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yea no problem was a shot in the dark anyway. Got much further than i expected saw the silver one a while back and browsing through the books and was curious

thanks for that rob ill keep looking in SCBC there is a gold 'extremely rare': halfcrown 1690 april, gold small size HC 1690, 4 different shillings and 3 sixpence in gold. also continuing there are apparently a 'finer' gun money crown done in gold too.

while i am pestering you guys, there is mentions of proof 'gun money' coins struck in gold and silver. Ive seen the silver one sold by heritage i think, but not the gold one, any idea where to start?

you guys are ace, obviously need to crack up on my researching skills

firstly was reading "The Oxford Mint and the Triple Unites of Charles I" from '52-'54 which mentioned to the coin being shown to the society in 1941. In '41 it led me here

Hi Peeps wondering if anyone was interested in this specimen,graded by cgs with one of their much loved slabs Small charge of £475 Let me know through pm or email rwp2014@hotmail.co.uk, free postage offered paypal accepted, same goes for any coins on my website (did read the "some simple rules" and if i did break the 0-£100 rule and this is removed i would understand many thanks Richard

This is the one that i got from an auction, i see what you mean having a glance through google most of them are a bit rough and have lost most their detail. there any breakdown on how many half crowns, crowns, shillings, and different gold coins that were found at a chance?

I'm looking for this book here and was wanting to mooch off of the forums experience and expertise as how best to get a book like this and whether I have any chance getting it for a half decent price Also while I am asking for help if anyone has any other Arabic coin books they would recommend or resources they found useful I would greatly appreciate it many thanks in advance

Simple question from my usual waffling Are there any British dies used for currencies in private hands and not held by museum/s? I've always assumed that there was a counter fitting issue with this but now i'm swaying the other way thinking that if i were to personally own a YH Victoria half crown die the last thing i would want to do with it is to start hammering away at it and possibly damaging it. and is my assumption that some trial dies are held in private hands? I'm sure i've read someplace that the designers/families got to keep these, mind you i read a-lot of rubbish

what made me think about this

My query here is how do all the face values of these different coins come about to vary so much? Links to the coins I am talking about to be more clear: BOE Dollar Countermark Aussie Correct me if i am wrong here, but I work out the face values on them to be: BOE dollar 5s till 1911 5s6d till 1917(ref. spink book) Countermark 4s9d (ref. spink book) Holey 6s3d (adding inner donut to outer donut) Since they are all made from the same coin at the end of the day (BOE was struck on top of 8 real coin from my understanding) Why do they all have such different values considering they would all be used during roughly the same year period? And on the same note, is it safe to assume that the countermark issued 8 real coins issued between 1799 and 1804? There any more specific information on the "mintages" of the cointermark coins?

i like the half crown as it is not i wouldn't do anything more to it for me the risk of messing it up wouldn't be worth it as its a good grade for that date You have the quality at the moment and might mess it up because you prefer it to be shiny(or lustrous as one might put it ) one of my best grade GV half crowns(IMO) is one which is almost as dark as your last one, luster is not something that personally bothers me or would put me off paying a good price for a good grade coin

think the first picture is the new one he has tried to clean and the second is one that he/another has cleaned in the past and is possibly what he would have liked the outcome of the first to be? i.e. would like the 1st to be like the second or thinks the second went too far with polishing

are you guys able to provide some pictures of what the digital microscopes can do?

great thanks for all these ill be working my way through them

Basically interest has been diffusing over different coin areas and other countries or in the crossfires what i am looking for are basically coin books, in a perfect world as well lay out as spinks/cris perkins books , but for other countries Main ones id like are Greek Roman Spanish German France thanks for any info

thanks thats exactly what im looking for

Not sure this is to go in this section but ill give it a bash. Just wondering if anyone has any knowledge of historical Exchange rates going back say 100-300 years and how it was worked back when currencies were all based on silver/gold standards? What i have found so far seems far from intuitive where for the dollar for instance, what i would have expected is the same weight of silver for the same weight of silver back then, which in a perfect world being say $1 for 5 shillings (going by that they were both roughly an ounce of silver each,give or take silver content of american dollar i think was 0.900) Just wondering if there are any good explanations for this or carry over logic when looking at other countries silver/gold coins and how they would have stacked up with each other back in the day

im spamming but just thinking aloud also being accurate it would need to assume that the people who made the weight in France and the ones who changed it to British weren't separated by a great deal in time no way to tell the second part as far as i can see there's no date for the British part

date being between 14 May 1643 1 September 1715 if it is Louis 14? quite a gap but its a time zone

thats the sort of thing am looking for from that whats the date and what was the weight originally used for with regards to french silver then can see how the different silver weights match up

thanks for the info ill update it when i first get a chance

why i said unfortunately its like watching those tv programs where people hoard stuff in their house and they cant explain why, i cant explain why i want more than 1 BU+ 1935 Half crown And you would think it would be easy but the last one (other than the one i bought today ) that filled the full check list i have for that series was just under a month ago 1931 1936

my area of interest are (ufortunately) 1928-1936 half crowns lots on ebay to keep me busy

ohh scottish what ones you got?