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Its a lot more exciting than looking at bloody ebay Mike Even if we dont buy anything its always interesting to see the prices they sell for.

Looks as though dnw are doing this. Part 1 (which admittedly doesn't contain a massive amount) is on their catalogue for 13th/14th June 2018 auction. Whether succeeding parts will be added to this or subsequent auctions - well who knows at this stage? link

That's a really nice selection of hammered coins. They look great.

I rue the day we become a totally cashless society. It's bad enough as it is imo (nuff said). With disbelief, I witnessed first hand the distressing effects on a couple of Greek friends with whom I was working in the US in 2016. The financial crisis hit home and from one day to the other they had no access to funds, their bank accounts were frozen and their credit cards were blocked. Technically, 'someone' decided to render them penniless overnight. Luckily for them they were not stuck in Greece at the time where no-one could buy anything without cash. I see it as relinquishing power to someone who has no regard for who I am, in which situation I am and views me purely as a cow to milk. 'They' would have the power to sentence me to a life of penury without recourse. They could incite chaos and anarchy at the push of a button so to speak. No thanks. With cash in pocket we have the power to make at least some decisions and choices if the etherial pot of electronic money ever decides to go pop again. Call me paranoid, a Luddite, or more appropriately here maybe, a Ramage if you will, but I honestly believe that it should be resisted at all cost. That said, and in answer to 1949threepence thread question, Yes, I think we probably will.

Try Baldwin's basement.

Part 2 added to the dnw auction for 19th - 20th September. Runs to 3 pages. Some nice pieces, one of which greatly interests me. But so far not stupendously exciting. Maybe they will add more in due course.

Quite right Paddy. It looks cast to me. Good filler if you can't afford or even find an original. That said, it still is a high price for a poor copy. There are but 4 genuine examples known (Henfrey double counted) , two in private hands and the other two in the Hunterian and British musea. One of those in private hands was sold in 85, (if memory serves me correctly) at the Harrington Manville sale for the sum of £10,000 (£30,000 today). The other privately owned example surfaced more recently in 2017 and was sold by Stacks. Interestingly, the location of the latter was generally unknown for some 140 years having been sold by a dealer to “a gentleman in America”, an unknown collector, in 1877. That particular example is also interesting and distinctive by the fact that there are traces of gilt present and this is also noted in several old sale catalogues prior to its sale to the American gentleman. I find the Simon sixpence to be an interesting subject, it's absolute rarity - why?, poor condition of all known examples - why?, etc. I half suspect that there is a box hidden or buried somewhere that is full of the beggars and we shall all be able to buy one for a more affordable price.

Buy with confidence, reputable company.

Hmm...if the steel core of the coins is 'soft' magnetic material, like mild steel, the the induced magnetism will indeed slowly reduce. To create the effect, you would need a powerful magnetic field that doesn't change polarity. Indeed, how to de-magnetise something is to use a coil powered off ac mains which reverses 100 times a second, and slowly draw it away. ( Remember the 'wand' that the old tv engineer used when your tube tv screen went funny colours?) Magnetising ( or what magnet manufacturers call 'charging' or 'energising') can indeed be achieved using a single high-level pulse of DC current, like what a capacitive discharge will produce, or, in this case, a lightning 'strike'. I put 'strike' in parentheses, since the big high current ( million + amps) discharge goes UP. The high voltage 'leader' comes slowly down, finding a path, ionising a channel of air, and the ground discharges to the cloud. Persistence of vision makes us see this as a downward 'stroke'. Lightening rods etc spray electrons up to the cloud, discharging the cloud, and can actually make a big upward discharge more unlikely. I'm selling my magnet collection. Special Offer: Buy a North pole, and get a South pole free!!!

It would be a lot easier if some were a bit more presentable. The temptation to store nos. 4 & 5 under the felt instead of on top must be immense.

A new addition to my Vickies recently, it has some nice colours but unfortunatly I'll need to try harder to capture them.

I might well try year sets at some stage - the challenge is getting them mounted in a presentable way at an affordable price. I don't think I would carry on doing the markets if I made no profit at all. Today I took about £330 net of table money and I was one of three coin dealers stalled out. Maybe there is more coin activity at the local markets than some of you fear?

Where did that come from Zookeeperz? Peckris is sound as a pound and really does know his stuff.

Hear, hear. A mate, a gentleman, and an expert on all aspects of 20th century English coinage.

I think I speak for everyone that Peckris is a wealth of knowledge and very far from being a 'f-ing moron'. It's unecessary to talk to people like that, so please don't.

Zookeeperz, we don't want abusive comments here. Maybe you would be happier on another forum.

Now they ring you and some automated Stephen Hawkins starts asking you how you dealing with the car accident you supposedly had some months ago. Pretty tough to do unless I jacked a car and drove off with it lol and even worse they speak to you using your first name only and make it sound as if they are a friend just to get their foot in the door. I let them speak long enough to shout **** off

It looks like a Charles I Briot milled 2d that now answers to the name Elizabeth........ darling

it looks Venetian to me ..

Considering this is what it looked like when I got it, I think it was worth the effort!

Well I think I have finished playing with this one now. It has had time in the oven as suggested and also time in the sunshine with a little mineral oil on the surface - this seemed to make more difference than the oven to be fair. I have left a little oil on the surface as it is inclined still to look a bit matt. It will now go away in my collections as my example of 1859 over 8 Half Penny.

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

It definately looks like pellets over 1's, looks a good find to me, scarcer than the standard issue I believe, any of you hammie guys confirm this? Jerry

There is only one mint - Tower. The bell dates it to 1582-3

This is it. I think the coin is OK. Any chance to know date and mint? Best regards