Sylvester

I like the idea of the 'Check your 18th century change'!

Well that just about finished my computer off, not very dial-up friendly! I'll probably have to wait about 1/2 an hour for that to load, i'll just nip into uni in a day or two and have a look on their cable connection computers.

i agree i prefer circulated coins myself for exactly the same reason, but they must grade GVF or higher, GVF-GEF and i'm happy!

The feedback may not be genuine... it's always worth checking if the users that are leaving feedback are all newbies that have been created by the seller just to give him/herself a good feedback rating.

If only i could put half guineas on hey? Hey One dealers just told me Chris that he saw an EF 1686 Sixpence marked up at £1500 at Birmingham!!!What... How CC would be envious! (And i don't mean your book)

I still don't get what this bit is for? Am i confused or what... lemme see if i see a coin for sale on the internet or on a list for X amount then i just enter it into the database? Yeah?

i don't have a mobile...

Ah funny you should mention this cos many Morgan Dollar collectors DO buy on impulse! It's not unheard of for collectors to have something like 5 or 6 examples of one date (obviously VAM collectors would because they are collecting by minor die varieties and i should image they'd have something like 13 or 20 coins of just one date), but general collectors that aren't collecting on a minute scale are sometimes known just to keep buying them on eye appeal alone and for no other known reason. I must admit i find myself attracted to the ones with bright mint bloom, but hey i'm collecting too much as it is already!

I dunno that takes some beating but i can beat it! Best buy; James II Half guinea 1688 in roughly F bought for £225, now worth about £275-£300 Worst buy... (and this is why i don't use ebay anymore because i get far too carried away) $20 Liberty 1894, Graded GVF bought it for £325, sold it for £225. (No way was it worth £325 but i had alot of stiff competition to get that one... we were all bidding like crazy and i got carried away i only just beat another bidder), strangely i don't regret paying £100 over the value, i just regret selling it... So i now want another liberty $20 [a denver mint one] but i can't seem to find one anywhere!

Why is it always rare?

hmm...i wouldn't trust spink's too much, they seem to overprice many coins... I thought CC's chronically underpriced many coins... I thought Spinks weren't too far off, we'll they aren't in my area of experience infact they are just underpricing some issues. I guess with the more modern coins though, i think all the catalogues are over pricing, £1 for a UNC 1967 halfpenny, in my experience you can get about 7 or 8 for £1.

bumpedy bump, ttt. What i did... i basically got trhe most underpriced book on the market (the Marles) and one from the other end of the spectrum... CoinCraft, and i averaged them out based on my own judgement. Simple! But i bet you don't have a CoinCraft do you?

Ah don't do that with the prices i've supplied cos mine already have Marles taken into account cos that's how i did it! Uless you think Coincraft needs cancelling out further?

Chris i still owe you the Geo III-W4 and Eliz II sixpences, not to mention the circulation Britannia groats... plus the front cover! Just to let you know i haven't forgotten, is there a deadline that you really need all this for? I'll try and finish the sixpences off in the next few days, then get the groats slowly done. The front cover is done i've just got to figure out a way of sending it to you!

I think the history behind that one makes it worth more than it's weight in gold! Nice catch you got yourself there, even if it is copper...

I dunno about Scottish coins, i had thought it but Edward wasn't exactly the king of Scotland. John Balliol was. And of course later Robert the Bruce was but that might have been in Edward II's reign. I think he became king in 1306 which means it was within the last year or two of Edward I's reign. Of course i'm sure Edward I claimed to be king of Scotland but i didn't think they'd made any coins

Unless it's one of those modern replicas they sell that have different made up legends? Is it of the 1st coinage style pre-1279 long cross (as Henry III), or is it of the recoinage type?

This one has got me... erm i've never come across anything like this. Could you post a picture at all?

Happy Birthday!

Ah the Morgan dollars, they are indeed rather nice coins and very reasonably priced in the high grades when compared to our crowns. The Morgan Dollar is an area that you could spend your life collecting (and collectors do), it offers the chance to collect either a small 'on the surface' collection (like a 20th century date set, 1901-4 and 1921), or a full indepth totally consuming minute level collection by VAM number of all die types and die varieties, not to mention all mintmark and date combinations from 1878-1921, from 8 tail feathers to 7 tail feathers. Although watch out for the CC mint ones and 1893-S those will challenge your bank balance!

Well that's the reason i'm not too keen on it, it's just too plain for my liking (the big gold coins in matt proof are something to behold indeed!), but i prefer coins with extremely intricate detail in as higher relief as is realistically possible. For me there is nothing better than a high grade hammered gold sovereign of Henry VII or Queen Mary, detailed tressels and arches, a grandness in the monarch enthroned, a stunning rose on the reverse. The power the majesty and the glory of a new dynasty and a break away from the medieval past. Plus hardly a blank space in sight, some might class it as cluttered, but i don't like plain fields on coins anyhow cos i think it's a waste, (hence why i like shield reverse sovereigns there's hardly any blank space on the reverse), also the reverses of the bare head Geo IV stuff, the ornamentally garnished shield is fantastic... that reverse is my kinda coin, now if that was with a very detailed obverse a la George II i'd be very happy! I think that's another reason why sixpences appeal to me more than the crowns, sixpences have less unused blank field! Also why Early milled appeals more to me, it a relief thing. Incuse coins are my worst nightmare!

I'm not fussed on it, but strangely my hair do is much the same.

Yes damn stupid slabbing, free them all, a chisel and a hamer to the corners of the slab may work, but i hear G-Clamps are the best way to crack the slab. I must try it one day!

i particularly dislike the Gillick and the Edward VII obverses.

I don't find any George IV Sovereign reverse as appealing as say a Victorian Shield rev! Admittedly when it comes to late milled coin i prefer William IV obverse over everything save the Gothic stuff. Geo IV bare and Vicky bun and young come close behind with jubilee just behind that...i don't like any of the other obverses for the late milled coinage though save for the Machin obverse.