Sylvester

Alright it's some way off of a profit for bronze coins then, you'd need £2.80 odd of them for a kilo.

You'll learn... And i don't remember back to 1971, cos i was born in 84, the last of the machin era kids... (sorry William i had to get that in). It was only recently when i found out that the sixpences had escaped the 1971 culling. And silver threepences are also legal tender for 3 new pence, despite the fact that someone at the Royal mint replied telling me they were not. I'm telling you they are... i'm not the only person that says so neither. (it's due to maundy money, which is legal tender in new pence). I don't think any other predecimal coins are still legal tender, other than the ones i've already mentionned. I'm not 100% sure if groats were ever demonetised, but considering they'd only be worth 1 3/4p now, and you'd have to spend them in threes, it wouldn't be much good if they were.

the strike is the thing, you have to take into account the level of technology that was used in making the coins, so if you had a moderately off centre George II shilling it wouldn't be much to write home about, but if it had been a George VI coin it would be. I just feel grading pre 1816 coins is different to grading post 1816 coins, for one grading the former is easier, because they are in higher relief and the designs have much more, design! If you know what i mean? The hair on them is more complex...

I have a feeling i used the quill for that one... it's hard when you're left handed but all the other pens had died.

ah unfortunate!

well that's all very well and good but alot of that is wrong... Brass threepences were still in circulation in 1971. Sixpences were still in circulation as late as 1980. Shillings were still in circulation theoretically in 1990. Florins were still in circulation in 1993, i know that full well cos i remember spending them right up to the end, i even spent a George V florin in the early 90s, so i know. Halfcrowns were demonetised in 1969. Crowns to my knowledge have not been demonetised, neither have double florins. Infact double florins were deemed legal tender for 20p upon decimalisation and still are. Half sovereigns, Sovereign, £2 and £5 coins (the gold ones with St George) are still legal tender for, 50p, £1, £2 and £5 respectively, and you are well within your rights to spend one as such if you so wished.

but for different reasons than you state.

if that's the case does 1968 count as another threshold? Or 1971? Or even 1985? and why not 1998, or 2000? I think you'll find the thresholds are actually 1663 and 1816.

he means, if you look down the drown column it says 1/4 for both sovereign and half soverign, it should be 1/2 for half sovereign.

Your just too clever Scott, you know that.

Chris just to keep you interested in those coins i'm sending, (and to try something out and see whether the link works), i've got some pics of the stuff i'm sending. (all those with the username Sylvester next to them, except for the proof £2 coin which is staying with me). http://www.omnicoin.com/search_results.asp...t=1000&cn=10055 (i'm still sorting a few coins out, i'll be posting them sometime next week).

ME's would be George V no? But trident vareties could be Victoria

too right it is!

i mentioned plumes earlier...

if to copper prices goes up too high what it would mean is that the old ones would be worth more intrinsically than their face value, which means you could make a profit from selling them to scrap merchants. Quite alot of collectors on the US/Canada border are hording Canadian Cents with the same intention. With regards to the bronze coins it's either collectors hording them, or the mint is removing them. How many collectors would hoard battered coins that were minted in the millions? (or billions?) I did it for the simple end in mind of seeing how common they are. When i've done i'll probably dump aload of them back into circulation. But i'd hang onto the 1976 twopences and the 1982 pennies, both are scarcer than catalogues suggest. My i've even got more 1992 'scarce' die variety ten pences than 1976 two pences, same goes for 1988 £1 coins.

not seen Mary Poppins? or Diagnosis Murder? anyway my word is... 'The Duke of Edinburgh'

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can't be bothered... i still haven't updated the time either, since the clocks changed.

i know my feelings entirely, i thought they were getting scarcer that's why i started this hoarding to see. Now comparing how many 2002 and 2003 pennies and 2p's i pulled out in just a few months there was a major difference, the newer ones are much more common. My theory is, firstly the copper prices have been going up lately (they have), secondly the 2003 mintage of the low denominations was phenominal, i haven't got any mintage figures yet, but i can say i've never seen so many. My hunch is someone somewhere is removing the older coins as intrinsically they are worth more, it doesn't just go for the machin's either, it also counts for Maklouf's upto 1991... the bronze ones are getting thinner on the ground than the steel ones. I think the machins will be the first to go because they are much more obvious than the Maklouf's, as the latter you'd have to check the date of them.

i dunno how to do all this html business so i'm not going to bother. The signatures used to work if i recall correctly.

not my area i'm afraid, i know several minor varities exist, but CoinCraft makes no mention of what they are. So wait till Oli arrives, he's the farthing guy.

well i never actually knew that! I've just been and picked up my battered 1806 Halfpenny and it has K on the trunction. Tr = trunction, bascially the base of the neck or bust, depending on the coin you've got. A Jubilee head one would be a bust, likewise for a George II one (unless it was gold), but a Victoria Young head would be neck. Follow?

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I think this is a nice time to drop this in... My cat was called Jiffy, but since the renaming of the cleaning product i've been calling him Ciffy. (I know me cruel) And i think you did the best by your coin, i don't think cleaning does much harm to those that have been dug up, or ones that are in low grade already. It's just when people clean nicely toned UNC and BU coins that's when i do my nut.

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