Peckris

isn't 'Friendly Competition' an oxymoron pennies are good but im a Shilling guy Well, yes and no

Welcome to the forums James Many of us like pennies, so you'll have plenty of (friendly) competition! Good luck with your collecting, and also detecting (but don't expect to find many collectable coins that way, though you'll find plenty of interesting stuff).

Welcome back young Patrick. Looking forward to 6 weeks off school? John Oh those heady days of no mortgage,cycling 25 miles with a kreel and rod bag on my back to fish the fen drains,being fitter than a butchers dog...the big attraction of young ladies and beer ahead of me. Grandparents still alive. Any youngsters reading this appreciate what you have now and while you're at it come and mow my lawn. Make a good job of it and you'll get a bob (but not Dorriens and Magens, though if it's a VERY good job it could be a 1959S )

They are very good reproductions usually - worth having in their own right, especially if you can't afford the originals.

Just a bit confused here.... can you tell me what edition the 1980 figures come from? I have 1972 being edition 12 and I have 1989 being edition 24. It appears there weren't publications every year. Cheers Seaby Standard Catalogue of British Coins Volume 1 17th edition. Coins of Engaland and the United Kingdom You a football fan, Gary?

In spite of its lack of value, it's clearly given you great enjoyment, reading up about George III (actually Cockney rhyming slang that... ). Who knows, it might lead you into the far corners of our tremendously captivating hobby! Welcome.

I simply do NOT aim to get every damn bronze penny, for the simple reason that certain gaps are unfillable : 1933, 1952, 1953 type 1, 1954. Therefore I took the philosophical view that if a variety is approaching the same degree of rarity - i.e. things like early 1860s die numbers, narrow 3s, numerals from halfpenny dies, etc - then they will remain gaps, in fact there won't even be a gap created for them.

I vaguely recall seeing a better version (EF ?) that definitely looked like RBITANNIAR, although I'm not certain it was a sixpence. I think it was at DNW, but can't find a decent picture. I did find this one 1821 RBITANNIAR Again, that one (though a respectable grade) really doesn't convince either. The first character doesn't look like a convincing B or R. In fact, it rather looks as though someone made an error (BITANNIAR) and then made a crude attempt to correct it with a B in front, but got it badly wrong and mixed up with George's syrup. The left hand downstroke isn't even nearly the right thickness - it really looks like a botch job.

1966 (Fifth edition) : F £70 VF £95 EF £120 Proof not listed. For what it's worth, Seabys didn't list UNC prices for anything but George VI and Liz II until sometime in the 1990s. No, Seabys wasn't strictly an annual until sometime in the ?1980s. I think the 1980 was Edition 17? (It's in my bedroom but I've only just come from there!) The edition I REALLY want is the one that marked the huge increase in prices between 1973 and 1975. But I've never seen one. In fact, I don't have any for the 1970s, though I do have the Coins & Medals 1970 annual (some zany prices in that!), the Coin Monthly blue pages for 1979, and Collectors Coins also for 1979.

I remember wasting hours of my life as a schoolboy, peering at an 1865 even worse than that, trying to convince myself it was 1865/3 (it could well have been, but ... )

That DNW specimen is too worn to be conclusive - it could easily be BBITANNIAR, with wear or damage to the first B which is only half there anyway.

Nah - a good fish'nchip supper swilled down with a few oysters, is more her scene (and if she was a true Essex Girl, a few whelks and jellied eels wouldn't go amiss) Essex girls are great. They may not always be the sharpest knives in the drawer, but their hearts are usually in the right place Yes - behind a skimpy leopard print top and a Big Badge saying "I'm Sharon - my sister is Tracy"

Nah - a good fish'nchip supper swilled down with a few oysters, is more her scene (and if she was a true Essex Girl, a few whelks and jellied eels wouldn't go amiss)

I think it was the historian A L Rowse who persisted in calling her Boadicea long after the version had been discredited. When this was pointed out to him, his response was, 'I would much rather take a woman called Boadicea out to dinner than one called Boudica'. Given her reputation, I wouldn't fancy dining with her however she spelt her name. LOL. Mind you, reputation or no, I'd rather take her (out to dinner) than a pedant like Rowse.

