Paddy

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.

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.

This lot of Coin Monthly coming up at auction on Saturday in Cornwall, in case it is of interest to anyone... https://www.easyliveauction.com/catalogue/lot/1eee8a64e32322313fc16434e8672283/0af8d24542e81eb9357e7ef448a6646f/general-antiques-and-collectables-lot-355/

This article on the Brexit 50p on the BBC website today: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50215983

An acquaintance bought this coin back in 2008, paying £1250 plus commission at Spink. He is considering selling it on now, but does not know if he would get anything like his money back. (He is not a coin collector but bought it as he lives near Barnstaple.) I have checked through other sales at Spink and suspect he payed top whack back then and so probably would lose out selling it now - but does anyone else have a different view? https://spink.com/lot/13014126

This article on the BBC website today - a coin collection found under a hedge on an allotment in Cirencester. Some lovely things in there, including a lot of gold. Police are trying to trace the owner, in case anybody knows anything? https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-50207181

OK - it is now on Zeno - I will keep you posted. Here is link: https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=233756 Response already: "Ottoman akce of Mehmed III, Constantinople mint". There will probably be more.

OK - my mistake - I will get onto it tomorrow. P

Are you sure you don't mean 2.7g? I don't think I have ever met any coin that light, let alone one at 9mm diameter? I will get onto it tomorrow.

Definitely looks Asian to me - the first side appears to be Arabic writing, the reverse possibly Persian script. I would suggest posting on zeno.ru - I have found them far and away the best at Id'ing Asian coins. If you have not subscribed and find it too much hassle, I can do for you using the pictures above. Only other piece of info they would want is the weight.

I sent him a message pointing out his error politely. He responded: "Thank you! I did not know" but he has not dropped the listing, merely reduced the price to £1500...

Might have been right first time - a Freudian slip by your Autocorrect as Coincraft have a reputation for charging top prices...

On the same theme, can anyone tell me more about this medallion? Measures about 29mm diameter and appears to be silver. I can find a similar obverse on several online examples, but these have a reverse with "Valparaiso" in the wording.

I haven't picked up any new pennies for quite a while, but this 1926 ME was a slight upgrade and cheap, so I bought it:

I was on an Army exercise in Australia's Shoal Water Bay, North of Brisbane in 1982 using HF radios. We kept getting other people cutting across our broadcasts - it took us a while to work out it was a US Army exercise in Texas! Unfortunately they couldn't hear us, so we had no conversation.

I don't know where they got the idea of an Indian Temple token! The writing is Thai and I am pretty sure it is a Tin 25 Satang (1/4 Baht) dated 1946 but also minted 1954 to 1964. See https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces9274.html Officially of very low value but Thai people are fiercely loyal to their Royal family and non-coin collectors love to have examples of their old monarchs.This is Rama VIII and I think he reigned until 1957.