Sylvester

You can shrink it, lighten it, darken it, bluify it, greenify it, pinkify it... anything you think. It was on the PCI (Season one grand finale bit...) Do you want a big picture of the 1997 £2 coin too? If so see here... http://www.coinpeople.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4400

Chris' poor bandwidth (i'll delete some of my previous attempts shortly, i'll have to)

I still prefer the gothic to the godless...

Do you need a picture of just the florin? I'll let you play around with it then?

Oh yeah it used to say British non - gold but i put the banner over it, i'll sort that out... It is fainter on purpose but i can darken it up. And the latest edition bit is only temporary, it should be changed to 32nd edition, but at the time when i did it i didn't know what edition we were on. Hence why it says what it does...

Ah right, well i stand corrected... I'd always been led to believe that James II had acquired the nickname, because not only was he known as the Duke of York for most of his life... but some people referred to him as that even when he was king... And the song goes about the fact that in 1688 he got himself a small army, which then ran off and deserted him when William landed and hence the fact that they were up, then they were down... and then half way they were neither up or down... (lit. no where to be found...) But you're right...

I'm wondering where to try putting the other pics on too, but i'll let you see this first, this better?

Actually i though James II was the Grand Old Duke of York?

I'm surprised to hear that, as the prices for the 6d's are much less than the 2/6's. Aye but you forget supply and demand... Halfcrowns = below average supply + High demand = high prices Sixpences = very scarce supply + Very low demand = Lower prices than the rarity would suggest Most people just want the one as a type example when it comes to sixpences (cos afterall where is the challenge? low prices, small coins...) or if they're doing the monarch collection thing they'll naturally go towards acquiring a big coin. Plus halfcrowns are quite often collected by date.

alright put the web addy at the top then, it appeared to me it was all happening at the bottom of the page... Most people look at the top half first though i thought.

Perhaps the rotographic banner would look better at the top? Cos you've got both rotographic's (web address and the banner) directly next to each other... i think i'd be better with one at the top and one at the bottom.

Only one thing i'd change... 'Collector's Coin', could you change the 'ollector's oins' bit to lower case? I think it just makes it easier to read... I tried both upper and lower in my attempts, the lower were the best i thought.

I've got news for you... J2 halfcrowns are common... for every sixpence you see you see about 50 halfcrowns. If you think J2 sixpences are scarce, then half guineas are seemingly rarer still. I've seen about 5 James II sixpences for sale over the last 2 years. I've only ever seen 1 James II half guinea for sale and i bought that.

and my keyboard is really playing up, i'm typing letters but sometimes it's not responding...

There's alot of things i should have done... but rather than paying the extra expense of all that lot... (this happened in the days when my most expensive coin was probably worth about £50 if that so it wasn't top issue really...) So anyhow rather than wasting money on cures i decided tro take the major step of elimintating the chief cause, axe all the base metal stuff and anything less than .900 silver... Ideally if i had the cash i'd collect solely gold, i wouldn't be trying to do a sixpence collect no i'd be trying a half guinea collection. But realising i'll never have the cash for that i've stuck within my means for now, but by the time i leave aUni these loft coin purchases will diminish and i'll be back down to budget collecting... i think Edward I pennies will be my limit in 2 years time.

well it sounded better than pre-graphic!

The cardboard ones were the ones that did it, they were worse than the totally plastic ones with the flip/envelope thing.

Ah Mr Sandys i've come across his name before... i wonder if he was the one that replace Heath as Archbishop of York? Yes William and Mary ones aren't cheap and they'll put a hole in your money boat, but it's James II that will sink your ship.

now now Chris play nicely...

Well knock me ouit with a tin spoon... I think i've had an idea... how about the same design i had with that florin in the background (kinda like a watermark), with william's smaller pictures (perhaps replacing the florin one for another coin of choice). That way you'd have the florin in the background (slightly fainter than it is now), and the smaller pictures exactly as William has done them?

Well you're already well know as 'predecimal' so why not just change the name of Rotographic to predecimal as soon as the chance arises? Combine it all in one, then you really will stamp your mark on the Roto business. Anyhow i kinda like the sound of... Roto-decimal.

I don't adverstise the fact either... Jon you mean capsule friction... Which brings me on to 2x2s... i used to have everything in 2x2s at one point but that's when i had the PVC outbreak... I lost 1/5th of my coins to verdigris, 1/5th to PVC damage and i wasn't best impressed. Now i find that it's just something about my house i've had 2x2s from all over the place even some from the US and if they get left on the side for any length of time in the house during summer then they soon start sweating in the holder... and it's damaging them... a zinc reichspfennig was the latest victim. (I caught it early enough). I'm afraid both of my rooms are the first on the radiator chain...(so my rooms get hot quick when the heating goes on whilst downstairs it's like a fridge) that and poor insulation means that they get humid pretty quick in summer cos the heat gets in. That's the joys of keeping coins in a converted attic though. Heat rises! Unless i move into shipping them all to the US for slabbing then i'm afraid a cabinet and capsules are the only things i can use.

I love the Early Milled look it caught my attention pretty early on right when i started out... it was a Charles II sixpence of all things that did it. (I promised myself 14 years ago that one day i would get one, and now i have 5 of them!) There's nothing as nice as a William & Mary in top grade, mind you they look nice in lower grades too. I like George I stuff in lower grades. George II (Young Head) and Charles II though have to be the nicest.

Expensive taste oh can i vouch for that!

sixpences will always get yer...