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(I just posted this, but it has gone - where?) Anyway, a song from a friend of mine:

Hidden talents there Dave - I've never written a song in my life, so nothing but admiration here. Be interesting to hear them professionally produced and sung?

Windsor Coins? I bought several coins from John Dunkerton (equally neat labels) but am not sure if Dennis is his son or his father. Looking at the price of that 1904 penny, that would be post-1970s and therefore presumably the son. (I met both again at the Midland Fair, late 90s)

What I can see there Christie, amounts to silver value only. Be aware that pre-1947 is 50% silver, whereas pre-1920 it's full sterling silver. Get what you can for them, from anyone who buys coins like that for their silver content.

Sure, why not?

Listen, you wouldn't believe how long it took me to "get" UT + subjunctive - get out of here with your gerunds!

Fully struck up examples of coins normally found weakly struck always carry a premium. For example the 1895 YH farthing, and 1918/1919H pennies. That sixpence looks better than normal for that date and as Nick says, might fetch significantly more than estimate.

It's said that radiates were very similar to the antoninianus, but had "little or no silver".

I thought it might be a nice idea for us to have somewhere where we can display our impeccable musical tastes (or otherwise!)... YouTube has just about everything under the sun. It can be a topic to return once in a while if - (never! ) - we become slightly overloaded by the question of whether the downstroke of the second P is 'very slightly' or merely 'slightly' to the left of a tooth. What we choose need have nothing whatever to do with coins, so do excuse my first choice.

Not flippant when you look into the history behind the differences - for example, the Mint had enormous problems with the early bronze coinage, which is why there are so many varieties for the first few years. Many of these varieties are 'significant', in that different designs can be seen (lighthouse, leaves in wreath, signature present somewhere or other or absent, beads vs teeth, die letters below lighthouse, position of bust, lettering, shield, etc) - some are very common, others very rare, added to which there are common obverses and reverses which are rare in particular combinations. One thing which varies a great deal is the position and angle of the final punched digit in the date. These correspond to different individual dies being used, there being no other difference to note. They of course might be of interest to a (very small) number of collectors, and those same collectors might equally wish to pursue a collection of different die numbers used on silver coins, and good luck to them - as has been said, it takes all sorts... However, the small collector base for these means that although certain dies may be rare, you'd have to search out an interested collector to get any premium over the listed price for - e.g. - a common variety of 1861 penny. Where it becomes more interesting (i.e. a greater number of potential collectors) is where you get a deliberate design difference in the spacing of date numerals, as can be seen between 1875 and 1879. A few varieties are rare, and though some collectors wouldn't be interested in the slightest, there are enough others to raise the premium on a particular variety by quite a large amount. HTH

I don't know - I could certainly use 2000 Guineas

a) because conjecture is fun and c) who wants to wait 6 months for the Mint to be bothered to reply (that's even if they did, and assuming they know the answer)?

Perhaps maroon were the ones sold at the Festival, while the green were the ones you ordered from the Mint? Just a thought.

They're not, not really. They're the scarcest of the Ed VII sixpences but they're not hard to come by compared to halfcrowns. The 1905 gains a small premium by a reputational 'drip down' effect of that date. In average condition they're not even scarce. Sometimes you have to factor in things that aren't directly connected to a particular issue, such as 1905 for silver.

It's not the cookies, it's the forum software. I belong to another one which uses the same software - if you quote a post then back out without posting, the next post you make puts the same quote in and there's no way to get rid of it, except to delete its contents. Mildly infuriating.

No need to dream. The vast majority of Roman coins found in this country are mid-to-late Empire bronze, exceedingly common and with average wear, worth very little especially if 'burial green'.

Looks to me like one of the contemporary copper forgeries.

Agreed, never seen one.

All the ones I've seen haven't shown any difference, e.g. all of one kind being in a particular colour case.

I think I can honestly say I've never been scared by a coin, except when I dropped my EF+ 1797 2d on the floor, but luckily the edge was undamaged.

Ah yes - a bridge camera in DSLR style. You should be able to find the right size Raynox close-up lens for the filter thread on that, but you might find that a good stand, proper lighting, and the macro mode, will serve you just as well, and save you money.

That's fairly astonishing - Bugger Bognor looks the same age as his dad.

I thought they'd had a facility to mint them AT the Festival, but actually that would be rather unlikely, given the security issues etc. No, it transpires they were minted in order to be sold as souvenirs at the Festival. Presumably all the ones with card cases are such souvenirs. I don't know what the significance of burgundy vs green cases was.

Just to answer the other part of your question - yes, it was also his own price guide when first issued in the early 1980s. Obviously, the prices listed are well out of date now, but they will indicate an approximate guide to relative rarities. Factor in though, that fewer people were interested in the minutiae of varieties back then, so if he's listed something at 4 or 5 times the value of the regular issue, it's probably rarer than you would think.