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Does anyone collect tokens on here?? I have been known to buy them from time to time - as long as they're nice ones

Rammstein? As in 'Tanz Der Mussolini'??

I've got CCGB 2014 on the free Kindle for Mac app. It works fine, and it automatically picked up all my other Kindle books on the computer, including where I'd left off reading them. Worth the slight extra I'd say.

It certainly looks like a T - and the second "T" (i.e. the "I") is much clearer than the first.

Yes - CCGB 2014 gives : VF £65 EF £300 VF £70 EF £250 VF £80 EF £300 which I think are more realistic than Spink tbh.

If you put pictures up in the Items For Sale forum, you could try here.

The smilies are at the top of the 'Reply to this topic box', between the gold 'A' and 'My Media'. But I just use the combinations of brackets and colon/semicolon. Which means you should never use a list that runs along the lines of x) y) z) - you will end up with a) c) !

The darkened post-war pennies are lush and leave my darkened farthings alone Absolutely agree. A truly UNC Edward VII darkened farthing is a thing of great beauty with an almost purplish sheen and detail that's far easier to make out than on a BU type.

I would refine this only a little - after 1935, you want coins to be GEF at the very least (which is very nearly uncirculated) except for the rare dates : 1946, 1949, and 1951 brass 3d, 1943/1944 silver 3d, 1952 sixpence, possibly the 1950/1951 pennies. Even coins which are expensive in BU such as 1954 halfcrowns and florins, or 1959 Scottish shillings, plummet like a stone in EF and can picked up for about 1/5 of their of BU price. With the exception of some 1950s halfcrowns, florins, and shillings, you want Elizabeth II coins to be BU. For George VI here is a quick rundown of what you should aim for in BU: Halfcrowns - 1944/45/46, 1948 Florins - ditto Shillings - ditto Sixpences - 1939 to 1951 Silver 3d - 1937/38 Brass 3d - 1937, 1941/42/43/44, 1952 Pennies - 1937/38, 1947/48/49 Halfpennies - 1937/38, 1942/43/44/45, 1952 Farthings - all dates except 1938

Circulated 1967 coins (sovereign excepted!) are pretty much worthless. Probably the guys here could between us supply you with all the 1967 denominations in BU - all you'd need to do is find a case. Whatever you do, don't hand over £15 even for a BU set! 1967 appeared as the date on all predecimal coins minted between 1967 and 1970, so they are among the commonest coins of all time, and got put by in their millions.

25 grand!! Hope it was a serious bid..

Nice coin Paulus! Thanks, that one won't be going any time soon, even when I pare back to one nice example of silver milled per monarch! Ticks all the boxes for me! Yes, if I had to nominate just one currency coin it would be worth donning my cat burglar suit for, that would be it ...

Hi Dan, Welcome to the forums Chris P. may be trying to sell his books, but actually those two he's picked out are an ideal pair for beginners : one is a fact-filled price guide from 1797 to 1967, the other teaches you about grading in the best way possible - with pictures! If you decide you want to go back earlier than 1797, come back and ask, and we will advise what books to beg steal or borrow .. or even buy. If I had to give you one tip, it's this : better to buy one coin you can afford in the best condition possible, than 10 coins for the same money but in a much poorer condition.

It looks good to me - if it ever was cleaned, it was long ago and has toned back.

What did you think about the results for lot 43 - Wyon's Incorrupta pattern? Did that sell? Seemed like the best I've seen, beautiful toning. I love Wyon's patterns. One of these days, maybe I can afford an UNA! I've always had this fantasy about being on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and getting to the million dollar question .. which asks "What type of item did the Victorian design 'Una and the Lion' appear on?" A. A toilet bowl B. A gold coin C. A tea service D. A London tram I'd look across at Tarrant and I'd say, "You know Chris - I know the answer to this one". Well, I can dream, can't I?

I think the plethora of 1858 dies with overdates argues for a planned changeover to bronze in 1859. When that fell back, they would have needed a rush issue of 1859s, which though not rare, are very much scarcer than 1858. They probably had to produce new dies especially for 1859, as the 1858 "make do and mend" will have seen most unused dies already put to good use. It's possible that a larger issue of 1860 coppers was planned with the bronze date delayed yet again, but then later in 1860 it finally happened and bronze started production. Two observations : 1) an 1860 copper issue, having begun, would then have to be aborted and mostly melted down as not required, but a few pieces escaped. 2) The bronze mintage for 1860, especially pennies, is very much lower than you'd expect for a huge changeover; the figures for 1861-1863 are massive in comparison. This argues for a late start to the bronze run in 1860. ,

Patience isn't one of my better atributes.....my problem is keeping track of which auctions are coming up. A diary page on the forum would be really useful. Agreed ... and fairs too.

ROFL -- I was just trying to think up a post mentioning Hendrix, Dylan and The Who .. then I saw yours!

Yes, Constantine, Constantius and Constans bronzes are plentiful, and would be a good entry point for someone wanting to start a collection of Roman bronze.

I have a lovely little blue square with a white ? in.

If it's the size of a bronze farthing I'd say it's an AE4. The AE3 was very small, but confusingly there is an AE3/4 too. Those small late Empire bronzes didn't have an actual denomination name IIRC.

There were a whole load of halfpennies. Admittedly pennies didn't make an appearance until the following year, and there were of course no farthings.

True - we'd got around to money by then. No-one remembered the mammoth tusks of YOUR youth.

That's a possibility. Or else farthings are a different case from the pennies which were clearly intended for circulation. Perhaps a few pennies were kept back for whatever use the farthings (and halfpennies?) were intended?

Elizabeth as Easter Island statue? Oops, I was looking at the wrong side. And who exactly is OUEEN ELIZABETH? Are those the Moai? (From what I remember of the Easter Island program I was watching the other day). They remind me of the running heads on about the 3rd - 4th level of Mario. I hated those haha. You might like this ...