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What is the size of the coin, in cm or mm? This is an indication of the denomination. The four starred coins are the pennies, the two starred ones tend to be halfpennies.

I prefer a womans gaze over a glare anyday, and I can order a beer in most languages. With that I am set for life.

Unfortunately for me now 17th century tokens in better grades are really hot. Prices have risen exponentially in the last couple of years. The usual junque is still priced about where it was though. Scottish was hot for about three years recently, but since last year the bottom seems to have fallen through there. Now it is possible to buy nicer stuff at reasonable prices again. Now I can imagine perhaps actually buying that Mary Ryal I am so desirous of.

2b or not 2b dat is da ?.... Hamlet's diatribe in 21st century.

This **** has now five bids and is at $20.00. Suckers are born every minute. It can be reported to eBay, but then nothing will happen, and you might be "interfering" with an auction.

My computer was hijacked about three weeks ago. It was basically wiped out, and I have been offline ever since until now. I thought it was secure, but lesson learned it was not. Now I have multiple anti-virus and firewalls installed.

This appears to be a coin weight, these were used in early times to verify the weights of silver and gold coins. Actually at one time these were quite common, most merchants would have had a set of them to verify the weights of gold and silver coins coming across in commerce. Remember before the milled coins and standardised dimensions and weights, when coins were hammered they were often clipped by the nefarious. This is quite an attractive piece, my guess, only a guess, is that it is late 17th century ie 1600's.

A great lady indeed, but I think Mr. Blair was slightly misguided in calling her "one of the most remarkable and colourful personalities" in the history of British politics. Eulogies are expected to have a little embellishment, but this was laid on with a trowel. Same goes for Robin Cook. No mention of when he was at the airport with his wife (due to go on holiday), and he announced he was leaving her for his secretary. Many of the greats in politics have skeletons in their closets. Remember power corrupts, and temptations are great.

It looks closer to my Edward II pieces also.

Some designs worthy of the new coinage: 1. The reverse design of the EdwVII florins. 2. The wren from the farthing. 3. The Golden Hind from the Halfpenny 4. Brittannia from the early QV Pennies. 5. Brittannia from the 1998 1 Oz silver bullion coins. Designs that need to go: 1. The portcullis, I think of a prison when I see that. 2. Prince of Wales arms.

How about I just give you 90p and call it even?

Growing up I thought that no one would ever really somehow manage to bring peace to NI, at least she put more effort into it than most ever tried to.

It croaked again.

Knowledge rules, lack thereof drools.

Some of you whom know me from other boards(no comment) know that I have varied interests in numismatics. One area I have always shied from until the last year have been ancients. One thing I have come to surely appreciate with ancients is that there is a level of artistic merit attached with these pieces that is not found on other coins. For one, the creators of these coins were not consumed with keeping coins flat, they often had high features which gave greater depth of design, and more of a 3-D effect that makes them more attractive in my opinion. This is not my most expensive ancient, yes I have more expensive ones, but they are more common Athens coins etc. But this is one of my personal favourites. This coin is from Syracuse Sicily, and was minted during the reign of Agathokles(317-289 BC) The obverse has Artemis(Diana to the Romans) and the legend "Soteira" - savior, and then on the reverse the fascinating winged thunderbolt with the legend Agatholeos Basileos - King Agathokles.

I have noticed some very nice Henry III and Edward I's up lately, EF's even. What a time to collect them.

I am thinking along the same lines, but per an earlier suggestion might go with German in origin.

I still like my Syracuse bronze a bit better. Hopefully soon, probably later on this fall I will be parting with all of these high dollar coins.

One fascinating aspect of collecting hammered pennies from the Edward I-III period is the fascinating coins from the Lowlands of Europe and Germany which were closely modelled on the English pennies. Has anybody ever compiled a listing of lookalike coinages by nation and ruler?

I made an unrelated exit from Coinpeople when I thought some of the users were more or less dictating the flavour of the site. The site got too large and too popular all at once, it was a very good idea that was the victim of it's own success. Commendations to the webmaster for creating a good site that was quite easy to use and enjoy. I hope he can share his ideas and knowledge with others running other sites. His site was very competitive, and IMHO was the best for an overall approach. I decided in the last week to return to Coinpeople on a very limited basis, but alas I think I only got about 3-4 post in before the sad demise.

I disagree! With the wealth of reference material available, it is very difficult to produce a convincing forgery - hence the collectors of counterfeits! You could argue it the other way around. It's harder to produce a forgery of a hammered coin because firstly you have to make it look 800 years old or whatever, so it's going to need toning for a start. Secondly modern materials available might make the coin look too good, too well struck or too well centred for a certain issue and thus it'll scream forgery to those in the know. Minting say a forgery of a late victorian bronze penny making use of a modern coining press, (especially if original dies are somehow acquired, and there still are some out there of various issues as they occasionally turn up on ebay) and minting full lustre bronze, who's going to know? I agree with Syl, hammereds can be more difficult when you factor in the manner in which they were minted, ie with a hammer and dies. Even a lot of ancients forgeries are struck in presses, which show metal flow lines in the coins that were not on the actual ancients. Metal flow on hammereds is more difficult due to the thin flan to work with, and the metal flow. I would be more cautious of course with William I or some Stephen pieces because of their rarity, but if you know what you are collecting you should be able to differentiate. BTW back to slabs, it is a dirty little secret that some forgeries have slipped through the nets in some of the USA slabbing companies, recently PCGS revealed that numerous Morgan Dollar forgeries in silver and from the late 19th century were so convincingly authentic looking that they had been certified. Far from being scorned these pieces are becoming highly collectible, because they were period countefeits and were amazingly well executed.

Advertised a coin he couldn't supply, but did promptly provide equivalent Reply by almul: ORIGINAL COIN WAS OUT OF STOCK, BUT A REPLACEMENT COIN WAS AGREED UPON. 09-Jun-04 17:39 A very clear violation of eBay policy, preselling!

Doesn't solve the problem. Anyone can walk into a Post Office and ask for the name of the owner of the box. Then it's a short jump away from burglary. Granted, it affords a higher level of protection than the usual letterboxes, but it's not infallible. Couldn't you just have had a letterbox on your door like we have in England? I might add that an unpublished phone number helps too. Stops ring ups from telemarketers, and also the lookie loos

I shred all coin related adds that come in the mail - then they get burned in the chimney outside for good measure.

Proof positive of the need for a P.O. Box. My wife always used to question why I insisted on getting a P.O. Box, then we caught someone opening our mailbox in front of the house. Now nothing comes to the house except junque.