Coinery

Very nice coin that!

I like the line stating you should avoid 1866 and 1871 halfcrowns, as these are forgeries. OK, thanks for the info..Quoting his eBay blurb here "Victoria's Half Crowns were struck from 1839 to 1901, none were struck between 1851 and 1873 because of the striking of the new decimal coin the Florin which was struck in its place. " Since when did decimalisation come into effect between 1851 and 1873? Here's another one - 'only' £29.99 on a BIN. Apparently it's now a pattern! Somebody's knocking these out somewhere. Strange thing is, they are worn to differing degrees, and the first one really looks as though it's circulated? I wonder if it did? The milled edge on the BIN one is pretty good isn't it?

Many happy returns of the day, Sir!

They're all at it now! 371277524598 The fleur de Lis from the centre of a coronet/crown PM has now become the stand-alone obverse mark to create this 'unique mule' fleur de lis/coronet! Honestly!

I'm looking forward to your email to the seller. I might have to point out to him that he's got a unique bust on his trial piece, that's hitherto been unrecorded in combination with the lion.As if it wasn't rare enough already!

Hah! I can't open links or view images at the moment because my internet connection is only GPRS, but Clive kindly gave me a belly laugh by sending the link to my email address (where I can use wifi - long story)!Anyway, not bad, he's only 9 marks out! I'm guessing he doesn't think that's a PM key on the reverse then? If he only but realised that he would have a very unique coin indeed if it WAS a PM lion, as the bust used on his coin hadn't been created yet! On the obverse, I'm guessing he's mistaking the A of SPINA for a privy mark? I can't even decipher what's between the A and E, but it won't be a lion!

It's a shame though, isn't it, all those kids living under that umbrella! What you say is true but, I for one, feel happy to sacrifice my own group cohesiveness in exchange for a society that's decent and kind! If only that could come about!

Hah, yes! We even put beers/wine on our shopping list, now! We might forget otherwise...we kid ourselves, at least!

Only on a friday, eh?

Very good ChKy, enjoyed that! Extremely suble, amazed your English is that good! We had a good old, grown-up, conversation the other day, after listening to a BBC 4 radio program about current German literature. The saddest thing that was said was the kids of today's Germany are still growing up with the stigma of being the offspring of 'mass murderers!' This was said by a German writer, not me, but I felt deeply saddened about it! My best friend (now dead) was married to a German woman, and his children also made this point very clear to me! I spend so much of my time educating my son to believe, when he's fighting the iron cross on a play station, that he's not fighting Germany. What chance have the poor kids of Germany got? How long before they raise up and say 'once more, we're tired of you depressing our culture and our ways'? I truly hope that comedy, and a lot more responsibility on the part of the gaming industry and sensible parents will help? We sensibly ban racism, yet stupidly continue it in this ridiculous situation where I have to tell my son 'NO, he's not the baddy!' when he's playing a a WWI or II flying game! Edit: sorry, that last point didn't come over properly! My point is they shouldn't even be allowed to develop games which discriminate in this way! It would be the same game to my son if the planes had catapillars and mushrooms for insignia!

You have my absolute confidence, old farthing!I'd stand any cheque you'd care to write against the boat I now live in! You can feel that way about certain people! I just hope the coin's not a fake?

Thanks ColinCoin will be with you tomorrow Regards Steven The cheque will bounce!

That's a pretty random interjection, Daniel, what are you wanting to upload?

Victoria copponze appears to have calmed down on here recently, so it's good to have you aboard stiring up the soup! Welcome to the best resource on the net!

I've never spent a great deal of time pawing over freeman's victoria halfpennies but, one thing's for sure, if he got rid of those useless images, he could've saved an awful lot of paper! Sacrilege I know! Apologies in advance to all that may offend!

'I said Ethel?' 'But it was too late, she'd already been mooned!'

'Stupid questions?' It would be a very empty forum if we didn't ALL post them more frequently than we should! Welcome aboard, and bring 'em on! Just out of interest, where are you from?

Does anyone have any ideas why I might be unable to access the forum through my wifi connection with WiFi Spark? I can access the forum using my phone data on GPRS, but this means I can't view images (without the patient of a saint), and get booted off with 'you don't have access to forum on this server' if I switch to wifi! I have an account with WiFi Spark who say it's not an issue with their service, and confirmed the forum route isn't blocked. I use a router which is wired to an outside aerial. My laptop also has the same error message when trying to connect to the forum via this wifi connection. I've cleared the cache on my laptop ( a month), but no difference! Any ideas?

That's really pleasantly written, Peck, a very nice style! A pleasure to read, Sir! A pleasure indeed! Well done! A nice thing to have on your site, Mark! Great stuff all round!

Su-blinkin-perb! It's a great way to condense information. Good for dealer websites, and great for collectors!

Is he not? I keep seeing him in the list of online users and according to the forum he was last active 17 minutes ago. Ah, OK! So I'll change that to not been posting, then!

And peck's not even around to appreciate it at the moment, either!

We never dreamed such a thing could happen to an encapsulated coin! Thanks jacinbox!

And 90% of the people who buy those, don't even realise it's a copy of a 3d and NOT a sixpence!

Waht on ertah are we gniog to do wtih you pteer?