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In that vain the cheap coins are arguably more enjoyable. I have 5.000 older pre-1959 cents lying on the floor in my office. Nobody would take them as they weigh about 18 kilogrammes. At least I can play Midas, even if they are a bit dark for gold.

Quite a few people and now companies were served with a costly lawsuit. 'Nuf said.

Besides, be careful what you ask for, it might happen and result in an unpleasant experience. Look up what happened in the USA in a similar situation.

I will try to image up some more of my Black Sea coins tomorrow, whence I finish those then I can get them back to their home and take out the Brits.

I wouldn't necessarily say that, but I haven't heard of either any prolific British collectors nor numismatic "experts" living in Utah! They really only prolificise in one thing in Utah. You guess what.

Only Brits are suited to grade British coins, and no coin deserves to be slabbed!

Oh don't worry, my site will permanently look uncompletish. There are sections which remain incomplete years after the initial creation.

In Hussulo's thread about the creation of the website I offered to image some of my early British stuff, but I realised some of this stuff has been languishing in some forlorn safe box in a bank somewhere for years unvisited. What a pity that I must resort to banking my coins and not loving them at home because of the fear of an unannounced seizure by some loser. I can think of one of my Scottish groats, the star on sceptre variety, which I have not seen in about 10 years now. What coins do you have that seldom are seen?

I have some fractional farthings loitering about in some bank safe deposit box or another, if I can remember where they are I can image and send. I also have a 1676 Charles II Crown that I would like to see again sometime, it has been years since I have visited it.

Why didn't they really sell out and get some shysters from Florida? I mean if you are going to pike 'em up the bum, then you might just as well do it with the professionals at such. If I were a Brit, I would take exception to Americans grading my coins, inasmuch as as an American I would take exception to a Brit or anybody for that matter grading my coins.

See what the collecting public does, I am sure there are some schnubs who will buy this garbage, but most collectors are a bit more discriminatory in their tastes. Don't all fear, the absurdity of the USA grading companies will take over and make it so you have to have the grand crack out party.

The Edwardian penny is AU in ebayesque. I will try to take a picture of my hoard sometime, it weighs in at about 45 kilos.

The farthing was discontinued in 1956, it had lost any value and was not a primary coin since early in the 19th century. In fact it had a slow miserous demise, by the time it was demonetised it had lost any value to purchase. Even the halfpenny and penny were redundant in terms of being somewhat overvalued for their actual purchasing power, remember it took 2.4 predecimal pennies to equal one "new penny". Incredibly of my hoard of 7.000+ predecimal coins, I only number 30 farthings. Here is a breakdown of the "hoard": Denomination Number of coins: Farthing 30 Halfpenny 2937 Penny 1823 Threepence B 132 Threepence S 485 Sixpence 998 Shilling 530 Florin 85 Half Crown 16 Crown 7 Total 7043 coins

Accd to my records from whence I counted them, I have over £15 in predecimal bronze loitering around, and something along the lines of £85 in all predecimal coins.

In the cornerstone of the Old US mint in San Francisco is an 1870-S $3 gold piece, less than 5 of them were minted that year. Surprised no one has chiseled through to get it yet. Had the mint not been a protected US landmark in 1989, it might have been torn down as a hazard after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

Actually this is a tradition that could quite possibly go back to Roman times. There is a tradition of placing coins under the masts of ships from during that time, and this tradition continues even to the modern navies of the world. Then there is the whole placing coins over people's eyes thing which goes back to antiquity though it's meaning surely changed from paying the ferry over the river Styx to becoming purely utilitarian in keeping the eyes closed with ounce pennies, preferably 1797's.

I think the makers and proffers of the "what if" pieces should be shot. I am sickened of them.

I wanted to buy up some of this effluence whilst I was in China last Spring, however I could never get them down to a price I was willing to pay. However I bought quite a bit of authentic Chinese paper money, and more modern coins for prices I was willing to pay. They were selling them as fakes, but when I was in Guangzhou unfortunately I was in a high tourist area so maybe they figured I should be more gullible than I was. I got the good deals on the real stuff in Nanchang.

The crazy thing about that, is they will spend Euros in Harrods for instance, but if they were forced to, they would revolt.

Even the Blair Government has had some discussion of it, but it is going to be a contentious uphill battle. How do you give up a currency that has never lost all of it's value like every other European currency has, and join into something that British have long viewed as a "Continental" threat, primarily of the French? Several other countries have opted out, Sweden and Denmark, and there are other countries like Norway and Switzerland that have trade relationships with the EU but are not a part of it.

I know how to Nuke you as a user, but not how to keep you around, and so far I have no reason to Nuke you

I rather think that Sir Isaac Newtons 17th century brethren did not understand electrolytic corrosion, that came about later on, perhaps as a result of this miserable experiment in "cheap" coinage alternatives.

By that measure the Newby coins were better in that they were brass and bronze, which are rather quite compatible unlike tin, which doesn't get along to well with any other metals accept perhaps lead.

These things are contemporary to the Newby Halfpennies and Farthings which circulated in New Jersey during the 1670's, they are alleged to have been brought over from Ireland by Thomas Newby. They had a brass plug in the King's crown to make it appear golden when the coin was new.

I know that coin is off topic, but it is rather sexier in it's coindition than many of the stupid ads I had to nuke this week. These things were made to help out the tin miners and keep them employed weren't they?