Peckris

Wait another 16 years and you will be all set Mind you, by then some of us will be too old to care...

Wow, thank you for the quick reply. How this obscure Indian coin made it to the grounds of small village church is anyone's guess? Rather than solving a mystery, you may have made an even bigger one for us. This certainly gives me more to read up about. Thanks again for the information! Perhaps less of a mystery when you realise the British ruled India until 1948.

Very instructive video. Incredible that you actually see rainbow toned coins slabbed by the big TPGs (though not by CGS, to my knowledge). Avoid at all cost! Hear hear.

This is a standard FoB crown with the original box. Perfect condition, £10 max though probably less. sorry rod the ch/unc was ment for the trial n the pcgs cant get a guess on the price of that one Sorry shane - we do insist on English here

Welcome to the forum, jaggy. Always nice to have another sixpence enthusiast on board. An 1868 in UNC is definitely something to cherish, 1868 is certainly in the top 10 rarest years for Victorian sixpences. Many thanks for the welcome. I built up a small collection of sixpences in the 1980s and early 1990s. Then career and work intervened. I was transferred to New York but my coins didn't follow me until I retired two years ago. So now my plan is to resume building the collection. Of course, social media, message boards, online photos and internet auctions didn't exist when I was last active in this hobby so there is a new environment to get used to. Just seeing if I can make this photo thing work. Sorry for any double posts. But at least you get to see the coin Your second post worked just fine - I could see decent size pictures right here (The first post took me to the Image Shack site and that was rubbish - the zoom icon didn't do a thing so your pictures remained tiny)

Open your picture in Photoshop or any image editor. Reduce the resolution to 72 ppi Reduce the size to somewhere between 600 and 800 pixels square. Save as a JPEG and choose a fairly high compression (5 or 7 out of 12 in Photoshop, or just under "Medium" in others). Then upload here as an attachment. You should be within even the miserly 150k limit.

What in - Eddie the Optimist's price guide? £10 BU in CCGB 2010. May i draw your attention to the small fact that we're now in 2013 Peck. No womder we never see any recent purchases by you if you're bidding on Coins with outdated prices. I'm not saying it will be fantastically risen, but you need to update your Library a little, maybe Buy CCGB 2013 at the very least (scrooge) We may be (just) in 2013, but a 150% price increase in just months is going to bring nothing but grief to anyone who takes it seriously. I remember the late 60s, and I can tell you, the fall after that lasted for 30 years (for coins of that age, I mean).

LOL - I thought exactly the same! I couldn't put my finger on exactly why, perhaps it was my male intuition

Now why did I read that as "nurse" the first time?

Damn right. Peter Viola spotted a fair share of dodgy pieces, and he was probably the only person they took any notice of. Even then, they'd only say something when the lot came up so b*gger all use to postal commission bidders.

Yes, but everybody's different, and most people set their own personal parameters when it comes to collections. I doubt there are many who have every single example/die combination in the bunhead run. But it's their decision to what extent they go, and not up for criticism ~ any more than I would criticise you for your coin collecting/selling choices. You came across so strong in your two posts last night, that I wondered if you had some sort of vested interest in that particular coin. Did you ? I have to confess myself, and I feel that I can, in view of the fact I'm going to be sidestepping the forum for a while, that I can easily relate to a decision to stick to high-grades only, in view of the fact that for most people there is no need to spend large sums on washers, when there is mostly still a number of 'affordable' high-grade coins to accumulate, and I reckon most of us fall into that category! However, when/if a time ever arrives for us humbles, where we have nothing left to spend our money on to complete a collection, then I guess the mega-expensive, low-grade, filler would be a hurdle we would all have to face, and very few of us could honestly predict their actions in that situation. It must surely always seem like a mad concept to any collector to sit a Poor coin in a Top-Flight collection, when there are still numerous other coins to collect in the series? I can only speculate, but gap-filled high-class collections must still irk nearly as much as the original gap? Surely most collectors must set out having psychologically prepared themselves for the fact that a 1933 penny is not going to grace their collection in ANY grade, and equivically, surely a great many others must have done something similar with the other major rarities and, fortunately, have never stressed about it? I for one would not feel niggled at a tray of pennies that numbered 1932, 1934, I would never have attempted the series otherwise! This is a really interesting discussion, and there's no reason for it to be heated or emotionally charged in any way. After all it's just a hobby for most of us, and we come on here to relax I think you've almost hit the nail on the head for me Stuart. I do have some low grade rarities in my collection but, short of the fact that I have them, they provide little visual satisfaction. If really good examples of rare coins appear I'll empty the piggy bank but otherwise I'm probably happier filling in the less-rare gaps with top grade examples than shelling out on washers. The 1882 in question was worn but it was the nasty pock-marks that did it for me. It just didn't excite, no matter how rare. And that's the issue in a nutshell. When you've got a low-grade ultra rarity, the ONLY pleasure comes from saying to yourself "it's very very rare!" - there can be none from looking at it. After all, an 1882 washer with no H looks no different from any other bun penny washer, even an 1882 where the H has worn away. What you'd see is a washer, and you'd just have to keep telling yourself "It's rare!"

