hammered, henry 7 groat and a william 4 shilling for hammered Fine is more like poor/fair in later milled from what i see in this, but yes such a task would be rediculous, as you will have differant strike strengths, allignments, chips, bits broken off etc.

got one today (has tiny little cuds on the queen) but this is the first time i have seen one, are these old style 20p's worth holding on to?

i havn't seen this book, but would love to have a look at general grades so i can decide myself, seen a 1920 halfpenny at UNC but it has some red spots on luste (yellow) and the detail in the sea on in hair is faint.. hard to decide. yet i got a nice 1861 farthing for the "Fine" price, even though it has some lustre and i see no signs of wear on victoria so again... hard to grade it. would be interested to see what fair is in victoria copper and victoira bronze

i have one, not in very good condition, but i can see the date clearly and brittania is there.. the question is.. is this the type A? the end of the 4 ends in / (imagine 2 lines at top and bottom of that ) shape. and if it is type A, how much in poor condition?

yea would be right, but didnt they also change the metal %'s in the war years, at least the mint used the same established coin designs and coloured metals and didn't go to the horrible zinc, lower demand might also explain why we have the 50-52 pennies as rare pieces

need some confirmation on this but i think so far there are 3 variants of the 2008 shield 20p 1. the mule of course 2. the TY of twenty Touch the rim (the Twenty isn't alinged to pence), there is a picture of one somewhere on here... 3. Twenty is aligned properly - look at 2009 20p on the royal mint site

yea but only £2.20, cant even properly see the date...

yea i have found something nice, type 5 1992 10p (15% of the total mintage) (the later issue) with a nice lustre and almost full detail on the queen (a bit of light light wear on the hair) shame other side has large scrates no type 3 or 4's though been putting it to one side... still looking as i get but been looking through my currents, i got a cud on my 1844 half farthing lol

its about where the number points, the 1 to the rim dot rather then between them or something

was only posting what collectors coin GB says for minting figues and value, compared to other penny minting figues 1-2 milliopn is not that many most pennies are around 40-50 million mintage, except for those KH and H ones of course, my 1999 coins market values lists it as worthless at VF , there is a site selling a 1926 in under for £2.50 btw so you can get them cheap 1932 has 8,277,600 mintage only, but is only worth a fraction more then 1931 1947 has 2,220,400 but worth the same as others around it

looking at the mintage for 1926 penny in collectors coins GB it only shows 4,498,519, which is less then the 1919H, so they are scarce, but yes the mintages do carry over, looking at the valuations though a VF 1926 penny is worth £20, so maybe it is low mintage (and yes i do mean the 193), i have one myself but it is in the sort of condition you normally find these old pennies in.

bought the book yesterday, looked at my purchases over the past weeks in it, have to say i'm pleased with the extra information on variants of coins i never knew existed (the sharp and round corners on 3d's the ear thing on george V pennies) where did you get those values from though? i got a 1858 small date farthing in fine for £6, says it is worth 40

lol i can get one like that for about £2... and still wont lol

get a photo up of it, this will help.

without the H, i believe is rarer then the one with, in poor/fair probably not much value wise still though.

yea all £2 are legal tender, same with £5 coins i believe, currently it is worth £2, it is one to keep back.

quite a few errors on these 20ps, been keeping then back when i get them, i have noticed that the first one i got has a brownish lustre compared to the other 2, i have found that sometimes cupro-nickel does get brown stripes, (have a 20p with browny stripes going across). i have a 1979 5p thats more brown then white too, and a 1968 10p (well worn though) which is almost brown.

great... makes me want to sort through them all checking. i'll try and show my minting error one.