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Probably a fine investment home for your cash over the last 30 years as well , few coins have increased as much as say tudor mammered asp the choice high grade examples...
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Cracking collection Paddy. Well done !
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The fakes on eBay are getting scarily good, certainly more convincing than they used to be. As it stands, that George IV is clearly fake, but it's not many more steps to being convincing. They're even doing toned and lower grade fakes now too!
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Another fake being offered as genuine.
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I am lurking! Already blown most of my budget for the year!
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Nice one, Paddy, well done with that lot! 👏👏
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Usually if I strike a deal with a seller, the seller changes the auction to a "buy it now" at which point I need to keep calm, waiting for it to pop up again, and then quickly buy it. Worked well so far
Very Best Regards
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I am sure they did as it was an auction listing rather than a buy-it-now (I saw it too and took screenshots also, so you're not going mad, Terry). Changing the image and the title is a way for the seller and buyer to avoid others noticing - though they did - and to avoid a hefty eBay fee to boot. Wonder who got it and for what actual price??
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Maybe they arranged to buy it privately
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I am also a social media refusenik, so forums like this are my natural habitat. Although I do collect GB bronze and copper, I also like all the GB silver and some older foreign pieces too. Like @Sylvester I found the bias towards bronze and copper pennies a little disappointing. There are some great experts in all areas on here, but we need to encourage them to continue showing up occasionally or the forum will die.
I think also, some posters here are a bit aggressive with their criticism if they disagree with a poster's viewpoint, which simply drives them away. Of course we can disagree, but it needs to be kept non-personal.
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Some cracking coins there! Loving the Anglo-Saxon coinage. I have a few bits and bobs of that myself, but nothing as extensive. I can only muster two line types for Edward the Elder, Athelstan, Eadmund and Eadred, plus a Cnut short cross penny.
I too was going down the one from each monarch from Alfred the Great to present.
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Wow such a shift. I don't touch Facebook with a barge pole, or any social media to be fair.
I for myself have not been a frequent visitor here for many a years, one reason being it became a bit of a copper coin collectors specialist forum, whereas I've mostly been a silver collector, so there was little for me to post constructively on. That been said, work takes up the bulk of my time anyway to be fair.
It seems times have changed!
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Amazing collection Paddy , thanks for sharing !
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I saw some concerns about low activity on the forum, so I thought I would post this link to my Hammered collection to give people something to talk about.
I have gathered these over the last 25 years, with the original intention of one decent coin for each monarch from the Wessex Saxons to the introduction of milled coins. There are some duplicates and associated material in the folder. Any comments, discussions or corrections are welcome!
Hammered
Paddy
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Afraid I'm guilty of the 'social media' thing and so here less often.
There are a number of specialised Facebook groups which, while many are set up as a selling platform by the administrator, do get a reasonable amount of traffic. I frequent a specialist group for Charles I coinage and several for hammered and early milled because that's where my interests lie. Probably of little interest to the many(?) penny enthusiasts here, but I've certainly contributed to the Charles I group quite frequently and it's where quite a few of my Charles I contacts congregate..
There are also groups for numismatic literature and historical medals, which again though specialised fall within my interests and a few detectorist groups where I try to identify items. I also admit that I frequent many of these groups to spot potential purchases since there are a number of well known dealers who are also members there. Some, like Tim Medhurst rely heavily on social media (he's primarily on Instagram I believe) and it's not uncommon for things to never reach a dealer's website, having found a buyer on a Facebook group.
I'm not saying that's an ideal situation, it's all too easy to miss something because you don't happen to be a member of a particular group, but I accept that's the way of it (even Spink sell stuff on Facebook now). Plus I'm chronically online anyway, so it's just a few more pages to visit in a day. And if it results in a bit more knowledge, whether a collector ticket identified or a potential contact spotted, a possible new source of material or an item added to the collection, all to the good.
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Yes...I was between low and high watermarks, so ownership is moot.
It's a lovely beach, and I found just one coin, this wonderful example of a great rarity:
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That's definitely a 4th example - somebody must have nipped in and got it at a bargain price.
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ahahahah..An there I was thinking I was overloading forum with all the newbie input... I have slowed down as I'm trying to rationalise what relevant and what isn't. oh and thank you everyone who have assisted during the first few weeks, its been great help. all the best "H"
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Rather than an exposure to cash, it was the affordable access to a tangible history for me, that’s how I came to coins.
I agree though, it is disappointingly quiet on here nowadays.
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A symptom of the drive to a cashless society? I don't think many young people use cash in everyday transactions, if at all. I guess with no exposure to coinage, there'd be no reason to have their interest sparked by it? I can only think of it as that. Believe it or not, but twenty years ago this forum had a core group of teenage members leading a lot of the discussions! So there was interest from the younger groups once upon a time. In fact, there were quite a few robustly attended forums in the 2000s, very few seem to be left.
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A very strange thing happened on ebay this evening . A 1863 Narrow 3 came up for auction at 6 o,clock with a starting price of 5£ . I straight away placed it in my favorites box , but also copied the pictures . I looked in a couple of times during the evening to see if any bids had been place , and none were. Then again I looked in at 10.30 , and to my surprise it took me to an 1861 coin .
Now, I know I'm getting on a bit but I'm not that senile just yet. On my favorites it still says 1863, and to prove it the pictures are below.
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I guess people use social media, which is ok for a single response, but a chocolate teapot as a source of coherently assembled opinions that are organised along the thread topic. I presume the internet has so much info available that many people feel they have all the info they need.
What is obvious is the lack of visitors asking questions, which seems counterintuitive given the significant increase in collectors of modern coins. At any coin fair you will see a reasonable number of kids going round the tables. I presume they get all their info from social media. Whilst you can reasonably expect the majority of collectors to be middle aged and up, the vast majority of collectors do have access to the internet, so why they don't interact with others is beyond me.
A parallel problem to that of forums is happening to many numismatic societies. The South Manchester decided last meeting to only have one meeting a month compared to 2 a month in autumn and spring. The reason - numbers have dropped off such that there is no longer a critical mass of members to fill the schedule with talks. There is a near total absence of younger people coming through. At the last meeting, I was the spring chicken, and I get a state pension.
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Ahhhhhhhh,! the forum has been a wealth of information, Ive been sorting through 30 odd years of picking up silver coins and only now beginning to get coins in a date order these start off in 1200's into the 1800's over 18 different coins, ok so value is of interest however finding out the scarcer they are has out weighed this for my interest...its also nudge me into learning more about The Royals...... Numista has been a useful place that I will look to... many thanks Peckris 2,
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I wouldn't go that far - the coins that you've used it on are as relatively scarce to each other as the index suggests. As far as general copper and bronze coins go, most people use Freeman / Peck / Gouby as reliable indicators of rarity. Spink’s catalogue’s values can be used as a vague indication of rarity but need to be taken with a huge pinch of salt, as popularity as well as scarcity affects values : for example, the 1902LT & 1912H pennies are nowhere near as scarce as their values suggest.
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