Sylvester

Edward I and Henry III pennies are fairly cheap, decent ones for £20-£40, most are about £30, it's rare you see them going over the £3X range, unless they are of exceptional strike or a rare mint/die combination etc. I saw a gorgeous Henry II Short Cross penny today... the reverse only had a very slight flat patch, most of it was very very sharp, i'd say the coin was at least GVF/AEF. Hell it could have even been AU, there was no real wear most of the slight usual flatpatches (much less so on this one) are from the strike/dies anyhow.

Don't even go there! It's very addictive if the bug gets you. I'm practically fully converted, it was thinking about scaling down the EM Sixpence set into a type set (just need a pre-union Anne upgrade and a James II and it'd be done). I guss i could release a few of the lower grade ones for sale, or just keep them. Hammered coins are far more interesting, every time i go into a coin shop now i go straight for the hammered, i just can't fight it!

Excellent, better than our versions anyday!

Well they always said i was old fashioned so in 60 years when i'm a decrepid old man, the coins will still be in the cabinet! Maybe different coins and a different cabinet, but it'll still be the same old story.

I think £50 is a bit high even for the best ones.

I believe it was bought by an American.

That's not an easy one, unrecorded varities exist for many hammered coins all of which vary greatly in price from each other. Some types fetch little extra (or no extra) premium than a normal variant. In other cases they can fetch considerably more. The problem here is demand, how much demand would there be for the coin? Well Æthelred II pennies are not uncommon so there's loads to choose from and loads of unrecorded examples. Now to an Æthelred II specialist it may be of some value. I can't say at all with regards to this, but i'd probably contact Spink and ask for their opinion on the coin.

I've seen fake Irish ones too, and i feel i've seen fake Scottish ones. Mind you i don't see many of the real post 1994 design Scot £1 coins!

I have noticed some '92s with weak dots and some slightly off centre. A few do have really thin rims. I wonder if these are the ones you mean. I just figured it was down to wear and tear of the die. The vending machines take them so i suppose i shouldn't be too bothered!

Firstly i could sometimes hit you on the head with Pinky Punky... Secondly it just shows how little you know about £1 coins. The 1991 pound should have a flax plant on the reverse and it should be Irish, meaning that yes DECUS ET TUTAMEN is right for that year. The dragon concept wasn't even thought up till 1994 onwards and was first used in 1995. So how can it be an error if in 1991 the Dragon reverse did not exist? If it was Scottish the edge inscription would be NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT. It's fake end of.

Hang on a minute are most of those 'fake' 10 pences dated 1992? You do know that the majority of 1992 ten pences do have rounded edges don't you? (wired edges). The later 1992 ten pences and all subsequent dates have flat edges. I handle alot of 10 pences and i haven't noticed anything suspicous.

It's fake. Welsh dragon on wrong year, has wrong edge inscription should be PLEIDOL WYF IM GWLAD if it's a Welsh one. Totally fake, i bet it has a waxy feel to it too? Kind looks leadish painted with brass paint.

Excellent news! Yes i'm well known to Andy Bruce he's a regular frequenter of coinpeople! Than and i have bought quite a few coins off of him... including a noble.

On the contrary Oli i discussed this on coinpeople with another member. The Coincraft prices are much nearer to the market prices now than they ever were. Infact give it a year and the Coincraft 2000 will be spot on. The market prices are just catching up.

Did Oli just commit the number 1 sin there by calling obverse the reverse? You see Oli may hate to see poor grammar and get picky with spelling. My extreme dislike is when people show St. George and the Dragon for instance and say it's the obverse. It really niggles me. Imagine flipping a coins, hmm heads or tails? The 2p lands plume up hmmm must be heads... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Lemme guess Colin Cooke... No way would i pay that for that. Coincraft states £400 in EF, i grade it GVF/AEF so £270. (VF being £210). But Coincraft are high on the prices so for a 1795 i'd say £300-£320 at the most not a penny more. £270 would be my happy price. For 1791 i'd say £250. Cos 91s are more common.

Also any holes, ex mounting marks? Bits of solder on them... many real ones were mutilated in the Victorian period and used as fobs on watch chains. I don't know where Oli got that price from i was thinking more £220-£250 if it's like the one pictured. Look at all the scratches!

26mm is too big for a guinea, it should be 24mm. Size with these can vary a little but 2mm in coin terms is quite a bit. What's the weight of the piece? It should be 8.4g exact. Coins of this period went more on weight than exact size. Are the legends (the writing) the same on yours as on the one pictured. I have to ask is because during the Victorian period lots and lots of imitations were made out of brass "in memory of the good old days" and other such legends. These were struck as gaming counters. The size of those varies quit alot. The weight will not be 8.4g if they are brass. I suspect some of the brass ones will have been gilt also making them look like gold.

That is a nice 5 guinea piece!

Make sure it's a PVC free album. Chris probably sells some decent ones.

Wrong...i have a few blank cd's which only music can be stored on them, it says that specificly on the back of the case! Exactly... though i think Oli has a point that you can use them for data. But they are branded as being for 'Music'. It's kinda like magic mushrooms legal to grow and pick, illegal to cook/use.

I wonder Oli... They sell blank music CDs in shops that's legal, but depending upon how you may be inclined to use them that part is not. Actually if burning a CD without copyright is illegal then recording songs off of the radio onto a tape is equally illegal as is recording a backup copy of a CD onto a tape.

Not just beginners with that problem!

By it's quiet on here lately, and on quite a few other sites now i come to think of it... it's getting eerie. Was that a tumble weed?

Bronze/copper it's all the same to me... verdigris fodder. I think you'll find that bronze is pretty much copper anyway with a mere smidging of other metals to harden it. I mean if we want to get fussy you could argue that .500 silver coins are not silver. And that 9kt gold jewelry is not infact gold but copper with a dash of gold to colour it.