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Posts posted by copper123
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I would say yes , but limit yourself to searching through the rumage bins if you only want items under £10 - there is plenty to go at there
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I find the prize draw on entry a very strange thing - i mean surely you are either interested in coins or not - they cannot be after attracting "passing trade" as coin people look forward (and save up ) to these fairs often for months .
Surely attracting passing trade is a bad thing as they would just spoil the show for everyone else, nobody wants to push their way through dozens of people only attracted in by the prize draws
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P.s The alignment of the obverse and reverse often gives it away as well , while I think it's a fake i cannot really tell for sure unless i have it in hand
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i have spent hundreds of fake pound coins , there are loads in circulation BOE sez at least 5% in circ are fakes.
Why do i say it's a fake?
The details on both the obverse and reverse are indistinct and less good than u would expect a genuine coin to have - in particular the queens hair is very flat - also there is a massive crack on the reverse royal mint would spot that and pull die out of production
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looks like a fake to me - so best thing to do is just get rid
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selling up and buying a nice place in spain at a bargain price if he has any sense.
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anyone remember peter butterworth from knutsford?
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coins are like women then lol
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peach of a coin
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this is very strange he describes the coins as incredably good condition in one sentence then says they are in no better than fine grade , like i said very strange
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bet you remember the coin fairs in that pub in bolton then in the seventies , damn i cannot remember its name now but if you ever went you would have remembered the experience
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i bought a nicer a/unc for the same price on ebay
It did take a few weeks till a nice enough one came alomg - but it did eventually
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Funny enough though the 2009 proof and unc sets are very common and would fetch more or less than issue price a few years ago they are now all the rage on ebay fetching big £££££.
It is actually the circulating 50p coins that are rare , the proofs and to a lesser extent the unc sets really common.
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william silver is hard to find in nice grade - most that is around is very worn
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And what has this thread to do with pre decimal coins?
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coins detail would not be as good if the copper plate is striped off , so i am inclined to go with you
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the steel core is not a possability then?
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Why not give it a miss if you think its been dipped or cleaned.
There are hundreds for sale on ebay that have not been cleaned or diped.
simples
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So I would guess press manipulation of the public and their interests in numismatic circles is more a modern thing then , it's not as though the low mintage of the kew gardens 50p was a big secret or anything it's not , i must have picked around 12 or so from change at work over the years , funny enough since the press announcement i have seen none
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Watching bemused as the revelations in the press on the undated 20p and the low mintage rare kew gardens 50p i wonder did these announcements in the press always follow the same formula , say back in the mid sixties
ie, press announces to the public that 1949 and 1946 threepence coins are rare , hysteria among the general public follows with frantic change checking , leading to there being none of the coins in circulation in three months time.
i surpose there are a few old timers out there who might remember but i am a little too young (thank god for that really , i feel ancient!)
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i think it is a miracle it has been identified as a penny
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I remember in the betting for a name for prince George , "Bradley" was a 100/1 shot , prob. after Bradley wiggins
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wasn't he the one born of victoria , queen victorias oldest ofspring who started the first world war - a very bad man - also many believe the reporations from the first world war caused the second so in the end he was responsable for quite a few european deaths .
i do belive he retired in exile and live to a good old age as well - there is never any real justice is there?
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name always change you just look at the names of the roman emperors in the first second and third and fourth centuries they were changing pretty rapid back then . look at the popular names 100 yrs ago and compare them to now heeps of difference .
I would emagine in another 100 years exactly the same thing will happen again.
in other words savanah , sky, peaches fifi trixabell or chantel will have died out and newer ones will have arived instead
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