krasnaya_vityaz

There's a difference between £SD and LSD? I think £SD have the same effect on me, but is rather less harmful in the health outlook longterm. In fact be known that it is probably beneficial, appreciating in value and so fun to play with. Playing coin hoarder is fun. At least I feel rich having 6000+ coins weighing in at 50+ kilos and worth a mere £84

I live in a house, an English Tudor no less, that was built in 1933. I like to fancy that perhaps there is gold buried somewhere garage somewhere. I have almost thought a metal detector would suit fine.

LSD No no no, that is £SD It has longer lasting effects and is not harmful to body and spirit(at least as long as I don't hae to heft it that is.

'Owwch!' That was an insult at a price like that! From what i've seen on websites and dealers lists it could have been double, that! Someone got a hell of a bargin there. But don't worry in the world of coins you sometimes get disappointed, but there'll be a time in the future when you'll get a good deal on something. Swings and roundabouts. It went to a well known collector in Ohio USA whom knew what he was getting, it was going for his personal collection so at least that was okay. I still sold it for more than I paid for it a long time ago. I don't have any high end English now, only VF or F examples of Edw I and Edw II. I even sold my Irish, and I had some nice Waterford pieces at one time.

Every once in awhile I will see something from Germany or Belgium with unique legends for their monarch's name and the actual mint city, but in every other respect it looks like a contemporary English penny. English pennies were well represented in the Brussels hoard of 1908, so there is proof they circulated on the continent, and of course the millions minted in England, surely they left in droves with the greatly increased trade between England and the low countries and the Hanse cities in Germany.

Curiously I inquire, does this fall under the "Treasure Trove" law, because of the number of coins and their precious metal content? Is there a date cutoff for "Treasure Trove" finds?

Should have been around whence I was peddling my Edw I pennies, most of which were VF or better, some went for a mere £10 as recent as a couple of years ago. I sold my EF William I for only £300, I was rather disappointed by selling them on eBay.

I know I have 1920 on up complete. They are spotty back to the 1860's. I purchased 1500 of the halfpennies in one eBay purchase once. I like Pre-decimal British coins. At one time when I was in High School I more or less was responsible for paying my younger siblings allowances, they were paid in pennies, shillings etc, which they could later convert to spendable cash. £SD are my drug of choice:)

Industrial rivalries back then sometimes did resort to violence. Even business rivalries did. There was a plot on the part of one of the Directors of the East Lothian Bank to kidnap a bank inspector and drop him off on some uninhabited north sea island off of Germany. The discovery of this plot did not ingratiate the bank inspector to William Borthwick, the director of East Lothian, and only hightened the need to close the bank in the early 1820's.

If I go by numbers it would probably be the halfpenny, I have over 2700 of them. Elsewise it would be the penny which I have about 1800 of.

I'd even spend my £30 for this coin, I go for a nice portrait even over edge details. This is a pretty well centered and struck.

With regards to updates. In my 1968 reprint of the 1888 Coins of Scotland by Robertson, one of my Scottish Groats from David II is described as a unique example. Now there are approximately 5-6 of the 7 arc of the Tressure variety coins known. Still a nice rare coin, perhaps my rarest. The coin is not even described in Seaby or Coincraft.

I am still using some 1960's references for British coins. My most recent Coincrafts catalogs are only for Scotland and Ireland. I don't really need current references for British coins, after all they stopped making them in 1970!

In a lot of larger cities in North America they have a problem with "road rage" It isn't relational to anything about ethnicity etc, it is just plain aggressive people out to take out their misbeggoten childhoods out on someone on the road. I have travelled in many many countries, and have seen stupid stuff on the road in just about everyone of them. It is almost as though since the days of the pike and axe are thusly past, that we now arm ourselves with our automobiles in the quest of destructive emotional release.

How on earth did the SNP - Scottish Nationalist Party get left the otherwise fair poll? My vote was thusly nulled. It does appear at least from BBC that John Major will be re-elected in his district, but I have to wonder about his Prime Minister position being in jeopardy though.

My brother once found a 1901 Victoria Penny in a tree in a park, evidently a pocket piece, by that time and place it was long out of regular circulation.

I wouldn't want to bake any coin dated after 1919 in a pie anyway, I don't think the copper is good for you, but silver is fine in the diet, and gold even better me thinks.

The problems at Coinpeople have aggravated me to the point at which I am not looking at it as often as before. I am not a patient person, and waiting waiting waiting is not in my equation. So here I am, at pre-decimal, and even over on the Spanish speaking Numismata.org, where I need to stir up some interests.

I have heard naughtier versions of the "Maggie"

Has anybody ever seen fish scales in circulation? Ie the silver threenubs?

The only bit of decimalisation that I remember is when the tanners were finally demonetised in 1980, and it sent people to hoarding them. Including me.

Not sure exactly, but one thing I am sure of, not long enough to see all I want to see.

Contacting ebaY, might as well go out and bark at the moon IMHO, they are a venue they say, not more, not less. Actually less IMHO. The coin did show in my post box a few minutes ago, £3 I paid for postage, and ins. but only a first class stamp and no insurance etc. Another dipsy seller added to my blocked seller list.

Actually I am coming over on an education exchange, I will be spending most of my time in Oxford and next winter or spring.

At this very moment I have a negative eBay buying situation, paid via paypal 10 minutes after the auction closed, two weeks later, no coin, nothing communicative from seller etc. I could leave a negative, but I see that he is the retaliatory idiot type so it is fruitless. £9 down the tubers I am afraid.