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Absolutely cracking coin Huss!

Quick grade: Cartwheel: Fine - £20 Shilling: Good Fine - £25 Third Guinea: about Fine - third guineas are gold, that's more likely an 1806 halfpenny worth around £1-2

Pictures are the only way we can grade them - and that's the key to the value. Your cartwheel could be anything from £15 to £120...

I went for aF (about fine) a lot of wear unfortunately My bad... must have missed the a!

Personally I'd grade it as a Good. But I'm going to trust azda's grading skills and call it a fine - therefore worth around a fiver.

I've set up all the software for my barcode scanner now. The next big step - fitting barcodes to each coin... I think I'm going to have to do it in short bursts, say every now and again doing a few pages of coins in an album then waiting another month or so to do it again. How do you think I should get it in though? Stick it to coin tickets? They can't be tiny or else the scanner wont read them.

My theory is that it's a shilling with one side redone to look like a miniature version of the medal?

Yes, I think you're right. I should have recognized it earlier having seen one this Thursday.

If my memory serves me correctly, isn't the shilling 25mm?

If it were a sixpence it would have been roughly 20mm.

wrong coin collecting term there, i meant flan not planchet.

It's probably the right die on the wrong planchet - however which coin's planchet is this?

I have some more info on it here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150551399921+ Seems pretty rare with around 20,000 to 25,000 minted and this one (is yours in as good condition because that is the main denominator for the value) sold for $105 USD (£60 GBP)

Found it! This Taler commemorates Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805). He was a poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works he left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Die Xenien, a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents to their philosophical vision. The reverse eagle design dates back to the time of Charlemagne (742–814). It served as a metaphor of invincibility. In 1433 the double-headed eagle was adopted for the first time by the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. Since then the double-headed eagle came to be used as the symbol of the German emperor, and hence as the coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Mintage 20,000

I'm not fanstastic at German but I think that means something along the lines of 100 years from 10 November 1859? Possibly a commemorative token from 1959? Pictures would help!

Received a CoinCraft yearbook today, never having had one before. What do you guys think of them? And B&C, try Access! I find it is brilliant for books. (Or if you are tech-savvy you could try library software like VubisSmart).

They aren't in very good condition. Probably worth about a pound for the three unless there are errors.

Collecting year runs of circulation coins is a lot more fun than it sounds for a kid... believe me. It's interesting even to see the changing face of the queen and designs. He could collect 1971-now of a penny or 1983-now of 1 pounds (or even 2 pounds which are 1998-now which is a much shorter run and you've already started) to start him off or show him a few predecimal coins (some are cheap as chips) and see if that takes his interest. If you want the values for modern coins I highly recommend "Check your Change" which comes with an uncirculated, near perfect untouched free coin and has up to date values for today's decimal coins. They usually do them in Waterstones if you don't buy over the internet...

It's hard to tell without pictures... It's probably just

I agree! It's always amazed me how they put so much detail into such a small coin... it's brilliant how something so small and delicate were produced to such an amazing standard by Victorian machinery...

Hi Palves - Try this site http://www.measuringworth.com/ppoweruk/ Geoff Interesting site Geoff....and a cracking coin and photograph. If used in Britain it would today have the worth of 3p... still worth more than two of our coins now!

Possibly uncirculated... probably v. fine?

Good question Rob - paper price guides keep needing to be renewed as money changes... however the tintynut is not static and can be updated in seconds... and how do you store your over 1000 books? I have 3 or 4 bookshelves with around 80 books each... you'd need a mansion! And if I had a mansion I'd sell it and buy a Bentley made of coins...

Hmm... the trouble with Facebook is that everyone can find you... even people you'd prefer not to.

Actually Peck the tech is pretty simple... the barcode scanner reads the barcode and inputs it as text, like a keyboard. So if it beeps over a coin ID barcode with 0078 embedded in the barcode it would just input 0078 as if you had typed it. It saves around 10 seconds but as I'm replacing my handwritten tickets anyway (ghastly unreadable writing!) I thought I may as well go for this. The scanner is in the post to me now. The main hassle is printing out each barcode!