Gollum

Scottish coinage, this one will throw up a number so take your pick as above, the others are direct links and will download to you as pdf files. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=The%20Coinage%20of%20Scotland%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts Handbook of the coins of Great Britain and Ireland in the British Museum (1899) http://www.archive.org/download/handbookofcoinso00brituoft/handbookofcoinso00brituoft.pdf The provincial token-coinage of the 18th century (1915) http://www.archive.org/download/provincialtokenc00daltuoft/provincialtokenc00daltuoft.pdf The silver token-coinage mainly issued between 1811 and 1812 (1922) http://www.archive.org/download/silvertokencoina00daltiala/silvertokencoina00daltiala.pdf

I'm sorry guys but I know nothig of this subject, but I want to ask a question, I noticed whilst reading some articles on American sites about coins that the U.S gov't claim were not officially released to circulation being declared as belonging to the government and removed from the owner or finder. If this coin ( or others like it )where, how to put it !, erm, reclaimed by the gov't back then for recoinage, would that make the UK mint or govt the legal owners and could we have a situation soon where our own mint or gov't could do the same as the American one by taking it back legally. Just asking. Sorry to have broken into this one.

It's my wedding anniversary tomorrow, I asked for a book by Mr Gouby, wonder if it will come.

I can't remember where I read it as I have been reading so many forum members web sites and books of late, but somewhere I read that if the fun goes out of collecting and it becomes more of a finance thing or for a coins value then its time to give up. Something like that anyway, I got my 2 coins from Chris our landlord today, and as i opened the packet I was thrilled, I had 2 coins that were the best I own, and then my mind turned to the thought... If everyone else considered that low grade poor as scrap and did just that, then one day my poor scrap coin would be the only one left, and as poor as it is, it is going to be worth a fortune. Shiny things make me happy, I am Gollum, I want as many coins as I can get, even if you think they are junk, too me they are history, they are saying something, even if i do not quite know what.

Now that all you Pro collectors have informed us beginners that you have all collected the good coins and catalogued them, and told me that my dreams of a 1933 penny is pointless, I suppose I may as well give up now , seriously if they are a finite number and all whereabouts known what joy does it leave us. My only hope of undiscovered coins is looking more and more like getting my laser B1 detector out of mothballs and running up and down the field next to me in the hope of finding something none of you have..... . Are we relegated to waiting for one you poor beggars to kick the bucket before your collection becomes remotely available to us so we can say "gotcha".

Thank you Debbie,at present the infection seems to be in decline, a bit like my hair, the pain is still there but not so bad and the infection now feels like a gnawing niggling kind of thing as if the tooth has something under it trying to push it out but not as bad as yesterday. I had one once before that I took a dental pick too and burst in desperation, tasted foul but the relief was immediate. Hopefully it will be even better by tomorrow. Regards Garry

Thanks Peckris, none of them are of any real value except maybe the 1860/1 one I have, their mainly just to say I have them and for comparison kind of thing. Garry

excuse my comment on the vinnie black shadow as a shadowmaker, I was also thinking of the Kwack 750 widowmaker at the same time !.

BSA and Triumpsh, with Aj's, remember them silent police velocettes !..... a mans heart can melt very easily !!. I had a suzuki GT250 two stroke, and liked it strangely, then a kawasaki Z400 twin and few other bikes, you had to bring up bikes Peter, now the mind wanders to better days. Good looking daughters, spotty kids with copper... Pimp daddy, shame on you Peter, you could of at least asked around your forum friends first I think I am going to collect everything in general and as I said before threepences and sixpences most.Oh and the odd 1933 penny now and again just to make it interesting, you have to have a dream don't you. If you know everything else is attainable it must be boring to a degree, it is the seemingly unnattainable that makes the hunt pulse racing. If you have a line to god or santa, ask him to leave me an A7SS or A10 in my garage. Better still an old series c or d vinnie shadow maker please.

I'm on 500mg ab and I have both paracetomol and ibuprofen here as well as 30mg codeine phosphate which I refuse to take, they make me feel sick all the time and sleepy. Hospital and dentist refuse to remove it with an infction in place. I had the nerves drilled out after the last infection, but the dentist will not remove it because it is a lower jaw tooth and they send you to the hospital to have that done here.

Every year without fail something comes along and messes it up, last two years it has been massive chest infections. This year it is a lower infected wisdom tooth that was drilled and filled in January awaiting removal by a hospital that never bothered !. Pain is not the word for this. It is doing my head in and has me on a very short fuse with no sleep for the last two days, every time I lay down it seems to hurt more, doc put me on amoxicillin today so maybe it will do something about it..

Especially for A UNC/UNC coins to fit into. If the rest are mid/low grade they will have lost a fraction from the diameter. Peck is quite correct, the only really accurate test is a digtal caliper set which you can pick up for peanuts on ebay/tinternet. tinternet, is that an auction place special for tinted coinage ?

