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Cheers, to be fair I have numerous cases of near mint coins, many of them very rare, handed down through the family from my great great grandfather.... but I find the idea of digging up coins which have sat underground untouched for hundreds of years intriguing, and certainly gives a rewarding feeling (especially when I've dug up several decimals in the same day). Each to their own I guess, It's not all about the gold I'll post some of them up when I have a chance.

I have always put haymarking down to insufficiently mixed copper to make the alloy, this being the usual admix to obtain the required purity. The melting point of copper is about 100 degrees C higher than that of silver, so it is not enough just to melt the silver, throw in the requisite amount of copper and expect the alloy to be thoroughly mixed because the temperature isn't necessarily high enough. Whilst I have no definitive proof that this is the reason for the black spots, it is probably significant that there is far less haymarking seen on gold coins which can be explained by the fact that the two metals are only 20 degrees apart in their melting points. Copper (II) oxide is black. If it was due to a process other than mixing metals such as the treatment of blank flans, I would have expected to see similar percentages of coins with haymarking irrespective of the metal.

I started my coin-collecting journey about 4 or 5 years ago and I reached out to Chris for advice on key decimal coins to go for. Chris suggested the following coins: 1983 2p 'New Pence' Mule 1994 £2 Gold Bank of England Mule 1999 £2 Technology (only in uncirculated condition) 2011 Olympics Aquatics withdrawn Lines on Face I'm absolutely delighted to have finally got all of these! It took me several years but got the job done when I managed to come across 1999 Technology Coin graded by NGC MS63.

Words fail me! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-Abraham-Lincoln-2-coin-with-Minting-Error-and-misprint/183208799453?hash=item2aa8186cdd:g:KfIAAOSwgc1awo3w

Printer I gave up. I have had lots of printers and it was just so simple plug in run the test and you're good to go. Now the printer gets split in to two parts and online printer and a static printer that prints from info on the pc . Why do this? . I bought 5 brand new printers the all in one HP as thats what my old PC was . All of them were useless. None worked had to send them back as they had faults. One kept telling me I had a paper jam when there wasn't any paper in it lol. One I had to download drivers from a completely different model to get it to work . For it to just stop working altogether. I have one on my pc now I have never used and it is brand new just refuses to print. I should of sent it back but I had reached boiling point by then and injury was looking for a home . So I have lost the will with printers now that they have made them far too techy.

I think mine is probably all more aEW (almost extremely worthless). I might dig out some of the EF stuff for the 'bay, but other than that I have no idea what to do with it all. Melting it with a plasma cutter into artwork would be satisfying I think.

A little better

I've recently disposed of a couple of kilos of foreign coinage and some obsolete banknotes through 'Left over currency' https://www.leftovercurrency.com/ None of the banknotes where decent enough grades for collecting so this was the next best option. It is a little tedious sorting all the coins and logging them in but it was worthwhile as I got back £122, it will just depend on what you have but from memory they paid quite high for Swiss and German coins. It took about a week from them receiving them to paying out

The reverse should be the shield, rather than the crowned lion which was used until 2008. So in essence, a 2009 Obverse with a 2008 reverse = mule of interest. Link to example on LCA

he must have a doppelganger.....he is missed

how spooky is that. my screen background as well

Cook for 2 hours until rainbow coloured Unless your not american , then one hour is enough

It is the same handwriting both sides and is a Boyd ticket. The GHG signifies that the coins came from Boyd's maternal uncle, George Henry Gaviller and were probably inherited on his death in 1880. Further reading can be had in the extensive foreword to the Boyd catalogue. The price code is made from a mixture of archaic Greek and Runes. This presumably was Boyd assigning a value to his coins.

My 1902 Halfcrowns. They are not encapsulated coins. They were scanned in a plastic capsule as I think it produces a better scan by stopping the coin making contact with the glass table of the scanner.

The best one I've seen is Victoria on her potty!