TheStalker

hi how much difference is there between book price and what a coin dealer sells for and do you people get full price for there coins or is it rare that they mite get full price thanx TheStalker

thanx for your reply i only ask because a stamp collecter mate of mine told me that stamp dealers sell at 75% book price but that got me think if hes got lets say a penny black that has £300 book price well that would only sell at just £200 a £100 short of of book price so i just wonder if it was the same with coins TheStalker

i was looking at a site a few people speak about in this forum called www.michael-coins.co.uk i noticed that he has list of coins hes selling along with info on die errors and the diferent dies used for the coin and that date,and he uses large images so you can see the differences between dies so i pulled out my coin collection and started to right down what coins had die errors and what obv & rev types they had,i found once i pulled out my mini microscope that i had a few die errors coin and some coins that had rare obv & rev die mix the problem is i want to look more into this but he only lists the info and images for the coins hes selling, dose anyone know of any sites or books,sites would be better there free where i can find this info i know theres one book on penny die's and die errors but its £30 just for that one book any help would be great thanx den

iv never collected anything past about 1907 of of course i go that far because of the silver coins yet to get any decent 1905 silver the only other coins past about 1907 i tend to keep are KEY DATES and BUNC like BUNC pennies, threepence, sixpence KEY DATES like 1925,1932 florins,1930 half crown,1952 sixpence1946,1949 threepences and so on i look at my coins as a investment like a retirement fund so never thought it would be worth collecting anything other then the KEY DATES & BUNC from about 1907 onwards is this due to my inexperience in coin collecting or am i on the right track like i said before i am new to this so any help from people of your years and experience is very wellcome

welldone is all i can say, you got a great error at a great price... just know i got my eye on you now, ill be looking out for you on e-bay when i bidding on other coins

i was only reading last week in the london papper THE EVENING STANDARD about how bad it is the 1p & 2p coins have to be pre 1992 as they are 97% copper as thurmownator said post 1992 they are steel with a copper plating heres a BBC report on the issue BBC REPORT TheStalker

did you get this coin of e-bay i was bidding on a coin that looked the same on e-bay last week i was winning with like 30secs left i really wanted this coin but some one stole it from me at the death if it was you theres going to be trouble i really wanted that coin if it was not you dont worry ill call of the hit

at the age of 76 you must have a collection like no other where dose that leave you...i should say owning have the royal mint your collection must be massive you must own at least half the coins ever minted

thanx for you reply iv only been collecting for about 1 year,but already thanx to ebay have a very nice coin collection nothing compared to you guy i should think, i started buying coins down the boot sales i would keep the nice ones and sell the rest on at a nice proffit,and then spending the money i made on other coins, i learned so much that now i go round and value other people collections and buy them, NO I DONT RIP THEM OFF.....WELL WE ALL GOT TO MAKE SOMETHING SOMEWHERE i learned so much so fast that i now can not stop,british coin collecting has over taken me, i 28 and my girlfreind thinks im a geek but what the hell, i new about the different dies but never found anywhere that listed them iv only just joined the forum but i hope this will become my new home thanx TheStalker

i was reading that the coppers have a higher price in copper content then the face value of the coin 2p is more like 5p in copper so they are being melted down over here and sold as scrap it is a crime to deface any money or stamps with the queens head on i think its one way to double your money over night but you would need a hell of alot of coppers and a melting machine to make £500 out of it, this could be one of the reasons that there thinking about scraping the coppers