copper123

OMG it got £260 someone out there has made a real expensive mistake

yes I remember they had the great recoinage of all the hammered silver to do so corners probably got cut - remember these coins were made on a milling press and not spewed out in huge quantity by automated machines .

Surely it is the coin that is rusted - the royal mint never uses rusted dies it scraps them at the first signs appear

perhaps field damage is the same as corrosion in the coin gradeing companies eye. I must admit these folks tend to talk in a different way to us on here

Unfortunately "fantasy" is also a word used when selling lots of modern rubbish that most true coin collectors would not touch with a barge pole.

Is that a small corrosion patch on the top near Brittania's helmet ?something is going on around there but I could not be sure without having the coin in hand

I can find very little that would stop that 1869 penny from being slabbed. Its near EF but looks like a slightly weak strike

The rio coin is one that seems to have been released into circulation in my area, I have found several they are worth keeping in mint grade . Mary rose £2 coins and the tube £2 coins are actually rarer than you might think. The rarest are of course the 2002 Commonweath coins as stated above . Dickens coins are not worth any premium, though they might be if kept in mint grade for a few years. The spade guinea coins are worth considering as well

yep most of his other items are just horrible items worn out rubbish (ahh but at least you don't have to worry if it's genuine) the northunberland shilling sticks out like a pearl amongst swine

item number 361098643716 TRICK OR TREAT!!!! TRICK IN MY OPINION

Looking through the compleated listings on ebay I came across a small lot of farthings including an unidentified 1860 mule , two bidders had spotted it so there was no really bargain for either of them . Seems really strange that so many people put ungenuine mules on there a pass them off as the real thing and yet a experienced dealer cannot spot what is surely a classic rarity , even if in low grade. Anyway i am sure the coin reached about its true value at around £100 or so you could probably have got £150 for it properly identified so i surpose the other 9 or so farthings were free in effect. There really cannot be many more unidentified out there now as most all of them must be in collectors hands.

Ahh yes but also if you get really short of money also the FIRST you might sell as they would be very popular , I supose the main thing that would prompt you to sell it would be be being short of cash. If your not short of cash , selling the coin becomes sort of a No No .........

That king looks really grumpy - prob caused by being on a beach for 500 years . he would prob have a nice tan though

I am just wondering that when someone does get a "DREAM COIN" like any of the above , do they want to keep hold of it at all costs or does money enter into it , if say someone offers double or even treble what you paid for it. just a thought

Mine on sunday ! Many happy returns to me . LOL

Easy a good fine , prob better . grading hammered coins is a total Nightmare

in my opinion first coin is good fine and the second fine+ both very rare

I it london mint office rubbish again? They keep on changing their name in there new ads ( but same old overpriced rubbish for sale) now because of the low reputation they have.

The reason is that simply few people kept these coins as investments/keepsakes/collectors items one of the reasons being that a florin or a halfcrown was probably an half an hours wage for most people . Coins were only seriously hoarded from 1961 onwards as people got richer and had more money to spend on hobbies anyway. A raft of books on coins also helped including the check your change series and cw pecks bmc on coper tin and bronze coins which had few fans before his book was published.

Worth all of a quid to even a schoolboy , mostly the packing though , obviously

I had a blackberry crumble the other day apples pinched from a trust property and blackberries found free in a hedge why does food taste better when its free?

Yep the shops are full of total rubbish - mostly from china at extortionate prices. Some strange people must buy it though or else it would never be for sale there . where there's a hole someone will want to fill it. the food is about 3x the price in supermarkets as well, it don't taste any better just cause it's local

It is on common land yes so is free to enter but the national trust run the two ajoining museums and charge £4 for each one so unless you want to remain in the dark about the circles history you really need to visit at least one. Corfe castle is in a very pretty area i agree the village is superb, the national trust have also run a couple of nearby beaches across from millionaires row "sandbanks " they charge a hefty fee for parking there as well.

Stonehenge is national heritage yes but it works in partnership with the national trust as they own surrounding land so you get in free , Corfe and Avebury manor are both NT

just been on a short trip (well long one actually visited Avebury stonehenge and corfe castle all were excellect so the national trust is not just about stately homes (though it mostly is LOL )