davidrj

Yes I know the problem. As a kid, I nagged folk to save their bun pennies from change; a side effect living in the then thriving port of Liverpool, I got given a lot of foreign pennies too - they all need completing Australian pennies probably won't ever be completed, but Ireland penny and Argentine 2c done, but still 4 missing from the complete run of French bronze 10c, and ..................... david

If you bid 25 Euros it did not get through as I bid €22 and the next bid was €253!!!! I ony spotted it at 1min to go, and i attemped a snipe €25 to bid at 3 secs to go, maybe I was too late or it went in after than the €253. Was gobsmacked when it finished

Wow! Hows that for last minute bidding! My €25 snipe didn't stand an earthly 1860 with missing colonafter F:D

Spot on! I completed the date set of bronze pennies 40 years ago, culled from circulation and mainly in lousy condition. Upgrading and looking for varieties within the date series keeps me interested, and yes, I know damn well I'm never going to complete Freeman, let alone Gouby David

Nah! The real challenge now is to get all the Gouby variants within each Freeman number David

Probably true, and being in possession of each of the business types, I would say that these are the kind of variety that cure my insomnia! The differences are minute and consist of nothing more than letters pointing to teeth or gaps and not much else. I'm sorry if it's anybody's 'thing' but if all varieties were like this I'd collect bottle tops. Agreed1, I have all three types in decent grade, but differences are minor and very uninteresting. The 99+ variations of ship halfpennies leave me cold too, not really enthused by anything post george V

It's a recognised variety for those of us who like such things, very rare, a specimen (graded as Fine and said to be finest known) sold for £700 here James Workman sale My example cost 45p on Ebay, which is why it's worth looking hard at the crap for certain dates David Why is the finest known only F?...nice one on the 45p coin....I've bought a few coins of which I was quite smug with...and even a few off dealers lists...a 1849 farthing in GVf for £6 ...he wasn't a farthing buff....I will have to through my sack full of pennies to see if there anything rare. Presumably cos no one has yet found a higher grade example Those of us that collect varieties have to put up with whatever grades we can get. Davuid

It's a recognised variety for those of us who like such things, very rare, a specimen (graded as Fine and said to be finest known) sold for £700 here James Workman sale My example cost 45p on Ebay, which is why it's worth looking hard at the crap for certain dates David

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super 1918KN Classic British Coins again This guy really can find the goodies!! First time I've seen the bird's foot in top grade, suspect it won't finish at 99p David

I'm the same, the only windows in my house face due east and due west. I'm getting reasonable results from my scanner, great for variety checking but my images are definitely flat . Roll on Summer, for good light, Now I've virtually retired I can give my copystand a try out with the digital camera David

Neat! I must try that

My cassette of the Hobbit always evoked the message "Bad block at 6F - rewind tape" , tnen another 10 minute wait Best machine I ever had was my Archimedes, but add ons were just too expensive Back in 1986 I bought a 286 Tandon AT for work for £1000, plus another £1000 for a 100MB hard disk. We marvelled at it saying "We'll never fill that!" David

Don't know what lighting he's using, or whether he has the colour temperature on his camera mis-set; but if you turn down the magenta in his pictures, they don't look bad

20p!!!

There was rampant inflation at the time, many blamed decimalisation, but figures show inflation was lower in the period post February than during the preceding period. Folk in Europe blamed the introduction of the Euro for rising prices. Don't know whether the figures backed this up, or it was again a way of expressing annoyence at the change David

Ditto! I used to borrow 10/- off my Mum if I was going out for the night David

Wow! Is it really that long ago. I was in Oxford then, and I remember deliberately getting the bus the bus to work (it was only 3 stops and I usually walked) so that I could get some of the new coins in my change. I also seem to recall that Lsd disappeared incredibly quickly I find youngsters gobsmacked at just how large pennies and halfcrowns were

Euro coins a bit confusing but lots of info including die varieties

Spanish coins 1474 to 1868 in Spanish but useful

Portuguese coins nice site

Decimalisation??

You've got it wrong (as does most of the country) I'm so glad someone else defends the 'leopard' truth Methinks no-one in England will ever get it right now, after that "Three Lions On My Shirt" nonsense, grrrr. They are three leopards en passant heradically speaking, as opposed to the Scottish Lion rampant (or is it guardant? Does anyone care?) Mind you, if I met a hungry big cat, I wouldn't stop too long to check out if it was a leopard or a lion Heraldic English is arcane, seems lions and leopards are interchangeable lions/leopards

For those of you that collect world coins, this looks a pretty good deal compared with the cost of the books Ultimate Standard Catalog of World Coins 1601-Present 5-CD Bundle $99.99

I upload my pictures to photobucket then paste the IMG code here. the image code looks something like this Hope this helps David