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[JoeC 0]

Hello to everyone - just discovered the forum and thought I would sign up as last year I rediscovered a schoolboy hobby ( 40 years on ). Have been focusing on Halfcrowns and doing lots of reading / visiting fairs trying to build up my limited knowledge.

[Red Riley 2]

Hello to everyone - just discovered the forum and thought I would sign up as last year I rediscovered a schoolboy hobby ( 40 years on ). Have been focusing on Halfcrowns and doing lots of reading / visiting fairs trying to build up my limited knowledge.

Welcome to the gang. Your story pretty much mirrors mine; kids and coins don't make a good partnership!

[HistoricCoinage 146]

A warm welcome to you Joe!

I have yet to experience the rekindling of my collecting flame, I have never stopped! But as time goes on I will have to stop.

I look forward to getting to know you and your collection.

- Clive.

[Kronos 0]

Welcome aboard Joe.

[RLC35 288]

Joe,

Welcome to the Forum.

Bob C.

[JoeC 0]

Hello to everyone - just discovered the forum and thought I would sign up as last year I rediscovered a schoolboy hobby ( 40 years on ). Have been focusing on Halfcrowns and doing lots of reading / visiting fairs trying to build up my limited knowledge.

[Geoff T 3]

Hello to everyone - just discovered the forum and thought I would sign up as last year I rediscovered a schoolboy hobby ( 40 years on ). Have been focusing on Halfcrowns and doing lots of reading / visiting fairs trying to build up my limited knowledge.

Hi - if belatedly. Nice to meet another half crown man on here.

Geoff

[JoeC 0]

Hello to everyone - just discovered the forum and thought I would sign up as last year I rediscovered a schoolboy hobby ( 40 years on ). Have been focusing on Halfcrowns and doing lots of reading / visiting fairs trying to build up my limited knowledge.

Hi - if belatedly. Nice to meet another half crown man on here.

Geoff

[Hussulo 6]

Welcome aboard Joe.

[Chris Perkins 228]

Hello Joe.

Are you having probs? You never seem to write anything new, you just quote what others have said.

[JoeC 0]

Hello Joe.

Are you having probs? You never seem to write anything new, you just quote what others have said.

Chris

Apologies for the confusion - lack of IT skills I am araid

Many thanks to all for the warm welcome

Much appreciated

[PhilipC 0]

Hello Joe.

Are you having probs? You never seem to write anything new, you just quote what others have said.

Chris

Apologies for the confusion - lack of IT skills I am araid

Many thanks to all for the warm welcome

Much appreciated

Hi, I gather you are a halfcrown man, did you know there were quite a few especially hammererd on sale on 7 Feb at sixbid.com plus a nice 1681 E&C? [i have one already so wont be bidding on that!]

Wider issue - has anyone considered having topics by denomination e.g. halfcrown/crowns/shillings? That would mean those of us who specialise could add to these groups.

PhilipC

[Chris Perkins 228]

I don't think there are enough serious collectors of each denomination to warrant that. Many members here also collect more than one denomination and I like to think they enjoy butting in on most subjects!

[Geoff T 3]

I don't think there are enough serious collectors of each denomination to warrant that. Many members here also collect more than one denomination and I like to think they enjoy butting in on most subjects!

I'd endorse what Chris says. Although many of us do specialise, it's often by reading posts from people specialising in other areas that we broaden our knowledge beyond our own area. I know from my experience in musical academe that over-specialisation can lead to a blinkered approach which can prove highly negative.

Geoff

[JoeC 0]

I don't think there are enough serious collectors of each denomination to warrant that. Many members here also collect more than one denomination and I like to think they enjoy butting in on most subjects!

I'd endorse what Chris says. Although many of us do specialise, it's often by reading posts from people specialising in other areas that we broaden our knowledge beyond our own area. I know from my experience in musical academe that over-specialisation can lead to a blinkered approach which can prove highly negative.

Geoff

I try to stick to halfcrowns as I am at a stage where I have so much to learn and thought it would be the best stratedgy as apposed to flitting about all over and maybe not really learning too much .Also I find the halfcrown a very noble coin.

By chance found out today that a colleague at work has been an avid collector for many years and has a large collection of mostly British silver so look forward to taking a look.

Joe

[Chris Perkins 228]

There are collections, and there are collections! People confuse 'accumulations' with 'collections'. I have a few mins so I'll try to explain what I see as the difference.

EXAMPLE 1: A collection of British silver could be all the coins issued by the 'Westminster Collection' since 1997 (I generally remind people at this point that the so called Westminster Collection are nowhere near Westminster and that the 'London Mint Office' much as they try to make you think otherwise, are nothing to do with the Royal Mint). Such a 'collection' will just include new coins, all shiny, all in capsules or special packaging. Such an accumulation requires no talent, no searching, you just send your hard earned cash away and in return you get something that in your lifetime your unlikely to be able to sell for what you paid for it! Example 1, is what I would call an accumulation and is usually put together by people trying to speculate.

EXAMPLE 2: A collection could be 25kg of coins taken out of circulation in the 60s. All worn and worth scrap value. The scrap value may be significant but it doesn't really make it of much interest to a coin collector. Again, no skill involved. Lots of people heard about 'H' date pennies so they kept stacks of them before decimal pennies came along. Often there are collectable coins in such accumulations, but mostly it takes more time sorting them that the collectable ones are worth. Example 2 is also an accumulation and I bet that such accumulators were also speculative (i.e. the accumulators thought that the coins may be worth something one day).

EXAMPLE 3: A 'proper collection' i.e a carefully selected range of coins chosen because of something significant about them, be it date, condition, type or just something that took the collectors eye. Such a collection is usually sorted into some kind of order and can be worth just a few pounds or hundreds of thousands of pounds, but such a collection is so much more than the 2 types of accumulations mentioned above. The collector's personality and determination are measured by the collection and the financial worth is always a secondary concern. The collection is of highest importance and great pleasure is gained in the quest to add to the collection.

