Coinery

That's a One Penny, Gary! ah! What a plonker....... ok here's my 1902LT Halfpenny That's really rather nice, I have to say. You'll be pleased with that, then? :-)

Thanks, Peter, It's a shame about the small spot in the right field of the reverse, though!

You'll do well on eBay ;-) If your coin's as good as the one you've posted, I'll buy it! I rather suspect it isn't! Good luck with the collecting, you'll never come to the end of it! Here is an effort, hope it works, I think it is good and this has not been cleaned, any comment appreciated. Very nice, have you got a photo of the other side, and how much are you looking for? Not sure about this side, I forgot what size I made the last one here goes anyway. I dont know what I want I am open to offers, I only started a couple of weeks ago and I collect shillings this was in a pail of coins I got for the shillgs contained in it. I would not be offended at any offer. Dont think this is a good pic. What about a good old-fashioned swap...online, for fun? If you're new to it all, we could have a forum-guided look at a couple of my old shillings, what do you reckon? If you can wait until Sunday evening, I'll post up a couple of options for you to ponder on, maybe the forum chaps and lady could throw in there twelve- penneth worth and help you out? Fancy it? Suits me Coinery not a problem. Thanks for the offer. OK, great stuff, I'll start a new thread on Sunday evening and post up pictures of a few shillings, and see what you think. The last thing I ever swapped was a pannini football card around 1978 or 79 :-) Sorry coinery, old age does not visit alone, out of interest what kind of date/s were you thinking, just to save you going to the bother if I have them. Cheers. I'll have a sift through and let you know what I've got tomorrow, if that's OK?

You'll do well on eBay ;-) If your coin's as good as the one you've posted, I'll buy it! I rather suspect it isn't! Good luck with the collecting, you'll never come to the end of it! Here is an effort, hope it works, I think it is good and this has not been cleaned, any comment appreciated. Very nice, have you got a photo of the other side, and how much are you looking for? Not sure about this side, I forgot what size I made the last one here goes anyway. I dont know what I want I am open to offers, I only started a couple of weeks ago and I collect shillings this was in a pail of coins I got for the shillgs contained in it. I would not be offended at any offer. Dont think this is a good pic. What about a good old-fashioned swap...online, for fun? If you're new to it all, we could have a forum-guided look at a couple of my old shillings, what do you reckon? If you can wait until Sunday evening, I'll post up a couple of options for you to ponder on, maybe the forum chaps and lady could throw in there twelve- penneth worth and help you out? Fancy it? Suits me Coinery not a problem. Thanks for the offer. OK, great stuff, I'll start a new thread on Sunday evening and post up pictures of a few shillings, and see what you think. The last thing I ever swapped was a pannini football card around 1978 or 79 :-)

That's a One Penny, Gary!

You'll do well on eBay ;-) If your coin's as good as the one you've posted, I'll buy it! I rather suspect it isn't! Good luck with the collecting, you'll never come to the end of it! Here is an effort, hope it works, I think it is good and this has not been cleaned, any comment appreciated. Very nice, have you got a photo of the other side, and how much are you looking for? Not sure about this side, I forgot what size I made the last one here goes anyway. I dont know what I want I am open to offers, I only started a couple of weeks ago and I collect shillings this was in a pail of coins I got for the shillgs contained in it. I would not be offended at any offer. Dont think this is a good pic. What about a good old-fashioned swap...online, for fun? If you're new to it all, we could have a forum-guided look at a couple of my old shillings, what do you reckon? If you can wait until Sunday evening, I'll post up a couple of options for you to ponder on, maybe the forum chaps and lady could throw in there twelve- penneth worth and help you out? Fancy it?

Kind of wandered off topic hasn't it Great stuff! Now where have I seen that happen before? :-)

Let's hope not for the buyer's sake! Would anyone care to post a pic of their 1905 HC, I would like to see a high grade one! (It wont be me, mine is gF) Here's mine, any good? If you're after a fake, that'll do nicely. If I was in the market for one of these (I'd love one, one day), I'd certainly do my research well in advance. But, if this is indeed a fake, I have to say that upon first impressions i wouldn't be able to spot it from the pictures alone, not without being pre-armed with any pre-purchase research, that is!

Here's mine, I think it's EF, maybe better, but a weakly struck reverse, any thoughts (said I wouldn't ask about grades again)?

You'll do well on eBay ;-) If your coin's as good as the one you've posted, I'll buy it! I rather suspect it isn't! Good luck with the collecting, you'll never come to the end of it! Here is an effort, hope it works, I think it is good and this has not been cleaned, any comment appreciated. Very nice, have you got a photo of the other side, and how much are you looking for?

