Paddy

No problem - PM your address and I will post it off ASP. (Should be with you before Xmas!)

I have picked up a few old Seaby booklets, for which I have no need. Anyone interested? (Postage and a couple of quid for effort is all I ask!) Seaby Standard Catalogue 1945 edition, decent condition, cover has been covered with sticky backed plastic at some point. Also signed "With compliments H A Seaby" inside. Seaby Standard Catalogue Tenth edition , 1960 - this one reasonable condition, not plastic covered and has contemporary subscription order form inside. Ditto - this one plastic covered and written on and in. Seaby British Copper Coins and their values, Part 1 Regal Coins 1963/64 edition - reasonable condition although the cover has come away from the spine. First come first served...

These have now gone to the great melting pot in the sky - sorry.

Many years ago we had a solicitor called Mr Fiddler and an insurance broker called Mr Crook. Not much changed there then!

"My name's Head - Richard Head. My friends call me Dick..."

I remember at IBM once when the tannoy system operator was persuaded to put out a call for "Hugh Janus". Brought the place to a halt for a while!

Well two thoughts occur to me: 1. Some of the small denominations - particularly threepences and fourpences - are much better value and easy to pick up for well under £100 each (often only £20 or so), which gives you a good chance of getting representations of most of the early milled monarchs and years without breaking the budget. A few years back I built a collection of virtually all the pre-1800 3ds and 4ds without paying more than £50 on any one coin. Sixpences and shillings are especially expensive at the moment. Charles II Crowns are often cheaper than the mid-range coins of the same year. 2. Keep an eye on the non-coin specialist auction house. With the internet and using saleroom.com and easyliveauction.com you can see job lots and individual coins at small auction houses across the UK and the world. Often these go for a fraction of the price they would if presented at a coin specialist auction - but you do need to do your research and know what you are looking at. (A local auction near me had a job lot including a William III sixpence, a Charles II Fourpence, an 1862 Sixpence and a bunch of other silver coinage - hammer price just £80 plus commission - this week.) Often you can sell the bits you don't want out of a lot and almost get the ones you do want for free!

Some good ones there! Pink Floyd is still my go-to favourite. (Not so sure about Nik Kershaw, but nothing personal...) A few ideas for expanding you listening: Tangerine Dream - long melodious but unusual tracks somewhere between Mike Oldfield and Kraftwerk. Moody Blues - inventive but slightly more "pop" prog music than Floyd. The Strawbs - More "folky" prog music than Floyd or Moody Blues. Some excellent concept songs and albums. I could go on with many many more, but that will do for now!

This one pointed out to me recently - very funny! A pity so much of it is true...

The portraits certainly look very similar - maybe a slight difference at the base of the bust? That may be to do with the removal or addition of the Pinches logo. Reverse definitely looks to be St Andrew - the X shaped cross along with the thistles in the wreathes look conclusive. Nice token!

I don't know if this has been spotted by you serious penny variety specialists - very nice 1860 penny, 2+D with the N over Z. Excellent pictures if needed for the rarest penny site: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sometimes-it-pays-to-double-check-yourself.350656/ (presumably you would need to discuss with the poster if he is happy for you to use them...) P

Yes - I suspect there may well be a proceeds of crime hearing to follow on from their sentences. This could result in them being ordered to be detained for an additional period of time if they do not repay the proceeds or reveal the location of the missing coins. I agree with the harsh sentences and am pleased that they will send out a clear message to others considering or practising illegal detectorism, but I also feel for some of the defendants. It would seem there were two career criminals, who got what they deserved, and two foolish/rash/greedy conspirators who have seen their lives torn apart for their foolhardiness. They must be in a pretty dire state of mind now, and I can empathise with that whilst not suggesting they should have got any less.

Well they have been handed some pretty stiff sentences: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-50516329 10 years and 8 1/2 for the detectorists, 5 1/2 for one of the dealers. The other dealer is ill and will be sentenced later.

I'd never really thought about it before, but I have always taken hammered English coins to start with the Saxons as that appears to be when the thin flan, cold-hammered silver style starts. Roman and the Barbarous copies seem to be ancient whereas some of the early Saxon unnamed coinage would seem to be a transition period. I see North's book "English Hammered Coinage" starts in circa 600AD and covers all the Saxon period, so that would seem as good a guide as any.

In case anyone hasn't seen this - interesting BBC story about this hoard of Saxon coins found by metal detectorists and undeclared. Looks like they will be spending some time at the pleasure of her Majesty! https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-50461860

As you say, not much there. I think I can see the ghost of two legionaries standing either side of a standard, but that may be wishful thinking. Anything on the other side?

I was not saying the nanny state created the move towards a cashless society, but they sure as hell will take full advantage of it!

I agree, and particularly I feel "going cashless" represents the ultimate victory for the big-brother nanny state we now find ourselves living in. If everything is done on a card, the banks and by extension the government and anyone else bothered to find out, know exactly where we are and what we are doing all of the time. At that point I think I will go and find some jungle to live in somewhere, miles form this dysfunctional world!

I think there are a lot more 50p collectors than 100,000. I do the local markets regularly and I have at least a dozen really serious collectors and dozens more trying to get sets together for their children/grandchildren. Jemima Puddleduck at 2.1 million does not seem common enough to fill all these collections as I am constantly asked for it. With the even lower mintages for most of the 2018 50ps expect a blood bath! Part of the problem is a lot of the collectors for children/grandchildren want to get more than one complete set. I have one regular who is trying to get 5 sets of all the 50ps AND the £2s AND the old £1s! Very good business for me, but hard work keeping up with all their needs.

I sell a bit on Ebay and I was glad when options arose to list things at no cost, unless they sold. I had not foreseen (and maybe Ebay hadn't either) that it would lead to thousands of hopeless listings from jokers like those reported here. I would be sad to see the return of listing fees but maybe it is the only way to curb such ridiculous offerings.

They already are - I have sold several on my stall at £12 each recently. Tittlemouse is also good - mintage is 1.8M, which is still less than Jemima.

Before I take all this lot to the scrap man, does anyone want this lot? 27.2Kg of pennies - all GV to EII with the majority GV and GVI. (Dr Larry took most of the QE2 stuff a year or so ago.) I won't say these are "unsorted" - I have checked them through for obvious dates and the Hs and KNs and 26MEs, but not for all the different lesser varieties (recessed ear, hollow neck etc.) Obviously anything of excellent condition in the earlier dates will also have been removed. 16.2Kg of Halfpennies - all GV to EII. Apart from picking out any good quality ones in the earlier dates, these are unsorted. I get £3.40 per kilo from the scrap man, so you can have them at that plus any cost in getting them to you. (No charge if you collect or we can meet up somewhere in the South West that I have reason to go to.) If I get no takers in the next couple of weeks they will have to go to the scrap man - before I get so much that the floor gives way! (I do also have quite a bit of Victoria and Ed VII coppers in low grades, and also lots of farthings GV to EII if you want to discuss those too.)

I hadn't really looked at the date - just compared the symbols and they seemed to match. Looking at similar examples on this page: https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=6249&page=2 it would seem the date is below the lower bar on the first image you posted, but if so it is only by stretching the imagination and adjusting my understanding of Kutch numbers that I can see any pattern in the examples identified. Yours seems to match those identified as AH 127* but the last digit is well off flan.

I think this is the one: https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=80564 Kutch KM C63a Desalji II i n o Bahadur Shah AE Dhinglo AH127*

No sadly not - all I have is the picture. A quick phone call or email should get what you need.