copper123

Not a bad time to sell ebay is the best place for anything under £20. You sound like you might want to follow on with collecting - just take a long hard look at the coins you have been left and think "do I really like/enjoy those coins" if you come away saying yes to yourself you might have caught the bug.. The late sixties was a boom time for coins with impending decimalization so unless your father was very lucky there will not be a fortune in the collection in fact a few coins might be only worth double/treble what he paid for them , I hope he did not just collect 1950 and 1951 pennies and later crowns etc.. Don't be scared to let go the ones you don't want, remember if someone else wants them the will be looked after and appreciated. GOOD LUCK

Be very careful that you are in safe enough employment because if you lose your job you may be forced to live off the 25% lump sums as they will bar you from benefits. You could however spend the lot on collectable coins or bullion sovs and keep it under the bed the social security will prob think you have spent it

why not suggest he rides the golden horse cart round to your place for a valuation

TBH ITS A SUPER COIN JUST THAT TINY KNOCK RUINS IT BUT WORTH A £10 NOTE ANY DAY

I have looked for ages and no t*ts ore a**e is visible , must admit i like the item - really unusual.....

No doubt shooting Buddhas would go down badly with the PC brigade and be banned as being racist

Lovely portrait...

For £1 each you could use them as an alternative to clay pigeons > "FORE" BANG!!!

Sounds like it will be a lot cheaper to buy this sort of item from a wholesaler. You will know better next time. Rub that Buddhas belly and dream of not being ripped off

Yes, but we merely pointed out he was wrong, and he went ballistic about it, with coins it's a variety or not a variety or a grade or not a grade nothing else matters , some on here have spent years grading coins and are about fit enough to work for a slabbing company (not that I want anyone to start on that slippery slope). Buying a book and studying for half an hour will not be enough to get you anywhere near the grading standards of the experience collectors on here. He should be heeding what we say and learning from us and not just throwing his toys out of the pram , because he does not like what we have to say

ALL THIS FUSS OVER A £3 COIN !!!!

In other words - don't believe the bullshit

I thought there was a embargo on south african goods at that time !!!!??????

I suppose we all learn in life from the "school of hard knocks" and in the end , we are all the same fish in a barrel ,so if one fish jumps out it learns it's lesson by dieing on the floor very painfully gasping for breath.

I find it strange he went mad and said I was wrong with the coin being cleaned , unless he is 135 years old (very unlikely) he will not have been the only person to own the coin so how can he state categorically that it's never been cleaned . In fact the coin looks like its been cleaned a good seventy or eighty years ago and is toning down so it has not affected the value that much to most collectors maybe knock 33% off

If you have no idea what two drunks are talking about your probably sober :D :D

We can be a little abrupt on here and tell non regulars what they don't really want to know , that is the hobby's problem as well and not only ours we will not waste time buttering people up and not telling them that a spade is a spade. Coin collectors almost immediately know the value of a coin and its grade

but sorry fluke THE COIN LOOKS CLEANED

Fluke is partly right we can be a little unfriendly on here and you do have to remember everyone has to start somewhere , we all remember that first coin that started us off collecting , there was so much to learn from the beginning

Looks no better than VF to me , also looks cleaned , I doubt if the coin is worth over £20

I am sure Scott does not have 1/2 ton of scrap pre-decimal pennies hanging around , 1/4 ton he might have, LOL

I like the crown best - totally yummy.

As numismatics is concerned decimal coins will never be scarce or show a great profit , I must admit in the last ten years or so it's got far more interesting with commems being fired out right left and centre. I think this bodes well for the coin collectors in the future as really the age of the average collector these days is prob around 55 years old and the hobby will die without new blood. I suppose things like the publicity around the undated 20p and kew gardens 50p can do little long term harm and more good than anything really. Sixties and seventies crowns did little for the hobby in the long term , in fact putting many people off putting money into coins for life (remember the bags of Churchill crowns marketed as an investment)

I think many American coins are really lovely V nickles, wheat cents, buffalo nickles, and those huge silver dollars which are really quite cheap due to plenty being around,the gold esp. the early stuff is very attractive and make you think of the wild west. I must admit the prices of rarities are around 100 times more than a similar English french or German coins Overall though I am happy to collect UK coins.

I would have a guess at around a hundred - but it could be far less. More and more will come to light in coming years . I suspect this variety might be worth around £300 in a few years time as more and more finds are made, and the novelty fades away There again i thought that undated 20p coins would be worth £5 now and they still fetch £30 so I could easy be wrong - it's not an exact science