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Really Awful Numismatic Goods No, it's just Pete's abbreviation of his favourite phrase for crap, 'Rang Tang' !

Got a decent copy of Peck for £50. Description as follows:- , Peck, C.W., English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British Museum, 1558-1958, 2nd edn, London, 1964, xx + 648pp, 50 fine collotype plates (Manville 1115). Publisher’s blue cloth; a clean working copy with a few pencil annotations, inscribed to Jeff Gardiner from his wife, February 1967, on first free endpaper and with publicity leaflet by the Empire Coin Co [Q.D. Bowers] relating to Bowers’ acquisition of Peck’s 1954 Penny on 10 December 1963 [weight 2.2 kg] £60-80

PAH, shows what I know about edge writing on decimal coinage

Actually ... three sides. What he said, what she said and what actually happened.

Hi Zakkil When it comes to the writing around the out rim of a coin it can be either readable with obverse (head) side up or reverse (tail) side up. The way in which the coin outer inscription is done has no bearing on orientation. Also there are so many errors on modern decimal coinage, especially over the past 10 years, that minor flaws and errors that would have made a major difference in pre decimal (Duodecimal) coinage just do not have the same impact or collectability, unless major or very unusual ones. Photo's would be great as that would help to see if this is the case. I collect both Decimal and Predecimal coinage and like Nordle states above good books are the way to go. You cannot go wrong with "Collectors Coins - Decimal issues of the United Kingdom 2016" by Chris Henry Perkins - ROTOGRAPHIC. The full range of books by Chris and the other writers at Rotographic are spot on. You can also buy digital versions to carry around on your mobile, etc... Just like studying and learning about your specimens or your Pokemon cards, the more you read up and learn the better your choices and the less buying mistakes when and if you come to purchasing coins. This forum is also a great place to learn with like minded and fair people. Welcome to the forum and happy collecting... Brian

Update 2: The ads seemed to have appeared after an upgrade to a bigger server due to bandwidth issues, Chris is in contact with the hosts and will sort it soon.

As an update, Chris has the same issue so couldn't post, but he's on it.

My George III 1799 Halfpenny, mines probably the bog standard , as just beeen taking my own photo's to show someone. Purely coincidence.

Hi Zakkil, welcome to the forum, you're in good hands here About the coins you've mentioned, it sounds (to me, at least) like they could be fakes, generally the mint doesn't make errors like the writing being updside down but that is the sort of thing a counterfeiter would do. The pemember error is genuine, although not worth more than it's value really, there are just too many about. About the cleaning, please don't do it. I'd definitely grab yourself a book on decimal coinage, you'll see an ad at the top for Rotographic books, we really can't recommend them enough. There's also a decimal section with a ton of info for general browsing, you might find some interesting stuff in there. Get some pictures up of your best coins in the meantime, the easiest way to do it is to click bottom left (of the text box) where it says 'Drag files here to attach, or choose files...' and upload directly from your computer, once it's uploaded it will automatically show once you submit the post. If it's a size issue, get the photo up on your computer screen and take a screenshot, then crop the picture in paint and save it as a JPEG, that will get it under the 500kb limit.

Oh dear, time for a lie down I think. Why did I think you were discussing 1946 pennies ? Please ignore all future posts from me, I'm clearly going downhill fast.

The Bamford one went for £1706 in 2006 as 80/75 by Gouby.

This is the only other one I know of, better than VF.

That's what I am counting on. I have a spare stashed away now to await the day. Now - where's the email address for the Daily Mail?

A few upgades purchased yesterday 1897 that is a lot better than the normal ones Not the best picture as just done on my phone.

What you don't have you can't miss. Anyway, wanting to make an offer is not the same as putting your money where your mouth is

I suppose it could have been reasonably referred to as an "odd obb coin"

Yes your right Scott but over the course of a week or so more likely someone else will spot it and thats all it needs for the price to be high. RANG is just a daft word Mike for BOBO

And here are the Rev in same order.

Right more pictures taken. Here are the two Obv together and will follow up with the Rev to compare.the first picture is of the earlier purchase and the second is the latest purchase.

A Jubilee crown I have for a while. (Brought raw and was graded CGS 75 later on).