In my experience coins have gotten more expensive over the short(ish) 8 years I've been collecting. I would be very happy to pick up some of the coins I've sold since then, if I only had to pay what I did at the time! I have to admit I was lucky, but when I checked I still have perhaps half of the coins I bought in 2004, either remaining happy with then or having failed to find better examples to upgrade. Real rarities aside, modern coins are easily available. You will be able to pick up a 1970 proof shilling or an 1887 in decent condition any time. But drop back to James II or William & Mary and you'll struggle. So if you see a good one now, it's inadvisable to wait. I started collecting shillings of the first year of issue and for any major bust or reverse change but eventually, as I said, had to narrow my collection or face gaps that would always challenge my budget if the coins were even available at all. I know some people do, but buying one or two coins a year is not much fun for me! So I echo what Rob says. Buy some cheaper recent coins but don't ignore the older ones. And remember, you can always ask people here whether they think a price is acceptable or not. Not that that will stop you from making mistakes, because we all do, but it might help a bit with damage limitation! Absolutely, damage limitation is the best anyone can hope for in the beginning; at any time actually, particularly if you're a bargain sniper. I've said in a thread somewhere before, that I learnt more in 1 month on this forum than I'd learnt in the previous 10 years. We must of course remember that mistakes present the greatest learning opportunities and, for all the many mistakes I've made in life, I've certainly learned proportionately more from those made collecting coins. Anyway, it's not all bad, because there is a certain pleasure that comes from a mistake made only once!

You'll do well on eBay ;-) If your coin's as good as the one you've posted, I'll buy it! I rather suspect it isn't! Good luck with the collecting, you'll never come to the end of it!

Yes, looks like it. These are actually much rarer than the pennies and as a result rather more valuable, and yes that is pretty much as good as they get. I sold one in NEF for £75 last year. I managed to pick up a GEF, could possibly be AU, one of these for £100 last year. I've only seen 1 for sale since. Do you all think the Spink's catalogue is a true reflection of this type's value?

So I guess you will have noticed by now that he adds buckets of saturation to his pictures! As I said, I was pleased with my coins, but could see the 'artistic' enhancements were somewhat of an exaggeration of the actual colouration and tone. Fortunately, it hid no uglies in mine, and the 1902 penny (item number here somewhere) turned out to be a good replacement for the one I had. I did email him in March to ask him about the photography, and he told me he has the photos done by someone else!

I bought this 320832419613 off the same seller recently, really pleased with it! Common type, no big profit in it, but very nice on the eye I have to say.

I think you'll find this is a threepence with the eglantine 1577/5 Which is BCW Threepence EG-2:i1

Unusual approach! 251042472059 Not a good buy for hookers, apparently!

More than a bit of a coincidence? But I guess the purchase/removal could just be a routine business thing, Ed VII is popular!

Yes, at £60 it's thereabouts on price i'd say, though he's a tad strong in the grading, I think! Reverse front paw of lion, and hair and beard detail of bust, all looks a little bit beyond near UNC to me. Without the in-hand experience, I wouldn't even buy at EF (£60 would be my very top price on this one), i'd be trying to catch it for something under that, really, hoping to have a nice surprise, maybe?

I guess though that most people who are in the market for one of these, really ought to know about the American grading system? I guess we'll all be hand led and spoon fed once eBay collaborates with the grading companies. It'll be like listing a mobile phone soon, where you HAVE to check various boxes to even get it on...unless you want to list it as a fobile moan or something. :-) He actually told me it was joint SEVENTH finest......WOHOOO lol.......A bargain then Probably from a population numbering 8 examples? Joint last, then! :-)

Perhaps I shouldn't really use the word sh*te, as a coin's a coin, regardless of its perceived monetary/collectable value! I can't even bin a Fine Edward VII penny...Instead I desperately hope someone will give me 49p for it on eBay, just to free my conscience! :-)

Just took a quick peek at CGS, they've even got 165 DECIMAL pennies slabbed out there! Somebody is even the proud owner of a 2010 1p. They have got an awful lot of SH*TE bolstering their 'population reports'.

Nobody in the whole wide world would pay money themselves to slab the coins you can actually see available slabbed by CGS, I think they slabbed a whole load of low-value coinage for some other grand plan (numbers slabbed possibly etc???). There are endless coins slabbed well under the cost of slabbing! I agree that cgs should know these things, but I've even had a coin returned with a so-called CGS variety (no serif on 1 of date) dated incorrectly, by 4 years...1 and 5, not an excusable 3 and 8, or 8 and 9 etc.

Couldn't you just throw away an old pair of trainers and keep the collection? The space would be comparable, surely? You should definitely find a way to keep your collection if you'd really like to!

It looks brass in colour and certainly isn't bronze. I don't know whether it's been tested though. My verdict is taken from the TPG label on the slab (by CGS). Shame it's been slabbed - the weight would be a clincher. Good point. I checked the CGS record for the slab but no weight is recorded. I'll bet the plastic slab, rubber insert and labels, are relatively consistent in weight, would it be worth asking cgs if they'd mind weighing up a couple of blanks and labels for you to check? Failing that, there must be a few people on here who have slabbed pennies about? It would be interesting to gather some weights in to check consistency (I presume most 20th century pennies would be a consistent high-grade [weight] if they're slabbed). If there was very little difference, it could be a simple matter of then weighing your slab and calculating the variation...maybe?????! How many grams difference would there be between a brass and bronze penny?