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Just a comment. Melting coins with precious metal is different melting other precious metal in different form,they can melt jewelries with assay mark others buy them below the selling price as jewelries or melt value same as to coin,well its better to have a money than nothing especially this time. What will happen when other countries back there coinage in precious metal and if other countries follow,they will redeem old gold silver coin,if they will not return its better to sell worn precious metal coin,just a comment

Not into celtic coin,but sometimes I do search in the web for info maybe in the future if budget allows other books,just like to know those are not clear cut concerning celtic coins,they use horse a lot as a symbol?? and they use a lot of circle like other monoliths or monument in ancient times,the y shape in bronze is just like a letter represent a feather,celtic icon and inscription could be anything.

There are books,magazines,wrttings, that features coin as a piece of history on that time but also as a evidence,that a simple coin is not a metal use in transaction but the culture,arts,economics is incoined in a piece of disc accepted or not by its people,to be used in transaction,just a sting of text reddish copper nose good info in history though,just a comment.

I have an idea that launching and running a magazine is unbelievably complicated, risky and moreover extremely hard work. One of my other hobbies is classic cars which I have had some involvement with since 1988. In that time I have seen a number of magazines arrive, fade, close, get taken over and absorbed into larger publications. A particular case in point was one in which all articles were written by owners with very little editorial input (Real Classics I think it was called). Sounded a good idea on paper because using essentially amateur contributors would cut overheads to a minimum. It briefly made the shelves of W H Smith's, but it seems that they failed to renew the order and in a year or so, it was dead. Publishing books is risky enough, but succesfully launching a periodical must be a zillion times more so. I dont subscribe in coin news,but I do buy BBC magazine. Good forum,better if other good topics are archive in print not only electonically,just in case the site or the computer is down at least it is printed,just a comment,and besides there are loads of info that the mint or coinage in UKGB that is connected to other countries for addition print resources or edit and compiled other magazine and review them and relaese as new one or updated.

Just posting. Coinlink directory. http://www.coinlink.com/Directory/

Thanks for the reply SG. Just thinking the Chin-rho first on shield then to labarum maybe banner today or bearer then to coin the summation of it or commomeration,if there is no banner,just accept it that there is no banner,but I will keep in mind,diiferent kind first 2HE afloat,then some with baton,some with different sword,some with globe and other with other object above,interesting image though.just a comment.

The earliest I have seen is the reverse of a Philip II tetradrachm, but I'm not sure exactly what his dates are. I'm sure they must go back to Classical Greece at least? Time frame from greek to roman to byzantine to 410AD so on. Nice though two headed eagle landed what is on the top of there head?just a comment. Just posting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-headed_eagle

We will just see when that kind of eagle first appear in coins,in text or in images,in flags etc further studies?. I thought that it is a eastern ........ ...... and an western ..... ..... empire? Any graven images on top of the pole or flag?just a comment.

There is a documentary,the host or presenter is a female journalist shown in tv in the past,they have discuss the topic of eagle from roman time. Some are facing left and right,east and west,some in bearer,coin,flag etc,just a comment.

Just posting. http://www.fool.co.uk/news/investing/2011/02/15/decimalisation-is-40-years-old-today.aspx 373.24 troy pound but base on pennywieght 0.05487 others or in the past 0.05 or 1/20 of pure silver and 0.0645 or 0.065 with 1 or 10 percent excess of wieght little less it will go to 364 grams or days in a year,that the weight of a physical grain will varies in growth for the number of days that the sun will shine or numbers of work for a man or a helper or livestock or animal from a As to a Bull,that the profit or yield or harvest is also equivalent to a bull in one month pay in gold, just like the gold coin of beoudica I think,that other measure is base on grain but depends on its weight depending how fertile the soil and numbers of hours the sun shine,etc,just a comment

Just posting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennyweight Nice ratio from chalkoi to drachma to uncia to decimalization. We still have 24 hours in a day and a lunar cycle of 28 and 29 days and 12 or 13 month in a year,that the ratio in coin is also equivalent in numbers of work in a day equivalent in its PPP to buy goods and grains that the counterweight and mass is of silver coin depending on its purity,that hours work,time elapse and product or grains it yield are all interconnected in a silver coin,just a comment

Just posting. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/8318917/Cash-in-on-your-coins.html# UKGB can change its pound or return to silver 15.6 to a pound or more than that?

12/186 0.0645 in sceatta there is 15 As or 1/15 or 1/20 .05-.0666..7 it is 1/15.5 12/12*15.5 12 uncia or 1 As, as a unit of 1 in 1/15 that 1 is 12 12*15 is 180 0.5 is 6/12 or 1/2 or 0.5 Just posting.

Just posting. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/8317759/Decimalisation-Day-Forty-years-ago-we-lost-the-rich-and-beautiful-poetry-in-our-pockets.html# 1/24 semuncia in roman coin denomination. 1/240 10 semuncia or decisemuncia going to tower pound its like a piedfort or a multiple of a smallest unit of itself,maybe in other low grade metal what happen if it is in silver content,just incase they will change coinage.just a comment.

Nice ratio. 1/240 just like number of scetta to a pound or number of ass to a sceatta,1/15 1/20 1/24 or number of grams to reach 240 or what pound they use roman to caroligan,just a comment.

Good find. Another info of UKGB mint and minting,I think there are loads of coins mint by UKGB for other country nice info.

Just posting. http://www.royalmint.com/Corporate/policies/legal_tender_guidelines.aspx I dont know what is the legal tender before 1971. Crown is still legal tender then but not use in circulation but an agreement that the silver penny will stay so all silver and gold coin are still legal tender,but not use in circulation just there denomination in low metal and in banknote,just a comment,UKGB can change its coinage and currency as they choose with all its history till present,just an opinion.

Just posting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Fractions There are some celtic coins with raised dot on copper or bronze the Y shape with both raised dot on both side.

Good info. A metal disc for equivalent room,letter,zoning in a mint building for security.

Other thread has information from Royal Mint that the token posted in THAT thread was from there.... This item was post mint Thank you BCC. What mint this worn coin came from?

Post mint thats clear. What it looks like when it first came out in the mint or what coin,token,denomination it is? Didnt read the other thread,it didnt came from royal mint. It may came from somewhere else.

Good date. 1879 loads of legislation in Canada and US in UKGB and its colony,banknotes back by gold standard,they can change the penny in silver or increase the wieght of a penny or make a new denomination, but they continue withsame penny broze,broze penny will be in higher value 1879 but they cannot change the penny its the measure they use in all other denomination dont know, if wages increase that time,and they cannot control how much one country importing and exporting on that time,at least they didnt overprint thier banknote in par with there silver and gold bullion reserve,maybe they have a measure on how much banknote they will print then,just a comment.

Just a comment. Also 1879 year die number ended in sixpence and florin. There are some site about rejected silver coins surrender on US rejected because they are under weight,other coin not one cent or not one penny? they do not denominatize the coin only worn coin or underweight coin in 1879,in 1880 coin are not in par in weight for goods,denominatize in coin weight to goods weight ratio.

All the best RLC35. I even posted it in filipinonumismatic about the history of penny,Bhramic letter B for ma same in celtic coin a bull,piloncitos.

Just posting. The wieght and coinage 1878, 1879 Weight and Measure Act. http://www.bsswebsite.me.uk/A%20Short%20History%20of/coins.html http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&d=AJHR1879-I.2.2.2.13&l=mi&e=-------10--1------0-- Just a comment.