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Any coin I pay over $1000 for better have one very very attractive female on it. All my most expensive ones do. Because women are the only works of art in everything.

Kind of hard since most of these coins didn't have a long time to circulate ala the Victorian pennies.

There were 64 pieces in the lot, I remember paying about £20 for the whole haul. The fun part was finding the Irish coin, the Henry I coin, and the asst Scots which are mostly William I pieces. I have a Danish piece in there too, I have identified it as Danish, but still not to a particular ruler.

It has been over five years since I purchased anything Scottish, despite the fact that I consider the collection active. It gets so hard to find material that I do not have already, or am willing to afford. Usually Alexander III (1249-1286) pennies get the big big passover by me, they are far and away the most common of all medieval Scottish coinage, there are estimated to have been some 50 million of them minted during that reign. But, most of them are Berwick pennies, which is believed to be denoted by 24 points in the stars on the reverse. It is conjectured that the number of points in the stars denotes the mints, and the lesser known ones must have been from smaller locales. This example is one with 28 points, and is not associated with any known locale. As such it is actually a fairly scarce piece and a neat find.

Kind of funny how so many Scots pennies are found up in Yorkshire, Lancashire etc. However hoard evidence in Scotland suggest that Scots pennies represent less than 10% of what circulated there during that time. English pennies were represented in far greater numbers. Several years ago I purchased a small hoard of 64 cut farthings and halfpenny coins that were dug up in Yorkshire about 15 years ago. There were 7 Scots coins, 1 Irish, 1 Danish, and the rest were English coins ranging from Henry I(1154-1189) through the earliest issues of Edward I(1272-1307) After I imaged these several years ago I determined the cut farthing at 1 o'clock is actually a Henry I English cut.

But by that time Ottawa was striking all the Canadian coins. My guess would be that it might be another foreign coin, maybe even another colonies.

I have a host if you want all to see it.

To see or not to see, that is the question; Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous misimagery?

Have you considered that it might be a fiscal document seal?

Great, good going, now you are going to make me dig out the bags of these buggers and have me looking for the varieties of the date

You're right, at that price I would get something a more useful, and practical like a Pitts biplane. I have flown one before, oh so so fun, nothing like looping, barrel rolling etc at 1800 metres up.

When you dig deep into the sellers feedback file, there is one solitary transaction over £10, that being one for £2406, the rest are usually 1p transactions. I would like to know how a seller of small value stuff all of a sudden comes to selling a £100K coin?

Hate to put petrol in that thing! Nice pics, I truly love British automobiles, no other country has ever produced such an array of wonderful designs.

The best part of that one is most importantly for any detail to be present, it is the date, and it is very nice and clear. A truly dramatic error with the date is a fantastic find, good job

The coins with bears are ca. 1950's and 1960's tourist trap souvenirs. They seemingly made enough of these that they lasted in said tourist traps until well into the 1980's. They could be purchased for anywhere from $1.00 on up to ridiculous sums like $50 etc. They sold well in Gold Rush region tourist trap towns like Coloma, Sutter Creek etc.

A neat and affordable acquisition from the first year of the San Francisco mint in California USA. Until the SF mint was opened in the old offices of Moffett & Company, most gold was sold to and minted by private minters into coinage, some good and some not so good. The opening of the mint that year was one rare time when good money being of full weight and fineness actually drove out the bad money of the private firms minting coinage. Much of this coinage circulated in California of course, but quite a bit of it was shipped east down through to across Panama, and then on up to New York via steamship. Uncharacteristic for later pieces which had even microscopic mintmarks, this piece has a large S below the eagle on the reverse. Small change was in short supply in the west, it almost was never shipped from the east, and never by overland of course because of the distance and length of the journey. Small token coins were manufactured by private minters beginning in ca. 1850 with denominations ranging from 1/4 Dollar - $1 Dollar coins. They were very similar to the piece above, but this particular piece is actually a counterfeit struck during the 1890's and backdated to give it legal status - but it was indeed created in fine gold, but was not made to circulate but become a part of jewelry. These little coins were a novelty item into the 1920's when they were no longer made in gold, but became base metal pieces which were then plated and sold to tourists etc. This piece is known to have been struck by the firm of Herman Kroll, a jeweler in New York in the late 19th century.

Finally acquired one of the copper pennies in uncirculated, this piece was formerly slabbed as NGC MS-64, but was cracked out:)

It is beg, and almost Britanniab.

They do exist there, I remember several of them in a small area in Munich a few years ago. I also saw coin shops in Hamburg.

I would not recommend removing IE, because as I noted above, there are certain things like PDF files that FF seems to constipate on. I would keep it, so if you have a problem with FF you can fall back on IE. I use IE for stuff like downloads of PDF files, this evening read a PDF file from Freedomhouse.org that I could not load in FF. But with the exception of the PDF issue I have not had any other issues with FF. In fact it is so much better at blocking pop-ups etc. and quicker loading etc. It is also much more secure and is less likely to be compromised like IE. Hackers, spammers, etc target IE because it is more popular not by being a better performer, but because it is what is already packaged on your PC when you bought it and you automatically use it. I used to think the FF people were nuts, so then I tried it, and unless IE performs an unlikely miracle I will not go back.

As I noted above the only negative for FF is that PDF files do not open easily. Otherwise I cannot imagine why someone would sado-masochistically torture themselves by using IE. I tried out IE7 recently, it acts like a knockoff of FF, but there is still some stuff that is completely lost in it.

I was asking what you are using as an internet browser, if you use IE - Internet Explorer it is often slow. I would recommend using FF - Mozilla Firefox, it is much quicker and easier to use. And it blocks 99% of popups.

Are you using FF or IE? IE is slow and not very good with pop-ups etc. Now the only time I use IE is for downloading .pdf files.

Seems to work just fine for me, might try it somewhere else and see how it loads.