What in - Eddie the Optimist's price guide? £10 BU in CCGB 2010.

I don't quite know why, but metal detecting seems quite frivolous to juxtapose with Nazi concentration camps. Yet, if it was done for purely historical reasons, it should not be so. Your problem is that the sores are still too raw.

In the UK you have a mix of letters and numerals. They kept the prefix M exclusively for replacement notes.

Not at all. Apart from the (supposedly) scarce in UNC date 1938, all G6 shillings are pretty easy. That's a weird price, and there are no varieties even.

Considering that the 'dot' is supposed to have been a deliberate mark rather than a die flaw, the "lighter thinner" variant must be a gradual infilling of the die, i.e. in an older state. I'm afraid I can't see the third dot at all (with the die crack) - how do you know it is there? I'd not heard it described as a deliberate mark? Freeman says it "occurs as a result of damage to the the die". If it was deliberate then, to me, it's collectible but, as Rob says, if its an unintended die flaw, it's not. The other school of thought (sorry, can't quote chapter and verse here) says that the dot is too perfect and round to be accidental. Considering all the activity surrounding the bronze coinage in that year (treating farthings to a dark finish, and all the 'high tide' varieties), it may well be that the Mint decided on a die identification mark. It's only a theory, but you must admit that the dot looks far too even to be a die flaw? Surely, if it was intentional, the mark would have been placed in a more subtle location, perhaps around Britannia? The dot does seem regular though, which suggests the use (accidental or otherwise) of a punch. Alternatively, I was trying to imagine whether the it could be part of a die repair, perhaps a recessed pin, but this seems unlikely. That would still be human agency, even if accidental. Somehow we seem to generally prefer marks which have been caused by people, rather than misstrikes.

Considering that the 'dot' is supposed to have been a deliberate mark rather than a die flaw, the "lighter thinner" variant must be a gradual infilling of the die, i.e. in an older state. I'm afraid I can't see the third dot at all (with the die crack) - how do you know it is there? I'd not heard it described as a deliberate mark? Freeman says it "occurs as a result of damage to the the die". If it was deliberate then, to me, it's collectible but, as Rob says, if its an unintended die flaw, it's not. The other school of thought (sorry, can't quote chapter and verse here) says that the dot is too perfect and round to be accidental. Considering all the activity surrounding the bronze coinage in that year (treating farthings to a dark finish, and all the 'high tide' varieties), it may well be that the Mint decided on a die identification mark. It's only a theory, but you must admit that the dot looks far too even to be a die flaw?

Might be your best option, there are US collectors A revolution, napoleonic wars, franco-prussian war, WW1, WW2 - hard times - most will have ended in the melting pot, as I said above there are lots of coins where no or very few examples are known, new discoveries frequently appear in CGB's Numismatic bulletin Mint records in france are often unreliable, so all mintages should be taken with the proverbial pinch of salt Droulers gives far more useful info than Gadoury in my opinion, but horses for courses French collectors are different, die varieties are nowhere near as popular as here in the UK Vive la différence!

As a newbie, you ought to be aware that we have a professional pessimist in our midst, who will rubbish every coin you own and value it at 99p But we wouldn't trade him and his stories of Mrs Peter and daughters, for the world

You had an UNC 1903 HALFCROWN which you UPGRADED ??????????

Considering that the 'dot' is supposed to have been a deliberate mark rather than a die flaw, the "lighter thinner" variant must be a gradual infilling of the die, i.e. in an older state. I'm afraid I can't see the third dot at all (with the die crack) - how do you know it is there?

No, but it might give your insurers a headache

I'd buy Findus burgers but they give me the trots.

You'd be singing a different song if they were Arbroath shirts Dave

I use wooden cocktail sticks to dig them out. Mine sits in a square 2x2 cutout somewhere. I haven't seen it for quite a while. The only 'coin' I own which doesn't fit in a cutout is one of those macabre, iron Lusitania commemorative medals. We must all have one of those somewhere! One occasion when a square hole beats a round one! My Peter Nicholls has a small hole drilled in the centre of the tight fitting holes so you can push something like a cocktail stick up from underneath to lift the coin out. True, but I seem to remember the hole is so tiny a cocktail stick wouldn't even fit. And somehow, when I go visiting my collection I never seem to remember to take one with me!