SionGilbey

Worked for me. For the prices, a rough guide is £1 then is £10 now.

Are you planning on making a section on your website for British coins? I think people here would be co-operative if you wanted a couple of type examples. Chris Perkins has probably the best book on the value of British coins called Collectors Coins Great Britain. It's cheap over Amazon.

I'd have bought it if it were a year earlier

It's gun money, made from melting down cannons. The date is 1689 not 1669 and its a half crown (30 pence, hence the XXX). Shoot me down, Gun money... Well now I know why I couldn't identify it. How would you pitch the value? XXXp or £XXX? I've seen one go for £40.

"...but only if you're lucky" Apparently! Now here's a chance that must only come up once in every hundred lifetimes.... A roll of 2p coins I bought back in 1973 that seemed to have leaked! If they have a butt-ugly rainbow tone that works out at them being worth 37 grand!

1967 pennies are worthless. I use the ones I get as paperweights, or to stack up or to pelt people I dislike. In most not-that-serious collections there are usually plenty of these... I found 70 in the last lot I bought. Worth of the coin does not depend on the age - it depends on rarity and condition. If you have a moderately worn 1910 penny it's probably worth a pound or two but with almost perfect detail and lustre from the mint you could fetch £50 for it. However if you found even a quite badly worn 1933 penny I'd give you a tenner for it

So? I've got a Bank of England nine bob note, an Arthur Daley £5 note, Fawlty Towers £10 note, and a Princess of Wales £50 note. True! Cool! I bought 10 packs of £10 tissue in a pound shop. Unfortunately these notes were spent various times when I had a cold and ran out of Kleenex...

I seem to remember a shopping bag filled with predecimal currency never touched since 1969 contained shillings back to around 1940, most common shilling being 1947 and 8 when they turned into cupro-nickel. Most of the coins were from the 50s. Not many preceded 1930.

Looking for other coins I found this seller is definitely numis... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DISNEY-1-DOLLAR-NOTE-MICKEY-MOUSE-1996_W0QQitemZ300535987153QQihZ020QQcategoryZ138QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem -.-

The time limit came and went, but nobody bit lol !!! Wonder why not? A VIP Churchill crown is worth £10k without the Satin Finish... imagine what that was worth

Don't get your verdi on my farthings! >

Yes, but with using Silverlight which is used in a vast minority of websites, while being a pioneer it is not 100% compatible with everything. You've got to ask yourself if it's worth the extra effects for a site that some people can't even look at. Silverlight is not a virus but if you're desperate to view the site you can download it from Microsoft at http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/Get-Started/Install/Default.aspx The site is interesting but has nawt to do with British coins as Europe is only listed as having 2 countries or 5 nations.

Yes, it was becoming a bit of a lynch mob. I don't see it being a lynch mob Sion, as i keep saying, if you had purchased a coin from said ebay seller and paid way over the odds i think attitudes would have changed. So i'll say no more on the forum about it The forum had been notified and eBay had been notified so there was not much more we could have done. Back on topic- http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VIP-Satin-Finish-Commemorative-Churchill-Coin-1965-/290545090274?pt=UK_Coins_BritishComm_RL&hash=item43a5d63ee2#ht_500wt_1156 Almost worth it! Had to check out their other items just in case they had the complete set of VIPs. Nice pair of fingerless groves there. I have a slight suspicion they're non-numis...

Yurp, that's an 1855 If you don't know them off the top of your head http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/numbers.html is one of my bookmarks as it has a quick converter. For comparison:

Yes, it was becoming a bit of a lynch mob. I don't see it being a lynch mob Sion, as i keep saying, if you had purchased a coin from said ebay seller and paid way over the odds i think attitudes would have changed. So i'll say no more on the forum about it The forum had been notified and eBay had been notified so there was not much more we could have done. Back on topic- http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VIP-Satin-Finish-Commemorative-Churchill-Coin-1965-/290545090274?pt=UK_Coins_BritishComm_RL&hash=item43a5d63ee2#ht_500wt_1156 Almost worth it!

Yes, it was becoming a bit of a lynch mob.

Are you certain there's no others known? http://www.predecimal.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1254

My Krause had $200 for UNC, possibly low for this mintage Given the buouyency of the Russian antiquities market, $800 might be possible for one in TOP grade, but even allowing for US grading I wouldn't rate his coin as better than VF David How much the buyer wants the coin can also be a factor. If it doesn't spring up in auctions much and they need it to complete a collection or some similar scenario they would be prepared to pay top dollar for it... but $800 seems a bit much.

Looks like an F to me. Certainly not an £800 coin. Was the £800 coin in an outstanding grade? Was it a rare variety or mintmark? Grade and Rarity are the things that usually affect the price you can sell a coin for.

I'm bumping this for two reasons: The free PCGS Photo Grading app helps with my grading of US coins as it covers the lot and gives examples. I don't really collect US coins but for someone who does it could be handy. Ref: http://www.pcgs.com/photograde/ the online version http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pcgs-photograde-hd/id364737016?mt=8 download link I've also noticed a copy of Check You Change by our very own Chris Perkins on there. Can we confirm that this is a legitimate copy? It looks good. http://itunes.apple.com/app/check-your-change-hd/id371967619?mt=8

Pretty sure its Richard II.

Worth around 20p I'm afraid. However it's a fun piece to show your friends!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290535701134 This guy's camera can't keep a consistent date... it fluctuates between being 2007 and 2026 in every listing.

A picture speaks a thousand words A high resolution scan could also be useful if you have a flatbed. (You can play with the settings to get a higher dpi for a zoomable picture)

It does look rather more colourful than it should, a bit like an oil puddle on a wet day. I presume this is down to the scanner as these things often are with some MS coins.