copper123

I would go 70/30 on it being genuine - there again I am no expert

both coins are ok for the price

And I still say there was some kind of fiddle going on with both the kew gardens coins and the undated 20p coins....

yes i remember that mine only got £30 or so in a-unc and worse coins were fetching £40 + very strange - you get that when people that know nothing about coins buy them though dont you.

I think 1921 and 1922 pennys have the most blocked dies - yours is a partial blockage Once considered a proper variety , now not , poorly regarded and only fetches a small premium over ord. coins

Some git has gilted a nice coin and ruined it IMHO

To make the old outgoing management feel important??? LOL

The farthing itself is of course not contemporary to 1756 it would have been made in 1790 or so , specially made to look worn and used when put into circulation . The idea was just to get the coin into circulation where it would circulate for posterity , as everyone who got hold of it would not want to hang on to it for long as their was nowhere to redeam it .

The coin itself is evasive copy of a trade token . These tokens were heavly circulated in the uk from 1788 onwards - there was a death penalty on copying regal coins coin so it would have been much easyer to fake trade tokens for which there was no death penalty .

I remember Likey coins if I remember rightly they advertised in coin monthly in the seventies . £3 was quite a price tag for the early seventies , there again this coin is in tip top grade looks like EF for issue

should be worth £150 + now

bet nobody would have got the score in the france - iceland game

yep books are the way forward - everyone needs to know at least the basics straight away

3-1 germany

I would actually think that maybe something in you has just switched off the off button . Remember you can go too overboard on doing something in your spare time and your brain might have switched you off (Hey at least its not a harmfull thing like drugs or alcohol though). I would say take a break from the coin hunting , clear your mind for a while , then set a date to open your collection again in the near future , say six months away and see is the feelings return . Dont worry if they dont just repeat the above task , and maybe think of selling up if you are really bored or fed up with collecting. good luck!

I would not pay that for it - It looks like henry VIII at a table on one of his regular food binges getting served up jesus for main course. Its tiny as well Would be better off melted down

there are quite a few with this date - they always get sold to the states on the bay

Remember the people who recieved these proof sets were probably not coin collectors so might not appreciate the need to keep the whole set together. They might even not have understood the value or rarity of the set , if it was a foreign president say he might have considered the coins as uninteresting and not particulally valueable , remember the set would have been presented in the mid fiffties coin collecting was not as popular then

Wow that is the most ugly portrait of George III ever

Most posts are really good advice , but the best advice I can give apart from the wealth of information above is TRY AND ENJOY the hobby - in the end nothing else matters.

lol

if anyone is interested 2016 dated coins have now appeared into circulation i have had three of four 10p coins

Oh come on peter spell his name right you knew him well enough

Found a new brittania £2 in my change the other day

As to half and full sovs I heard off my grandfather that the first world war was the end of them in circulation . but many people kept a few as collectors items , over the years and many drifted back into circulation only to be withdrawn by the banks or kept by their new owners. I think by the mid ninteen twenties they had become prety rare in circulation , but it could have been later