Peckris

Tip for you : though the reverse design (not being Britannia) leaves something to be desired, you can find 1798 "cartwheel" halfpennies and farthings from The Isle of Man that use the same obverse. Reasonable prices too.

Yes, Dave's right - you will have to pay more. So investment potential? Hmm, not sure. But collectability and then saleability .. definitely.

They're not related. But as Paulus says, London Coins and CGS are bedfellows : more than just a financial stake, they were started (and still run by?) the same people.

Welcome to the forums Stewey

If you don't count the rooftop at Abbey Road in 1969...

This topic: http://www.predecimal.com/forum/topic/7880-posting-pics/ explains everything you need to know.

Love your username - horrible pun! Your photos are a bit on the dark side - you could either lift the shadows/levels in any halfway capable image editor, or increase the exposure at photography time. Basically, it's the 'mid-tones' you need to lift, i.e. 'greys' rather than 'blacks' or 'whites'.

Having looked at the bigger pictures, I would say GEF, GVF, F and GFair.

Coincraft? Does he know something we don't? Ah, no... he doesn't know something we do.

The EF and UNC are nowhere near on those old chap! It's possible we're not seeing them in the best light? The "UNC" does look as though it's beginning to show rubbing on the cheek, so that would knock it back, but the EF - if it has all the hair strands still visible - could be lustrous if only if it was held at the right angle? The one I'd dispute for certain is the F : an F George VI should have a complete ear.

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