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I thought as much. I was hoping there may be a random (e.g. letter) somewhere that could give a clue. I guess on the plus side, I can now say that I have an 1831, 1834, 1837 penny depending upon whichever takes my pick at the time - although maybe that's cheating!

Woops, wow, complete muppet, apologies I meant William IV. I know it's not great quality at all, however I'd just like to be able to put a date to it as it's the last coin that I've not been able to identify. Cheers

Hi All, so I'm getting to the end of all my granddads coins. Aside from the usual UK contenders, I've had some interesting finds including Danish 1771 1 Skilling, Greek 1876 5 Drachma, US 1898 One Cent, Mexican 1881 8 Real - no idea whatsoever how they ended up in our family, so that's the next piece of research. However, I'm at a loss at identifying this coin from closer to home. I'm working on the basis that it's a George IV Penny, but I have had no joy in working out the year as it's too heavily worn to pick up the year under magnifier glass. Are there any tell tale signs that I can look out for to work this out? Thanks

Yes really helpful - thanks. I've seen a few before but this was the best I'd seen to date. I'm quite interested in our local tokens and know there's others from Sherborne and Shaftesbury and more still. Are there any decent books on tokens you'd advise? Cheers

Hi all, not mine (yet) but as a Dorset lad I'm interested. Could I ask your views on the below and what sort of price you think is reasonable: http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/291087326104?nav=SEARCH

In keeping with the post a few above, I don't think they can release the mintages until after the end of the calendar year. Whilst they might know in advance for the commemorative crap marketed to the masses, a regular currency piece's mintage will depend on the demand from the banks for coin. If they don't order it, the Mint doesn't produce it.Yes, i still find it odd though. We've known these mintage figures for a while so why wait until now?

There's me the conspiracy theorist!

I've been wondering why did the RM release this statement when they did? Are minting numbers for general circulation coins known in advance or does it depend upon the demand for coins that year and we don't know until after te year.The cynic in me thinks they're doing this to get more people to buy their special releases in the hope it'll be "the next kew 50p" or do we already know they'll strike say 4mil?

PS That was buy it now price

Unreal, I have one but was just this weekend thinking of buying an uncirculated version at £22 in its collectors case. The joys of coin collecting!!! tsch

Thanks guys

Hi everyone, I've quoted a description attributed to a 1787 Shilling that I've seen from a website below: 1787 Without Hearts. No stop over head. ESC 1218 S3744. The S3744 I'm assuming is the Spink reference, but what does the ESC 1218 mean?

Hi demonlee, welcome aboard. I'm in a very similar situation myself having been given a load of coins by my dad at Xmas that my granddad collected. I've been doing lots of reading (this forum is immense) and had been tending towards George III period. However, I saw a comment on another thread that I had posted which suggested (or this is how I've interpreted it) that if you're new, you should just collect a variety to see where your interest lies. I quite like this idea because it means you can go for whatever you like the look of. Either way, enjoy!

Hi All, in my newbie excitement I saw what I thought looked like a lovely 1787 Sixpence (with hearts) on ebay last week, when I saw it, it was closing in 10mins so no time to ask for advice. The price seemed ok compared to what I've seen in books (£39) and the coin did look a "bute" to me and I saw no one else had bid so thought why not?? Today was the first time I could collect from the PO and in hand, again, it looks a stunner. However there's always been that niggling doubt of "why did no one else bid". Have I been rinsed or not? Thanks

There's so many coins, designs and the historical links (which is most important for me) that I'm thinking....everything! haha Seriously though, I think I'm going to go with George III. I'm really interested by all the re-stamping (probably got the terminology wrong) of foreign coins, though from what I've seen the prices are unrealistic at the moment. But then I have a lot of these coins from my granddad which are turn of the 20th century and feel it would be a good start. So still not really sure.

Thanks for all of this. As I said, I heeded the advice and wont buy, I was just interested to see what people disliked about it because as a novice I did quite like it and so wondered what you guys didn't like.

Apologies, no I meant the half penny I copied the link for from ebay. No the pictures I added were coins from my grandad that my dad gave me at Christmas which I'm resigned to realising dad only gave me the lower value coins to pique my interest.

Not that I'm now interested but just for my knowledge, what are the particular big turn offs on this coin? And by that I mean the original coin I posted.

Paulus, that does look beautiful - I've just completely readjusted my opinion!

Can I ask what are people's thoughts on the following coin? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Superb-1806-George-III-Half-Penny-/201029077663?pt=UK_Coins_BritishMilled_RL&hash=item2ece444a9f

Ok, maybe then if that case if you could refund and then when I know better, I'll just re-order. Completely non coin related, but I don't suppose you have any connection with the University of Manchester? One of my lecturers had the same name and whilst I appreciate it's highly unlikely.....?

Yes that was me. Well to tell the truth, I'm probably going to be looking at buying something on your site again in the near future. I don't know how easy it is to refund, so if it's maybe easier to keep it as credit for some time in the near future? I don't know how these things work, but whatever works easiest for you is fine with me. Cheers

haha, it's like you've already known me for years!

Oh wow, I've just lost my eBook virginity! Thanks for the prompting guys!

Yes that's correct about ordering it via predecimal and absolutely no worries whatsoever. Thanks for the info, but I'm quite old school when it comes to my books. I'm guessing if you couldn't locate one, I'm going to struggle? Are there any other books that do a similar job that you'd recommend?