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......you may have to wait some time, their in decline in uk wetlands. ccgb2010 is priced at six guineas, do the same tax rules apply to guineas, were they ever used for currency? It was fairly common for auctions to offer lots in Guineas into the 1970's and I am sure there are still a holdout here and tither that like pricing stuff in Guineas for no other reason than they get an extra 5P for each pound. If you have real Guineas that you would like to let, I will give you quid and five for them and treat them just like money.

It's definitely 1837.... You can find it here on the HM Revenue & Customs website. Unfortunately HM Revenue & Customs has a mistake on their site - all sovereigns minted from 1817 are of the same standard.

Ah many a year ago, actually when I was a young poke, I sent off my cheque for £14.95 and got a very well abused Eddie the I penny. I also bought a "Gentleman's Magazine" from 1743, for about the same price I think - the penny is worth less, but the mag appreciated quite well in the time since CoinCraft sold it. I do wonder though, having had my curiosity piqued, I decided to view their website, and I do notice one notable absence amongst the principals of said organisation - Claire Lobel is nah there anymore? She used to pervade all the banknotes around there, and even managed to buy up a hoard of Union Bank of Scotland notes at one time.

I do think someone got a lot of wear out of poor Mrs. Brown.

Just a slight correlation, it is all 1817 and onwards sovereigns that are indeed still legal tender. I would imagine some young shopkeeper, but with his or her nose ring, belly button piercing and her spiked doo will not even recognise it as a coin of the realm though and might even call in the bobbies to knock you up for the notion of spending a "fake".

Beautiful pieces, like to see some closeups of them.

I bought a lot of fake USA large cents last year, seller claimed in advert that they would be stamped "Copy", I never specified anything - they showed up without the copy stamp. Frankly you would think customs would take a look at them and expel them from the country since they are also faking current legal tender coins.

I trust fleaBay and believe in the Easter Bunny, Santy Claus, and that Elvis is still kicking.

I search cent boxes purchased from my several banks - I go through anywhere from 1-3 boxes(2500 cents each) a week. Back in May I found this: Lately I have been getting quite a few steel cents from 1943 in searches, yesterday I found three of them in a box. Really if they are machine rolled coins it should be impossible to get them because they should be picked up by a magnet. But then again I get 2 eurocent coins from Germany and France fairly often too.

Nothing like chaffing off a large industry that uses something you create - and whose livelihood depends on the things being consistent. I can see making the changes because of costs associated with making the coins from cupro-nickel, but the secrecy? Something Scotland Yard cooked up, or could it be something from Fleet Street?

I saw one on eBay about a year ago that was a combination of a George V penny and a French 10 centimes that had George kissing Marianne that has to be one of the best I have seen in awhile.

Along with war brides and sometimes even children by then, they often brought home coins as souvenirs of their stay in Britain. Back when I was in the 2nd grade my teacher was English, and I remember her teaching us English English and not American English, the root of why to this day I still spell words the British way - favour, not favor etc. Anyway to cut to the chase she was a war bride, marrying an American serviceman.

Sorry guys, but here in North America it is possible to still find fairly old stuff in cent box searches. Boxes of rolls of cents are bought at the bank, they have 2.500 cents in each box. I buy the boxes because the older pre-1982 cents are worth 2 x face value currently and about 1/4 to 1/3 of the cents are older. The bonuses in the search are wheat cents that I have found dated from 1909-1958, sometimes older Canadian cents like George V and George VI. This last week I have searched through 5.000 cents and found a USA cent dated 1920, and my earliest Canadian this year, a 1932 George V. But my best find in the past few months, my earliest find ever is a 1901 Indian cent that I found in mid May during a box search. I would estimate over the past three years I have gone through approximately 400.000 cents and found only one Indian, but I am happy to find it and all the other assorted finds.

Actually the Pound being in the loo works to my advantage. I was hatin' life back when it took $2 to buy the £1 a couple of years back - and made a big purchase from one of those London dealers.

The great depression possibly Just after assuming the presidency Franklin Roosevelt closed the banks to prevent a run on the banks, he also called in all gold coin and the coins were melted. The US Treasury had millions of dollars in gold coin minted from 1929-1933 that had not been released into circulation because of the lack of demand with the depression. With the exception of 1932 $10 coins which did get released into circulation that year, none of the other dates particularly the 1929-33 $20s were released in any quantity. The 1933 dated coins were not authorised for circulation nor legally released. But back then there were corrupt mint officials that would switch current dated coins with previous dates for friends, in this case Israel Switt. Nobody knows for certain how many he got, but there are those 10 examples that were seized by the Secret Service, and the other "Farouk Specimen" that King Farouk of Egypt somehow managed to purchase illicitly ca. 1946 and have shipped to Egypt. After that it appeared in the sales conducted by the Republic of Egypt after his overthrow, but was withdrawn from sale after arm twisting by the American government. After that the coin disappeared for over 40 years until it reappeared and itself became the subject of a criminal examination and settlement and then sale. That is, if it is the same coin. Nobody has been able to verify that it is indeed the Farouk coin. There are whole novels written on the subject, and it is indeed a fascinating study of the legal aspects of American coinage.

Obligations and actual practice often differ in opins. Many people have found that the commercial banks are rather unaccommodating whence it comes to redeeming obsolescent coinages. Those that do so tend to be more customer oriented - and well - rather scarce in today's world.

You have to find a bank that will take them, and if they are at auction figure their fee too. Not worth it in my opinion.

He shares that he bought a tinner, thence no wee pictures - like a tease if ah ever did see the one!

I used to see the 10 DM coins on the teller's counter in banks and would buy them and spend them. In fact it was the only time aside from spending a 100FF coin in France that I have ever spent silver coins. I like the idea of a mostly NCLT coin that you can spend for kicks if you want to, and the comments you get from some people like the shopkeeper in Munich that told me I must be silly for spending the 1972 Munich coins and not saving them.

I currently have about 50K cents, only 6K of British pennies though.

I should see if I could scrap say a few kilogrammes of £SD pennies mostly QEII sometime here and see if they will take them.

Can you imagine the nerves of steel you would need to drive such a piece around all the time? Just today I nearly was clobbered by a elderly lady driving through a stop light.

Das ist gut hier: Now that is an auto I would love to be driven around in.

People did not care about the token issues like the halfpennies and pennies, they really only cared about the composition of the gold and silver coins. Nowadays we don't care one way or another, because it is all a nearly worthless token coinage.

I have to suggest that indeed it does have to deal with a great expansion of the economy and more disposable income that necessitated more coinage. There are parallels in the USA during the time, when the large cents of 1793-1857 were minted they were never minted in quantities in more than 3-4 million per year, but that seemed to be sufficient for the times, but then when the small sized cents were minted beginning in 1857 they were minted in much larger quantities that were often 10 times the previous large cent size mintages. The early Victorian era saw an expansion of consumer spending on a scale not seen before, while it pales in comparison to today, then it was much more than say the Georgian era. Remember this was the era of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Britain and the United States were seeing their economies expanding on an unprecedented scale, the result was that much more coinage was necessitated.