Colin G.

Welcome to the forum...you can get some nice coins from the Empire for very reasonable prices. There are also a whole host of designs to aim for. A side collection of mine was to collect farthing sized colonial coins, and it has been a slow process but it is a wide range of coin designs and metals.

Prax... I have the Norweb catalogues...lot 43 is a saxon penny...is that what you are after? I can give more info if it is

Can't think of any named farthing collection that could relate to.....I thought maybe Colin Allerton at first...but it doesn't seem to fit, it does seem to read Collection.

If it was mechanical slippage/movement, then you would expect similar doubling features radiating out across adding letters/features. If it is only an isolated feature on that particular letter then it could be as a result of touching up when the matrix/master die was originally produced

Dave they wouldn't get the chance unless they were in the auction room with the rest of us. A single coin would not be recordable and therefore would not go through the treasure process.

I wouldn't be selling through Spinks at the moment, they seem to have no end of technical issues when auctioning. As a result I think the prices realised would be less, unless you were auctioning something prestigious then I would be tempted just due to the name.

Of course you are in, did you try the spreadsheet version further down the post?

Just a note to say I will be closing the window for entries tomorrow at midnight so if you want a go, get your forms through to me as soon as possible

Looks like that special Celtic Unit will be getting fewer bids

Anyone else have the DNW website go down about 5 minutes ago....cant seem to get it back on.

Nothing better than a bit of a challenge.....

A great book, some great bits of information hidden away between chapters...that one had me stumped for a while

I have also attached an excel file, in case people find this easier than the PDF Excel Euro.xlsx

Ahh same mistake I made...they are in the Edward VIII section

Forgot to add...... please feel free to ask any friends or family that may be interested, all are welcome!!

Now I don't expect many of you lot are football fans, but there may be one or two. I often put together a bit of a sweep for friends and family as a football tournament approaches, and thought I would do one for the Euro 2016 finals. It is a bit of a laugh and gives you the chance to prove to your friends that you are a footie guru for just £3 !! Rules: 1. Predict results and scores for each group match...3 points for correct result only, 5 points for correct score and result. 2. Then predict which teams will reach each stage of the knockouts, 4 points for every team correctly predicted to make the last 16, 8 points for every team correctly predicted to make the Quarter Finals, 10 points for every team correctly predicted to make the Semi finals, 15 points for every team correctly predicted to make the final and 25 points for predicting the tournament winner. 3. The final pot will be split so that 1st place gets 50% of the pot, 2nd place gets 25% of the pot, 3rd place gets 15% of the pot and the person in 1st place at the end of the group stage will win 10% of the pot. All cash received goes into prizes. 4. Maximum of 100 entrants, first come first served. £3 per entry, to be paid in cash or via paypal (friends and family) to colin@aboutfarthings.co.uk A full set of completed entries will be issued to each entrant, so that all completed forms are witnessed by everyone (I will remove the e-mail addresses from the form for privacy). Updates of the score board will be issued through via e-mail at regular intervals. Blank form is attached that can be completed and returned Chris if you have any problems with this just let me know Euros-Results 3.pdf

A good old chunk of book as well, enjoy!!

You can get it for about £30, I think I got mine as a best offer on eBay at about £25. Good read about the local mint and certainly puts some character to the big names of the time.

@IanB if you are using a Mac, Filemaker Pro would also be a good option if you can gain access to that software through work. I did the move to Mac last year and use Filemaker instead of MS Access that I used to use on Windows, and I actually find Filemaker simpler and less cumbersome...although a bit more costly to purchase. My replacement system following transition is still under construction, but it is getting there.

Nice example...one of the most harshly graded series due to the artificial darkening (in my opinion). The dark lustre encourages us to perceive what may just be lustre loss as wear because it is so visually obvious. If you took a light finished full lustred coin and removed the lustre in the places that are evident on this coin, I doubt it would even be noticed!! 1903 is a tougher year than many appreciate..and is the low tide year for this series.....

Yes quite common at this time, most likely grease in the dies

The Soho Mint and the Industrialisation of Money is a good local read

I should probably use the correct Obverse and Reverse combinations, whilst I am quoting berries they are completely different bust shapes and are readily apparent even on very low grade coins. One is Reverse A (beaded border) muled with Freeman Obverse 2 whilst the other is muled with Freeman Obverse 3

Yes it is quite common, and as surprising the people who are often doing the misattributing