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Might care to notice in your auction that the coin is a Lima coin, and is a bit more of interest as such. These coins were minted from silver seized from the Spanish in Latin America.

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.

VF Price $27.50 Unc. last date and prefix of series, and very high serial number. Price $47.50 Uncirculated split pair, last date and high serial of previous date and signature, and first date and low serial of new date and signature. Price $60.00

Scottish banknotes on fleaBay

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?

These are commonly referred to as Sovereign pennies, because the portrait was similar to the one used on the Sovereign as opposed to the usual front facing image of the monarch.

Not me.

I agree that collecting in the main in the USA and in Britain have differing approaches and outcomes. But it might be more optimal to define collecting, as perhaps many "collectors" persay in the USA are actually speculators and not so much collecting for the history, artistry etcetera of a coinage. Myself, I frankly care not about a number assigned to a coin, but only that it has very strong eye appeal to me. I do not need the opinion of another to qualify my own opinion. I own "slabbed" coins, but I did not buy the piece of plastic, but only the coin contained therein. In fact some of the coins I have are undergraded in my opinion, based on my knowledge of the striking history of them. For example: Coin grades lower than most of the cleaned or modified coins you will see available for sale. However PCGS only thinks this qualifies as VF-30 in their opin. However, the dark toning is all original, this coin is not heavily worn, cleaned, retoned, tooled etc. So for me this is much nicer than a coin that grades AU-55 and has the latter conditions. Slabbing are only someone else's opin and should be viewed as such. They are not factual if it does not agree with one's own opin of a piece. Probably my only slabbed British coin, this being a Scottish groat from the reign of David II(1329-1371) this coin grades by the TPG as EF-40. In my opin this is a nice coin, but grading hammered coins is not quite like grading mechanically struck coinages. However for TPG's apparently the same factors are present.

There is also Lockdale Coins, they advert on fleaBay a lot. I believe they are using the 70 pt grading scale that the USians use. I bought a banknote from one of their fleaBay auctions eons ago, and have forever gotten spam emails from them about this and that.

So did we.

Love that bottom shield with the elephant(India?), Walrus(Africa?) and the 'Roo(Australia) representing the Empire.

Hmmm, have to bookmark that badboy.

Thanks for posting them to the image gallery, I have never seen the 1582 30/- before. My largest Scottish coin is a Half Merk from 1572, I haven't found a Mary Ryal that I like enough yet. I found several coins of yours that I need

I admit my primary interest in this piece is it's significant size. Of course when it was issued there was more of a belief in issuing tokens or monetary instruments with some heft, or some semblance of value. The result is a token measuring in at 45mm and 5mm thick. It weighs 105 grammes or 3 ozs. in old measure. Incredibly there were trial strikes of bronze sixpences that would have weighed in at nearly 6 ozs. in weight. These with their more common brethren the Penny tokens were circulated by the Birmingham Workhouse. Indeed their dimensions made them curiousity pieces even in the 19th century and they are often very heavily circulated as a result.

Sorry guys, she has been duly elected as Princess Supreme of Saor Eireannais, my country. You will have to stick with HRH.

Nothing going on here on predec, so I thought I would stir the pot: Syracuse loverlies

In a perfect world we would only have Queens of our countries, and they would all look like this: She can grace my Pound notes anytime.

Hopefully something a bit better looking than the Saxe Coburgs too. Wait til Princess Charley Horse Face gets her mug on the coins.

HRH is an expensive habit, but would you have it any other way?