SionGilbey

Actually, it seems these coins do exist: http://www.predecimal.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5450 Oddly, those photos belong to a member called chris, so those photos are either stolen from him, or the ebayer IS him. Chris, are you the ebayer with the legitimate coin or is this ebayer in fact not you, but someone who has taken your photos and added their own with the side of a normal 5p?

Oops, looks like I've been too hasty there, there is another picture of the error coin, to the right of the previous picture And I got my net detective shoes on as well!

Sounds like they scanned both sides, turned one 180 degrees around (can be done easily on paint!) and posted it. OR they could have just ripped one from the internet which was like that for aesthetic purposes. Investigating further I found these coins very easily. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2008-error-5-pence-coin-scarcer-than-undated-20p-/150537147931?pt=UK_Coins_BritishDecimal_RL&hash=item230cb6961b The picture initially looked legit - hard to photoshop! Enlarging the picture I found it was a normal 5p piece, both sides the right way round! There was no picture of the coin they were selling! To be perfectly clear, it's a scam. Even more cheeky, the OP of this thread seems to be here just so the coin will have been posted on a UK forum, as one of the major selling points on this coin is "this has been on ebay for 30 days prior to this auction, posted across two uk coin forums and also a worldwide forum"! This type of scam infuriates me every time I go near eBay.

To be honest there are barely any in Aber these days, if they haven't discovered Ryanair they're in the great city of Borth up the way! My mam always used to pretend to be a scouse child in Wales, often quoting "Look mam ma eye can see the sea!" or other proclamations of joy when they notice the sheep.

Very nice story!

That isn't a bad price. Unless you get a damaged one, most are not in poor condition. A relative lack of circulation means that most examples come up around the VF mark - and are certainly commoner than in fine. So a groat or less likely a threepence starting at around the £200 level is a reasonable amount to pay. Indeed. I don't really collect hammered coins though, and I'm really after it for historical value, so a damaged one would do me fine, even if it is only worth it's melting value.

My family variation on that was 'enough blue to make a sailor a pair of trousers'. Yes, we were told the sailor variant also - except it was 'mend' in both cases, not 'make' (perhaps it was a smaller patch of blue sky? ) My mother always said "It's going to be sunny if there's enough sky to make an Englishman's trousers" followed by "Bloody Englishmen". This was all in Welsh of course.

It's a bit of a muddle really... I started off wanting to collect silver threepences 1845-1937 but after buying the local coin place's stock of about 11 of them and 2 in a handful of car boot sales I decided to branch out until I found myself collecting pennies from 1797 to 1967 (originally I collected from 1800 but I couldn't resist buying a cartwheel penny and twopence going cheap!), 20th century Halfpennies, farthings from 1820s-, and an aim of a handful of coins from every country in the world... and anything that I know is worth a bit more than what they're selling it for! I'm also after a coin from the Aberystwyth mint but I have yet to find for less than £170 (I'm looking for a bargain). And Peck - Diolch yn fawr!

Very nice! How much did you pay?

Thanks to both of you! I don't mind about the monetary value (or rather the lack of it!) but it is a pity it has been defiled.

Can anyone tell me what it is (denomination)? And possibly what it's worth? I have seen Queen Anne coins before but none with the 1 and nothing this small. Any guesses?

The small one is a 6 pence from South Africa. Thanks!

I'm having some trouble identifying two coins. I can probably manage the larger one but the smaller one still puzzles me. It is inscribed Z.A.R 18(large 6)96 I wondered whether anyone would recognize them.