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This comes from a local restaurant in Charminster, Bournemouth:

Hi Mike, it's always painful to see part of your collection disappear, but I think my decision to place them on ebay was the right one. I chose pieces where I felt an auction house may not do them full justice in the event that my family sell them off one day when I'm not around. I'm thinking that the ones I may keep in my collection will be those where I can be sure that an auction house will get a decent price (i.e. easily recognised varieties) even if the person offering them for sale doesn't have much of a clue. It's also nice to see who bought your coins and, in many cases, I know they will remain in good hands and be cherished. I have already had several positive feedbacks and people asking me if I will be doing this again. I will probably sell another nice group on ebay when the clocks go back, after they first go forward..........so you can see I'm not planning to depart this world just yet!

Not really for Ians coins as sure he will get back to you Mike but if you want to look at any that have sold. If you look at the left hand side and scroll down to Show Only and then tick the completed listings box it will show you the finished sales.

Hello Jack and welcome. Nice choice regarding collecting shillings. They were my favourite denomination when I had a schoolboy-style collection about 40 years ago, and the first place I resumed when I rekindled my interest back in 2014. I too have a type set of shillings, of variable grade and quality, going back to Charles II. I don't have one of absolutely every type (you will need patience and deep pockets if, for example, you want to have things like the Welsh Copper Company shillings of the 1720s) but I have at least one circulating shilling of each monarch, and usually each different bust of each monarch (certainly since George II). This type set contains 40 coins in total and stretches from 1676 to 1959 (Scottish). Some of these coins are GEF or better but most of them are significantly lower grade - they range from NF (a 1905 shilling) upwards but I would buy almost all of them again and have no strong desire to upgrade them. Since rekindling my interest I have bought a little bit of everything, from the quarter farthing to the crown. Half crowns and florins are probably my favourite denominations but my first love was the shilling. These days I'm not buying predecimal, my coin collecting bug has taken me in a different direction - but I still get the predecimal collection out from time to time, admire them, remember where they came from, and enjoy being their custodian. Enjoy your journey!

The lack of any Welsh representation on British heraldry is due to the fact that it was a Princedom when it was conquered and not a Kingdom (unlike Scotland and Ireland) The UK dropped the ball on not including Wales in its heraldry; dragons and leeks (leeks less so) make for some pretty cool heraldic imagery imo

I have 3, but they were all from the same auction lot in Warwick in the 90s.

I found someone who had a sealed bag and bought twenty and then told a couple of people i knew who were looking for one , including Michael. Michael telling me they were really hard to find and having a BU one on his site for £100 untill the bag turned up , tells me not many as he had been looking for years.

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