Unfortunately, 99% of the people that offer me coins to buy fall into EXAMPLES 1 and 2!

That reminds me....has anyone got any coins to sell me? You know what I like best, Geo III up to Geo VI in better than average conditions (i.e. the collectable grades). Anyone with doubles? I'm so low after good sales in the past month or so.

[JoeC 0]

There are collections, and there are collections! People confuse 'accumulations' with 'collections'. I have a few mins so I'll try to explain what I see as the difference.

EXAMPLE 1: A collection of British silver could be all the coins issued by the 'Westminster Collection' since 1997 (I generally remind people at this point that the so called Westminster Collection are nowhere near Westminster and that the 'London Mint Office' much as they try to make you think otherwise, are nothing to do with the Royal Mint). Such a 'collection' will just include new coins, all shiny, all in capsules or special packaging. Such an accumulation requires no talent, no searching, you just send your hard earned cash away and in return you get something that in your lifetime your unlikely to be able to sell for what you paid for it! Example 1, is what I would call an accumulation and is usually put together by people trying to speculate.

EXAMPLE 2: A collection could be 25kg of coins taken out of circulation in the 60s. All worn and worth scrap value. The scrap value may be significant but it doesn't really make it of much interest to a coin collector. Again, no skill involved. Lots of people heard about 'H' date pennies so they kept stacks of them before decimal pennies came along. Often there are collectable coins in such accumulations, but mostly it takes more time sorting them that the collectable ones are worth. Example 2 is also an accumulation and I bet that such accumulators were also speculative (i.e. the accumulators thought that the coins may be worth something one day).

EXAMPLE 3: A 'proper collection' i.e a carefully selected range of coins chosen because of something significant about them, be it date, condition, type or just something that took the collectors eye. Such a collection is usually sorted into some kind of order and can be worth just a few pounds or hundreds of thousands of pounds, but such a collection is so much more than the 2 types of accumulations mentioned above. The collector's personality and determination are measured by the collection and the financial worth is always a secondary concern. The collection is of highest importance and great pleasure is gained in the quest to add to the collection.

Unfortunately, 99% of the people that offer me coins to buy fall into EXAMPLES 1 and 2!

That reminds me....has anyone got any coins to sell me? You know what I like best, Geo III up to Geo VI in better than average conditions (i.e. the collectable grades). Anyone with doubles? I'm so low after good sales in the past month or so.

Chris

Guidance much appreciated , I hope I am tending toward example 3 , though currently to a modest extent. So far at least have only bought coins I have targeted and done a little bit of research on. The tricky bit for me comes in grading a coin.Went to the last York show as iIwas after a 1746 LIMA halfcrown. Found three examples all of which looked very similar to my eye yet they had a significant price range .

Joe

[Hussulo 6]

[Geordie582 18]

Hi! Joe. You could also go back in history a bit and try Hammered! Just kidding! I never could understand the 'milled' crew! But 'horses for courses'

[HistoricCoinage 146]

Hi! Joe. You could also go back in history a bit and try Hammered! Just kidding! I never could understand the 'milled' crew! But 'horses for courses'

Hammered coins are real coins!

Whatever you decide to collect, enjoy it! I know sure do!

Clive.

[Colin G. 147]

Hi! Joe. You could also go back in history a bit and try Hammered! Just kidding! I never could understand the 'milled' crew! But 'horses for courses'

Hammered coins are real coins!

Whatever you decide to collect, enjoy it! I know sure do!

Clive.

Oh anyone can bash a hammered out

Give me milled anyday!!!!

As long as its none of the modern commemorative stuff - uuuughhhhhh!!!

anyway regardless of what you collect, this forum is a great place to be, knowledge galore!!

Welcome aboard

[Red Riley 2]

EXAMPLE 2: A collection could be 25kg of coins taken out of circulation in the 60s. All worn and worth scrap value. The scrap value may be significant but it doesn't really make it of much interest to a coin collector. Again, no skill involved. Lots of people heard about 'H' date pennies so they kept stacks of them before decimal pennies came along. Often there are collectable coins in such accumulations, but mostly it takes more time sorting them that the collectable ones are worth. Example 2 is also an accumulation and I bet that such accumulators were also speculative (i.e. the accumulators thought that the coins may be worth something one day).

I never really intended to accumulate odd coins in the way you mention in Example 2 but somehow or another, when elderly relatives have died and their belongings divied up, I seem to end up with a small bag of circulated change from the 1960s. No value at all, but when you get known as a coin collector, all sorts of junk seems to head your way. One of these, emenating from an aunt of my wife was highly individual. The bag consisted of maybe 60 items of which approximately 30 were 1937 pennies, all well used, and nothing special about any of them. The chances of this being a purely random event are millions to one, so there must have been a reason why Aunt Rachel specialised in tatty 1937 pennies. I'm blessed if I can see it though.

[Atif 0]

Hi I just discovered this place nice to see that many others share the hobby of coin colecting as me well my dad got me init LOL, I consider my self to be one of the youngest coin collectors in the U.K (AGE 18) with quite a large collection of GB coins from the 1860 to the present day, but like all coin collectors my coin collections are incomplete.

Need some help please, I house my coin collections in GB Whitman folders, Yes I know they are not very good, I have a few folders missing which I require complete with all the coins, If you have these please let me know they are listed below:

Florins 1911-1940

Half crowns 1911-1940

Shillings 1902-1936

Sixpences 1902-1936

Pennies 1930-1967

pennies 1860-1880

Please let me know if you have these, would pay a resnoble price.

Its nice to be here.

Many Thanks

Atif