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What coins do you collect
declanwmagee replied to choolie's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
We're house sitting for the minor gentry this week, and they've got this long thin table in their huge kitchen. As soon as I saw it I thought "ooh look, denominations down the short dimension, dates on the long dimension, I could get my whole collection on that" Well it took a bit more than an evening, but I did manage it... Right hand side of the table is 1967 in the foreground back to 1908 at the far end, so you can see the gap for 1961 ha'penny, and 1954-1960 pennies, and the missing larger denominations for 1952. There's a row for every year on the right hand side, but I had to compress it a lot to fit the 19th century on the left hand side Left hand side of the table is early stuff in the foreground (you can see the 1797 twopenny) going back to 1907 at the far end. Farthings in the middle of the table, big silver at the edge. Hours of fun. -
ever feel like you just get blown out of the water sometimes? 1912H Penny mine is the £2.88 bid!
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What if any does the lack of new material hav on the market?
declanwmagee replied to petitioncrown's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
yes indeed - in fact the only time I can buy is when I sell, so it's a bit like riding a wave. I usually manage to spend it withing an hour or two of it coming in - the quicker the better I say. -
What if any does the lack of new material hav on the market?
declanwmagee replied to petitioncrown's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
That's good idea, then can we have the next peak in 2019 around april - may time. Noooo! Not yet, I'm not quite ready! Hahaha - did you mistake that 9 in the date, for a 0 Declan? I still maintain that mere 'supply and demand' is an unsustainable mantra. It would be true of petrol, wheat, potatoes, and things like that, but too many other things - housing included - are at the whims of fashion every bit as much. If it were not so, then perpetually restricted supply of, for example, Wreath Crowns would have ensured peak catalogue values over the decades. But even those have been subject to the ins and outs of fashion. S&D on their own are misleading. no I mean I'm not quite ready for a price crash yet...! -
Badly Pressed 2009, 20p or Fake
declanwmagee replied to Alps766c's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Of course. And, to make matters worse, I've bought stuff of her in the past as well. Which rather makes me look a donkey doesn't it. Bray. Julie Sutton? -
What if any does the lack of new material hav on the market?
declanwmagee replied to petitioncrown's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
That's good idea, then can we have the next peak in 2019 around april - may time. Noooo! Not yet, I'm not quite ready! -
What coins do you collect
declanwmagee replied to choolie's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
oh dear - I spend far more on coins than on food, tobacco,and petrol put together. Three reasons 1) In only spend PayPal on coins, not real money, and the coins earned all the PayPal 2) If I buy a coin that means I get to spend the money again one day. Food, tobacco, and petrol you can only spend once. 3) Living as we do, we don't have any bills to pay, apart from the odd propane bottle, so I have managed to convince myself that there genuinely aren't that many more important things than coins - after all, they are our pension fund for when I can't dig gardens for the middle classes anymore. I suppose that puts me in the "nothing but coins" category, Mat! -
What coins do you collect
declanwmagee replied to choolie's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
WOW that's heroic. That's where I want to be in about 25 years time. Have to get a big kitchen table though. -
What if any does the lack of new material hav on the market?
