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A bit off the wall topic but hopefully it can start something. Over the years I've sent a few freebies to young (I assume) members on the forum. I've also given the local schools some coins when my daughters told me what period of history they were learning about. A while ago a new lady started working with my daughter.Talk went around to families and my daughter mentioned that I collected coins. The lady mentioned her 12 yr old son had been routing through her change looking for the best examples. Basically that is how I started many years ago so I have added my best examples to a pot and my daughter takes these in weekly for him. After a couple of weeks I got a phone call from this lad thanking me and he enthusiastically told me what he had. I felt good for this so I went through my vast mountain of predecimal coins and packaged up coins of every reign going back to William 111 and a couple of hammered and Roman. I snuck in a couple of better coins and some silver together with an old copy of collectors coins. A couple of weeks ago I received a lovely thank you card from the lad. Now it seems I've made a win,win situation as he now makes his parents a cup of tea every Sunday morning so they take him to local car boot fairs. The best thing about it he also takes a couple of pals along who have caught the bug. Apparently his pals parents have now taken up the duty of taking the lads on a rota basis thus leaving Mums and Dads to have some quality Sunday morning times .

Bought this at Lockdale's recently - it's the Obverse D variant with A pointing to a tooth - I've been looking for one since Terry discovered it. This is Lockdale's photo as I haven't received it yet.

Hello! Please answer my two questions about the following coin: 1) is it as I think Charles I, gold Unite, Tower mint, S.2688? 2) what do you think about a price of it? Sorry didn't see the above (1) yes appears to be (2) around 2,000 assuming its problem free

No price stated but it Must outstrip The recent Edward VIII Sovereign if thats The case https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/5394/1344-Edward-III-Double-Leopard/?utm_source=Marketo&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=NGC%20eNews%20July%202016&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpjd09HWTVNV1JqTmpZdyIsInQiOiIxampkWjhDNUlxeXVwTGhXZ251eCtod2RZTHJ2aTREMU5qTEU2VThXSzNhTk9BVVgzZ0pZZmZqWXM1ZVB1R2IzRFwvUHUzSXA0akdiRmdWazh6WDBUcmdrRHE3UGpJWTZhSWtZZ1NKaTV3RTQ9In0%3D

Have you decided not to sell any Richard.....only as you were sending a list out ?.

That was helpful..

Agent Freya your job is done. Hat off to Freya

WINNER WINNER PETER Freya my gran daughter thought she had picked me

I think they aren't the same coin ... You can understand it quite clearly looking at the legend where there is MAG ...

yours looks better, i'd say they aren't the same

Have a pound coin that's date doesn't match when it was supposed to be made ? It'll be a fake. Does the edge inscription look a bit dodgy ? It could be fake. Feels heavy ? Too Shiny ? Lacks detail ? It could be fake. There's also information on : The Fake Kew Gardens 50p, The Fake Undated 20p, The Fake Carded Olympic 50p's and a large selection of fake £2's (Including the 2016 Shakespeare Tragedy & the mysterious 2011 I LOVE U LANI coin) Plus a selection of old coins, from Greek/Roman right through to George V (Contemporary and modern) and a few non-uk coins too. www.TheFakePoundCoinDatabase.co.uk

I would say it was of much greater interest if there was any actual change in the design of the master die, rather than minor inconsistencies of application of date digits to a working die prepared from an undated master. Erroneous or erratic repairs of a worn working die are also of great interest, but the effects of normal wear and tear much less so. While unintended date variations are of interest to some, I doubt they will ever command the top prices unless associated with other design changes. Jerry

ok then I will raise you, these from the other week £9.94 thats with the postage

Ah but you have now got an excellent book that will earn back its money if you ever decide to sell, and I can look for some new farthings