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    New UNC Coins

    Sword replied to Mart's topic in Beginners area

    True. But if you get say £100 worth of 50p coins, then I would imagine there will be some new coins. Obviously, your chances would be higher if you know when new coins were being released (e.g. the release date of Brexit 50p coins was announced I think).
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    New UNC Coins

    Sword replied to Mart's topic in Beginners area

    Absolutely.
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    New UNC Coins

    Sword replied to Mart's topic in Beginners area

    I would say that coins in a mint bag are "uncirculated". My view is that a coin is only "circulated" if it has been used to pay for something in a transaction. (Personally, I don't think one should take grading terms too literally. Hence, I am happy to think of a "circulated" coin as unciruclated if it is not below the quality of a typical coin found in a mint bag)
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    Among the many vices of George IV was being excessively overweight. One of his nicknames was the "Prince of Whales".
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    "This year’s edition has also been embellished with a special mint mark, the royal cypher of George III, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the end of the reign of the first monarch to appear on the modern Sovereign." That is just so lame. A frightful price for an ordinary BU sovereign.
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    The December LCA catalogue is now up if anyone is interested.
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    I just had a look. Sold out now and your advert has resulted in at least 11 purchases by forum members out of a total of 24 available. 🙂
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    I think you might have posted in the wrong tread ...
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    I confirm I don't know anything about farthings. 😀
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    I think people are keener to collect 50p and £2 coins due to the seer number of reverse designs available making the series more "interesting". By contrast, are just two reverse designs for 2ps.
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    NS and I (UK's state owned savings bank) has a new look website. [Savings] is what we're good at. And what we care about the most?! 😄 What cheek after announcing the most unbusiness like interest rate cuts: Direct ISA: from 0.9% to 0.1% Direct Saver from 1% to 0.15% Investment account from 0.8% to 0.01% Offering just one tenth interest in some cases compared to recent market leaders. Simply taking customers for fools.
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    Meaning pinned, so that it will appear ahead of the other treads in the group.
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    Found this example: https://simmonsgallery.co.uk/shop/tokens/19th-century-copper-token-coinage/mb94-34-19th-c-copper-penny-tredegar-iron-company-overstrike-high-grade/ Not nearly as nice as yours. It's a very interesting piece regardless of its value.
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    Only just seen this. Well done! That's always the possibility when chasing something that is very rare / elusive but not particularly pretty to look at. You get many years of enjoyment and excitement looking for it but might simply put it away once it is acquired. But some new target will now take it's place and so it's not really a problem. The hunt continues with a new prey.
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    It has now been removed along with the rest of her items. Hopefully, the game is finally up.
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    I think the it is not so important whether a coin has been "cleaned" or not but how much damage the cleaning has done and the overall appearance.
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    I tipped off JN coins the first time but it is relisted again. Some people are persistent.
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    I had a look and the current spot price is £5.33 per kilo, being 1.4 times the price in March. I suspect the scrap merchant would quite reasonably want a cut and so the price might not be much higher than what Paddy has got unless you have a large amount.
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    Each penny is 9.4g and would give a scrap value of 5.0p by my calculation assuming it is all copper.
  22. Sword
    Snow White and the 6 Dwarfs would still be one too many. Sneezy need to be self isolating.
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    Now reduced to £1.
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    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/333711160598?ViewItem=&item=333711160598 Finally got taken off.
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    That would indeed be the most sensible thing for Royal Mail to do. But I have just seen this story which is somewhat worrying. https://postandparcel.info/17817/news/up-for-auction-75000-items-that-were-lost-in-the-post-by-royal-mail/#:~:text=Royal%20Mail%20has%20admitted%20selling,their%20post%20has%20gone%20astray.
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