Rob

Try soap and water with a soft brush if it is dirt. Don't scrub it or use a hard abrasive of any description and pat dry with a soft towel.

Melt value. There are countless bags of 1967 coins of all denominations lying around with probably millions of coins still sitting there.

SAZAMA, J Jim Sazama's collection of medieval coins was sold through DNW over many sales from 2011 onwards. Some coins had 24mm tickets with sparse detail, but all coins were in envelopes with description, weight in grams and grains, and what was presumably the cost on the back. All written in pencil.

BRADY, F Frank Brady's collection of groats was sold at Spink in October 2011. There were no Brady tickets, only those of previous owners or dealers, the coins being held in 2x2 paper envelopes with the North reference written on.

PARSONS, O F Collection sold by Baldwin in May 1997 (sale 12). White tickets 29mm dia in the case of the first. Not sure about the diameter of the second. Description on one side, provenance and cost code on the other.

I'm not convinced that the buyer will be unhappy when it arrives. The pictures are clear enough to show the cast nature of the surfaces and the weight is stipulated to be about 6g. To us it is obvious, but it's clear from this that there are a lot of people living in blissful ignorance. You see it all the time, as regularly featured on this thread. Buyers don't know what they are bidding on, and I'm sure that many sellers of the same don't know better either. In the meantime, eBay rake in their fees and abrogate any responsibilities they should have. If you want to acquire a moral compass, I cannot recommend eBay's own brand, even with free postage from a company with perfect feedback.

Not too fussed about the contents, but I'd like some of those bags. Anything dating from 1279 ish which hasn't decomposed in the interim has to be good.

Weighs approximately 6g - and still they bid!! Perhaps I shouldn't shout too loudly given my mm.eye 3a3 halfcrown weighs 5.91g.

I know where you get your news from. nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. A splendid organ.

Christies 23/10/1984. Partly hand priced with buyers. £15 delivered to a UK address.

There is one obverse and one reverse uniface.

DAY, H G C One sale in 1902, and a second collection was purchased by Baldwin c1935. This ticket came from the latter portion.

LAWRENCE, L A L A Lawrence was a well known figure in numismatics for over fifty years covering the first half of the 20th century. The tickets shown in the BNJ show wildly different styles of writing, so a letter from Lawrence is also included to show a wider range of characters of a style he may have used.

SEABY, H A A ticket in the handwriting of the founder of the company, Bert Seaby. Top line is the Bulletin reference, selling price is at the bottom, and acquisition details shown as the fraction lower right. The reverse is blank.The ticket has a hint of a greenish hue, but tickets of many colours are known over time.Ticket diameter 32-33mm, other sizes are known.

LOCKETT, R C Lockett's collection of hammered British coins was sold at Glendining in 5 sales between 1955 and 1961. His collection of milled coins was sold in 1927. The BNJ entry states the tickets were 29-30mm diameter, but the three illustrated below are 26, 33 and 44 mm, so it is safe to say they can be any size. All the tickets I have seen have been on grey card, though tickets are also known where those of the previous owner have been annotated by Lockett. The reverse can be either blank, or annotated with the acquisition details or other references.

MONTAGU, H Hyman Montagu put together what was arguably the best collection of British coins assembled by an individual before his untimely death in Feb. 1895 at the age of 50. No tickets are known that can be attributed to him, so the only example of handwriting that I can positively attribute to him is shown. The dedication to his daughter is in the front of a first edition copy of his Copper book, published in 1885 and presumably contemporary.

I don't undersand why so many people appear to hoard these copies by burying them. If you want them to be out of sight and out of mind, surely the large grey hidey-hole on wheels that gets emptied every week or two would suffice?

No E on breast, so not the commonest type, but a bit OTT on the starting price!

I have my suspicions

We could do with someone with more powers to edit here. Nordle doesn't seem to come on much and nor does Chris. Stuart suggested putting it on my site which would be possible to edit, but given there are more people on this forum at any one time than I get as visitors in a whole day, that would be a waste of time. The whole point was to have something useful that people would access and read.

It had a f******g good collection for a regional electricity company . Mind you, if one woman can power the whole of the north-west, perhaps we shouldn't be surprised at anything.

Thank you. Can you also edit the Norweb one to read surname first? Ta.

What you need to do is overlay it on the 1844 with the same one dot and check it is the same die. If it is, then the coin you have will be one of the early strikes in 1845 where the 1844 obverse had been replaced with a correctly dated die, but the reverse being serviceable continued to be used. There will be others, but probably not very many. As the reverse is undated, there would be no need to exchange it at the New Year. Colin's website showing the 1844 with one dot is reverse B http://aboutfarthings.co.uk/catalogue/uk-farthings/victoria-1838-1901/victoria-young-head-1838-1859/1844-farthing/ That also has the missing serif, so is probably the same reverse die. Any signs of die fill would therefore be found on 1844 farthings and not the 1845.

WOODHEAD, P Collector of medieval hammered coins active from the second half of the 20th century onwards. Coins were frequently traded with both major dealers and fellow collectors.

Buy a complete set and sell the unmatching ones. Trying to match a set is well nigh impossible. Tried several times and always resorted to square one.