Sylvester

i got the cat bit...

i got some more yesterday! (see here..) http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.c...787&STARTPAGE=1 (hope that works for you non-members) At last i have all the 1728s! (except the proof... but you know how it is, i don't intend to get any of the proofs).

don't worry i won't go raving mad! I don't intend to use my new found powers to the fullest, i'll probably be a bit lazy and turn a blind eye to most things, but if a troll/spammer shows up then that message is history!

i've deleted a few already, from when we had that person posting about how coin collectors were saddos, it added no value to the site, and it was spam (in the non-open forum), so it got deleted. I suppose all the subsequent messages (mostly about trainspotting) in that thread could go, but i'm in no rush to get rid of them just yet. But at least by deleting those others i have raised the average mental age/maturity of the thread in question.

it could of course be a real one weakly struck from a worn die

i'm not sure about that, look at the bit near the garter, surely there should be more detail than that down there. The design also looks flat.

Cheers everyone!

well the quarter noble was from Rendal Ingram, and the sixpence was a killer deal from a coin stall in an antiques building in York. I forget the name but i've bough coins from her before, all reasonably priced.

i can't speak for the copper, but the Early Milled silver is up there at the top end. And so is some of the hammered.

Oh yes, I nearly forgot to ask him that! Quarter Noble = £200 Sixpence = £57 All in all not too bad.

reverse

Colin Cooke sells quality coins, but i can't help feeling the prices are a bit high even so, hence why i've abstained from buying anything from there yet.

shipping for 3p would be about 50p or so.

over charge on the shipping and you make a profit that's why. (this was a response to the question of why people sell 5p's for 5p)

one day Chris, one day i might get round to writing a book on sixpences. Oh in about 10 years when i've really studied the field in depth.

i have to admit that i hate the way Spinks just list... coin A... Many varities Unfortunately i collect by variety and i actually want to know what these varities are! And why don't they list all the known moneyors on the hammered coins, and have pictures of all the classes? If you don't then you'll not be able to identify your coin unless you knew what it was when you bought it, so i think Spinks is pretty useless in the Edward I penny department.

I always like Queen Mary I, probably the least attractive queen we've had, but for anyone studying history and all the ambiguity going on in the period it's great to come across a Queen that knows her mind and makes it clear. Can't go wrong really, good old Mary!

but i still prefer William IV coinage to that of Victoria.

my favourite was always the jubilee head, with the gothic in second, the bun in third, the young in fourth... and what ever's left last.

Would it not make more sense to put the stages in chronological order? (it appears he's buying coins from each stage in no particular order)

I'd say separate, but as an early milled fan i would say that wouldn't i? But i agree with Oli there is enough on at the minute with the later book, but then again it just goes to show modern milled always remains the most popular of the two... honestly you people you haven't lived until you'd tried the earlier stuff!

Well i would have offered to help myself, but since my sixpence fetish stops suddenly at 1758 and i refuse to go beyond that point, and the only modern milled coin that's held my fascination for any length of time is the Victorian Shield reverse Sovereign, it looks like i'm not much use to you. Why is there no book for coins 1662-1813? I think it's about time there was a specialist book just concentrating on Early Milled. If you ever do an early milled book, you know where to come for the sixpences.

right explain all that to me agin, cos i've been without an internet connection properly, since the end of April.

Lovely coins those ducats!

better than Spinks.