Gollum

Farthing ¼d. 5⁄48p ≈ 0.104p Halfpenny ½d. 5⁄24p ≈ 0.208p Penny 1d. 5⁄12p ≈ 0.417p Threepence 3d. 1¼p Sixpence 6d. 2½p Shilling 1/- 5p Florin 2/- 10p Half crown 2/6 12½p Crown 5/- 25p Pound 20/- 100p Guinea 21/- 105p Best I could steal from wikipedia

I am showing my igorance here (and my age)but what's a tanner?! Hi Debbie It's a sixpence

Ooh ok. Well let me see about your requirements. 1. Thats good and I don't feel so "cheap" now as I have very little money usually. 2 & 3. Your forgiven. Upon receipt of a bag of gold sovereigns. 4. I have at least 2 of each of those cheap and tatty old coins. 5. Oh there wasnt a five was there. So how is membership paid ( ie.What form ) might not get to many if any meetings as i do not have a car etc and I live in a village with no real buses in or out. Happy to join though just to bump up numbers, give the club an extra few shekels and all that sort of thing . Thanks for the Email reply as well. Garry

Ooh I forgot, Today I also got my CCGB 2011 from amazon and my ebook of english striking history AND an infernal 1964 JFK silver half dollar in a case from someone who said it was ugly and I could have it, I tend to agree, those American coins are no where near as pretty as our English ones .

Ooh I forgot, Today I also got my CCGB 2011 from amazon and my ebook of english striking history AND an infernal 1964 JFK half dollar in case from someone who said it was ugly and I could have it, I tend to agree, those American coins are no where near as pretty as our English ones.

Cerbera100 I am NOT talking to you ! , you're one of them nasty people from that Reading Coin Club I asked for membership prices of some time back now and I NEVER got a reply, REALLY miffed now, in fact I am so miffed I may give them another chance. Seriously though I sent them an email a while back now and no response, which tells me either 1. Their too elite. 2. They are erm small and not watching their emails 3. Someone is not doing their job. 4. I just do not have a important collection and fell through the cracks. Go kick backside for me will you. If its not too expensive I may join it :D . I spent the grand total of £1.50 today on 2 coins from our Forum leader ( all hail Chris ) so I have now filled his xmas stocking this year.... Wait till this festive nonsense is over and the women stop moaning, then it's buy buy buy.

No one likes to consider giving money away or their collection being stolen, but. Can anyone tell me what type of insurance I would need to cover my coin collection once it gets bigger, and if possible which firm(s) and any contact details to go through.

Well I guess I could define myself as in sub 1, with a bit of luck I may even claim the lofty realm of 1 in a while. I am thinking of buying a couple of those coins that our sesteemed landlord Mr Perkins is offering, and I am thinking of getting some from a man in mortimer who appeals to my pocket. Those thruppences are really calling to me lately. Then again so do the Tanners sitting there too. I really wish as a kid I had put all those coins away I had "borrowed" from amusement arcades. I find it nice and comforting to see that a lot of you are happy to impart your expertise in your particular area of collecting unlike some forums where knowledge is hoarded and never imparted yet abuse at other peoples ignorance as begginers is freely given. Different class of people altogher you numismatists, think I may hang around permanently. IF you change the biscuits and T bags...... now't worse than cheap tea .

I just had a thought, yes, I know, unique for me as the wife says, but are those electrolysis kits any good for cleaning coins or just a gimmick.

Sorry Colin, I knew it had no silver content in it, I actually meant no silver look to it, it is all pink/brown and not very pretty , I guess it is a scrapper apart from reference in respect of the strike for others of the era,much annoyed !, people should look after their coins a lot better. All my 1800 pennies are in olive oil as per advice as well. Hopefully I can stop the verdigris spread. I may try posting some pics or scans later of my other coins, then one of you can tell me how awfull they are. Message to the rest of the world - their a finite resource, look after them...

Do you define a collector as someone who collects all world coins, a person who collects a specific type and date range or reign, someone who collects for their monetary value as investments or for their aesthetics, do you consider it someone who purchases en-bloc large sets or someone who goes and seeks them out for himself trudging around various shops and citys etc, or do you consider the true collector as the person who collects them having sought them out in person in shops and then writes all he can about them and shares that information. Just curious and please guys, no arguments. I would hate for someone to say x in here is merely a investment broker and not a collector. I would like to think I had fun / stress seeking mine out rather than merely just ordering them from a shop all the time, I guess one or two that are hard to find is ok, whistfully looking out of my window and imagining the find of a few hard to get ones at some boot sale or the likes, even in a coin shop because the seller did not look too hard gets me racing. I have a metal detector and often think about getting lucky. A frimed of mine picked up a gold angel the other day, made around £700 he said, never happens to me .

I am rather concerned about my 1950 shilling, it has no silver on it at all, it looks all copper and it is not fair, why would it be missing any traces of silver.

Hi Tom, no nothing prticular, but it would seem rather naive to think that NO dies are or ever have been appropriated over the centuries by someone, as Peckris said, those copies are awfully good to have been made from none original dies. With laser scanning technology etc I wonder how long before someone can make new dies of old coins and strike with the right metals to such a standard as to fool even the best. Does not bear thinking about...... bbiab got to strike some "missing" coineage before tea time .

Does anyone know if there are or ever were any RM dies reported missing, I kind of like to think some scallywags nicked a few

Both of those and the silver thruppence. But then again I like ALL coins and it is so hard not to be a magpie isn't it .

Thanks guys, so a electric drill and wire brush are defo out of the question then, better try the all new sand in a cement mixer job. :lol:

Ok, so tonight I got given a mix of old pennies, farthings, sixpences, a george vi english shilling that has NO silver on it, and looks copper, some other stuff, a lot of it is covered in some really hard encrusted stuff like that looks lime and green junk, verdigris ?. So how to clean them all up and remove it all, I read on the forum to use Balsamic Vinegar, is that the best thing to use or is there other ways that you would approve of without doing too much harm. Thanks

I just asked them to make a coin collecting programme. I use their other ones for the music and films I have, it's ok once you work it out. http://www.collectorz.com/

I recently read on one of the military reunion forums that he was about to be outted as gay by one of the tabloids. How true I don't know, but it may of had a part in it.

I am getting excited tonight, I asked if anyone had any coins on the local freecycle site and someone said he was a detectorist and had lots I coud have for free, so....I hope I am going to have some fun tonight and my first lot of old or unknown coins to sort through.

Don't do it. Everybody will hold you in contempt and treat you for the slimy, hand wringing and avaricious person you are. I for one shall lock up my 1959 dated coins - so there. From what everyone says on here, your not going to be changing any habits then.....

Can I change my ID to Gollum, i feel akin to that poor creature.

The new 50p gets me frustrated, everytime I look at them they seem to be slapping a new reverse on it, i have been looking for the dolphin one (for the wife as she likes dolphins), I think it's only from Gibraltar but then i'm a novice. I still can't make my mind up what specific British Coins to collect as they ALL look so nice ( imagine Gollum and his ring here ) , but I have a particular liking for the old tanner and thruppence, as well as the bronze thruppence. Decisions, decisions.