Peckris

Your doctor needs to check your prescription. What are you on? Guineass

One thing you can say though - Guineas is good for you

Nor did he tell you what was his favourite pizza. What kind of a man is he? Likes dates on his, apparently? Very strange! ...and a milled edge. Though given a choice he'd probably prefer a bun……. Yup, he likes to Wyon and dine...

Mark makes a good point - you need to see the wear characteristics of each design, and Derek's book takes you a long way down that road. For example, Britannia on the reverse of pennies from 1937 is a very shallow design, and even a VF specimen will appear relatively worn. But if you take Britannia between 1927 and 1936, that's a very strong design, and even in F will probably look as good as that VF George VI. I applaud your aim, but I feel that just to take a single design would be misleading?

Exactly. If you have a decent cabinet and don't live right by the sea, neither environmental or "mechanical" (?) damage should be a worry. So you've got your Una and the Lion safely ensconced in your cabinet, and each time you pull out the drawer, perhaps it moves a bit over the wooden or lined surface of the drawer, thereby picking up cabinet friction; or you take it out to admire it occasionally, and you've done it a hundred times with no problems, but just once, you accidentally drop it on your tiled floor. Or your wife thinks it looks a little dusty sitting in that cabinet and cleans it up a bit with a furniture polishing cloth; or, or or.... Then you go to sell it only to see in the catalog description a remark about this or that "rim ding" or "cleaning" or "hairlines" or... How many times have I seen those words in British auction catalogs??? So, sure, if you have a "decent?" cabinet, you don't have to worry.Sorry, but this is nonsense. The implication is that owners of coin cabinets don't take the necessary care when handling and storing their coins. And as for 'auction description' and 'market value', there are more of us who simply enjoy our coins and like to take them out (carefully) and look at them (carefully) without having in the back of our mind some constant pecuniary or mercenary consideration. As for the (implied) thesis that collectors who store coins in cabinets MUST damage them once in a blue moon ... if that was true there would be no UNC coins with a date earlier than the 1980s. Collectors have been successfully storing their coins for hundreds if not thousands of years, while slabs have a lifespan of no more than 30 years, which is a pinprick in the lifetime of a coin. You ascribe too much delicacy to coins. I accept your point about TPGs being more of an 'insurance policy' than merely the guarantee of an established and honest dealer, but I'd prefer it if I could get my coin authenticated and photographed by a TPG (who never make mistakes, right?) without the concomitant entombing of said coin.

High-ISH? ISH???? You can't get better than that!

As long as it's not Old Hammered & Bent..

Nor did he tell you what was his favourite pizza. What kind of a man is he? Likes dates on his, apparently? Very strange! ...and a milled edge.

Happy birthday Paulus

Nor did he tell you what was his favourite pizza. What kind of a man is he?

Hey! It is my favorite coin, so I felt as though it should be my chosen forum name! (Well, actually my fav coin is the gothic crown - but that wouldn't sound very good...) I can't really criticise - as you will no doubt have noticed, my avatar is one also.

Yes, he loves correcting speling erors! What, you mean like 'aquisitions'?

Another unpopular coin ... until collectors for them turned up.

As in lifesize genuine 1933 penny? I'd go along with that

In the words my daughter at the age of 4, 'Hello friends, I am here!' Never the modest one and always melodramatic, she has turned out to be a balanced, well mannered and sensible member of society. Who would have thought that? Sorry Stuart, don't do take away pizzas. Coffee is another matter. Nor me - not one of them does my favourite: Seafood pizza. Yet when I phoned Pizza Hut to challenge them on this, they told me they did do them in their restaurants! Pfffft. And while we're at it: who the hell was it decided pineapple would be something to use as a topping? No one Italian I'd wager….. Damn right! Mind, a Persian Chicken Biryani really does come with banana...

Yep

I think they use a traditional North African dagger with a 10" blade?

Exactly. If you have a decent cabinet and don't live right by the sea, neither environmental or "mechanical" (?) damage should be a worry.

In the words my daughter at the age of 4, 'Hello friends, I am here!' Never the modest one and always melodramatic, she has turned out to be a balanced, well mannered and sensible member of society. Who would have thought that? Sorry Stuart, don't do take away pizzas. Coffee is another matter. Nor me - not one of them does my favourite: Seafood pizza. Yet when I phoned Pizza Hut to challenge them on this, they told me they did do them in their restaurants! Pfffft.

No no - it's a double-barrelled name : Cartwheel-Twopence (Grandpa was Cartwheel, Grandma was Twopence )

Yes, I think that's a good thesis. But... To say that currency crowns were issued "in masses" until 1901, is misleading : the average mintage was a tenth of the average halfcrown mintage; then the halfcrown average mintage itself went up almost tenfold from 1914. You'd have to compare nearly 20 million halfcrowns issued in 1914, with the quarter-million annual crown mintage of 1901 and before. So you have to conclude that crowns weren't really very popular.

There's no reason for anyone in the UK to slab for a better price, as received wisdom seems to be that any price upgrade - if any - is marginal. For me, I'd like answers to the following questions: 1) what value is a 'population report' when so few UK coins are slabbed? 2) how would I store such plastic slabs in my mahogany cabinets? 3) how would be able to enjoy my coins, twisting them in the light to see them to best effect? It's a no-brainer. In other words, .... no no, I mustn't!

When are you getting your 1933 penny washer, scott?

I don't collect gold, but if I did, I think the guinea would do it for me, much more than the sov. There's something romantic and olde world about the guinea.