copper123

ANYONE WHO SEES THE ALUMINIUM COLLECTORS BOX WITH TRAYS IN LIDL THE NEXT FEW WEEKS PLEASE INFORM US HERE . They are great value for £10 or so and often end up on ebay selling at £30 within days

The funny think is art is where you see it, that 150 year old watercolour by an unknown victorian artist might only fetch £200 because there are loads of them around , also pottery , you cannot say that the wedgewood potteries don't produce a classy and affordable product that most people could afford to stash away in a cabinet somewhere at home , likewise the arts and crafts movement and art deco have both provided the masses with stylish items that are not out of anyones budgets , they might be mass manufactured but are ever popular with collectors .

Oscar wilde "All art is useless" Coins are never useless

1770 george III halfpennies are scarcer than you might thing looking a price catalogues , its a date worth having

William will in high grade be very, very hard to fill

"Dump " issue coppers were only made in 1717 and 1718 none after that , most minted were halfpennies

I was watching the programme last night on christies art auctions and I suddenly realised that while collecting both coins and art has been around for hundreds of years (some would argue thousands), coins as a collectable have never really reached the masses (here) or sparked the attention of the majority. I appreciate that the image of coin collecting has never been of anyone lets say young and hip , in fact the oposite is true , its more of a rarther strange 65 year oldwith long hair and a beard in a weird rain coat clutching a magnifying glass, not all are like that obviously but thats the image people have . Why can art attract the masses and coins just never spark interest , just two paintings in that programme last night would have bought the whole of the stock from all of the dealers at the next upcoming birmingham coin fair yet thirty years ago you would have got 30 pictures for the same coins . Maybe it will always remain so from now on and coin collectors will always be seen as strange , I don't know . The model used in the USA seems to have produced a much healthier market and collectors are more accepted with many more message boards /forums /coin clubs even though the states is a massive place . I wonder if we followed their example it might change the market here - I doubt it but it might

While many auction houses usually have a no returns /sold as seen policy there is usually some way of getting your money back and they can usually contact an underbidder as well, to ask if they would like a coin/lot that they underbid on.

If you are unhappy with the descriptions or overgradeing with ANY seller just return it and ask for a refund , any sort of decent dealer will offer that for a short time at least . It really is no good putting up with substandard coins and just moaning about them on message boards . Vote with your feet. Are you lot men or mice, eeeekkk, eeeekkk, LOL

U dont believe in donald then?

A trump in america leaves a bad smell in europe LOL

he did - in china

But there are so many jeremy kyle contestants out there , too many chavs and plebs Even The apprentice ,the only remotely watchable one is starting to piss me off

The only way is Essex is puke , celebrity bb , and big brother (is it still going?) that jungle crap (better name for it) Shall we start a petition to parliment ? The grumpies charter , calls for a blanket ban on reality tv And give brian cox and david attenborough knighthoods , oh sorry Attenborough already is one

"Life below zero" , sounds like the uk

news on bbc tonight might just give clinton the edge, a narrow clinton win seems likely

"We are all fated to turn into our parents " Said the wise man

Am I the only person in this country that does not love two hours of x factor at the premium times on saturday and sunday nights ? Whatever happend to those period dramas and good films that were on nearly every weekend , now replaced by the sharon and simon show . Makes you bloody sick . Partner now watching this drival so I cannot watch planet earth II till its finished , grrrrrr Bah humbug

this is nice

Amazing to see its lasted 156 years in that grade - it must have had many careful owners

a nice reverse well struck dark finish

yes that is more likely , as you can see its got almost full black lustre

As we are on the subject of farthings heres one my edward collection 1909 the obverse is close to perfect

TBH that 1906 penny looks cleaned as well are you sure its near unc? Perfect example of a badly struch edwardian bronze coin Obverse of the 1888 groat lets it down big time though the reverse is great