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My latest unofficial farthings. The two with tickets are from the Cockanye collection, which was bought by Baldwins around 1946. Are the tickets worthy of the 'ticket central' thread with them being tokens rather than coins?

NHS please have a rethink I was taken into hospital by ambulance again and was in for a few days and cannot thank the NHS enough once again. However when i was discharged they gave me a carrier bag of medication...... Asking the nurse were did i pay for it all ,she just told me it was free for everyone that is discharged. They are giving thousands of £s worth of drugs to people like myself everyday and IMO should charge everyone that pays for a prescription. All the staff were brilliant and feel £millions could be put quite easily back into the system. Pete.

It looks good, and £40 a bargain. If you are concerned take it to a coin shop and ask for a second opinion or consider getting it slabbed. CGC are cheap and are Goode enough to tell you if its real or not. From the pictures it looks good.

In my opinion, storage in a Whitman folder isn't going to leave any wear marks on a bronze coin.

That 1917’s a really weak strike which may be misleading when it comes to grading.

The non proof coin are the same perhaps the subjects they chose were undernourished and were given wrong stylist advice about hairstyles

There was coin in there for £11.59, it was late, I felll asleep before I could hunt any down.

I actually love it too! Stop trying to tempt me away from Blighty!!!!!

If you listen to some people, you would think the NHS is on the verge of total collapse. I recently went to my GP with an eye problem (tear in the retina). I saw the GP at 11.00am. By the time I got home, I had a phone call from the nearest eye specialist for an appointment the next day. Went to see him, got lasered and discharged at 2.00pm. So, all in all 27 hours from diagnosis to treatment. Brilliant, and certainly not an organisation in the crisis and chaos politicians would have you believe.

I'd say that cabinet friction or, as in this case, "folder friction", on an otherwise uncirculated coin, would be negligible in terms of actual wear - given they're not actually circulating and continually getting wear from constant exposure/friction with other coins, frequent handling, being drawn across surfaces before pick up etc. That's true wear criteria. Pictures would obviously help, but in their absence, I'd say aUNC.

EF used to be defined as "very slight wear to the highest points only visible under magnification or close inspection" - the difference there being that VF was immediately visible while EF required some degree of peering. But one person's "slight wear" was another's "noticeable wear", so pictures - as in Derek's book - are everything.

Exactly. "Cabinet Friction" is merely a wishful thinking term. If a coin has wear, it is no longer unc in my view.

I’d grade the coin according to the level of wear, regardless of how it happened. Whether it’s from poor storage or circulation is irrelevant to me.

better pic

I very much doubt if a coin would degrade to VF through being stored in a folder. If handled significantly, then it could go down to EF+ but pictures would help us. VF is a comparatively misunderstood grade that has actually changed over the years. Back in the 60s it was defined (I paraphrase) as "visible wear only to the highest points of the design", and it was strictly interpreted by the top dealers. However, there has to be a clear divide between EF and VF to account for difference in values. I would say that VF shows the complete design but can appear a bit 'blurry' due to the wear to - e.g. lions' faces, garter motto, monarch's hair, etc. If you want pictorial guidance, then invest in Derek's book on grading British coins as shown in the banner ad, top.

you will hear auctions often quote UNC with some cabinet friction. We had this discussion what constitutes wear and what doesn't. Some people say wear is wear and that's the long and tall of it. to me if a coin has been in circulation then yes that applies even if the wear is minute. But if a coin is UNC and never seen a pocket or a till draw and has been in a flip for years and has a tiny friction mark due to pressure from the flip to me it is still unc and should designated so with that statement of storage friction applied. Some say how can you tell friction from minute wear. Simple answer is if a coin has never been in circulation it will for the most part be unmarked or very few contact marks from production. Circulated coins could never escape much heavier marks even if only exposed for a short time. So unless the storage process suspends the coin from contact either side from any other material all coins will receive some degree of friction even in a tray.

Thank you for your help I suppose it is a sensitive process even if simple to those stoking the mix. In igneous petrology we use similar phase diagrams to understand the crystallisation of a magma it is always affected by pressure, temperature and impurities especially gases in the mix and metal alloys must be affected by the impurities I assume. I never really fully understand the Straw process. Thanks

As far as doppelgangers go, I've always thought that this Lackington's token looked suspiciously like Stewie Griffin from Family Guy

Time travel for a jape? - It exists, I saw it on youtube!

Recently purchased this coin in Australia and was thinking about getting it slabbed because it looks to be in reasonable condition for its age but I'm not sure of its value ,Any information would be helpful thank you The weight is 2.8 grams with a diameter of 26mm

My most recent of several Vickies (the ones Mick didn't get, at least .... )

Sorry about that - finger trouble! - somehow I managed to lose the image of the obverse - I'll try again... Frank

you are right jelida why not just say it THEY ARE MANKY pocket change coins