Garrett

Welcome Edward ! It is a great forum and you will probably enjoy it here.

Hi Azda Yes it has arrived. We spoke about it in Goom's "just an idea" thread, http://www.predecimal.com/forum/topic/8314-just-an-idea/page-2 cheers Garrett.

I was supporting you lot, but you didn't do any better than my lot !

What's the address ? I'm sure we can find someone to cheer for

bargain !!

I'm going to guess the other way Bob, that it's not from a software translator. I could be wrong though !!

I keep putting money aside for a decent camera but as soon as I do I spend it on a coin. Go figure. Giving me money to buy a camera is like giving the grocery money to an alco. I am not an advanced collector but the halfcrown looks fine to me, no surprises. It has very small haymarks but they are visible in the picture. I have bought coins before where there were surprises (e.g. hairlines in a shilling I bought from Downies) hidden due to the angle of lighting when taking the photo, but not in this case. If anything the colour might be slightly darker. Perhaps due to the lighting but I really don't know much about photography. I think it is a very well taken photograph. I don't know why it took a while to sell. I saw it nine months ago but it was out of my budget at the time. It may have been slightly undergraded.

Looks like there's a few out there ..... http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1818-GEORGE-III-SILVER-HALFCROWN-GEF-EF-S06-6053-13-/331209043240?pt=UK_Coins_BritishMilled_RL&hash=item4d1d98ed28

Poor sod who lost the coin in the first place. Must have been a bit of money back then. Hopefully not rolling home drunk on pay day. What a beating he would have got from the missus.

Seuk you bloody ripper !!

Mental note to self : Stick to the coin threads. haha ha

I agree with everyone else but there's not a hell of a lot in it. Maybe put them both on eBay at 1.1 times 'X' and keep the one that doesn't sell first...... If after some time neither sells pull the 1818 and drop the price on the 1819.

Interesting token, what did W Williams of London deal in ?

One redeeming feature (apart from Peck's point that more people may be drawn to the hobby) of the shiny multi-coloured pieces of shite is that it may draw the pure investor/superannuation dollars away. People with money to invest and no interest to gain knowledge in coins may 'invest' their money in this stuff, and not push the price of our coins up too much !!

We got our silvers in 1910 which is good because it gives us Eddie !! (unless you mean they were issued in 1911 but dated 1910) The penny and half-penny followed in 1911. Interesting that the Aussie pound was devalued in 1932, was that straight after the abolition of the gold standard ?

Welcome to the forum Vlad ! It's a nice coin, I like those and wouldn't mind getting one sometime down the track too. Hammered coins are all over the place (double struck, alignment, softly struck and well struck patches on the same coin, clipped etc) which is one of their endearing features. Cheers Garrett.

If the 1930 penny was an Aussie 1930 penny you might do a (lot) bit better. Good luck !!

Welcome Wendy ! Sad to read about your parents. It is bad enough without financial pressures as well. Hope you enjoy the forum, I've only been here ~8 months and I think it's great. Kind Regards Garrett.

not a good fake; he broke it.

Yes a nice coin John !

Thanks Rob, thanks Clive ! I've just downloaded that with no problem and will have a read. cheers lads !

Yes I saw two gothic crowns too,and a 30$ replica. The GEF against the wall furthest from the Mint interested me for 2200 minus the discount. But there are too many fakes, and it didn't look GEF anyway, not that I pulled out the glass. Roxbury's had three in Friday's auction from memory, they must be amongst the most common coin around.... Saw about five H8 groats, must be a few around. Didn't see the holey dollar, and never looked at stamps. Saw a 1827 penny marked aEF for 1500, but had faults and aEF might have been generous. I'm a type collector anyway.... It cost 10$ to mint a 1$ mintmark 'B' dolllar, so I passed. Apparently was a huge lineup for them on Sat. Closest I came to buying anything was a E1 threepence for $265. Was VF or slightly better. Can't remember the mintmark but my Spink was saying 170 for VF for the 'S' number. Noble sold a slightly worse example for 200 plus the extras a few years ago. A 1703 Anne VIGO haflcrown also looked nice, but I would like better than aVF (looked slightly less to me in British grading). All up an enjoyable couple of hours for the ten buck entry fee. Walked home, just over 3 hours, but a nice day. Are you a Brisbane lad John ? cheers Garrett.

Yes I thought it would be comprehensive when I read Rob's post. 18 pages would be more than my autobiography. Is it still possible to download ?

oh my goodness why would you slab the second and third coin here..... http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=231422&lotNo=64135&type=wlem&wlc=326676444

Interesting article ! So the shiny 1787 examples we have in our possession today could have been released from bank vaults sometime after 1798.