Coinery

Your E1 HC was/is beautiful, I wanted it, but definitely the next level!

That's when hammered coins have the magic for me, Paulus, when you think of a Royalist Soldier walking our counties, all those year's ago, just for one of those coins! Amazing stuff!

Would make a fine collection!

Good strategy Sword. Take time to learn what's average condition and what's not. Then when you spot something particularly pleasing .. go for it. Unless it's a Chas I shilling of course! I have a feeling that my first hammered will (eventually) be an Edward VI shilling or Chas I halfcrown. Hopefully, VF, full flan, nice portrait and well struck A C1 HC is a proper chunk of silver, something to hold, a lovely series of coins! The E6 shillings are certainly pretty, but ordinary by comparison!

Most of the things I want range from £50-£1000, with £100-£500 being the normal range for me! There is a clear 'next level' above the £1k spend, at least in my area of interest! I can mostly buy up to the shilling range of E1, and could sometimes stretch to a low-grade halfcrown/crown! However, I'm saving the larger denominations and Elizabeth gold for a future better time, as a fine HC does not really interest me...I'd prefer a staggering shilling or threefarthings instead!

Oh, no, curry surely?

Yes, indeed! Feast well and be happy!

I think collectors AND dealers have a vested interest in price guides remaining vague! A case in point would be say the hammered coinage! It wouldn't be too hard for a price guide like Spink's to add footnotes to each number. Example: the 6th issue sixpence of E1 covers 18 years and 10 mintmarks and, as we have recently seen, a 1599, AND other dates/mintmarks beside, can fetch some silly money compared to their kin classified within the same Spink number! If a numerical grade was possible (which it isn't IMHO) and a catalogue was in existence that said S2578 F65 VF240 with footnote 1599 Anchor X multiples thereof, etc. etc., where would the experience and knowledge of those who have discovered this information through many hours and great endeavour, stand? How could say someone like me progress through a particular series and discover the rarities and hard dates, and still manage to acquire them through wit and knowledge (when fortune favours), if joe down the road can tell me the rarity of any given date for the Elizabeth series, and put pressure on the market for them? It must be the same for every specialist interest anywhere! If you remove the incentive to become expert in a field, by replacing them with a finite catalogue, with it would go the opportunity to afford that which interests the expert and true collector in the first place. Edit: just read your posts mhcoins...welcome aboard!

Browsing over auction lots is one of life's greatest pleasures, especially when the final price still remains uncertain!

I think he meant to say UNCertain! Not a pretty coin, really!

Billy Conolly, was surely the better version?

Taking into account we are all human beings, I think sensitivity in our communications with others is needed! You wouldn't meet your girlfriend's parents for the first time, or attend an interview, in muddy clothes, and there's a very good reason for this! I hope Dave takes your peace offering, as it would be a shame to see him jump ship on account of a silly couple of weeks!

It's silver, Rob!

That's very insightful of you mynki! Whilst BRG clearly has a very good eye for coins, and I would've enjoyed his positive contributions a great deal, I do feel that the forum's a lesser place for the tensions created by his personal vendettas against Dave! I'm confident all the regular readers (and I read everything, refreshing many times daily, always have) and contributors (new included), will have picked up on the truth of the matter! Don't leave, Dave, it would be seen a defeat! I hope you do have a happy thanks-giving, BRG, you have superb coins, as I've repeatedly said, but you'll need to change tack, as your posts have strained what is a great forum!

For what it's worth I also got the impression there was an agenda, and a prolonged period of childish goading, no matter how politely done!!

An' me avatar is wee better lookin' 'han yours twa. Hah, indeed! Ole Liz does at times look like she could take your arms off I do confess!

If you say so!!Do we need to continue this in members only, Paulus? lol, can we avoid being moderated in there? Doesn't look like it! I wondered what was going on!

If you say so!!Do we need to continue this in members only, Paulus?

You can see how it would be easy to get into trouble with such a woman! http://www.morninggloryantiques.com/imagesJC/PhotoLadies/VctJa.jpg

Is Scottish Money a moderator here? I didn't know that! No apologies needed whatsoever on my account!

Other than the crusty blue spots, I don't think we'll see very many others to give it a run! To be honest, I think even £400 would've been too cheap!

Yes, fingers crossed it's a short stall and, sorry, yes, I really should've posted it earlier...I'd been watching it from the beginning, knowing I wasn't ever going to be a contender! Once a coinery, always a coinery! Good luck with DNW! Hammered by any chance?

In any significant way, probably? Quite possibly, maybe? Potentially, likely?I can't see a way around it at the moment! I'm keeping an eye on the Tudor fakes/counterfeits to keep me onboard for now...will of course be an interesting resource one-day but, for now, only tears and dreaming for the genuine article!

I thought so! Just got to get organised! 2 years!

Thanks, Paulus!