Coinery

Scary, that the mid-nineties are now seen to be old-times! There's a guy down the boatyard who wasn't even on the planet in 1993...he's just got married, drives a car, and has a child of his own! Jezzzzus!

Yeah, but most of those are things like "Why are the Kardashians so popular?" and "Who are One Direction?" so don't really count! Oh, TG !

I use the same flips as Declan, but put mine into a small A5 Numis book, which holds 60 coins! I like it for the quick viewing of both sides, and see the plastic pages I slide the 2x2 flips into as another barrier to the atmosphere and its dreaded moisture content!

Blimy, I have read the "good Dealers" post and wished I had seen It before I posted as I can now see cautions other members may have!I would Just like to say that this post was not meant to ruin reputations etc. and was a genuine question from someone relatively new to this :/ It sounds like you're moving into the field in absolutely the right way. As has already been said, the Grading Book by Derek Allen is fast becoming a standard must-have, and is on most collectors shelves, definitely worth buying!There are few questions that can't be answered by the members of this forum, it's probably the largest and greatest resource there is!

Blinkin' 'eck, Declan, there's no way you'll be allowed to go again! You must've had a sizeable limp when you walked through the midland doors! I do especially like that halfpenny, and the '47 penny! Edit: and the '93 and 96' shillings + the 1901 HC (posted after my post, these are my favourite of all!)

Hi Asumel, you may find your question is treated with some suspicion, as we have recently been asked a very similar question, but do bear with us and welcome aboard! If you look in the members' section and read the post titled 'good dealers?' (I think that was the title), you'll understand!

I always thought it was a tuppence? Maybe the filles were more upmarket round your way?

Hi albundy, and welcome aboard! I can highly recommend a couple of days browsing the posts on this forum, it'll give you a taste of what's out there, before spending any money on books! Namely, the width and breadth of the hobby, and the depths to which it can travel! When it comes to buying modern Royal Mint coins, I'd say it's about whether you like them or not, most people here are especially interested in the pre-decimal material, though a few do add the RM pieces as curios to their cabinets, the Olympic 50p's were impossibly popular! Edit; and having just read Peter's post, I do agree re books, as everyone on here does, however, in view of the number of books out there, it's worth targeting your interest first! The 2 suggestions above are definitely excellent choices!

You wait 'til you start looking at the specialist books, it's then that it gets interesting! You'll soon realise there are hundreds, possibly thousands, of Edward penny varieties alone, wouldn't be interesting otherwise!However, do get the Galata guide, it'll undo the Spink's riddle, and add an exciting new string to your bow! Edit: maybe not thousands, but a lot!

You can imagine the auction catalogue descriptors: "Extremely rare security code number 426, paired with the 01/12 expiry date, belonging to the rumoured mistress of Rod Stewart, Maggie Long-legs! It comes with an original bank statement, showing the famous 4 million purchase of the fake Picasso, which allegedly brought Rod to his knees, singing Wake Up Maggie, I Think I've Got Something to Say to You!" Est. £5000-£6000

They come up on ebay regularly, as genuine obvisiosly.I'd be up for buying one, next time anyone spots one!

Yes, not one to pass on with provenance!And LC should definitely be advising the seller, they should be acting in the buyer's best interest, after all, especially when they take nigh on 40% of the value of the coin from the two parties!

Yes, nice one, RPE, good resource, though we should still be cautious, as I'm guessing this is only IDing the 'first' batch from China. There could have been multiple sets of dies made, so always going to be worth a decent look-over, just in case the list isn't exhaustive! Incidentally, where did that list come from?

I'm looking for one in UNC, if anyone has one for sale? I think you inbox is full AC?

Nice coin Danz, I really like these W4 pennies! I know someone on here who's got a very nice '34 if you're looking for one! He may have sold it by now but, if you're interested, PM me and I'll reveal all!

Quality-strike and lustre (and sometimes tone), is a lot of what it's all about, Sound, for the silver, CU, AU, and Coppe/Bronze collectors ! It's the holy grail for as far back as it's possible to get a lustred coin, whereafter tone becomes the measure.

Yes, and be quite dazzling for it too, a rich shimmering tone! The one very important thing to remember is lustre-shine and reflectivity are not the same thing as a shiny coin, which will likely be cleaned or polished! Lustre has a luminance about it, definitely 'shimmering,' whereas a polished coin most certainly does not! Welcome aboard sound!

Top move, you'll be hooked! Rob (R P Coins) and Clive (Historic Coinage) are your main men in this field, to name but two of many experienced members of this forum.It's a brave and exciting area to collect in, I think you'll be on here a lot...it is rather addictive!

Welcome mattyguk, I can heartily recommend 'The Galata Guide to the Pennies of Edward I and II' by Paul & Bente Withers! A very good starting place for these pennies!

Outrageous! Of course we know why they're doing it! To catch those who sell an item for 99p and then charge £10 postage!They had a go at 'solving' that problem with books, where your postage charge was pre-determined by eBay (which was always £'s under the actual postage cost), forcing you to add the extra to the price of the book...effectively the end for a lot of booksellers who were previously happy with £3 for their books, provided the postage was covered by the buyer! They have got so greedy, they can't surely maintain it for long? It might be better, if they did want to be extra greedy, to perhaps charge 10% on postage that's over and above the price of 'real' postal charges so, a recorded large-letter in the UK attracts a 10% fee on anything above £2 + a reasonable packaging cost? Bastards!

The man who bought that possesses much indeed! I'd be surprised if the 'specifics' of this coin become common knowledge? More likely an investment tool for a grading company is my guess! Or, of course, it belongs now to a very high class collector of the genuine articles?

Barking mad, I tell you!

It's true the £107 bid was made 4 minutes after bidding opened, but you need other bidders to push the current winning bid up and it took nearly 2 days to pass the £100 mark. Of course, but this is my def of protection/shilling! List a coin, protect it immediately with a bid you won't accept less than (the newly listed brigade are surely smart enough not to place their top bid within 4 mins of listing, with 7/10 days to run, hoping they'll get a bargain?), and then go to bed for the week, forgetting all about it!That's how I see it! ??? Totally agree about the protection bid. You just need to watch if the same Person does it a few times then you'll know for sureIn view of Nick's observations "It's possible that it's a protection bid, 25% of that bidder's bids have been with that seller in the last 30 days but nothing has been won. It would help to find out the full eBay id for that bidder," I think it's really suspicious! A similar thing happened to their Mary Groat I was going to bid on!Still makes me burn, when I think of the insulting online course my father and I had to complete to unlock our accounts, for a dog cage that he wouldn't have sold for less than the reserve (which you pay for) anyway! Grrrr!