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Happy New Year all!

Slainte Red Riley: Just couldn't resist buying this coin, there is even a "hair" version of it.

The pound will continue, and the Euro will be adopted in Slovakia.

This appears to be what is referred to as a model crown, actually it was 19th century play money.

They are scarce, but can be found. The Mackenzies printed up a fair few of them, an' tried to circulate them on the mainland in Inverness, where they were retired quickly. Most of what are about are remainders, or half dones like my example. I purchased this one probably 8-9 years ago whence I was still actively collecting the notes. Now I only collect Scottish coins actively, but keep the notes as lookers. This note is unusually well printed for the day, with a double embossed pressing for the red ochre and black inks. Curiously as you will see, Stornoway is spelled as Stornaway. This note was printed in London. I would suggest haunting Spinks, Britishnotes.co.uk and Ian Gradon for these, they come up from time to time.

Ta a Scot, our wee doshes are kaypers and nae for the lettings: Like 'at one aye?

It is a Hindu temple token from India, from ca. the 19th or early 20th century.

I like coins that fill out the design with many details. One of my favourite British coins has always been the Nobles that were minted during the 14th century: This is from Edward III(1327-1377) and is S-1502. But alas this will be a short timer in my collection as it is one of the pieces I will part with in the next few months to fund a new philanthropic endeavour.

With all dues, one is going to look at a listing askance from a seller with a pecuniary feedback thus. Anymore I have my settings on the fleaBay such that I see the feedback percentage and count with the page listing, and won't even look at auctions such as the above mentioned. All the while a start at £25 will be a put off to the most, even though the coins surely are worth more. People like 50p or £1 starts, not £25. In summary, good luck.

Right humourous indeed since I got a PM from said individual expressing a desire to sell them to the parsimonious Scot, like with humour he would think he would get more dosh from the Scot than the Anglishman ! Oh my a chuckle this evening an' I'll think about it wi' my 84 bob beverage.

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Right now I am dealing with a seller I paid like seconds after the auction, two weeks pass, and still no item. I love these idiots.

I wouldn't have bid on it in the first place if the postage was too high. I cannot get over how many people here in the USA charge a whopping $8 or about £4.75 to post a banknote. I won't bid on their items period. That is just usury, and they often will spend no more than $2 to mail it. Where you can hit them on the feedback, if you cannot give a neutral is to leave a positive, but note the outrageous postal expense and hit them in the ratings star thing they have in the feedback module. I did that with the seller above that charged $12(for registered) but spent $4.95 to post the item via priority mail.

Don't discard the possibility that the coin is NOT cupro-nickel, but has been chemically treated to lighten the surface. I have seen this done with cents and pennies before.

Yes, I have been using the cross technique and have acquired the skill of pinpointing a bit better. At first I had some construction size excavations going on with half hour digging and sifting. Now I sit and mess with the machine in differing directions to isolate the signal to a particular point. Admittedly I have not savoured the thought of depth detection yet, so most of the older stuff I might find might could still be hiding from my clutches.

Since my side pursuit is 17th century tokens, I would love to TH over there. I would rather find a nice one of those than rose farthings etc. Most of my 17th century tokens are TH finds. I recently got an Irish token that was found in Shropshire with all of the "Treasure Trove" etc. paperwork on it, noting when found, by whom etc. It was a 1672 token from Dublin, and had travelled quite a bit to rural Shropshire whence it was lost apparently. I am kind of surprised it got reported, not being part of a hoard, but perhaps because it was a bit unusual to find something like that in Shropshire.

Not so far. I have found several cupro nickel dimes and quarters though. I haven't gotten around to playing with the more sensitive settings yet, because I want to find a sifting screen and pointer so I don't have to excavate the whole backyard.

I got a detector a couple of months ago, and have only used it in my yard. But I live in an older home, so I found a 1917 cent, and several other 50+ year old coins. Also found pretty interesting old tools that must have been used when the house was built 75 years ago.

Not exactly a Russia fan, I speak Russian, but my family is... part Ukrainian! Україна - частина Європи, не частина Росії!

Technically speaking Charles I, but they were struck in 1644, 1648, and then in 1650, so could be one of the posthumous coins. Scotland was not part of the Commonwealth, but only influenced to some extent by Cromwellian troops crossing the borders from time to time to remind the Scots that autonomy gained by the Civil War and execution of the King had limitations.

Sounds a lot like a Scottish bodle or 2d, but will need to see an image to nail it down to whether it was Charles I or Charles II. These are usually pretty heavily worn, they circulated into the 1750's as farthings after the 1707 Union. Here are some images of Scottish bodles: Charles I This above is a contemporary counterfeit of the first coinage. Posthumous coinage, ca. 1650. I don't currently have a bodle of Charles II imaged yet.

The first piece is a Scottish groat, the monarch is either David II or Robert II, cannot tell because the image is too small, and I cannot read the legend on the coin, the bust looks a bit more Robert II'ish though. The second piece appears to be 16th century French of Henri II or Henri III.

I have earlier proto-monies from the Skythian cultures, but this is the earliest that is actually a coin in the strict definition of coin: Ionia, Miletos 1/12th of a stater, approximately 600 BC, silver and 7mm in diameter, a typically small coin from an era when coins were very very small.

Perhaps it is the draggy appearance of Georgie that made the seller refer to as such.

Being offered and actually selling are two distinctly different things, I canna see proffering that kind of dosh for a wee box, wi'out the goldie nae less.