Coinery

I just won $8 on the Powerball so I am moving in the right direction "To sleep, perchance to dream" That's a staggering, but I'm sure quite accurate, figure Rob. If Heritage can shift $100 million coins in a single week then it's interesting to speculate that the market would probably be able to absorb the whole collection (had it not already been sold) at today's prices too. There's no doubt the market is massive! I've just zipped through the BCW sixpences (a cheapish and popular Liz denomination) and calculated, forgetting the rare variety prices, that it would cost around £100,000 to gather up the 'known' varieties in VF! In reality, with the rare dates included, it would be closer to £250,000+ just for something as basic as the sixpences!

I just won $8 on the Powerball so I am moving in the right direction "To sleep, perchance to dream" WooHoo! the coins are on jaggy guys!!! I'll have a 1967 BU penny then please, Jaggy! Your shout!

Sums it up, I'd say!

Don't know what you're talking about, Paulus? If this is a thread to give Chris a headache, I've always thought 'coin acquisition of the week' & 'recent acquisitions' should be one and the same?

Colin, you forgot the tax on taking a/the piss break, throughout the auction! As you've commented before about other coin related standards, you have to ask...is there the least glimmer of a professional standard twixt their ears? Imagine them taking charge of YOUR company? I somehow ended up working for such a company, once, so have seen it from the bottom up...wouldn't survive, on account of my own personal integrity, working from the top down...I'd sooner eat out of bins! I speak this standard with my wife and family often...it's my measure of what I view as satisfactory, whether I'd prefer to eat out of bins or not? You'd be surprised how low my threshold for this simple quality standard is!

Uh?

Do you mean the first of the 3, the 1889 Crown? If so, I think the grade is its biggest downfall. It also looks to be cleaned! You only put up the reverse, but I'm guessing the obverse would've been equally uninspiring. Its only saving grace for me was a reasonable reverse edge/rim, which is not a common quality on such a large, obviously well-circulated, coin!

That had to be a typo on their part, surely? There's not a suggestion or even a glimpse of a 1! Is the 3/2 an unrecorded variety, then?

A cheap sideline is a satisfying solution to both your problem of locating and/or affording hammered pieces, and my problem of not having enough money full-stop! A theme such as the one you've chosen is an attractive one, especially if you can accumulate a pretty collection cheaply! I like it TG! Could be a continuance of my small hammered copper farthing 'gathering', or maybe the milled farthing series in general, or possibly stick with year sets, maybe Edward pennies...oh I don't know? Blinking coins!

See what a thread on predecimal can do? Perhaps we should add a safety warning!I didn't mention the worst bit. I've even started to mimic Rob a bit. One coin is nickel, two bronze, two CuNI (though I thought one was aluminium!) and an aluminium/bronze. I've even considered getting a proof! Eeek! Oh, and the coins (still seller's pics) closer to life-size: Coins.jpg I think I did OK for 36 (10 of which was postage!) I've got the Paris PCGS phone number if you need it? If it was girls you wanted on yer coins, you should've just let us know, there's no shame in it? There's a couple of home-grown birds out there...1500's, 1700's, 1900's, or even a bit o decimal Liz if you like? I've already got TWO spare 2005 5p's if you want one? Pretty coins, really...why French, though?

Oh, my God!

I also thought 3-letter search words weren't allowed?????

Not when using the 'mobile' version on a smart phone! You scroll using your thumb on the screen...the series of 'like' ticks fall directly under your thumb when scrolling!I could end up liking all kinds of drivel, quite by accident! And, worse still, I might not notice!

That's a beautiful planchet for the period!

Or is it a token for a mineral Bath? I can't find anything on it either. Given the remit includes the suppression of vagrants, street beggars and imposters, I can't see it being anything to do with the baths even though they are less than 100yds away. The latter were frequented by the well to do of Georgian society and were unlikely to be affected by the lower classesHaving lived in Bath for a number of years I concur! It's still very much that way today, at least at the 'new' Bath Spa...very lovely, lovelies!

Interestingly, there are similar issues on other forums using the same software! The 'quote' facility can be erratic on the canal forum I use! Even more interesting is this forum's software works perfectly for me! I reckon it's akin to a PC running beautifully at a million miles' an hour, with nay a hiccup one day, and then behaving like a total beach the next, only to return to sublimity without intervention a day later! I hate 'n' love 'em!

Trouble is, I'm forever catching the 'like' tick on the 'mobile' version of the forum, when scrolling down the page, being right-handed an' all! So, I might end up liking all sorts of random posts! I'll do my best, though! Edit: TG, does it show on the full forum version that I liked your above post?

It's like a Green & Blacks chocolate button (if there ever was such a thing), swished around with a good slurp of Gran Reserve Rioja! It's that good!

Sam Allardyce, or your very own Andy Carroll? I felt sorry for AC (not our AC), I thought that was harsh!

You're feeling your way through this intelligently, so don't despair! The only thing I can add at this time, is don't get sucked in by toning! Even bleached white coins can 'look' good after a year of just sitting around a damp bedsit! Toning is great AND king! But make sure it's not a bad coin made good! And I'm not saying your 1908 is bad, just that the comparison you make between the two coins it not necessarily valid, simply by using 'toning' as the point of reference. Just one more thing...you are hell right that E7 florins are the devil themselves to get right!

I've only just noticed the Angel of the North! I used to drive past it a minimum 3 times a week, and would walk up to the foot of it, probably monthly! I'm just getting your point, Peter, re Sunderland! I could never get over standing at the foot of that statue, which is amazing (could never understand the local resistance from some of the North-Easterners), and looking up at what I thought were the buttocks, only to realise they were only the calves! Stunning piece of ironmongery if you ask me!

Hey, Sunderland are my first, yer...b&£@! Oh hang on, we're on the same team, you support Ipswich!

Hah, an interesting thing found have I...and a fact indeed! Tis true, honestly!I undoubtably get visits to my site from people browsing the forum (which is great for ranking, no doubt about it, and I'm grateful for that beyond doubt) but, and I cannot believe it myself even, not one of my sales has ever directly linked from pre-decimal! I've had a couple from John, and 3 from Colin (thanks chaps), but that's it! The shopping cart I use provides the direct source, whether it's google, or a 'favourites' link from a supporting website! It's not the pot at the end of the rainbow it may at first seem...I'm skint, but happy days!

I've only just got this thread! Finally the penny has dropped! Edit: sorry, Declan!