copper123

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Sorry yes I was quite younng at the time and yes it was withdrawn quite quickly .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

I presume by this you all think a 1865/2 farthing with a small 8 is a monsterous rarity

Title sez it all , anyone out there got one , would love a pic if you have one.

One of mine common but nice looks like it might be from the same engraver , note the R 😊😊😊

At one time around 1790 small change was often given by weight very few legal coins were in circulation

This time the puffy lips and the thin britannia. You would think a gram underweight was nothing , why not make it a five gram fake . Might as well be hung for a sheep and not a lamb

The rather weird shield is a real givaway - its a contemp fake

looks to have been polished off to me

I did that as well - horified to see price of kews now.......😥😥

Nothing like a kraut trying to keep his job and pension by changing his name . Victoria did the same didn't she , probably to upset her mother , they had a strange relationship those two

Was just brousing the bay the other day and I came across what seems to be a peck 821 (1721/0) , its from the same dies as the one that I have in my collection as it has a v over v in georgivs. It's not been seen by the seller just take a look its only got a day or so to run, seller has missed it due to it not being that clear . It is a rare coin though I suspect a couple of people might have spotted it anyway. Item number 332795576612 just in case anyones interested - I would grade as near fine

About £2.50 , you really will not get rich off that

Anyone know where you can get the mintages of the modern decimal IOM coins please? It does at least give you the idea of whats rare and whats not