Peckris

If you're talking about "silver" post-1816 coins that are actually copper washed with silver, these are actually not fakes but forgeries produced at the time. Collectors know all about these (indeed our own seuk has made an expert study of them), and they should be classed as 'items of interest' and not as counterfeits. And in the US, GIII copper "evasions" from the mid-18th Century are widely collected and valued. If they are actually modern reproductions and sold as such, I don't see that any law has been broken if they are not misrepresented.

Ouch. Don't mention that particular one to Dave. Sore point.

You can't count Stuart - it's around 3 and a half years!

I agree about Atlantic and Stax soul (and Motown!!), Gram Parsons, Steve Earle (seen him twice ), Trojan and all roots reggae, baroque classical, early music, then Gershwin, Britten, Vaughn-Williams etc. Early Yes is pretty good - anything before Rick Wakeman joined We have to part company on opera - my pet hate. Except things like Carl Orff 'Carmina Burana', which I love

Well, bits of Aftermath, more or less the whole of Beggars Banquet, most of Let It Bleed, the whole of Sticky Fingers, and bits of Exile On Main Street.. I was never a big Stones fan. Dare I ask what your list would be? (Mine would be longer but I ran out of energy )

No. Enlighten me. April issue. Answers by March 15th…. Not a typo at all - bear in mind that November's issue of MOJO will drop onto my doormat before the end of September 'Twas always thus. If you look at any January edition of Coin Monthly, it will be full of Xmas gift ideas. As to the quiz, the only one I'm certain of is that A is Victoria Mojo. Are you a bit of a rocker then Chris? Who do you listen to? Steely Dan, Goldfrapp, Mercury Rev, Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Girls At Our Best, Robert Wyatt, Afro-Celt Sound System, The Who, Genesis, Captain Beefheart, The Zombies, Zero 7, Oscar Peterson, Frank Zappa, Cole Porter, Amy McDonald, Amy Winehouse, The Beat, The Specials, Madness, Kevin Ayers, Caravan, Pink Floyd, JJ Cale, Buena Vista Cubans, Misty In Roots, Easy Star All Stars, King Tubby, John Grant, Midlake, Eno, Yes (earlier), The Buzzcocks, Chic, Odyssey, Sister Sledge, Culture Club, Bowie, Mott the Hoople, Dean Martin / Frank Sinatra / Sammy Davis Junior, Dire Straits, The Doors, Dusty Springfield, Earth Wind & Fire, Ennio Morricone, Enigma, John Barry, Field Music, Fleet Foxes, The Faces, Beverley Knight ... dammit that's enough looking through my collection on iTunes

Hi Chris. There are plenty of examples of this one in the archives, so not simply a 'clutter' anomaly. London Coins sold a ropey fine one some years ago. C Cooke had one. Our fellow member who has the farthing site lists it. So very much a recognised variety. It's true it may not be that the G is over an O (but it certainly looks like it is), however it certainly is over another letter. I must admit, I hadn't spotted evidence of a serif. I'll have a look and report back. On your photograph, the top right of the G curves down, like a C - however, there's another feature behind it that continues straight on; that to my eyes looks like a serif. Then if you go down from the top right, to the horizontal cross-stroke of the G, between the two there is a down stroke that exactly matches the vertical on the left, that probably has been thought of as the left inner of an O (but it may not be?). I've had a another look using my loupe. The 'blob' at the end of the G (upper right) is just the serif at the end of the letter, not something lying beneath. The downstroke of the underlying letter curves out and in again as would an O. If it were the right vertical stroke of a U it would be more upright. We may have to wait for Colin's input on this one…. No, I don't mean the blob of metal that makes people think of an O - I mean underlying that, and fractionally to the left : there's a vertical, straight, downstroke exactly matching the vertical downstroke inside the left hand curve of the G.

Was that a collection of BU individual currency issues Rob? If so, that would indeed be a dedicated fan of decimals : their existence is vastly complicated by the issue of proofs for the general public of every decimal coin ever issued since 1971, and BU specimen sets for every year since 1982. The presence of all these sets on the market seems to complicate things somewhat, and makes the collection of decimals rather different to what went before. (I wonder if there are any pre-1971 decimal proofs, i.e. for the 50p, 10p and 5p? Now THOSE would be very rare and would attract even non-decimal collectors.)

