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  1. copper123
    A sheep might be preferable LOL
  2. copper123
    Not a nice experience , waking up with baldrick
  3. copper123
    I like 18th cent tokens - they are very cheap for their age and show a window into a different time , it seems a lot of businesses back then used them as advertising tools. They also offer an insight into the industrial revolution and how rapid change was helping to change England for the better changing fro a rural wool based economy to one driven by inventors and chancers.
  4. copper123
    sold as the real thing price tag £15,000 as a fake £2
  5. copper123
    It might be "Blackadder" gold as made by Percy and featured as the "finest green". Then again it might be a fake that someone threw away knowing it was base metal - that would account for it being a detector find as well wouldn't it? Most normal people don't run around throwing bits of scrap gold all around the place, well not unless they want to be sectioned anyways
  6. copper123
    they scream "fake"
  7. copper123
    Forgive me but is there not an overdate on a early victorian proof set (1839) so the fact that it is an overdate on the copper pennies means very little, apart from thrift that is
  8. copper123
    1860 copper halfpence are the rarest arn't they?(of all the 1860 copper coins.) the penny being the most popular there are certainly a few around though i would say less than 50. It's a good job as well because there are a lot of penny collectors out there and they would fetch eye popping prices if they were as rare as the farthings or halfpence
  9. copper123
    surely 7 or 8 copper farthings would have only take 15 seconds or so to make.Do you think the rest were consigned to the melting pot? I dont think will ever know as the mint surely did not keep complete records untlil the 20th century
  10. copper123
    And by the way does not everyone remember colin's pattern 1821 farthing. that was found in well circulated condition , after somehow finding its way into circulation. Also you have the anne farthings as well - they are considered patterns but look more like currency after so many circulated if only for a short time , till the stories appeared in the papers saying they were worth £25 000 and only two had been made
  11. copper123
    And 1954 penny. I think quite a few were made until a decision to melt them down was made , with just the odd one or two escaping the melting pot . As these were not intended to be released i would class them the same as the 1860 copper coins. Their release is pure chance and it was not intended.
  12. copper123
    the 1860/59 circulated?maybe just a few got spent by mistake. surely that could happen as well
  13. copper123
    Does it not beggar belief that one pair of dies produces only 7 or 8 coins for circulation. Even the mule 20p produced at least 100, 000 coins
  14. copper123
    I somehow disagree that the 1860 copper farthing , halfpenny , penny are currency. The small number produced also points to them being a special issue for collectors done by the mint at the start of 1860 and sold/ given away to important people. Even the condition of these coins is outstanding - how often do you find 1859 farthings in similar grade to these surviveing coins? They were at least undoubtedly currency pieces
  15. copper123
    Yes of course you are right - I could always maybe get hold of a 1851 maybe an unidentified one in a rummage box that has been overlooked. The same cannot be said of an 1860 copper. By the way does anyone know the status of an 1860 copper farthing - surely it is considered a pattern / specilly minted coin and NOT a currency item
  16. copper123
    this is the RAREST victorian farthing, in my opinion
  17. copper123
    It's the metal strip!
  18. copper123
    Yes lots of people actually threw these coins away (Probably after a few attempts to pass the coin off as genuine) This accounts for the grottyness of many of the coins What do you do if you get stitched up with a fake £20 these days (my guess would be to try and pass it off first but if that don't suceed rip it up in disgust They are a very common detector find.
  19. copper123
    very true chris it remains true even about queen anne farthings
  20. copper123
    depends on if banks order them . the goverment does not plan to just issue a small number of coins , it just happens that because of low demand not many are made - its the same in the states
  21. copper123
    the madness on ebay is continuing with one 50p now at £230
  22. copper123
    The london coin company does not have anything to do with the london mint office does it????
  23. copper123
    I think the dailly mail is very wrong to think there are 200000 or so of these coins in circulation , most have been pulled out of circulation long ago i think there is probably only 25 000 or so in circulation now I bet you would have to hunt through £50 000 of 50p coins to stand an even money chance of getting one
  24. copper123
    £2.49 is very cheap i have sold several for around £5-£8 each
  25. copper123
    Some kew gardens coins are getting 200 views an hour 3300 a day Has this gone viral yet? Has it been on the bbc news? Ahhh well, us coinies have been here b4 i think
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