Sylvester

The only really safe wood to use is Mahogany. There are other woods that are just as good but i can't remember what they are from the top of my head and that maybe more difficult to work/more expensive. Gold coins are pretty inert as far as reactivity goes, the only damage that can happen chemically is if the gold alloy is not mixed fully and there are areas where copper is more prevalent, copper therefore reacting, hence how gold coins can get verdigris.

Hmm coin catalogue prices have caught me out before. I remember trying to sell a 1750 cleaned sixpence in EF condition. Coincraft states that in EF the coin would go for £250, so i offered it up for grabs at £150-175 thinking that with the cleaning it would be a fair price. Everyone though i was asking way too much, looking at Spinks' guide they were right it only reached £150 in EF. Thus i was asking above the catalogue price for one without problems. Strange this, dealers sell at Coincraft prices and buy at Spink prices! Hmm surely that's more than fair profit?

And your gothic florin for the other competition. i'm suprised it didn't win! If i was a member, gothic florin would get my vote! Quite a few of us are shocked about that! That copper coin wasn't even in the same league. But some on the site vote US coins because that's all they know, others just have a tendency to vote copper regardless of what it actually looks like.

Ah so surely you've seen me around before then! Me and my Ugly Coin Competition!

that bad!

Ah well i couldn't afford it though! going at £940 the one i met.

What's your favourite? Mine would have to be the Guinea. Don't collect them but i do like them. Syl.

Exactly the same as mine!

I've met one of those Gothic Crowns in the flesh... Absolute beauties!

Phew... there's me thinking someone had gone and ruined a perfectly collectable coin during the Victorian period, there's nothing like Victorians for ruining things!

Now admittedly i quite like the look of most enamelled coins so perhaps i'm biased here. Also enamelling usually effects the Jubilee head coinage or George III Late milled coins more than anything else. Usually there's many of those available and thus it doesn't really both me that that's another coin ruined. (Yes enamelling ruins coin, but in such a nice way). But this... (now as much as i like it enamelled, it kind of breaks my heart because it looks as if it was a rather high grade coin, and it's not your usual Geo III or Vicky coin either...) http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jcarney44/co...ins/mrcoin.html Bottom image...

If it's very worn so that the writing/legends are hard to read, and the main details are also showing wear then i think you'd be looking at about £2.00 max, maybe a tad more, but nothing over a fiver. If the writing legends are practically all gone then a £1.00 is about right. Now if you were to clean it you'd be lucky to get 50 pence. Thus definately don't clean it, and you might as well hold onto it, call it a good look charm or a conversational piece, or even a coin you keep for flipping. You never knew something almost 200 years old could be bought so cheap!

missed it Chris... but i'm afraid with tin you've got to be very quick!

He likes his farthings, he's got loads of them on his site! I really must get a high grade tin farthing one day when my funds stretch that far. Never liked copper, try to avoid the suff like the plague, but tin! I bet that's a fascinating area!!! Must get a tin coin one day. And to be honest i probably wouldn't have noticed the 1952 halfcrown either, i'm kinda tuned into pre George III stuff at the moment, and i don't really notice the later stuff much these days.

The fact that the original poster stated is shows an eagle would suggest it's an American coin of some description. But why 1/8th of a d? And why d. So i'm totally puzzelled. Syl.

Not really my area this; so without checking the catalogue... Sounds like a groat to me, wouldn't happen to have Britannia (a la 50p) on the reverse would it? Groats were circulating 4d coins back in the 19th century, from about 1836-1850s then the silver threepence took over. If the reverse is a 4 with a wreath round then it's a maundy 4d. Regards Sylvester.

I think Mr Nichols (aforementionned cabinate maker) actually will make the coin drawers in the cabinate to custom designs. So lets say you had an 1887 set that you wanted to keep together then he'd be able to make one of the drawers in the cabinate accomodate such a set. I nearly had that done myself, but i decided on just the usual by denomination instead. Glad i did that now, got almost enough sixpence (for LM Sixpences) and shilling trays (for the EM sixpences) available, had to kick the halfpennies out...and the sovereigns, and the half sovereigns! Not really using the crown tray much... got a few Morgan Dollars and what not in those...but that's about it.

Gorgeous aren't they! i do exactly the same can't beat a good bit of mahogany... OK.... so both your collections live in luxury 5 star hotels while mine are packed into a run down high rise block of flats Although the cabinets are lovely, I don't think my coins quite justify that level of accomodation, plus I expect I would need several! If you got to the stage where your cabinet was full, would you buy another cabinet or sell some coins? I've got to that stage, basically i've sold off many, but some of the cheaper ones get downgraded and go back to the albums...

Gorgeous aren't they! i do exactly the same can't beat a good bit of mahogany...

Coincraft states that the silver threepences are also legal tender still, but since 1971 for three new pence. I asked the Royal Mint and they denied the fact, and stated they were not legal tender. Not sure about Double Florins. Half sovereigns are legal for 50p though...

ich mochte ein tasse tee bitte, keine milke und keine zucker! And that's about as much as i remember from German, Je nai pas parlez Francaise neither. Aufweidersein Syl.

Never had the fortune to have done Latin, couldn't find anywhere near me that did it. French was easily available everywhere, yeah sure... but how often has french actually helped me in history? (actually a little bit), but the German was totally pointless...

I'll have to give that one a miss (out of cash for the next two months) Thanks for offering though! Syl.

King Philip I (Or should that be II? ) (Phillipvs?) King George VII? (Georgius) Charles III? (Carolus) How about a King Arthur at last? (Arthur?) Notice everytime in history there has been a prince (heir apparent) called Arthur they've never made it...

Your welcome... Not sure about whether it would sell for more as a complete set or not though, it might! But you know what they say about selling in bulk quantities!!