Sylvester

there are a lot of copper fans on here so you'll go down a treat!

Oh hello GD! We meet again...

I was approached the other day by another website owner who was writing an article on sixpences. He asked if he could use some of my pictures and i being the generous soul i am; agreed. Here's the finished ariticle... http://www.tidewatercoinclub.org/com.html

yes we'll end the argument, cos i'd argue all night too, but like me the argument is going to bed, it doesn't have to get up at 5.30 though.

Anyhow i will be deleting these posts in the next day or too as they add no greater knowledge to the post. And (yes starting with a conjunction!) regardless of what i say you'll argue back, you'd swear black was white on a bible before you'd admit you were in the wrong.

ah well because i don't critically assess people on their grammar, well not usually but if the mood takes me...

Your reply seem to suggest my post was pointless thus why take the time to reply to it and drag it out? If my post as pointless your reply would be even more so, no? Well i don't care what state your grammar was in but i just thought it a bit hypocritical that someone so obsessed with nitpicking would be so sloppy. Afterall you have pulled William and Co down for much less. I just couldn't let that one go unnoticed, afterall i did warn you a month or two back that i'd pull you up one day. Did i not? Here is that day...

Your grammar is all over the place Oli try harder please...

Just to pull you up at your own game because you are far too pedantic... And this post adds what to the overall conversation? Could this be a rather banal post pointing out who did what or not as the case may be, that you are so against? Could it be that Oli has broken his own spamming rule?

Red ones also go for more...

The ones that are attributed to me, and one that's attributed to Tony Clayton, which is off of Tony Clayton's site but is actually mine... I make that the 1674, 1703V, 1728P, 1732RP (or was it the 28RP?), 1739R, 1787 (Which is stated as Mr Clayton's) and the 1834. I think that's it...

you're welcome.

average prices... http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchRe...&sortby=3&sts=t

You realise oli that i was not repeating the previous post but rather concurring with it. There is a difference.

Oli who rattled your cage this evening? Gone back to being off hand no?

did i not say that the prices there were a bit over...

you think £75 is a riduculous price for a book! I once paid £225 for a Martin Chuzzlewit.

three's tough... how about 10? (in no particular order) 10) The Towering Inferno 9) Italian Job (the Original!) 8) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 7) Airplane! 6) Who Framed Roger Rabbit? 5) Die Hard (all three of them) 4) Tombstone 3) Carry on Cabby 2) Indiana Jones; Raiders of the Lost Ark 1) Indiana Jones; The Last Crusade What can i say i like films with humour! And i'm partial to British films, i really can't stand flag waving US films. I can't believe i couldn't get Hot Shots part Deux in there, Willow, or Casablanca... All of which are amusing in their own ways. And i'm ashamed to admit it but i like the Harry Potter films too, i didn't think i would but when i watched them they were amusing enough to grab my attention, oh that and the Ford Anglia...

what's the oldest coin in your collection, and what's the newest? (obviously the coins in your pocket do not count unless you actually put them in your collection). For me it would be... Oldest = Stephen penny (minted 1136-45) hopefully i'll get a Canute or Æthelred II penny eventually so that will be pushed back a hundred or so years. Newest = British, would be my 1864 Gothic florin, US, would be a 1969 proof Washington Quarter. (or was it 67?)

it's not just half pennies either...

Remember the number one rule in numismatics, Quality not quantity! Think; 1) Which coin is most likely to maintain its value with little effort, (in case you need to sell in future), note i said maintain its value, not appreciate in value, getting your money back is the key not a profit. A profit is a bonus. 2) Which coin will maintain popularity in future? 3) Which do you prefer? My method of collecting differs from Oli's, Oli's approach is to buy coins that are managebly within his budget with a view to completing a series. My view is to collect a small amount of the highest quality coins i can afford that i find eye appealing, whether they fit in or not. So a Queen Mary Groat does not fit in with my sixpence collection but i like the coin, i like it's history, i find it eye appealing, it is in a decent grade and thus i bought it, even if it might look out of place. Numismatics is all about approach, i find the best approach is your own approach, and the more experience you get the more you adapt it and wisen up about what's the right thing to do, you never know until you try, but it can be fun. I don't collect copper coins and they'd look totally out of place in my collection but if i saw a full lustred extremely high grade Victoria Farthing that caught my attention enough, i may just buy it. I nearly bought a high grade Vicky Shield reverse sovereign the other day, just as an example of one (cos i love em!), that wouldn't fit either but so what? (And to be honest if i had stuck to collecting shield reverse sovereigns i would have had half a collection by now! and it would have been cheaper than these EM sixpences!)

That's what i do Oli, i buy coins that i really have to save for... I can sustain the collection at present but in 2 years time when i've left uni and more important things will come into play, and lack of student loan means my active collecting days of these high floating coins will grind to a halt. But at least i will have been there and bought the t-shirt, and i'm sure it'll take me seven times as long to get just one in future but if i can knock the most expensive ones off now whilst i'm in a position to do so i'll make it easier on myself in future. If he wants to buy just one expensive one now i say go for it. My motto is start with the hard ones and work your way through them, and save the easy ones till last.

It was last month, AEF for £525 (that's the non inverted three one)

What's the value acoording to Seaby of a 1693 sixpence (common varient, i.e three the right way around) in VF and EF grades?

that goes in contradiction to coincraft! The invert 3 is cheaper? Coincraft states it's dearer which in all honest is what i would have thought! It sure has appreciated some way, i'm dreading the 1694 one! Wow i got the sixpence at a bargin then! I've made a profit already. They say to make a profit you make the best ones when you buy, not when you sell!