copper123

This might be worthwhile yes - it should give you a good idea after six months of notes. Remember however you are far more likely to get forgeries in certain places than others - ie pubs , betting shops and the local corner shop , also taxi drivers tend not to check their pounds as well.

Last time I looked Scotland were in the UK. I know the Scots would rather it were different, but there you are.

By the way If you really want loads of forged pound coins just get in touch with me i could sell you 40 a week . i would charge £1 each , i suspect 5% of all pound coins are fake these days

By the way If you really want loads of forged pound coins just get in touch with me i could sell you 40 a week . i would charge £1 each , i suspect 5% of all pound coins are fake these days

The funny thing is that people actually think that scottish / northern irish notes are legal tender in the uk. Legally you are not bound to accept them just because they say "pounds sterling" on them. Only uk notes are legal tender in the england and wales and if you get someone to accept your "foreign" notes they are actually doing you a favor. Personally I don't like them at all but will accept up to £100 in these notes . The reason? pure and simple , I don't handle them that often and cannot spot a forgery that easy

WOOOW nice coin - would tend to agree with the other posters but 1699 date in Ex is quite hard to find - I would say even with the weak strike you have a £50 coin there

Also does george look just a little too small ? My opinion only ! A bit like a dwarf on a horse really

i like this - BUT the head of George just looks wrong there is no face there and it just looks bad - i am sure it could have been a lot better

A bit of reserch on the net brings up the name fridericus goodwinus. He now insists that it was not from the roman central bank but indeed part of his pension pot fron julius caeser that he just forgot about

Probably an early example of quantitive easing from the roman period - obviously a roman bank manager buried a few stashes from the central bank of rome and forgot where this one was.

The horse stole your shirt? Surely there was someone inbetween - like a Bookmaker - I would presume

Watch out Mongo gets ANGRY when he sees coins nicer than he owns - and you will not like mongo when he is angry

oh by the way you are now on the london mint co. s "sucker list" Expect a pile of worthless rubbish to end up behind your door very shortly, and hours of fun staving off lawyers who want to bankrupt you if you dont pay like a good boy.

This coin is certainly not the worlds most common coin if you look at the mintages of USA cents in the last 20 years you might think it is comparatively rare! unfortunately it has as much investment appeal as a common usa cent

Back from all the sillyness (that I started!) sorry, and on to the original post. The value of money in williams time and what it bought would not really equate very well to translating a wage back then to what a wage buys now. Remember lots of clothes and everyday items , soap, food, water (clean in mean!)would have been luxury products and well beyond most peoples wages . Weak beer was what most people used to stave off thirst a visit from a doctor would have been very expensive (and that is even if you don't mind leaches.) Mass production and the chemical industry and science advances since this time have changed our values and the way we value money or goods on an unprecidented scale. Remember the silks from china that would cost a king's ransom back then and even the craze for delft wear (these china pieces are probably worth little more than 300 years ago) even taking inflation into account, which is very important

If you are really broke you could always visit baldrick from time team , down at the docks!

To be honest the coin itself does not look very impressive , in fact it looks like something that should be consigned to the melting pot , would love to see the other side of the coin though

NEF- VF- NEF-G.FINE in my opinion -

I just surpose I am Lucky enough that my job involves lots of money handling and working in a big city. (not london , thank god LOL)

***'s out for the lads LOL That left breasty dumpling and right breasty dumpling look a bit like pec's but this is obviously a woman as the hips give it away

Fair only but you could push the reverse to a near fine

Prob worth £3- £6 quite nice to get it as a gift

Maybe the afore mentioned dealer does not actually clean coins he just buying in cheap cleaned coins and sells them as "full lustre" etc. Even a dealer must have standards

there is one very simple answer to the question above. WHEN IT DOES NOT CIRCULATE

I to think there is nil investment potential in the undated 20p coins , the most i got for one was £70 which i took and reinvested via paypal in decent collectable coins. I am happy to keep one of the kew gardens 50p coins though - it is really atractive and they will soon have all disappeared from circulation leaving few hanging about 210,000 mintage is really low for any modern coin . If that london mint office had given the same publicity to the general public about the scarcity of these 50p coins the would it be worth £50 each now ????