Coinery

If it's about short-term protection, I'd get hold of some acid-free coin envelopes and put your coins into those until you have time to process them properly. Store them in a dry environment, of course!

I did spot Tim Everson's book on eBay for a fiver this evening, if anyone's interested? James I and Charles I hammered copper farthings, anyone?

Wow, you're the man, PRAX Holmes, very enlightening read...great book-keeping too!

Generally the most expensive of the hammered variants! Certainly so with Elizabeth I and the hammered copper farthings of J1 and C1. The same can be said of the Scottish coins!

Great stuff, MR, and thank-you to Tim Everson for his time on this! His book 'The Farthing Tokens of James I & Charles I' will make hammered farthing collectors of us all, I'm sure https://www.galata.co.uk/store.asp?storeAction=showDetail&stockID=1136

Not my area, but welcome to the forum, JCC!

Hold it, hold it! Are we saying here that CGS will not slab a hammered coin with scratches?

I wonder what the larger businesses do? It does seem to shut down trade for all but the cheapest items?

Yes, beware anyone listing on eBay, who haven't checked the post office charges recently! Before Christmas I was able to send an item to the USA, with £1000 cover, for around £11...not anymore! It's now £84 for the same service!

Not sure you can add insurance anymore?Also, maybe there's been a change since I sold that batch of coins before Christmas, because the royal Mail postage calculator won't give me an insured signed-for option to Germany? Not even for £500???

On the phone (or mine, at least) those reverse fields are near totally whited (? Made up word?) out with glare?

I'd love to know if those fields,in-hand, are as proof-like as the photo makes out? He's a bit clever with the camera! I confess I've never bought a coin from Buck that I'm unhappy with, and his delivery service is very prompt! However, his communication is generally rude, when he finally bothers to respond at all! Notwithstanding the fact, the coins never arrive with that ethereal 'light-toned-lustre' look that his 'golden-hued' photos always portray. I do believe he could make a soil-found 1967 penny look like it's just come out of the purse of the Virgin Mary!

A wet January walk after my own heart!

It's developed into an authoritative website, the best reference site for the farthing! I'd like to see a reference work to go with it, Colin! It can't be far off, the legwork is done!G-numbers, perhaps? Edit: I say this with all due respect to CC, but I like CG's ongoing development. I don't think he should sit in the shadows of the unfinished works of the great farthing men...he should blossom and create/finish the work that he obviously knows about, and understands so well!

Keep posting up your finds, it's great for everyone to have a dip at. Happy New Year!

I'll bet it's a home-made coin weight? That would be plausible if it's made of lead? Does it weigh perhaps a Sov or Half Sov in weight?

I think it's a homemade casting, looking at the ER? Someone has created a mold, forgetting to mirror the letters, I reckon? Is it an ingot perhaps? Is it heavy? What's it made of?

Sure is a darned purdey bust, despite looking like a WWII cockpit burn-up?Many thanks for your generous email, by the way! Has already made a massive difference to my life. Happy New Year, MR! Consider yourself stalked!

It's made of copper and brass, so has done well for a soil find! I guess the soil in a wood could be a little more peat-like?

Pretty little coin that, Nick, I do love the small stuff very much!

All the very best to all for 2015! May your days be merry, and your light bright!

Couldn't agree more, regardless of denomination or year ... But it's what they go for! Is it any different to a two-pronged trident?I do confess it's not for me, unless I was close to gathering the whole series of something, and a particular coin got added into an addenda or revised edition of a book, or similar, as a definite type? But this wouldn't happen to me, as I have an interest in too many areas...fortunately!

Pennies? The moment it's catalogued, and only 3 are known exist, and it's proven (either way) to be hitherto a common feature or, ideally, uncommon feature?

Yes, indeed. An altered date, just for fun. The other coins are genuine though! I have a few more to add but been rather busy of late. Happy New Year, AC!

King Edwards are the best potatoes!