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A Very Happy New Year folks!!!!!! Before I say anything else, I wish Peter well. I am heartbroken for the loss of Mrs Peter whom most of us know very well. She will be truly missed. Thanks for all the messages that I’ve received from the forum members (especially Pete, Dave, Gary, Hazel and Jerry). I’ve been a bit busy lately and I have had far too much to tackle owing to a (failed) shot at emigrating. School, home, job the works I have not plugged any gaps last year but have managed a dozen or so upgrades including this one https://www.spink.com/lot-description.aspx?id=15006000529 Lastly Richard lovely site I must say and some real dollies you have on your site. I promise to be back soon. Happy hunting all.

My first attempt at Flickr and one of my first attempts at photographing a coin https://www.flickr.com/photos/29132520@N02/?

Not 100% sure but there maybe something scratched into it in the triangle maybe love token

That makes more sense, but even still $1000 and under is a great limit. Like Frank says, pretty much anything over £30 gets hit with it in the UK, if it was £1000 we would all be laughing

Matt, those shots are pretty good, I reckon - particularly if, like me, you've struggled to get the right conditions. I (kinda) started collecting via current coinage, too - actually, it was through buying bullion coins to 'stack' which led me to the moderns and, after only a couple of months, to predecimal. That's a damn sight better than my first attempt was, Ian - are you starting with George VI? I reckon there's some good value to be had there. Paul, your photos are bang on, I reckon. As for your collection, well... *unbridled envy*

I do have a spare one somewhere, but from memory the condition is what I could only describe as 'average circulated.'

Paulus Congrats on your pictures.

Well this was what I was thinking too, that or over polishing. But I'm yet to seen anything in between this and a normally struck one and I've checked quite a few in that area since finding out about it. Having said that the lighthouse itself is extremely weak which does give credence to the theory that it's just die wear.

I always find the rejection of less than mint state coins for surface marks a little odd. Why is wear acceptable but not contact marks, as this is surely just another result arising from circulation? This is frequently contradicted by TPGs grading coins with bagmarks. Just as these are part of the normal minting process, so are contact marks from circulation part of normal useage.

Here's a link to my coin collection pics Frank https://pwcoins.wordpress.com/

Thanks for the sample Paul, and also the tips on backgrounds, that hadn't even occurred to me except from an aesthetic point of view! I'll have a look next week in the DIY places near me but failing that I'll probably check online, I'll make sure that they're daylight white in that case. I always prefer keeping the pictures as taken, not necessarily for a true picture but more so that I don't have to spend the time changing each one! Just me being lazy haha Frank, just realised the signatures are no longer showing up! My site's normally under my posts - www.mypennycollection.wordpress.com Despite the website name, last weekend I added all the 50ps that I collected when I first started out, the Olympic series is what got me into coin collecting in the first place! Didn't feel it was worth starting another Wordpress just for them. Looking forward to getting the 50ps with the new bust too

Hi All, thought I would make sure I stuck this here as it has to do with PENNIES!!!!!!!!!!Dont want to upset any more of the natives. Anyway, was it anyone of the forum members who got this lot: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272094937969?ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1435.l2649 Would be very interested to see if there really was an 1954 Penny!!!!!!!(Think she may have made an error!!!) I bid but missed out at the end as I lost connection.

Just received an email from BANS: "I regret to advise you that the Chelmsford Museum have suffered a theft in the course of which 14 of a display of 16 late Roman coins were stolen. Those stolen were gold solidi of Arcadius (5), Honorius (8) and one of Constantine III which is from the Lyon mint and this coin is particularly scarce; those left were a counterfeit coin of Honorius and a coin of Arcadius. Please, therefore, be on the lookout for coins on offer and notify Nick Wickenden of the Chelmsford Museum as soon as possible. He has details, weights and images of the missing coins." Ian..

Hi Just.me I've checked out the pattern reverse under a 10X magnifier and the border teeth look just as if they've been stuck onto the coin - the line you see on the photo is a very slightly raised edge as if a ring of teeth has been stuck onto a coin with no teeth. I'm hoping to get one of these digital microscope things in the new year and if I can master the technology, the pictures should be very interesting. Happy New Year to all penny collectors and to those of other denominations........