Peckris 2

I only update the values in my database every few years - in fact, the last time was using Spink 2012. I just picked up Spink 2018 for a reasonable price; having an interest in the history of values, I input all values listed in Spink for each coin, not just for the grade I currently own. This is useful when I upgrade coins, for example. But I was in for a shock this time. Very occasionally, even an UNC value has gone down in 6 years, but generally these have increased, sometimes substantially. EF gains are much more modest, if at all. VF is often static, but often too, the values have gone down. But in F, virtually nothing except the highest rarities have shown any increase, but mostly prices have fallen. To give examples, F bun pennies which were £4 or £5 in 2012 had fallen to £2 by 2018. Yet a not unusual bun penny goes from £2 in F to £700 in BU! That's 350 times. However, it's probably true to say that buns before 1883 are at least 350 times as hard to find in BU as in F. The lesson is clear: if all you can afford is a date run in F ... DON'T! At least, not unless you are in it purely for the fun and you don't give a fig about values. The perennial dictum about "buy the highest grade you can afford" has never been more true than now. Fewer coins but in higher grades will do better (and be nicer to look at IMO) than a whole load in F. The market now wants the rarest coins and / or the top grades. Everything else is starting to fall by the wayside.

Footnote: I've just entered values for George VI and almost across the board those prices have increased. It seems his reign has been undervalued and is now catching up. (Mind you, mostly there are only values for EF and UNC - but to compare, Elizabeth II is static.)

Yes it was a temporary blip - anyone on the same time would have noticed it too.

anyone else having difficulty posting? I'm just getting endless 'Saving...' when I press 'Submit Reply'.

Yes it was a temporary blip - anyone on the same time would have noticed it too.

One born every minute Terry. As I was saying to Chisholm the other day...

Did they use Spinking shears?

The difference between 3 or 4 lenses is purely less or more magnification factors.

Poor old George III - he seems to have eg on his face...

Assuming there is proof of purchase? I have my database of coins saying when where and who sold them, but no receipts.

Perhaps the seller thought it was an 1808!

Well, not EVERYTHING. Otherwise any TDorH could claim it based on the publicised list.

It turned up - thanks Paddy!

it's a download - I made the mistake of clicking it, but I've now trashed the download (wipes brow).

Exchange & Mart classifieds.

Values aren’t everything. Some of us want to handle our coins with care, viewing under different lighting conditions, as nature (or mints) intended, not entombed in scratchable plastic.

Oh God, I do hope not.

Even as a Classicist, it's not a sentence I expect to write again!

The 1968 figure is bizarre .. yet true .. the 50p hadn't been introduced yet.

I'd say your 1913 is 1+A - the reverse is clearly so, and if you look at GRA:BRITT on the obverse and compare it with the 1915, you'll see there is a bigger space between A:B and the I of BRITT is to a space not a tooth.

Could the LE stand for 'Limited Edition', and the CM for 'Confirmed Mintage'? No idea what the other letters would be unless the final P is 'Production', or even 'Proof' to indicate there is also a proof issue for that coin?

Ah yes. I think the reverse is upside down? I think I can just see the curve of the Rho in the bottom left quadrant.

Yes, it's hard to predict, but given that the 'not fully struck up' specimens were not the original intent, there are bound to be a minority that - for some reason or other - ARE as intended. Obviously those are worth a premium.

It looks like a Roswell AE3/4 to me. Definitely if the mint mark is AREA51.

What many people don't realise is that native British - mistakenly referred to as Celts - traded all around the Mediterranean, I believe as far as Turkey? Maybe even beyond. This didn't stop with the withdrawal of the Romans, and Tintagel may have been one of those defended strongpoints that also acted as a trading port.