Minor GB Penny Queries - Etched 1860 ?, Lower 90 in 1890

[Minor GB Penny Queries - Etched 1860 ?, Lower 90 in 1890]

I saw one of the Gouby books on ebay a while ago - keep your eyes peeled.

[Standard Reference for British Imperial & Colonial Coinage]

Yeah, as much as I'd like a one-stop book that covers it all, specialist books win out every time. Unfortunately, there are few (let alone in print) specialist books on many British Commonwealth countries.

[All Forums Not Appearing]

Not sure - seems okay for me right now.

[Standard Reference for British Imperial & Colonial Coinage]

Looks like it - the prices at https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/spinks-catalogue-british-colonial/ are higher.

[Royal Mint annual reports from 1977 and onwards?]

Thanks, I'll look into that.

[Royal Mint annual reports from 1977 and onwards?]

Does anyone have copies or know where I could get access to Royal Mint annual reports from 1977 and onwards? https://library.royalmintmuseum.org.uk/archive/royal-mint-annual-reports has up to 1976, but I'm trying to track down some Solomon Islands coins from 1977 onwards.

[The Elusive 2002 Jamaica Proof Set Remains So]

No luck with the Royal Mint's collectors bulletin you mentioned earlier either? I suppose this was probably marketing coins of the United Kingdom though (although the Royal Australian Mint has sold coins of other South Pacific countries).

[Inherited Coin Collection from Grandparents]

I would very much echo the "buy a book" sentiment. Collectors Coins Great Britain which is sold by the forum owner is a good starter.

[Halfcrown list]

On 5/29/2024 at 9:05 AM, BottleCapDave said:

I shall be snapping them up in the years to come then  I wonder if there is anyway I could get an official response from the mint as to the origin of these varieties and how they were dispersed. All the information I have seen has been conjecture.

In Australia at least there were experiments from the 1940s onwards I believe with chrome-plated dies which gave the coins a much brighter finish - maybe the Royal Mint were doing something similar?

[Unusual 1945 Penny]

On 5/31/2024 at 6:18 PM, blakeyboy said:

What does that mean?

How did the word appear?

 

Is it from that America they've got now?

I thought it stood for Chipped Up Die or something like that, though I'm not sure if that's true.

[Maurice Bull gold coin book]

Does anyone have Bull volume II (gold coins from 1816 onwards)?

I'm wondering whether to buy it or whether Marsh's books (and subsequent updates) contain the same information.

[Royal Mint Museum collection]

I got in contact and they say it will be back soon.

[1911 penny]

Interesting. I don't there was ever any consensus on the dot on 1922 pennies which looks quite similar.

[1861 Sovereign, F/V in Def or F/something else]

Looks like something but not a V to my eyes.

[Royal Mint Museum collection]

I was looking at the Royal Mint Museum's website recently and was unable to find a listing of all the coins - I know it used to be at http://collection.royalmintmuseum.org.uk/index.asp (it could be filtered by year etc) but it looks like this is now gone. Was it replaced or is it coming back again?

[1862 penny check]

Hm, the B in BRITT looks too close to Victoria's head to be obverse 6, but I don't see an LC WYON either.

[More Pennies]

Not in the 3rd edition (1964) of A Guide Book of English Coins.

[Literature recommendations]

No joy with the first two but https://www.britnumsoc.org/images/PDFs/1967_BNJ_36_26j.pdf opened up for me.

[New Edition Freeman Bronze Coinage]

16 hours ago, jelida said:

He clearly took the halfpennies and farthings too as within five years of his initial work he was ready to publish the authoritative bronze volume.

A shame he didn't publish the raw numbers for the lower denominations.

6 hours ago, SilverAge3 said:

Surely this was a long project. He may have even stated how long, but I can't recall.

I'm sure I read he got interested in the 1940s when he was in primary school (I think). I don't remember where I saw that though.

[Literature recommendations]

Yes looks to be back now.

[Rob Page Henry3.com website???]

On 1/7/2024 at 9:50 PM, Ukstu said:

I just got a Usb DVD drive off amazon for my daughter for college £13 a few months ago.

If you make a Googlemail account you get an online drive with it. Think its 15gb. I have a folder on that for PDF , ebooks etc. I just file it all in that. I will probably back it up at some point to a tangible source I own. 

Still keep your own copy - last year something went awry and Google was incorrectly classifying people's personal files as pirated content.

[Literature recommendations]

English Silver Coinage 30th Anniversary edition by P Alan Rayner is still saying September 2024 which seems like quite a lead time for this sort of book.

Also, is http://www.spinkbooks.com/ not loading for anyone else at the moment?

[Hocking catalogue now available online]

It was mentioned in a recent Coin News but in cased you missed it, Hocking's catalogue of the Royal Mint collection (and Webster's as well) is available at https://library.royalmintmuseum.org.uk/archive/catalogues-of-the-royal-mint-museum-collection?

[more FAKES]

Got pictures of the fake 1850 shilling?

[A comparison of two auction houses]

On 12/10/2023 at 12:56 AM, Paddy said:

It insists on sending out separate invoices for each lot sold,
The process for requesting combined invoices is complex and requires manual intervention by AUCTIONET, not the auction house,
The postage costs are set very high, and by default are charged separately for each lot, with minimal discount for combined postage when achieved

Sounds like how ebay works these days...