Leaderboard

Also, rev A date is 11 teeth wide, rev B is 13 teeth wide - simples.

Think mine have been open two long or i need to change my glasses. Time to close them for a few hours

B

oh my days, this will take a LITTLE counting. I just found another pre-decimal box too so I'm sorting that first!

OK - if you insist. 25p Crowns - 4 £5 Crowns - 26 Anymore than that I do not care!

Well to be fair you said:- That's a blanket statement covering all coins under 100 years old, which is obviously no the case. But now you've clarified, I'd agree with what you are saying as far as the vast majority of coins >100 years old are concerned. .

You may find that those dealers (or their immediate forebears) got badly burned in the "investment crash" in the values of post-Edward VII coins - especially Geo VI and Liz II - that occurred after decimalisation. That would have put some out of business, and certainly it would have generated an attitude that 'modern is rubbish'. However, young collectors these days trying to put together a BU set of pennies 1961-67 may find they are less easy to come by and so they will have the effect of pushing prices up, even if (elderly) dealers won't touch them with a bargepole.

Congratulations. Good find! I take the occasional gamble myself on mixed lots but I've not had much luck. I usually come worse off. It's good to hear a success story. One in a million that. Treasure it. Stu.

Hi guys, This is for real. I could tell it was likely a medieval coin from the photos. A bit of research led me toward British, but was not sure if it was genuine (though it looked good to me). I also was not able to see the portrait side and, being a specialist on coins from 18th century to present world coins, did not even realize that there was a difference based on which monarch it is. I looked at seller's past items and was surprised to see that the same lot was listed two other times and no one bid. So, I took a gamble and it paid off big. Really just pure luck. Something like this happens to me once or twice a year, but I also spend A LOT of time dredging through ebay lots and take plenty of risks that do not go in my favor. I apologize for the quality of the photos. I am using an iphone under my kitchen light. The first picture was taken at a bad angle and looks overexposed.

And let's not forget that 50 years on, the 'scarcity myths' prevalent at the height of modern coin fever of the late 60s, still prevail to some extent! I offer you the 1923 sixpence, 1946 halfpenny (BU), 1958 brass 3d (BU), all 1926 halfcrowns, 1965S shilling, and many more. The price guide compilers, and the dealers who feed them, still apply a premium even though since the Great Melt many of the 'scarcities' are far less scarce in relation to their peers than they were back then.

is that not a dropped 2 under the 5 or a pic illusion?