simon

As a swiss coincollector i was glad to find lots of informations on the following site that is online since many years: Coins of the UK Have fun -Simon- BTW: You even may find some interesting info on my website if you know a little german or use the google-translator. But... you may fall into laughter because the translation fails quite often. http://coins.thedudes.ch

I wonder when they selling the gold-coin of Coenwulf. Would be interesting how much the buyer ist willing to pay this time Anyway I always appreciate to look through the auctions even if I don't have the money to buy one. It's amazing how good the condition of a coin at a high price-level!

By the way: The Diameter of a Triple Unite is 46mm and its weight is 27.2grams. I own several cartweel pennies and Twopences and its just fun to look at them because of its different colours. In my oppinion, coppercoins in general can be very interesting to look at with all its various colours they get over the years. -Simon-

Here are another few tips... 1) Use the macro-mode of your cam (do you?) 2) Shot with the max resolution of your cam 3) Select the TIFF image format (if available) or RAW 4) Use a stand and shot your coin through a paper-cone with three lights around it (on the outside) (I use backing paper) 5) Use an external trigger or at least autodelay a few seconds. This avoids the blurring of the picture 6) Finally use Gimp (software) for free! You'll find it at www.gimp.org I hope this will bring a bit more light in this diffuse topic -Simon-

This is no cheap indeed but I am sure it would be worth the price. I just ordered a book called: A catalogue of english coins, part 2 for a lot of money, so I guess I'll have to live with that one for a while I hope it's also worth the price.. . Anyway - Seaby and Coincraft are not that bad... Thanks anyway and who knows: If such books are still available from just before my next trip to England, I'll be glad to order one from you and save the postage Regards, Simon

Hi I found a strange coin again on the web. Does anybody know something about it? Is this a kind of a token? -Simon-

Throw in a price and I will tell you my decision -Simon-

It's a pitty that I don't own one. I could not find this catalogue in the online shop, or is there a database on the web? -Simon-

Me too, but I cannot remember where. MMMh, THE PLEDGE OF......what?

Hey Bingo!!! See? I don't know the Coincraft Catalogue as well as I should... I prefer Seaby normally... That's kind of an interesting section about all those patterns Thanks for the hint!

By pure chance I stumbled over the following coin: Has anyone some more information about this coin because I could not find it in Spink's nor in Coincraft's Catalog either. Broad -Simon-

True, it's Oli Chromwell and Charles II without a crown. They normally wear a laurel wreath...

Sounds interesting! I didn't thought that it could be a pattern. That may also be the solution for the good condition of this coin...

Yes you are right, it looks like a Charles II Unite... althought not only the portrait but also the inscription would be wrong.

6p in copper? The poor people would have taken a wheelbarrow to go shopping! But probably they did so anyway The biggest coins of Switzerland were the 'Talers' that were produced to replace the goldcoins because gold was not available at that time. One of the biggest coins must have been the Doppel-Taler from Basel of 1670 with a diametre of 51mm and a weight of 56.46 gramm. A masterpiece of a coin! Its a pitty that the price is too high to afford one!

Oops, that's a bigger coin than a Twopence of 1797! (I tought this one is heavy)

And if you have a proper look at the incription you'll notice that the letters don't have the same spaces as the original. Everything looks a bit too shiny and too perfect... Hope you haven't spent too much Simon

Wow, looks really large! What's the diameter of this Token? Is it heavy? Simon

Me too!

Thanks, I'll probably ask him, but I don't know If he would be pleased to translate dozens and dozens of pages Anyway, the website of Tony Clayton is quite ok, although he might ad a bit more pictures but it's difficult to maintain such a load of infos, though!

Hi all I just signed in and wonder if anyone is interessted in a german webpage about UK Coins You may also want to try the english translation by google to have a good laugh Regards, Simon UK Coins - Englische Münzen

> Seems pretty good to me! Have you tried Chris to see if he has any ideas? Don't know who Chris is... Administrator?

Hi If you just found a (silver) roman coin and cannot make out any details on it just wash it with water and a tooth-brush. If that still doesn't work put the coin in a glass filled with oil. The oil has the effect to out the water (and the dirt) from the coin. You may leave the coin in there for months without any harm! I don't know if you should try it with a copper-coin...? Another interesting topic would be to clean the coin with a laser: Laser cleaning the Abergavenny hoard

Hi > Nice website Simon.. (Yours?) Yes, I always wanted to write a useful german page about English coins. Sorry about the trouble with google. I haven't found a better online translator and I guess there won't be a better one in any case. I probably will translate the pages by myself, but that's a lot of work anyway and I don't speak english as good as I would/should. From my point of view, the page of Tony Clayton is always worth a try if one is looking for more information about English coins.