ChKy

Depends on the coin... ...the common silver coin sells for bullion. Many people are chasing after precious metals again in nower days. ...might be a rare type, date, mint mark. So the person purchasing such a coin seeks a reference sample. Furthermore, in a scan the surface of a polished coin might not appear as such. In order to prevent trouble, serious people here would use the phrase berieben (German - wich indicates that a coin was eg rubbed with fabric).

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Seems, that rare varieties are not dedicated for destruction. In such a case people tolerate holes, loops our frames. Damaged and common stuff usually is melted down i the melting pot...

You should not believe every fairy tale. Usually I do not dip my coins. An even & natural toning is the best thing you can have on a coin. Especially in case you own a rare date/mint mark the toning can help to judge whether the particular date or mint mark is manipulated or not. For that purpose you must have enough experience to distinguish between natural and artificial toning.

Hi Chris! Will send you an email including a sample later this evening. Cheers Christoph

Dear members! Some of you might remember my first request here in this forum. We are writing a documentation about British coinage. Our aim is a kind of illustrated book, were we show every denomination and date minted during a certain period of time. In this regard we would like to focus onto the history of Britain/British currency as well as technical aspects of the minting process. Leaving out my collectors main interests I am looking after British coin material on coin fairs or online auctions. Our recourses are limited so therefore we can not purchase every single coin/date. I would like to kindly askif anybody could provide scans/pictures of George V Crowns 1929, 1932, 1934 & 1936. Donation of pictures would be acknowledged by meantioning in the acknowledgments and picture credits of course. That is a difficult task I know... I would be very grateful for your help

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Dear all! I received two coins today showing clearly some decentration. What I am wondering about is the rim being flat instead of showing riffle. I checked the coins weight, that seems ok. Usually the rim is prepared first and the obverse & reverse design than stroke onto the coins surface afterwards, isn´t? Do you have any information about that pieces? Is there any literature published about that topic? Thanks for notice and your help

The distorted part of the design is bend by the die clash. Looking at the reverse the material comes towards the beholder. Hope that my description makes it clear a bit. Difficult to show by using a scanner...

I would guess following: Under high pressure the metal behaves like a fluid. During the time where the dies struck the blank, the material flew in direction ob the (in that case) absent collar. Instead of having beads you get teeth. And because the material was in movement the legend has a bigger distance to the rim than usual. Quite difficult to explain in a (at least for me) foreign language

That is really interesting! Here in Gemany there is a mint (we have five remaining mints still) which is famous for it´s mint errors & mules. Most well known is the 50 Pfennig 1950 with mint mark "G" showing the obselete circumscription Bank Deutscher Länder instead of Bundesrepublik Deutschland. And still in the times of Euro they produced certain curiosities.

Thanks for your remark. I do not know how common they are, do you have any hind how often that occurs (1:1,000; 1:10,000; 1:100,000)? I do not expect any bargains besides the documentation of the coinage process.

Especially the Six Pence piece shows some degree of bending. By looking onto the coin I have the intention that it might be a little thinner than usual as well. That is the reason why I am asking about the coining process. It looks to me that some kind of collar was missing during the process.

At least it is more difficult to make scans of coins having a shiny and bright surface...

Well... I am taking myself not too serious. So therefore I will try to explain my cryptic wording Accumulator humorously refered to a certain British-German rivalry: separated by a towel on sunbed war I remembered another rivalry: Soccer (regular playing time, extra time & penalty shoot-out). I remembered something both might share: having some drinks in a pub while watching a worldcup soccer game England vs. Germany I have chosen... ... German beer because I appear obviously to be German ... Greek wine because surprisingly I have Greek roots as well ... Cornish cider because I recently emptied the bottle with Scotch whisky Do not mind if you do not understand that miracle. Might be that either my English or my mental skills needs some practise still

Not familiar with phrases, I found at least some information about My hovercraft is full of eels! That is hilarious

I had eel once or at most twice per year. Those animals are protected here in nower days.

well... realized that I do not have permission to edit my post. So it is not possible to correct mistakes in terms of grammar, spelling or meaning

I do not compete for sunbeds, regardless the counterparts nationality But I would like to beat Britons in the disciplins 1) regular playing time with German beer 2) extra time with Greek wine 3) penalty shoot-out with... ...no, I do not mean Scotch... ... I have a bottle of Cornish Orchards farmhouse Cider left. That was a souvenir my girl friend brought from her UK-trip last year But earnestly... got the point. At least I hope so. The proof coins are legal tender, but no one would use them for payments, nor would any till girl accept such a coin because it looks curious. That happend to our commemorative 10 € silver coins on regular bases. The only thing you could have done best with them was 1) hoarding them as silver bullion 2) pay them into your bank account

Bear in mind that modern proof sets average around 100,000 issued, and you can't give them away! What does "you can't give them away" mean? The modern proof coins are legal tender therefore valid money, isn´t?

We went to the World Money Fair in Berlin last month. At the Royal Mint booth we purchased all 29 coins (BU - including one medal) for 83 Euro. Do not have the chance to grap them out of circulation

Dear all! Please let me introduce myself as a new member of this forum. I am a citizen of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. I am a collector of Canadian (1858 to date), modern Greek (1861-2001) and German (1871-2001) coins. In parallel I am interested in British coinage as well, because of... ...my companion in life. She is a collector of UK and the Commonwealth. As a sort of homage to her, I started to write a documentation /catalogue dealing about British Coins. Two more authors are involved in this project too. Aim is to show every minted denomination and date back from the times of Queen Victoria to date. Our work covers the reign of the monarchs George VI and Elizabeth II already, having a volume of 150 pages including a huge amount of colored pictures. A few dates and rarities are missing still.The manuscript is written in German, a translation i English will be performed lateron. When I asked Declan for assistance regarding photos/scans of rare coins, he advised me to visit this forum. In this particular case I am looking for a high grade 1949 Three Pence piece. What do you think? Do you have any comments? Hope one of you can help me out… Thank you very much for your attention and all your efforts in advance

Well... Voltaire said that every paper money will be reduced to a certain value at some point. And that value is zero. No matter the currency is called: Euro, DM, Pound, Yen, Yuan, Lira or what so ever. Nearly every country on this planet (including my home Germany) earned X and spend x+++ That was payed by inflation/money printing. The only difference is how fast they spend the money. The currency of western Germany was one of the most stable FIAT-currencies in the world. Nether the less... During its 53 years existence the DM lost 80% of its purchasing power. In order to analyse monetary unions without political union look at the Latin Monetary Union & Scandinavian Monetary Union. But it is difficult to compare. Different times, different people and different monetary system. Finally they were destroyed by the breakout of WWI.

Hi threepence! That is true! I had quite some work with that project. I usually scan in my coins (HP Photosmart B109a-m) with highest resolution. I found that website as well, wich shows astonishing contents. I tried to make a contact once as well. But most likely the descriptions of my project seemed (←is that spelled correct? ) not reliable. If anybody has a hind how to make contact let me know please.

Great coin! I have to ask the grading company for permission to use that picture then. Hi ChKy, welcome to the forum. If that's a problem I sold an NEF one recently and still have the picture available if you need it. That would be very kind of you! Will let you know my email address via private message. I will gratefully acknowledge our donation besides the acknowledgement in the picture credits as well.