Peckris

Bear in mind that modern proof sets average around 100,000 issued, and you can't give them away!

A slightly doubled legend is so frequently encountered I'm not in the least bit excited. But that's a nice variety, the 1876H wide date. Good capture.

It's not bad, but up close and personal those 3's are different sizes.

I think we all missed this... If you are proposing to post, please feel free to do so, whatever the day. If, however, you are posting to propose then I'm afraid, 4 years it must be! I have the feeling that Mr Debbie might have something to say about that

All you need to do is to compress your pictures in any image editor - save it as a JPEG with a fairly low-quality setting, and you should be ok for size. Until then, what size coin are you talking about? Is it standard penny size? In which case it;s probably a bronze penny dipped or chromed. If it's a small silver coin, then describe it fully with legend, position of date, etc. Thanks.

because they have been given to me as gifts and i like em... i doubt the collection i have would constitute a collection. anybody else want to give me an ounce of silver for free 50p olympic collection now sold due to tight wadded jock time waster. And I'd rather have any number of silver Britannia "medallions" than flimsy poorly-designed RM profiteering 50p's.

It does look very dubious. I wouldn't buy based on that photo.

I thought it would get your attention Debbie! That reverse is very nice.

Lovely coin.

I think you're right, but for the wrong reason. The circulating coinage has represented a dwindling % of the money supply for near on a century, due to inflation. As inflation inexorably increases, the use for cash (coins, not notes) gets less and less. Eventually it will represent only small change and may be replaced by sweets as happened to small change in Italy as far back as the 1970s.

That's a beauty. Indeed it is! And for my money, OS... That is SO debatable

"Weak strike" is not quite the right term I think. Even early strikes from new dies can show weakness on the reverses where the obverse portrait is highest. It's a phenomenon unique to the early series of George V and is often accompanied by a 'ghost' of the portrait appearing on the reverse, especially halfpennies, pennies, and shillings, and to a less extent sixpences. It's not a weak strike so much as an imbalance in the two sides of the design, which saw the portrait of George cut much too deep. For 'lion's nose' on shillings, read 'Britannia's face and chest' on the bronze. I would say that the ME coins are better struck, but whether that is purely down to the new portrait I don't know. I don't think the metal composition is the reason as that was .500 silver from 1920 onwards and there are plenty of weak 1920-1925 examples. Perhaps the new metal composition, being less dense, allowed the striking pressure to be increased. It's difficult to say as the reverses for ME coins are a single-year type, given that the entire coinage was redesigned for 1927, drastically so for silver. But I've seen many 1926ME shillings, they lack ghosting and seem to be pretty well struck up.

That's a beauty.

No, Edward only ever intended the Scottish design to be used. Which rather gives the lie to the notion that the Scottish shilling was to honour the Scottish ancestry of Mrs George VI - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon - which I've heard more than once, and is clearly untrue.

£14:50 Not being in the UK Peck it's a little hard to pay 14.50 innit. You asked what I'd pay - I told you!

Nick, did we overlap posts? See my reply above yours!

The brass 3d of which Argentum speaks did have a different reverse - a more 'naturalistic looking' thrift plant with the date to either side. Those - though extremely rare - are in fact more common than the proofs with the 'normal' reverse. They are also of a slightly different thickness and possibly weight too? The 6d and 3d actually feature prototypes of the ring pull so often seen on modern tins.

I don't have many reference points for George V shillings/sixpences - can anyone else confirm whether these are often weakly struck on the reverse and whether the Edward VII coins (though scarcer) are more defined? Thanks There's one factor which overrides - when comparing Edward VII reverses to George V, you must bear in mind that the Edward portrait is quite noticeably shallower than George's, which was notoriously high relief. This had a very definite impact on reverses, which have 'metal sucked away' from them compared to Edward. I would therefore expect most Edward reverses to look better struck and also less ghosted, than George's.

£14:50

Funnily enough I live in the South West - I'll ask the Village Union if they will send some suitably brightly painted bills your way.

More like Henry VIII impersonating Adolf Hitler impersonating Hannibal Lecter

Done!

Bostin' indeed! Thanks for extra pictures Chris - if I had a spare three grand I'd be in for it

I would agree that it's only EF - if you wait I'm sure an even better specimen will come along. That one would be a very nice coin but at a lower price.

Sure, but if understand it, a layout is just a "view" on the data and can be made up of data from many tables, which are necessary to avoid data repetition, which is a big no-no if being strict about relational database design... Sounds sensible, does it allow for many pictures per coin specimen, though? Well, I have Obverse and Reverse defined in the Pictures database, but you could have a third - Variety - or a fourth, or as many as you want. As for data repetition, yes it would be good practice to avoid it, but my own coins database pre-dates FMP becoming relational !! And for - e.g. Location - it's just one field and would be overkill to have a separate table for. I simply choose one of 4 or 5 values from a drop-down value list. Not necessarily - my own interest in how Seaby/Spink prices have changed since the 60s means I need to see them in all quoted grades whichever grade my own coin is in. It also means that when I upgrade, there's no further lookup of price required.