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Your buying and selling tactics are the same as mine, which is not (mostly) condusive to the cash-flow principle, as you always, ALWAYS, end up crippling your funds by punching above your weight, just like that iconic 'child in a candy shop' comparison!Man, it's SO difficult Declan being an addict and Pub Landlord, all at the same time! I don't think there's a seller/dealer on here who'd confess otherwise! I think the secret is to 'bread and butter' so you can indulgently participate in these amazing auctions unfettered'ish' and, somewhere along the way, you target an occasional piece that someone hasn't, because either he's skint, on holiday, or spent out on an earlier lot, and then it's Christmas!

Really depends on your motive, to be honest!It's really, REALLY, hard to buy stock for resale at venues like these...it's pretty hard even at the peripheral auctions such as Stroud, Bristol, and Clevedon! I'm going to be cast from the corridors of respectability for saying this but, being as you know what I'm going to say, I need not burn any bridges! Did I say eB...no I didn't! From my observations I've noted, and experienced, that it's possible to cream away specialist pieces within your field of knowledge, but nigh impossible to buy bread and butter stock outside of the bulk lots, which you need to be in attendance to take advantage of! Oh, dear, I've probably said enough already!

Does that mean we now have dibs, Stuart? Would certainly be interesting to see the other side, as the obverse doesn't look too bad? I'm skint!

I'm only guessing the Tudors must have known the Stuarts were coming! Leaves me dumbstruck!

Someone just isn't concentrating...wrong monarch, and has taken two different photos of the obverse, and then described it 'tudor rose on the obverse AND reverse'! Different! It did take me an age to be certain in wasn't a double-obverse J1 halfpenny though, I would've surely bought it first, if it was! Could of course be Charles, if it IS a different image, but I think it's the same! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1577-A-D-Queen-Elizabeth-I-England-Tudor-Period-Hammered-Silver-Half-Penny-Coin/350877017105?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D11%26meid%3D1358177517531278611%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D1005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D130989863417%26 edit: could be a start to your small denomination C1 collection, TG, if there's another rose on the back?

There was lots of bidding from Japan in the Mellors and Kirk as well. The Japanese are even buying English hammered, which always surprises me!

What part of the country are you in numisma_what, there's a pretty good spread of members on here who might be happy to take a look for you? Great username, by the way!

'Stylised A' mintmark on this fine detailed VF obverse! Saxby's has always been a byword for things to avoid IMHO. Thankfully the listings always used to be obvious and so easily avoided. Not looked recently though. I'll have a few Matildas if you don't mind. Well, maybe not. They always list continental hammered coins as "British found" which was fine, until their eBay feedback showed bulk purchases of coins from the continent... Might've helped if I remembered to put the item number in... 350869441820Never seen a stylised A before! Inverted too! Yes, Rob, not one to bookmark, that's for certain!

'Stylised A' mintmark on this fine detailed VF obverse!

I do wish I'd done something similar, I never even titled my images in the beginning, which means I sometimes have to manually trawl thousands of images to find what I'm looking for! Not very intelligent at all! Edit: what's access?

I thought this was a reasonable example of a small denomination C1, which went to the US as usual! What's interesting, is that the US collectors seem to hold the smaller denominations in the same regard as the bigger stuff. With the smaller E1 pieces, pretty much all the good stuff goes over the atlantic. I personally like the smaller coins but, as has already been said, it's not popular here. I'd say the halfgroats are the halfpennies (modern milled) of hammered. The E1 halfpennies and threefarthings are VERY popular, and command good money but, after that, it all goes flat until you hit the groats!

What's its spink price?

About as useful as chocolate for welding sticks!

Without looking in books to ID it, I'd guess, unless it's mega rare, that it would go for 25% over Spink's book price! I'm basing this on my experience of watching E1 halfgroats going through with quality busts, which they seldom have! As an example, I saw a E1 HG with bust 6D on it, last week, which is up there as one of most elegant busts on an Elizabeth coin I reckon, and it had a staggering quality bust on it. It books at £85 in VF, and has some clipping...I won it at £121 in a snipe, but had two other last-minute snipers who were prepared to pay over £110. So, my guess, 25% over book!

I'd certainly give that 'verd' a seeing to if it was mine! I'd take a gamble on the green and pay £125 any day of the week on eBay! Nice rare find, Hoody!

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!