Paddy

I am seeing lots of 2025 £1 coins, so they are not scarce, and the 2023s are around too. Not seen a 2024 yet at all. A fellow collector was telling me the 2022 £1 is quite scarce and fetching £5+ on Ebay, but I have had several???

Those books are interesting but only really scratch the surface. They are more for general interest than reference. For GB pre-decimal coins you really need "Coins of England and the United Kingdom", which comes out each year. (No need to get every year as most of the detail remains fairly static.) Here it is on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coins-England-United-Kingdom-2025/dp/1917269005/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1BP3BH96G6F8E&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.n4edWGlfb0yBRNDiHCBke5TXqasrBgeyFMD1Mxlg1X5FyKMNS5_w0cPGFQTteufUMLUWKZQ7NLwDhuQMSDq7W3yvSt0Vdhzl0QEvg4PFWCnEE7LZYMHuEVoJFPhxn7PS9HyQwSy6F_D1wm6gvN3uLAtRISHccMe9iyK-1czDV-RR0j-8iokTk-Q6lfvgwfyEQbJh_tgEGJ57pCTeIEBxnpMKzvtXBQPNSFJcrPZj5ek.RLeA8d0awh9bFG9pAjuAGOTGTPi2U6cRY13R1oddGLw&dib_tag=se&keywords=spink+coins+of+england+2025&qid=1761917519&s=books&sprefix=coins+%2Cstripbooks%2C218&sr=1-1 For World coins, the main reference books are the Krause World Coins series, but these are telephone directory tomes, one for each century, and I am not sure if they are even still printed. Best is to use the online website https://en.numista.com/ unless you need to get very specialised.

To add more - the 1900 Crown is quite common and not rare. On the edge you will see the words ANNO REGNI followed by Roman numerals - for 1900 these will be either LXIII or LXIV for the 63rd or 64th year of her reign. They are of equal scarcity but interesting. In that condition probably £40 to £50 in the current market. The Florin 1887 is the most common year for Jubilee head florins as it was the first year of this design and a great many were put aside. Condition is better but probably £20 to £25. The shilling 1897 is probably the nicest coin and the most collectable grade - the same value as the florin. All in my humble opinion - others may say different.

I am not good on all the detail, but seems to be Henry VI Groat minted in Calais. I leave the precise variety to others! The middle circle on the reverse reads "VILLA CALISIE" which is Calais.

As a tip on getting surgical Acetone - chemists sell it but at very high price for very small quantities. You can order it online for a small fraction of the money.

Me too! I am not sure what level I should qualify for, but "newbie" sounds a bit naff.

I am looking forward to seeing these!

Yes, the Dutch one is for "Knight Commander of the Orange Nassau with Swords", which he got for his work rebuilding the dikes in the Netherlands after the war. (He was an officer in the Royal Engineers.) Have you spotted the mismatch? The TD medal in the miniatures is the correct one I believe, the TE is a replacement as the TD got lost somewhere along the line.

Ok - as a try and for want of anything else to post, a picture of my Grandfather's WW2 medals: Yes! Worked fine.

I'll try this one as a test: Prussia 5 Mark picked fairly cheaply at a local auction a few weeks back. I like the foreign Crown size coins, and they often seem quite cheap. ... and the result - FAILED on the initial try after dragging and dropping the image. Message was something like "Predecimal coins can't handle your request". I then deleted the image from the body of the message but left it in the attachments, and this then worked fine. Interestingly after dragging and dropping there was an alert about "Rich Text", which was not there pre-upgrade for this operation, but often cause issues before when quoting text...

Well it is certainly back up - well done! It looks substantially as before and the only oddity I have noticed is a congratulatory notification that I have completed one whole year! 🙂

I am in the South West, so a bit too far away to offer direct help. Maybe someone else on here will volunteer. As a starting point, the bullion value of your sovereigns is around £727 each at the moment. If they are in particularly good condition or a rare date, they may make more. If you sell them, most dealers would want to pay less than that as they can only sell them to collectors at bullion most of the time, and they need to leave a margin. (Many Jewellers are particularly tight, usually offering only half bullion value!) Maybe the "Yorkshire Auction House" featured on the TV might help? They have a resident coin expert. On the gradings you have got, bear in mind that "Good" in coin terms is almost derogatory. Collectors for modern coins will mostly only start at Very Fine or better. P

Welcome to the forum! Sounds like an interesting collection you have inherited. There are some things you mention that clearly have substantial value - the gold sovereigns and the Austrian Ducat for example. These are valued primarily on their gold value, so an accurate weight and reference to the current gold value will get you an answer. Others have probably little value - the Churchill 1965 Crown, Festival of Britain Crown, Kennedy dollar for example, which will only make a few pounds each at best. Condition on the rest will make a huge difference. There are three approaches I would suggest: > Spend time on Ebay comparing similar items in date and condition, but remember to click on the "completed listings" button as there are always chancers listing common coins at silly prices on there. > Approach a local auction house with a good history in selling coins. They may be less willing to help if you are not planning to sell. Depends on how keen their coin experts are. > Find a local collector/dealer who is willing to help. They may want to make a charge if you are not planning to sell, depending on how much work is involved. Where abouts in the country are you? That may help us recommend an auction house or dealer/collector who could help. P

Agreed. Volume of postings on here was never high but has dropped to almost zero in recent weeks. Not sure how much longer I will keep watching.

As I understand it, none of these are genuine mint errors. The two parts of the coin are put together as blanks, before they have the design pressed into them. The minting machines would not be able to process separated pieces, so there is no way the patterns could be minted onto incomplete blanks. It is far too easy to knock the centre out of a coin and then claim "mint error" for a premium. Even worse are the ones where they have re-inserted the centre rotated or even back to front - again all impossible in the minting process.

I have only ever posted .jpg and my recent success was also.jpg. There is not difference between .jpeg and .jpg. This is what Google has to say: "There is no practical difference between JPEG and JPG files; they both refer to the same image file format created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group. The shorter, three-letter "JPG" extension originated from a legacy limitation in older versions of Microsoft Windows, which only allowed three-character file extensions. Modern operating systems no longer have this limitation, so most applications can open and interpret both file extensions interchangeably, making them identical in function. "

I agree. Anything not a circulating coin is just a gimmick in my view.

Ah well, works for me and prior to this I also have been unable to post anything.

It seems I have found another work round and it might explain why some people get errors and others don't. If I drag and drop the image into the post, I get the error. If I then delete the picture from the post, but leave it in the attached files at the bottom of the screen, it posts fine. So I tried it by not dragging and dropping but simply going to "choose files" to add the picture, and this also worked fine. So don't drag and drop, just choose file!

This is one of the other coins that came with it. Also Mauryan Ashoka c200BC and a more reasonable size at 15mm across.

I picked up a 2021 £1 coin a few days ago which was the first I had seen. Yesterday I got 2 2025 £1 coins in change, so some new stuff is getting out at last.

I picked this up at a recent auction as it and its fellows seemed to be going very cheap. Comes described as a Mauryan Ashoka 1/32nd Karshapana from around 250BC. Measures about 4mm - Five pence for scale.

I agree with @Sword on the lamination error. I think the odd feature on the reverse corresponds to Victoria's lips, so possible a partial double strike?

But when I tried to edit to add a cooment, it wouldn't have it! Comment was: "Wow! Worked first time without having to delete and retry. Maybe a fix has been applied?"

I'll try it with this 1927 penny upgrade picked up the other day - nothing special and a pity about the spots, but still an upgrade on the incumbent.