Sylvester

He said it was half sovereign sized though.

Welcome, i see you made it over here... Well i'll thrown my idea on the table, i thought i probably was a gaming token, but looking at those pictures it looks more like lead with gold paint... which suggests more counterfeit to me. But if it is a counterfeit it's not a convincing one... What does everyone else think?

Doddle means, easy... dead easy in fact.

In over a year of looking i think i've got about 6 b/b max, with three at/at varieties.

I found another between/between variety today (first one in quite a while)

no not Coincraft...no i was thinking more like this... http://www.ringramcoins.com/

They usually are battered to hell...

Colin Cooke isn't the only one that inflates his prices... i know a few other dealers like that.

So which one doesn't have the lima then? You said... '1746 one with Lima one without' which implied to me you had two '46s one with one without... Now if you have one of those 1746 with the shields but without the Lima you'd really have something there.

You all seem to have missed the important question though. That 1746 without the Lima... what's on the opposite side to King George... is it 4 shields or is it a number? (either 4, 3, 2 or 1)?

I think the best coins to get for eye appeal... are; George III Cartwheel coinage obverses, Gothic stuff and the reverse of Edward VII florins.

Feel free to use the obverse of my Florin, if the picture is good enough... http://www.coinpeople.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5227

I'm mourning the passing of the guinea...

I think we've got to have a Gothic on the front cover don't you... nothing like an attention catching coin.

Although that totally grammatically correct, an just doesn't sound as good as a. I like the Una, and the '26 but to be honest i prefer the high grade William IV stuff. A top grade W4 Sovereign or £2 coin would be a thing of beauty... Then again so would a Queen Mary Sovereign... gorgeous was that specimen that Colin Cooke had... it was purely beautiful.

and farthings if it comes to that!

Yes Britanniar is correct. I'm sure pennies and Halfpennies say it too?

Still looking good... can't wait till we get to page 30 or so then the denominations that interest me really start... Sixpences-Crowns. I'm looking forward to the pics of the Gothic stuff!

Well they were minted briefly, quite a few minted i should imagine, they were valued at 20d, but the gold value rose to 24d, so there was a 4d profit from melting them down, so many merchants and what not melted probably as many as they could get their hands on. The government realised they'd made a bit of a cock up and recalled as many as they could and they probably melted them for a profit too no doubt. Only about 6 or 7 specimens are known to exist... the rest got melted. (because they were undervalued) Which brings me onto the hammered gold florins they went the other way, they're wasn't enought gold in those so the merchants wouldn't accept them (they were overvalued), so most of those went into the pot too... probably at a loss.

Oh right! Oh well...

I saw a colour picture once... most a b&w though

Henry III Gold twenty pence, you ever seen one Chris?

It looked like a class 4 crown, that god damn pellet, i didn't see that... have a look at the other class 4's...

Have a look at Edward I Class 4c

I'm having trouble with this one cos there's not much left of the portrait... well it's either pre-10A pre! not post! Edward I or it's Edward III Looks kind of Edward III to me on the reverse... i've just got the 2 volume of North today so i'll have to get that on it... Bear with me i haven't forgotten