Peckris

To be honest, the only one worth slabbing is the Viccy halfcrown (the 1952 sixpence at a pinch if it was perfect). The others are perfectly collectable but I'd avoid paying through the nose for slabbing them.

I remember that advert!!

I have some spare blue fivers (1960s) which I bought as a bulk lot in Taunton a few years back? They cost me little more than £5 each, but nobody seemed to notice that there was a replacement note among them... Needless to say, THAT one isn't on offer!

On the other hand, if you bought fake fakes from China, you could be assured of genuine coins?

It's a beautifully enamelled reverse, but the obverse is totally ruined by brooching. Some people have more money than sense.

The danger of purchasing bread and butter is that it might not sell, then you get depressed just looking at it. It isn't only the top end where people are selective. Some of the real dross is unmarketable to anybody, such as a fine or a bit better 20th century piece or a common date bun head which is well nigh impossible to dispose of other than at the scrapyard. It is often more cost effective to melt silver that is post 1816 in low grade than it is to try to sell it - rare pieces excepted, but also very difficult to pick up things at less than scrap value in order to make a profit.Bread and butter coins for me are the coins which DO sell, mostly because they have a wider audience, and are sought after by the mainstream of collectors, rather than a high-end piece at the very top of its price range.Of course, Rob's right when he says that you have to be selective! I'd say that's true whether you are spending a fiver on a 1930 penny, or buying a York HC. It is really hard to purchase saleable/popular coins for resale, but few could afford the luxury pieces without getting this formula right! Fortunately, it's still possible to do! Happy days! Admittedly my dealing was very low key stuff - stack 'em high, sell 'em cheap - but one thing I did learn : there is an enthusiastic market at the lower end. Admittedly not for 1890-92 buns in F, but certainly for 1864 pennies, 1904 halfcrowns, etc, in VG+ there were plenty of buyers. At least there were in the 90s, but eBay may have changed that. And there were quite often bulk lots where I could filch out the best stuff for my own collection and sell the rest.

Creative writing at its best! Jane Austen would be proud. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large fortune, must do his shopping in Selfridges".

Better than Gibbon Spink though

And all while punk was having its day in the sun gutter, too! Actually, I think Then There Were Three is a much maligned album containing some great songs. Both of those albums are a bit late for my taste. "Nursery Cryme" and "Selling England by the Pound" are my two favourites. Selling England... is arguably my favourite Genesis album of all, and unarguably a classic. I can always listen to 'Firth of Fifth'. The Cinema Show is a track I never tire of listening to. That would be my second favourite - gorgeous synth. Especially the way it segues into Aisle Of Plenty with all those painful supermarket name puns: "Easy love, there's a safe way home Thankful for her fine fair discount, Tess Co-operates" For some reason, after listening to that, I always get the number 17 1/2 stuck in my mind

I'd agree with Derek, except about the 1922 pennies. There's one mega-rare variety but the chances of you having one of those is about equal to Accrington Stanley winning the League. Less.

And all while punk was having its day in the sun gutter, too! Actually, I think Then There Were Three is a much maligned album containing some great songs. Both of those albums are a bit late for my taste. "Nursery Cryme" and "Selling England by the Pound" are my two favourites. Selling England... is arguably my favourite Genesis album of all, and unarguably a classic. I can always listen to 'Firth of Fifth'.

My gut feeling is that these are probably "average circulated", i.e. having quite a bit of wear? In which case you should know that any silver coin pre-1947 contains 50% silver and has a bullion value that (for example on eBay) draws in the crowds, especially if you sell all the silver as a bulk lot and advertise it as pre-47. Pre-1920 is sterling silver and worth twice as much. Having said all that, coins in high grade (GV in EF or better, GVI and QEII in AUNC minimum) do fetch higher values. In particular, many QEII cupro-nickel halfcrowns and florins and a few shillings, from the 1950s in genuinely UNCirculated condition, can fetch surprising amounts even though they don't contain silver. Condition is everything so it would repay you to invest a few £ in the Grading British Coins book (banner advert, above). Then you can make a more realistic assessment of what you've got. I repeat, condition is everything with coins, so though I suspect these are only average condition (i.e. quite a lot of wear), you need to find out. It might even be worth taking a few pictures of what you think are better examples and posting them here. Scarcer dates : 1925 halfcrowns and florins 1930 halfcrowns 1932 florins 1946, 1949, (1950, 1951) brass threepences 1952 sixpence

And all while punk was having its day in the sun gutter, too! Actually, I think Then There Were Three is a much maligned album containing some great songs.

Quite right. That AEF specimen was a nice looking coin, and certainly tempting to the likes of me. CGS = "the new Coincraft"?

The Yes Album is one of my favourite albums of all time! Genuine classic.

Ah now we're talking....the Live '79 album is probably the most perfect music of the 20th Century. That and the Inkspots anyway. Bloody Hawkwind. By which I mean the band masquerading under that name by the only surviving member Dave Brock. Yet not so many years ago I went to see Space Ritual.net, who comprised Nik Turner, Dave Anderson, Del Dettmar, Terry Ollis and his son Sam, and who were, by any definition, more Hawkwind than Hawkwind if you see what I mean. The only thing lacking was the nude dancer Stacia but I think she would have had to send her daughter anyway

Emma Gumma?

Aww. His mommy probably loved him. And this was probably her :

Apart from the odd one or two! MOJO Magazine run a Top Ten feature each month, and recently it was Pink Floyd's turn. I was most non-gruntled to see that Atom Heart Mother was not in the list at all. It's so trendy to view this as a "failed experiment", yet it was their first album to get to #1, and surely has one of the most memorable sleeves ever! And Dave Gilmour pushed hard to get Fat Old Sun included on the "Echoes" compilation, but failed.

I use the Mac equivalent (FileMaker Pro, also available for Windows), and now I wouldn't use anything other than a database manager for my collection. They are infinitely customisable to your own needs. (I'm sure you CAN store pictures in Access though? But the way I do it is have a separate FMP database for my pictures which I relationally link to the collection database). Stick with Access! Access is a database manager - like Excel but much more customisable.

Its a game Peck, i doubt even the experts will get the price, so have a wee stab, answer to follow tomorrow No thanks - what would be the point? As much point as someone who's never played cricket going in holding a ping pong bat, unpadded, taking a position facing the wicket keeper and asking, "Now what?"

I agree - but my point was that the penny equivalent is worth far more, as halfpennies just aren't fashionable. Sure it will sell, at a good price for a halfpenny, but...