I didn't want to say it aloud because I would not want to insult anyone who does not deserve it, one of my main concerns is the person who owns a coin shop and sells some quality coins but mainly tat to the uninitiated or foreign visitor and does it knowingly, and should be avoided at all costs, there must be some around somewhere. My other reason is that I stumbled upon a dealer quite close to me that IS reputable yet who's site is only, as far as I can see, 2 pages. His site does him no justice from his reputation and I would of quite happily ignored him and moved to the bigger flashier shop with a perceived reputation to uphold, but who knows this and having got a reputaion then trades on it to sell rubbish with immunity, if it had not been for another member of the forum telling me that this seller was to be trusted. without that information I would have probably not only moved over him but also possibly have gone to Mr I can sing and dance with a flash site or such and been conned, we all know all that glitters may not be gold, yet without the knowledge many here have both of dealers to trust and the coin itself I could very easily be buying a lot of rubbish.

I have security lights all round my house, and a burglar alarm ( currently not working, but the box is there as are the sensors in the rooms clearly visible through windows so may deter ), and I suppose living in the country in a small village helps, although there have been warnings about thefts lately that worry. Rob, is there no way to save my pennies from the Verdigris, there are some nice dates on them, from 1860 ( inc) to 1938, I would hate to see them just waste away, if I cleaned them ( I know....heresy )just so I can see them and not for collectors items which they sadly will never be, would they be ok, or continue to deteriorate ?. I have to be honest, I am unemployed and have been medicaly for a while now and so every coin I get is precious to me, I rarely go out ( hence the times and amount of posts I make ) because of my health, lack of transport and other such things, so losing even one coin hurts, even if it was only saved just to look at or for comparison would be a bonus to me.

Hi Tom. My collection is erm Very Very small at present, but I have high hopes, both of lots of copper coins because their relatively cheap and easy to get in comparison to your choice, and to have some nice gold ( 1 or 2 perhaps )and silver coins. There have been a number of break in's around Newbury of late and so do get a bit worried in that respect. It's nice to have a little ambition but reality says I will never have a mega collection worth a fortune. As for a box, i don't know why my interest's are not showing in my name bar as yours does, but I used to be a carpenter and joiner until I had to give it up owing to severe heart Asthma back in the late 70's, I then took up Motor Mechanics and was certified as insane to work for peanuts by the proper authority ( C&G ) some many years past, sadly I had to give that up to, I suffer with Nickel dermatitis that leaves me with severe sores up both arms and it got to the point I could not take it any more !, unlike coin collecting you can't wear gloves all the time, I now only fix my own cars or my motorbike if I need to. I like the way you say drawer full of coins, I wish I had that many even. Maybe one day, as I said, I will perhaps have a shoe box full to gloat over. Even if as Rob who has cursed my collection would say, covered in Verdigris ( I think green is a nice cool colour, maybe the Americans will buy them as green rainbow tints at vast prices ).

What about those sellers who are not forum members but members of say a coin club your part of ?.

I will not be getting a box at those prices, rather dig a hole in my back garden and bury it all, or stick it under my greenhouse !.

Well for one thing Azda I don't know all the members websites etc, and sometimes it is easier for me to look on ebay, no other reason. Well maybe that they have things selling on ebay that are not on their web sites. Other than that I can't think of any other reasons.

Ok, but how many of these fine fellow are willing to pass their ebay ID's over so we can go look see. I am still waiting for Declan to find me a 1933 Penny.....

Didn't know this was here, so put this link elsewhere too. Lots of old books on coins etc, I like it but there arent many pics to look at. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=coins%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts&sort=-downloads if it gives a google link hit the http button underneath and then choose the .pdf file, right click and save as.

I found this interesting today. Some will already know of it but then again a lot of beginners may not, and whilst they are not full of pics and such they are still interesting. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=coins%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts&sort=-downloads I like the thomas simon one best.

25 Euros for a safe, do you mean safety deposit box ?, how much is it in the UK, I have never even thought of doing such so would be interested.

Would it be possible with all the fakes about and such to have a list of trusted sellers in your local area, my desire here is to ensure, as much as is possible, that beginners like myself who stroll into the forum can look at this and feel some measure of comfort that a seller ON the list is at least going to have some measure of trust by members and is therefore safe to purchase from, that the person on the list is not a Arthur Daley type who cares not what he does. I realise that some may think it has legal implications in so far as libel or slander etc but this would hold true ONLY if a person had a negative comment made against them, if they are merely ommitted from the list then it is up to the individual buying to make their own minds up as to why that seller is not on the list and no implication can be made against the poster etc. Maybe you as leaders in your field can do something to slow down, in some small way, the disreputable dealers who knowingly and deliberately take advantage of beginners and bring some measure of respect back. Good idea or bad idea ?.

Erm is it because the speed limit is 30 ? I am either not so old at 52 or going senile.