declanwmagee replied to petitioncrown's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Good observations Mr Peckris. It makes me chuckle when market forces are talked about is if they were the weather - naturally occurring rises and falls, almost tidal. They are not - they are all man-made phenomena. Controlled by many or controlled by few is another argunent, but controlled they are. -
What coins do you collect
declanwmagee replied to choolie's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
We're house sitting for the minor gentry this week, and they've got this long thin table in their huge kitchen. As soon as I saw it I thought "ooh look, denominations down the short dimension, dates on the long dimension, I could get my whole collection on that" that's one evening taken care of this week! But I'll have to put empty 2x2s in the gaps that are supposed to be there (like 1941-1943 pennies) so it doesn't look like I have coins missing. are we collectors because we're mental, or are we mental because we're collectors? -
What coins do you collect
declanwmagee replied to choolie's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
you see, you can say what you like about fleabay, but there's no doubt it's put a rocket under the hobby. -
What coins do you collect
declanwmagee replied to choolie's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
for us it's only: British (no islands or colonies, except I do like fractionals and threehalfpence) Predecimal Currency - can't get excited about proofs or commemoratives, or even Crowns really Every date, every denomination up to double florin Any variety I can see with the naked eye - I like pointings like '53 farthings, but I can't be doing with measuring things so I won't do most of the Golden Hind halfpenny varieties, but I will do the Calm Sea. They have to be deliberate though, errors do nothing for me. A badly made coin is a bad coin as far as I'm concerned. Even overdates seem a bit close to that. I'd rather have high grade common coins than acres of gap fillers, and I don't mind duplicates because I can play shopkeepers on eBay with them. I started when I was 9 by finding an 1873 halfpenny in a stream I was playing in. Green, and smooth, but still legible, and I still have it. Slowly built up a collection as a child by blagging off relatives who had tins of old coins lying around, and only started buying coins systematically when I was about 17. Didn't occur to me I might be able to sell them till 2004, but since then have gone hell for leather, upgrading everything many times over. I haven't managed to get that far back in time, but my obsession is completeness, so I won't be venturing too far into Victoria till 1902-1967 is pretty much there. "There" meaning a high grade example in our personal collection, and a second best in the Shop. I love the idea of having one of everything in the Shop, even if it is only back to 1902. and I like to draw grids and graphs, lay the coins out in date order and do ridiculous analyses in ridiculous spreadsheets... -
this is worth a read too...
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What if any does the lack of new material hav on the market?
declanwmagee replied to petitioncrown's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
I think it has to be welcomed. The only thing worse than an inflationary market, is a deflationary one. It's not like housing, where bubbles burst and leave people in negative equity, because even if you paid too much for a coin, you've still got the coin that you wanted. You're not in debt. And even if most of the new collectors fade away in time, there'll always be collectors - it's in our blood. Going back to the original question about new material - that's the key. New collectors are still being made, but the things we collect aren't, so basic supply and demand kicks in. Maybe it's something to do with a loss of confidence in traditional methods of saving and investment? I'd rather have a coin than an endowment policy! -
if money was no object I'd be driving round the country picking up all these sacks of predecimal everyone seems to have in their lofts!
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What if any does the lack of new material hav on the market?
declanwmagee replied to petitioncrown's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Just an observation from the bottom end of the market - down here it's going nuts... Is it going to calm down after the end of the financial year? Does that have an effect? I'm sick of hearing myself say "I'm not paying that, for that!". If I'm not careful I'm going to sell too many coins and start to get low on stock, and I can't have that. I'd rather wait to restock if it is going to calm down, or do I just have to bite the bullet and accept that I have to pay more now than I used to? -
Information on Churchill
declanwmagee replied to JAG's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Hardly a Commoner. Some might say his blood was bluer than those German imposters...he was practically a Stuart. -
1918 & 1919 "H" Pennies
declanwmagee replied to a topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
I reckon anything with full lettering on the reverse is above average for these -
cinquefoil or star stops
declanwmagee replied to demonik1's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
I suppose that's why they're cinque-foils, rather than cinque-points. Cinquefoils are five-leaved things, but the only example I've got you couldn't tell they were leaves... -
cinquefoil or star stops
declanwmagee replied to demonik1's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
oh, and the cinquefoil is commoner... -
cinquefoil or star stops
declanwmagee replied to demonik1's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Simple Paul - a cinquefoil is basically a 5-pointed star. Star stops are eight pointed stars. -
Where to sell "scrap" pre-1947 silver coins?
declanwmagee replied to Oxford_Collector's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
stick 'em on eBay as a single lot, Paul - you can't touch it for reaching as many coinies as possible in one hit -
Royal Mint Uncirculated Coins
declanwmagee replied to mark3's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
ooh lovely - I'll look out for them -
Photographing Coins
declanwmagee replied to PunkReaper's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
well, that's the thing really - that's why a decent camera has never quite made it to the top of my things to buy list. When it comes down to it, I'll always buy more coins instead when the old scanner can still do that... -
Photographing Coins
declanwmagee replied to PunkReaper's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
this is about the best I can get for old bronze at 600dpi scanned but the newer stuff comes out better...