copper123

Funny enough in the early eighties I also remember coming across quite a few proof coins broken out of proof sets in circulation , they were hard times those thatcher years

Betting shop customers , some , tend to be the ones that will look through the bottom of a drawer and find "interesting" coins that have been hidden away to get their "fix"

Esp females that might be considered "eye candy" And not me

Theres always, someone ,somewhere , a numpty on every corner.

missed this - would have been fun to see

Urban Dictionary: eye candy https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=eye candy Something purely aesthetically pleasing, that is, pleasing to the senses. Can be a person, a film, a sunset, a flower, or anything else you can see.

By eye candy I mean the Elizabethan and Mary gold and the many superb other coins of the stuarts and the commonwealth. It was not the sole reason for going, the afternoon was spent at kensington palace (was a bit dissapointed) and a lovely walk in hyde park (Superb) My first choice was buckingham palace but I wrote to prince philip asking if he would invite me for tea and never got an answer

making a mint?Naughty , naughty.

Got only one coin very pleased with it - interesting new location with a great view over the thames . Lots of dealers from abroad who you normally never see and some lovely eye candy on many stalls

schindlers list then

Really rare in that grade

Don't forget that variety of 1861 Halfpenny with the boatymcboatface reverse

Well some people just have all the luck in the world don't they. Best I can manage is the odd pre decimal farthing or Euro two cent coin in my change for a penny . No wonder your collections so good paddy

I did find about four pre 1920 silver coins in the years 1975-79 if I remember rightly they were sixpences and shillings no florins so it was prob only 10p face value - they were in dire straits and it was very hard to work out what the dates were , they were true "scrap only" coins . TBH it was hardly even worth looking with the amount you found , I remember the best place to be given silver was by passing a note to an ice cream van , it's logical if you think about it , pester power would get parents to seach the bottom of a drawer to find a coin for little billys ice cream

No they had been picked out long ago as they were high silver content also they all rapidly dissapeared in the late sixties with the decimalisation hysteria.

The yeti DOES exist unlike ewoks and chewbacca who are both just made up animals in films

I seem to remember sixpences lasting into the eighties as well

Sorry yes I was quite younng at the time and yes it was withdrawn quite quickly . I found my last silver coin in my change in a pub given out as change in 1989 amazing really it was a florin as well

Florins and shillings were only slowly taken out of circulation - if you found a cash register from say 1976 around 60% of the silver in it would be pre-decimal , in 1986 prob around 45% would be old money and in 1990 it would be 35% . Copper was taken out very quickly and you never saw any after around 1973.

Maybe theres a fish -preservation -society and they wat to get their own back

Portrait looks just too good with the details of the lettering much worse . If nobody else comments on it I am wrong . Funny enough you never see any coins in this grade so to find one u are immediately warry of it .

Not my speciality, really, but anyone else out there think theres been tooling on that obverse?

Proof they exist - this one charges $12 a pic or $8 for a selfie - well hes got to live somehow hasn't he?

Maybe its an Abominable rarity?

Or maybe a figment of my imagination