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Just a table-top tripod would do it! I got mine second-hand from a camera shop for £10. You'd probably get something for a similar price on eBay. It wouldn't surprise me if most camera shops had a couple of second-handers hanging around!

I wonder whether this is actually a metal-mix issue, as all the components showing circulation wear appear to be displaying normal-toned metal? The lighter colour appears to be seated in some obscure field (maybe poorly rolled planchet???)and device recesses. Really odd!

Another way is to upload your images to photobucket, or whichever image host you choose, remembering to resize the image if needed (otherwise the coin will be off the screen of the PC on the forum...only trial and error here will assist you in what size). Then if you click on your uploaded image in say PB, you'll see a box of links, I just click on 'IMG Code' and paste it directly on the page here within the text. Welcome aboard!

Sorted on the farthing!

Know anyone, Rob? I'll have one if you do?

Hmm .. an interesting challenge! Best I can do on a quick search. Not really perfect, is it? It's not what you'd expect, really, I was surprised at the lack of quality for a supposedly easy date! What spurred it was Dave's beautiful Old Head coin, recently posted on the forum, and my landing a nice 1901 HP last month. I suddenly thought I'd put together a 1901 UNC type-set, to include the gold, thinking UNC's the only option for 1901, but not so sure now? I obviously want to snipe the set cheap from eBay and/or the big Houses, but would certainly pay top dollar for a farthing, just to see if they really are out there. Makes me wonder whether the Old Head coinage is seriously underrated?

I have two E7's with that mother-of-pearl-'black' you get with an UNC mint-darkened bronze!

For a date that's thought to be easy or common, I am surprised at how few 'smart' unblemished UNCs there are, especially the farthing for the bronzes! Also, type 1901 shilling into eBay...nothing to write home about! The dealer sites also corroborate my suspicion that 1901is no longer the poor man's Victoria type set! Anyone got an UNC 1901 farthing for sale without blotches or spots? I'm in the market for one!

Maybe hoping a scrap metal merchant was watching?

Hi Justin, Speaking for myself, I also can't seem to settle on anything at all. I didn't think I'd ever go anywhere near George VI, and then suddenly found myself with close to a 100 of them. I too thought I quite liked the pennies...but also the farthings and halfcrowns so, before you know it, I'm accumulating the entire series of G5. I also like the hammered Elizabeth, Charles copper, Victorian Old Head, and so it goes on. The moral of the story is, I'm not sure if some people will ever settle, though I do envy those penny and farthing chaps! I think you must go where your heart is, within the confines of your budget, because, as you've said, you can always sell-up and change direction if you fancy it. Only two tips, really...don't leave gaps in folders or trays to fill, as it will eat you away (the Whitman folders were genious as addiction traps), group them together and then spread them out to make the space for a new addition inbetween. Also, if you think you are going to be chopping around a lot, then you might have to rethink your grades, as selling poor grade coins won't leave you as much to spend on your next passion as you might hope, especially if your outlet is going to be eBay! You're obviously well into it, so enjoy the ride, wherever it takes you!

Sorry it's just numbers, but this really cheered! 190819665797

Wow! 370786722066 A really nasty split along the inner beading at 9 O'Clock obverse! Good grade, but could you live with the split? Not me!

You could always dig the diamond up later, once the investigations have cooled off?

Even with the slightest possibility that a coin could have a 90 day turnaround is curtains for any further submissions from me! Even if there is a slight advantage in sale-price, it'll be less than the profit made from turning the cash over twice in that 90 days! Rubbish performance, and a shame given the slight improvement in credibility that Bill has just given them.

Pah!

I would have said William IV I'm on the pPod, but looked like a pointed beard?

Is that an Edward VII style bust on the second image?

Hammered now, eh? Interesting. Although since I can buy six EF Charles I shillings, a meal for two and some chateau bottled Burgundy for less than £30 is a fair chunk of coin budget for me ... I'm not going to be hammering at their door for them to grade my coins just yet No, I'm sure it's reasonable compared to US TPGS. And I guess hammered are trickier to grade ..? But I'd like to see some results on that! I would have thought that the foremost experts in the country would struggle to accurately grade hammered coins. We have had multiple threads on here about this very subject and the general concensus was "buy on eye appeal or rarity, NOT GRADE" Just how 2 blokes, a row full of previously graded coins and a computer program will accurately grade a hammered coin remains to be seen! I really struggle in this area and even when you consider weak strikes, worn dies, planchet quality, environmental factors etc etc it is virtually impossible to arrive at a grade that is acceptable to 2 different collectors.... Yes, I do believe that no amount of discussion will ever satisfy a hammered collector that a hammered coin could ever be encapsulated 78, realistically! I for one will not enter into the debate, at least I don't think I will! I don't see the problem, just think of a number and put it on the label. The sheep will follow.

Hammered now, eh? Interesting. Although since I can buy six EF Charles I shillings, a meal for two and some chateau bottled Burgundy for less than £30 is a fair chunk of coin budget for me ... I'm not going to be hammering at their door for them to grade my coins just yet No, I'm sure it's reasonable compared to US TPGS. And I guess hammered are trickier to grade ..? But I'd like to see some results on that! I would have thought that the foremost experts in the country would struggle to accurately grade hammered coins. We have had multiple threads on here about this very subject and the general concensus was "buy on eye appeal or rarity, NOT GRADE" Just how 2 blokes, a row full of previously graded coins and a computer program will accurately grade a hammered coin remains to be seen! I really struggle in this area and even when you consider weak strikes, worn dies, planchet quality, environmental factors etc etc it is virtually impossible to arrive at a grade that is acceptable to 2 different collectors.... Yes, I do believe that no amount of discussion will ever satisfy a hammered collector that a hammered coin could ever be encapsulated 78, realistically! I for one will not enter into the debate, at least I don't think I will! I don't see the problem, just think of a number and put it on the label. The sheep will follow.

Hammered now, eh? Interesting. Although since I can buy six EF Charles I shillings, a meal for two and some chateau bottled Burgundy for less than £30 is a fair chunk of coin budget for me ... I'm not going to be hammering at their door for them to grade my coins just yet No, I'm sure it's reasonable compared to US TPGS. And I guess hammered are trickier to grade ..? But I'd like to see some results on that! I would have thought that the foremost experts in the country would struggle to accurately grade hammered coins. We have had multiple threads on here about this very subject and the general concensus was "buy on eye appeal or rarity, NOT GRADE" Just how 2 blokes, a row full of previously graded coins and a computer program will accurately grade a hammered coin remains to be seen! I really struggle in this area and even when you consider weak strikes, worn dies, planchet quality, environmental factors etc etc it is virtually impossible to arrive at a grade that is acceptable to 2 different collectors.... Yes, I do believe that no amount of discussion will ever satisfy a hammered collector that a hammered coin could ever be encapsulated 78, realistically! I for one will not enter into the debate, at least I don't think I will!

DNA recovered from blood traces contaminating the artefact have led archaelogists to believe that this is indeed the long-lost nail thought to have passed through the left wrist of Jesus at the crucifixion. Engineers are now assisting archaeologist as the Angel of the North is lowered to the ground, as the search continues in the foundations for the casket, which is believed to hold two other nails and a man's skeleton. This is Jack Frost, BBC News, Washington!

Amazing to have been on here as much as I have, and to have never picked that up (that's 3 have's in one sentence...can't be right?)!

I had absolutely no idea you were a USofAer!

Excellent point! Totally logical, really!

I believe about a 50/50 split. In CCGB they are priced roughly the same. Both are easy. Thanks, Peter, much appreciated! I agree, not far off 50/50 Thanks, gents!