Rob

F&F? I know what F'ing & B'ing is. Have to use the wife's account unless you can do a transfer to the bank from a UK bank account.

Remarkably only £20.

Updated list of Coin Monthlies £1 each, 5 for £4 or £50 the lot (104 issues). £10 postage (for the lot). Coins & Medals £1 each, 5 for £4 or £10 the lot (13 issues). £3 postage. Coin Monthly May 2016.docx

Not to mention 'edge knocks' below the title, and 'no edge knocks' in the description. I agree with Peter.

That's useful. Thanks.

Golden rule is 'If in doubt, leave it out'. That applies to all walks of life, coin purchases included.

Grade is an opinion, attribution is not, or at least shouldn't be. You can argue the case if the grade is wildly out, but half a grade either way, not a chance.

Most of the time they do. Saleroom notices are usually no more than a handful on a total of a thousand or more lots. Given the extensive use of copy and paste, it's surprising there aren't more mistakes made.

Umm. That should be you're, not your. Spirit of Peck here..........

Why? You're human, they're human. Nobody has a monopoly on getting it right, nor on getting it wrong. That's why you have saleroom notices.

P995. Just have to keep your eyes open. They do come up occasionally, but will cost because they are popular.

Correct. The raised dots are only found with 11 leaves and not very common. You'll struggle to find a mint state one. The coin posted was Adams 36.

First coin, P1132 with 10 leaves points down; second coin, P1133A with 11 leaves points out. P1133 also has 11 leaves and points out, the difference being incuse dots on the rock for the 1132 & 33, while 1133A has raised dots on the rock behind the shield.

Tie ribbon

Wonderful, thank you. It was obviously not gold - too light, and the guy who picked them up in China 25 years ago threw them in with the rest of the things I bought off him. I suspect he would have remembered if he had paid gold prices.

Googling 1989 year of the snake is worse than useless. Clues anybody as to what it is? Diameter is about 32-33mm and weight of object, capsule and plastic is only 17.32g. A similar capsule is just under 3g, so allowing a gram for the plastic leaves an approximate weight of 13-13.5g Thanks.

No chance.

You don't have to spend huge amounts on them. You can pick one up for a few hundred pounds. Silver, aluminium and gold obviously cost more, so here you are starting around the 2K mark in mint state. Anyway, how can anyone not like one of these? http:// The early and late strikings are usually determined as a result of die rust spots being on some things and not others, even though struck from the same dies.

A coin struck by W J Taylor using dies acquired at the sale of the Soho Mint inventory in 1848 which he subsequently used struck in the period 1862 - 1885, frequently muling to produce previously unknown combinations. For many years these were pooh-poohed, but in the last 40 years have become accepted and now sell for sums approaching those realised for true Soho products. Some coins such as the nude Britannias only exist because of his activities, the die being acquired in the unhardened state in 1848. This term is used to differentiate the coins from those struck at Soho, which are themselves divided into early and late. The former being contemporary with the date on the coin, the latter struck at Soho using the same dies but at a later date.

Bump this one along again as it is still on the list of things to sort.

Looking for a listing of either of Hamilton-Smith's W/SA sixpences. They were sold as a pair in his 1927 sale lot 399, with one boar's head rev mark and the other a tower rev. mark. They will be listed as Weymouth sixpences and not Worcester. They were listed in the October 1927 circular item nos. 72071 (boar's head) @ £6 and 72072 (tower) @ £5/10/-. Both were graded VF with the boar's head noted as having a fine tone. I want to know if they sold, or remained in stock for a while as they would most likely be listed again in the Circular within a year or so if not sold. Thanks.

wow. not exactly common here, but to take a local issue token abroad and lose it............. you will either find a lot in the same place, or never find similar again

It's a 1927 box. Note the single shilling space.

The actual wear on the penny is not that great with hair detail remaining and the crosses detail on the shield meeting at the intersection, but the corrosion means I would stick it in the rummage box and get what I could for it.

Both nearly VF for wear, but the penny's surfaces are dire. The two pence is ten leaves and that's normal.