You've ignored the fact that 99,999 of them are 1967 pennies, 1981 or 1965 crowns, or "ultra rare" washers... I haven't ignored or assumed anything, just observed that there are a record number of listings and hope it might mean some increased interest in the hobby ... or of course it might mean nothing at all ... in fact I suspect if I was to do some further analysis it would show that most of the increase is down to decimal listings, especially 50ps, and that the quality of the grades listed was at an all time low! It was just an observation, nothing more. I wasn't being entirely serious!

Yeah. I shouöd of done

You've ignored the fact that 99,999 of them are 1967 pennies, 1981 or 1965 crowns, or "ultra rare" washers...

Hi Chris. There are plenty of examples of this one in the archives, so not simply a 'clutter' anomaly. London Coins sold a ropey fine one some years ago. C Cooke had one. Our fellow member who has the farthing site lists it. So very much a recognised variety. It's true it may not be that the G is over an O (but it certainly looks like it is), however it certainly is over another letter. I must admit, I hadn't spotted evidence of a serif. I'll have a look and report back. On your photograph, the top right of the G curves down, like a C - however, there's another feature behind it that continues straight on; that to my eyes looks like a serif. Then if you go down from the top right, to the horizontal cross-stroke of the G, between the two there is a down stroke that exactly matches the vertical on the left, that probably has been thought of as the left inner of an O (but it may not be?).

Except that sterling silver is also an alloy. Yes, but 1) it's over 92% silver, and 2) it had been used for centuries.

A certain degree of misalignment is neither here or there, but 90º is quite a lot. It would certainly be rare but as to value, you'd have to find someone interested in such things. My guess is that there aren't too many unfortunately.

No. Enlighten me. April issue. Answers by March 15th…. Not a typo at all - bear in mind that November's issue of MOJO will drop onto my doormat before the end of September 'Twas always thus. If you look at any January edition of Coin Monthly, it will be full of Xmas gift ideas. As to the quiz, the only one I'm certain of is that A is Victoria

There's no rule about it. If the Mint decided there needed to be some re-punching, it could be just one character, or nearly all of them.

Ah ok, that's a little more credible. Otherwise, I have a couple of very nice 1902 proof crowns that anybody can have for the bargain price of just $4k each. I'll have one! Oh, wait...

Behind the top right of the G it looks like the top of something like a U - a horizontal serif and a downstroke; this would make the curve of what is thought to be the O somewhat of a problem. Perhaps it's no more than a blob of metal unless it occurs on more than one example? However, there's definitely MORE than an O behind that G.

The Mint had major problems with the alloy (the first silver alloy since medieval times), and there are variations in colour, strike quality, and who knows what else. I think that's also a good theory about people hoarding the pre-1920 silver and spending the first couple of years of 50% issue instead. For the same reason, it's why 1944-1946 silver coins - the final years of silver - are so common in high grade. (As for there also being so many 1948s in high grade, the mintages were massive, that's why; 1920 mintages weren't massive compared to the height of the inflation during WW1).

Presumably you will upgrade that Filler when something better comes along?

I think that was the point!! (British humour...) [Apologies to AardHawk for quoting another post. I'm not going to stop, however. ]

Isn't there a United club of green and yellow fame heading slowly towards the League? (I'm still hoping that AFC Wimbledon overtake those usurping Dons..) [Hey, how about this for a coincidence .. I've popped in here and guess what's playing on my iTunes (shuffle mode)? "I Collect Coins" by Mercury Rev from Deserters Songs!]

Thanks Pete & most definately not !! lol.... YAY. That's the North-West sorted out with a slew of anti-Stinky folks (my pet name for the 'orrible 'united). Watch out for scott though - he's that rare beast, a Mancunian AND a red.

That's exactly what I was saying. What's the biggest joke outside Manchester? It's where all the United supporters come from! Hence Roy Keane's 'prawn sandwich' swipe a few years back...

Less than 200 posts? Newbies! I post and post and post and post and post, so how can I possibly be a spammer?