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A big thank you to everyone in the NHS and spa medica after my sucessful eye cateract operation which means fantasticly inproved sight . While I am not prepared to say I will never need glasses again , it is a posibility.. I strongly suspect cateract operations might be subject to charges as there are so many people getting them now Many colours are much enhanced and I am sure in a week or to my coins will be as well .

Hoping my grandkids will one day appreciate them, so definitely not parting with them if I don't have to. 🙂 After a bit of digging I think I've found the coin I bought from Colin's collection, this BMC 70 James I Lennox Farthing (#991 on the collection website): Do please let me know if those aren't the same, but I'm fairly certain they are. Unfortunately despite having extensive documentation of all my 2004 and 2005 purchases, I appear to have nothing from 2006. I'd completely forgotten I had this coin altogether. I guess 1613 (James I - although I'm aware this post-1613) and 1673 are similar enough numbers and in my head at some point I started associating the 1673 farthing with Colin's collection instead of this one. I should probably try to source a tighter capsule for it so it doesn't shake around as much.

This 1913 halfcrown has been in my collection for some time and was put away in a box. When I recently looked at it the coin had taken on a tone where very little existed before. More importantly the tone has improved IMO the look of this coin considerably. There seems to be some flattening to the Kings ear but the hair close by seems to be fairly intact suggesting strike rather than wear. Overall I think a pretty good example for this date. PS the picture was taken on my Iphone that seems to produce better results than my camera with a macro lens and my new flat bed scanner.

And yet VASTLY better than the horrific health care system we have in the US. I give them much Credit as Peck says.

I think the NHS make the very very best job of a terrible hand they're dealt by the government. Sadly, the social care system is broken. It's been the lead story on BBC News the past 2 days. I have to find ever-new ways around trying to solve the lack of care I need. But I'm happy your op went well, and I'll join the applause for everyone who made it possible.

Yes, that's the collection coin, and what a beauty it is. A keeper!

To be frank I think £200 would be optimistic and I doubt you'd even get back the £155 you paid eighteen years ago. But you're not looking to sell so value doesn't really matter. Remember, this one of mine, a little better than yours and sitting in a world wide shop window, didn't sell at £75.

Sheep, in Australia? Surely not...

Yikes! PLEASE do not let that happen.

Methinks you should have attended

Thanks everyone for your comments. Sorry about the confusion in my first post. Like most posts i think my ungraded coin is better than the PCGS MS 64 coin.

I was poor when I was young.I worked hard all my life, and now I am old.

Latest Heritage sale has a 65 with an opening price of $1K. Silly prices, but if someone is prepared to spend that, it isn't up to the vendor to dampen the market. At the end of the day, it might feel like a night out at the Comedy Store, but does provide a substantial amount of free entertainment - the price of which can't go any lower.

Wow! I remember you from when I joined in the mid-Noughties under a username I've since forgotten. The site software was more primitive back then IIRC. However it's been much the same for the past 10 years or so (I'm both Peckris and Peckris 2). Colin Cooke grade their best items quite accurately I'd say, but Fine has been their Achilles Heel - a general grade they use for all coins Fine or less, as long as the legend is complete. I'd agree with the consensus that your farthing was overgraded, but hopefully your visit here will reignite your passion for collecting.

This is the 1673 'no obverse stops' farthing from the Colin Cooke collection. Graded Fine, which clearly it isn't. Comparable to your coin, though the reverse looks a little better. I'm having difficulty matching the two from the photos. Are you sure they are one and the same?

Prob during the second world war winny was a exception