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I think this is nice. http://www.royalmint.com/web/counterfeitguide/onepounddesignsposter.pdf

I have another dumb question obviously asked a million times, Why do they call the side of a coing bearing the head of the current ruler the obverse, I am curious as many people I know use the term "face value" when talking of a coin or note, so why did it not get called the face and reverse ?. Amazon are annoying me now, I want my CCG2011 and it is takng soooo long....erm 2 days now. Mr Perkins, if your reading this, can we have it for the Kindle please or pdf format ?.

Hi Tom. I'm worried about my wife finding out how many £'s I have spent too !, well actually, more to the point, I am worried about when she opens her purse and finds I have ransacked it and stolen all her coins like a viking pilager on a beer fest .... Was good fun though, I left her an "I.O.U £3.28p" note . Well it was in a good cause, I wanted the coins to fill in gaps, so I will just have to tell her I will give her duplicates when I have any, but that of course could be never as I don't have any as yet and still have lots of spaces to fill in. Think we could be on gruel for xmas

Thank you Peckris, I will store that for later, I just find it strange, not one coin in that period. Like I said, I never have any luck, I am the original Jonah.

Peter, I wish I knew anyone that would throw old bucket loads of coins at me for a £1.... I used to see them on every second hand shop counter I went into, now they have big signs saying 30 coins for £30 or such like. I never have any luck like that. If you have such bucket loads let me now Peckris. The coins where in brown paper packets and tissue paper in those boxes, I feel such a fool for it now, but back then I didn't give them a second look because I had rather a naughty childhood bumping fruit machines for the pennies and half pennies in bognor that landed me with many smacked backsides ( and bannned from the arcades, but they shone and called to me and I was hooked )until I wanted nothing to do with coins. I did manage to keep a worshipfull company of foresters medal type thing from them too as it looked different to me, I also noticed it had a hallmark on it so that made me even more interested at that time, I still have it. I already have a half crown from 1959, I was just asking about it because of that SN number, I have bought only 3 coins at over the odds on the bay ( my Id is scorpin912 ) but only because of their date and not value, don't ask me why but I am trying to get a nice(ish) set of coins from that year mainly because it is my year of birth. I have another question for you all, if you do not mind. I have just emptied out a large bottle ( I mean LARGE )of coppers onto the table tonight and sorted them through. I find that I have none from around 1980 -84, was there a problem at the mints around that time, I find it weird that I would not have at least 1 or 2 coins from that period. Or is this something that is obvious to all apart from me.

Thank you Rob. Much appreciated. I just started reading my book and now i see why I can't find a penny from 1959, I must look completely dumb to you lot. Anyone want to sell me their counterfeits at genuine prices, DOH! I like you guys, even if I am patently stupid.

Oh I forgot I also picked up one of those 1971 sets in the big plastic boxes for £2.00 is that good ?. Not that I mind what their worth but I hate to be ripped of for something thats worth 50p

Can anyone tell me if tis book is of any use, Seaby 19th Ed Coins of England and the united kingdom or is it now superseded by something else. It was only 10p in my local hock shop, so I got it, as well as a 1959 half crown as that is my year of birth, still haven't found a florin or penny from then though. Also is there a web site or source that will tell me what coins were minted in which year. I never knew that a crown was not minted in 1959 and I now feel like complaining to Her Majesty for that oversight.

Thank you David...Made the difference in my umming an ahhing, and now purchased via amazon

Thank you Nick. I thought it was someting serious as I had seen it about on there a number of times, I don't buy of off ebay but use it as a guide to what i have so far. Rob. I thought I was weird, nice to know I am not. I do have one criticism, and that is of the CCGB book, I would like to see perhaps one page scan and the number of pages in the book on the forum, for someone new like me it would show us what is in it in relation to content and how big it is. I have been caught before on books that are, skinny , have no real content that I am looking for and dire pictures etc. Nice to know I can be abused or harrased for buying duds in here though . Might keep me on my toes should I get too serious about it.

Sorry that item number doesnt work, so I am going to have to do this, which I hate !. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1959-Elizabeth-11-Halfcrown-Scarce-EF-SN5355-77-/230679611025?pt=UK_Coins_BritishMilled_RL&hash=item35b5938691

Hello Rob. It relates to a QE2 half crown on fleabay. item 35b5938691 if that works. I have lined up CCGB 2011 and the one about check your change on amazon, but I prefer e-books for my kindle etc ( easier to carry them all if you know what I mean ). Spinks is a bit high for me right now so will have to wait. Thank you for the Grading advice, I wondered what it meant !, I wont be doing that for many years i think, I just like the coins and whilst serious collectors like yourself find it important i dont as long as they are not counterfeit. Kind of like art for arts sake I guess. I will be around for a long time because whilst i say that above I am going to be hard at work hoarding !. Regards Garry

Hello all. my name is Garry and I am 52. I live in Newbury Berks I came in to ask what this means SN5355/77, to me it's all gobbledygook. I now have a rather evil confession to make. Many years ago I had a friend who's father had passed away, this friend asked me what to do with 2 rather large ammuniton boxes of old pre decimal coins, I took a look through them and took out a couple of pretty ones and told her to throw them.... she did, into a skip. A while later I found out that her father had served in both wars and he was a very astute collector of both rare and common english coins. Many of these coins I had looked at were really old even to me, 1800 - 1979 kind of era and even further back. I have kicked myself for years over it. I have had a thing for coins for a few years now and as a kid was banned from the slot machines in Bognor for bumping them to get the threepenny bits or pennies, I never spent them though!, I was fascinated by the designs and how shiny they were. Recently I had the desire to start collecting them, and I dragged out the few I had kept. I have also been banned by the wife from shopping with her as I scan the change at the shops which she finds embarrasing. I don't really have any aim at hand except to collect a set from each year as much as is possible ( untill I found out that that could be never ending !), i didn't realise they had so many variations in some years. I have been scrounging as many as I can from friends as well but think I am becoming the party pooper now ( I can imagine them screaming at each other to hide the family silver upon seeing me arrive ! ). I intend to make a mahogany cabinet soon as I have a bit of that laying in my garden from old wardrobes or cabinets. I have no interest in the value of coins as such I just like shiny things and I am as happy to get a bucket of dirty mangled ones as any other. I would also like to know what this BU BM stuff means as well if anyone wants to explain it to me. Thanks Garry