zookeeperz

The Sun online blog nothing to do with the sun newsgroup always peddling false statements and half truths. Also I received an email from London coins touting the 2018 Issac newton 50 pence being the rarest 50 pence ever obviously sentence ended with the obligatory ? . These online bandit blogs and even to a certain degree the check your change website is so full of misleading information all the newbie collectors just try to climb over each other grabbing anything just in case it turns out to be rare. They are so dim witted they will even bid £50 for a copy kew knowing it is a copy.

but where are they getting the Dies from. I know some of the commemoratives were struck from original dies. cannot remember which monarch it was for unless they are doing it again with Victoria? they just look too good to be made up dies?

its just too good a copy. Things like this really worry me and probably our worse failing as coin makers during the early years there were so many mistakes and letter changes that unlike the yanks where they know exactly what came from where and when we just narrow it down to a few possibilities. This if listed not as a copy would of had loads of bidders and i dread to think what price it would of reached. Perhaps the blurred pic is doing the coin more justice than it would in the hand?

I saw a video of some guy used I think 10k pennies and floored his kitchen with them lol

yes its the scarcer reverse B on the 1946 English arms shilling

Must go to the top of the list of the coin fugly contest

you will need to expand to original listing but this is the link https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/job-lot-old-copper-and-bronze-coins-1806-1891-1897-/173013222929

My room is very dark even in daylight plus the room light is over near the window opposite where I am. You would of thought when they built the bloody house they would put the light central? So I am stuck with 2 bendies with croc clips that attach to the copy stand. Problem is the coin is 3D and we are taking a 2D picture so we lose all the lustre and only get detail. I find it even worse with the camera. The amount of light you need would power a county to get good images lol. I paid £178 I think for a linder Digiscope and tbh it's garbage all the ones you see for sale on ebay are all the same £10-£200 rubbish. I need a stereoscope tbh but they are way out of my pay grade. Bad lighting compounds the issue esp looking for over-dates and repunches.

This coin is impossible to photograph. Such is the unusual toning . I guess because it's just starting . Although I can clearly see the lustre the effect of the toning makes it look matt like in pictures and does no justice to the coin at all. here are 1945 Shilling scottish arms and scarcer D2121 1946 english arms

Obviously harder to see obverses identical as pics were at different angles but notice the reverse both coins top being a known replica and that guys coin both have the broken 3 in the same place

He PM'd me and asked why I thought it was a replica. I feel quite sorry for the guy. He said he bought it about a year ago as genuine so it must of cost him a few bob. He said that more than 1 person commented on the authenticity of the coin and didn't want to carry on the sale knowing someone could fall foul as he did. Which is kudos to the guy. There seems to have been a clutch of these appear and they are very convincing to a novice and even a semi-knowledgeable collector. But as always esp with our pre-1920 silver its all in the detail. Most of the replica's are selling as that classed as commemorative issues @ £4.95. but I guess there will always be the odd scammer who will take advantage. just a sign of the times.

Just posting a few pics of something I would like to collect the complete series of Irish Modern coinage from 1928-1968. Whilst I know it will be for some of the coins virtually impossible to rise to the premiums they hold. I dare say I could make a dent in most of the different denominations. Just thrown a book of some of what I have hidden away for that rainy day.Part of the cupro range. Most are in very high grades close to unc and some are BU. The odd filler to be replaced later but a handful if that. I hope you like them. Again apologies for poor pic quality.

Nice 1. I did as well. fortunately to the trained eye they are bad casts but they are going to fool a lot of people. hopefully we have halted 1 scumbag