I absolutely agree with Tom, 100%. Now, once you've got an idea of when certain coins are at the 'bottom' and due to rise ... send me a PM letting me know which, ok?

I think you mean 2p not 1p !! To me, the supposed scarcity of 1988 £1 coins is something of a myth. The mintage figure is high enough, but perhaps they really ARE scarce. If so does anyone know why?

Good luck with that 1983 2p ! If you're serious about starting, then you're quite right that 1911 to 1919 silver is still plentiful in all except the very highest grades. Perhaps concentrate on going for BU versions of the commonest years? (1916 and 1918 for a start). Coins of major issue changes like 1887 silver is also plentiful, and to a lesser extent, 1893. And 1902 is the easiest year of a tricky reign. 1936 is by far the easiest year of George V (go for BU only). Welcome to the hobby!

Yes, it was always Boadicea growing up. Does anybody actually know ? As far as Mumbai is concerned, it has always been Mumbai to the locals. Private soldiers of the empire were notorious for using (not always complimentary) nicknames based on the local pronunciations. Wipers for Ypres is another one which springs to mind. If you follow this link you can see that with the exception of Chennai (Madras) they are mostly pretty faithful attempts and it's probably not even fair to call them renames... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaming_of_cities_in_India#Proposed_changes While we're putting money in Jimmy Wales's pockets :

Not really 1949, a few miles south of Colchester on the coast - right in the middle of the Parachute Regiment's firing ranges. Can be awfully noisy at times. Yeah, I bet it can, 400. Although Colchester is a nice City. The inhabitants weren't saying that after Boudicca paid it an official visit. In fact, they weren't saying ANYTHING seeing how they were all dead or fled. Is it Boudicca or Boadicea ? Never sure I think it's like the difference between Jesus and Joshua - one got more popular quite a while after the other (original). So I'm thinking Boudicca is the older spelling? And therefore more authentic. Not sure how far back Boadicea goes (Victorians? LOL)

I remember 12 years ago when our local curry house in the Midlands offered a discount card - I can't remember the exact price but I think it was around £20 for 6 months? You could get 2 mains (eat in or takeaway) for the price of 1, so it soon paid for itself (I would go there every week )

Well cleaned! Is that our friend? He gives a new meaning to "cleaning up". Yup it is, so its the bestest coin of that year you'll ever see, until he gets another that is and drops it in the silver dip by accident etc etc etc That one wasn't dipped! Silver dip leaves a dull appearance, but that one has been well and truly polished.

Well cleaned! Is that our friend? He gives a new meaning to "cleaning up".

Our Tennis boy did better than ermmmmmm (how many English boys) actually got so far? I believe Mr Murray has done better in his short career than most of your English boys in their entire careers I bet if he won it though he'd be British, but because he's out now he's Scottish You are totally right. And for all I've said, Mandy Urray is the best Brit tennis player since the war, by far. Our boy Tim can't touch him, though he is still loved "on the Hill" even though he is now well and truly over it... What, the Ashes? 2009, 2010 or 2005? Or maybe you meant the Rugby World Cup in 2003? No? Definitely not Linford Christie, you could just come back with Alan "There Weren't Any Americans In Moscow" Wells. Presumably you're not referring to any number of snooker players over 30 years (oops, just remembered, one of them was a Scot!). Or yachtsmen, rowers, cyclists, F1 drivers, horsepersons, etc. Oh wait! I've got it!! You must mean the number of English football teams in the Champions League 1/4 Finals, semi-finals and final, year after year after year...

On the OTHER hand - coins like these are on eBay all the time, so if you managed to get 99c per item, you'd be laughing!

Not really 1949, a few miles south of Colchester on the coast - right in the middle of the Parachute Regiment's firing ranges. Can be awfully noisy at times. Yeah, I bet it can, 400. Although Colchester is a nice City. The inhabitants weren't saying that after Boudicca paid it an official visit. In fact, they weren't saying ANYTHING seeing how they were all dead or fled.