Sylvester

Probably just the major varieties. I'll list them out of Coincraft (what's in there is the minimum), if anyone knows of any others that are missing from the listings when Chris has got them into PDF format, we can add them then. Conversely i have the price listing pages myself and i can email you a copy of your relevant areas and just let you fill in the prices. (Cromwell has not been put on yet) The Crowns-Sixpences are now fully listed. It might take you a while to figure out my listings style but hopefully when it's in the acrobat format it'll be clearer. I may do the farthings lists next for you JMD. Note; i don't have any Peck numbers myself so Chris will probably shove those in, or you can yourself. The regular issues/proofs/errors are all mixed in together at the present but they'll be separated out once i've done the listings. That will be a nightmare in itself.

No problem...i quickly did the prices for Charles II farthings upto VF just a while ago... ...are we going to also include a 'coins not intended for circulation' section at the back (like the CCGB2005 book)? ...i take it that peck numbers are involved also? Yes Peck numbers will be involved. I haven't actually drawn up the draft of the copper stuff yet, i've been working my way down from the crowns... believe it or not the shillings were the worst, so many of them. The catalogue, i'm thinking, will be divided into three sections. I) Regular issue circulation pieces II) Proofs (regular proofs and irregular special proofs) III) Errors/oddities. So the coins not intended for circulation (i.e proofs) will be in the middle section. Patterns, counterstamped Spanish stuff and gold coins are excluded at present. Subsequent editions where possible (if they happen, depending on the popularity of this), may expand to cover one or more, but i know very little about the first two areas so it's not a step i'm going to take without caution. I'm currently still working on the sixpence bit, got Anne-Geo. III to do (i manage to get W3 done last night). I may skip to the halfpennies and farthings then so i can supply you with a template to fill in. Meaning Maundy stuff would be done last.

Don't all rush at once then...

they start at 1672 not 1673... I will gladly do the prices for farthings and Halfpennies (Halfpennies unless HPJ wants to)...when does it have to be 'given in'? I'll wait for Jon on the halfpennies. You can by all means do the farthings. I'd like the prices by about March ideally.

Yes, if you like. They should of course have a mention, but without detail if that what you want to do. I'll mention it somewhere then, but not cover it. P.S I posted the package today, it'll be with you tomorrow afternoon sometime.

I think the gold coins book is the next logical step. I'm busy at present, but i'd gladly write the Early milled half of the book. Infact i could probably just write a complete book on early milled gold. Can i ignore the counterstamped Spanish coins Chris? And focus on just 'Regal' issues in the EM book?

I'm about a third of the way through, almost. Crowns-Shillings are fully listed without prices (i never want to see 1787 shillings again). Sixpences are half done at present. Also some intro & some appendices. I'm thinking about the layout of the listings a bit more now that i can see it coming along. I need volunteers to look up the prices of certain denominations; (Approx dates from memory) Crowns-------------------------1662-1751 Halfcrowns---------------------1663-1751 Shillings------------------------1663-1798 Sixpences----------------------1674-1787 Fourpences--------------------1670-1804? Threepences------------------1670-1804? Twopences (Ag only)--------1670-1804? Pennies (Ag only)-------------1670-1804? Halfpennies (Cu & Sn)--------1673-1775 Farthings (Cu & Sn)-----------1673-1775 The Maundy stuff should really finish at the 1786 issue but there's only another 4 dates or so issued after that since coins at this time were struck very irregulary. I might as well add them all for completeness. Any takers on denomination price research, starting now?

I'm already in your field, but i'm concentration on the Stephen-Edward II silver and hammered gold thence after. I'm going to go back to Eadgar.

Yes but JMD in my area all the good coins that i need would be slabbed. How many AEF early milled sixpences would stay raw? And i thought you'd said you hated hammered coins? You change your stories so much i'm having trouble keeping up.

If slabbing comes in, in the UK, i'm dumping my milled collecting aims and going 100% hammered to avoid it.

I ain't read those yet, but i don't think it's sad, i think it's cultured!

I just knew it. I'm reading Going Postal right now... it's pretty alright. But i wish he'd write another witches book.

That signature of yours is not unlike something Terry Pratchett would come out with!

I rarely look, i had forgot mine was out until a few days ago. Who cares though? They all said i'd get confused, but nope i didn't. I just look for the blue lights.

I never figured out how to do it last time, it seemed a bit complex, but there's a good side to that, it means i don't have to change them now, cos the clock is right again!

Decent coin, but the obverse toning is too much for me and not grey. So i'd give it a miss myself.

Firstly i wouldn't know where to start with the problems that coin has... What a huge gauge (sp?), dint etc. Scratches, pretty mediocre specimen and has that been cleaned? Doesn't look right to me... kinda grainy.

I do not buy 'quality' coins on Ebay, there is too much junk out there. I've had proper dealers sell me cleaned coins though in the past... at the correct prices with a photo but have not mentionned anything about it.

Which is why i think in practice a democracy is a bad thing cos it potentially lets anyone into politics. And i mean anyone. Great idea in theory maybe, but is it really better? or is democracy just what governments keep telling the populace what it needs and wants as a way of justifying their own positions?

Got it in one. Someone stated earlier that if Blair had told the truth about the real reasonwe had gone to war then he would not have had the majority of support. Question is even when he lied about WMD did he have a majority support then? Does Blair listen to the majority? Now let me see what do they call it when a person rules by the minority over the general will of the majority? Despotism? Absolutism? Dictatorship? They say he refuses to resign, if amajority expressed a wish for him to step aside and he refused (which i think he would), then what do you get? Democracy? The many have no power in this country any more, when he's in he's in and he won't go. Impeachment anyone?

BU can have minor imperfections on the coin, whereas fleur de coin has to be absolutely perfect with no fingerprints or scratches. So brilliant uncirculated is inferior to FDC. I don't think he meant it like that Oli. I may be wrong but i think he meant to point out that FDC is a grade really only used with proof coins and therefore BU would be most suitable in this instance.

You presume they're located in the UK...

Yes it was Lizzie ironically with curly hair if i remember correctly, so maybe it was Frizzie? Yeah it was very very serious in it's approach and to be honest it used to bore me rigid, it was actually Margaret Thatcher's favourite news programme. Which leads me onto Wacaday which was aired as part of TVAM, now i know Maggie Thatcher got hit over the head by the mallet and i'm wondering if it happened on TVAM and if so why did he not hit her harder?

When do you do most of your posting? I'm online usually during two perids of the day on weekdays. The morning shift before i set off anytime from 6.15-7.15am. The afternoon shift 6pm-10.30/11.30pm (then i call it a night) Most of the posting is usually done in the morning. Sometimes very rarely i will post between 8am and 6pm but i usually have to be away from home where i can get internet access cos i'm on pay per minute at home during that time. It's only "free" after 6! Weekends are free and thus i am on intermittantly all day on Saturdays and Sundays, Sundays particularly so, as i spend alot of time online on sundays.

Oh i remember those days! I always used to do my homeworks the morning before they were due in, i used to get good marks too. I used to have from 6am to 8am sat at my grandmothers with nothing to do but watch TVAM/GMTV (Depending upon what year we are on), GMTV was a vast improvement. But yeah so i used to get my homeworks done then. I used to do them during dinner time too rather than the night before. But i never had dinner anyway.