What should i buy?

[Emperor Oli 0]

Apparently so

[william 0]

...i will cancel my order from chris, sorry ...the prooflike 1895 farthing can now be yours william

Yay, thanks JMD, but I probably won't be able to get it anyway. I will do my best though

[Master Jmd 80]

So you have decided to move into farthings now...............?

Yep, as i have said before, i was starting to fancy farthings...but now i love them...

Its like an affair really:

Get married to Penny - Notice a really attractive person named Farthing - Fall in love with Farthing - Ring up for a divorce with Penny

[william 0]

Are you going to get married to Farthing them JMD?

[Master Jmd 80]

Are you going to get married to Farthing them JMD?

Well, li'll wait a bit first

[Emperor Oli 0]

Ring up for divorce with penny, both hire solicitors. Have long drawn-out three year battle for custody of the fractional farthings. Penny obviously gets them as she is the woman and we all know women are looked favourably on in custody battles. However, Penny is quite poor in comparison to JMD so she would have to find lots of money to buy him out of their marital cabinet. Drawing on money from her grandfather, the shilling, she manages to scrape together enough, with some endowments whuch she has lying around, to buy JMD out. JMD goes off to buy scummy folder somewhere whilst Penny and the fractionals live in their nice mahogany cabinet.

Moral of the story? I don't know.

p.s Farthing's mine!

edit oops im talking about houses instead of cabinets

Edited June 20, 2004 by Emperor Oli

[Master Jmd 80]

It sounds to me as if you are scared of the competition...i can collect what i want, when i want...also, i can far easily store farthings

[Emperor Oli 0]

Ha! Scared of the competition- don't make me laugh. I can do all the things which you say so I don't see what you're getting at. A cabinet is just as easy to store coins as whatever you use, if not better. Whatever you're trying to make this into, I'm not following it.

[Master Jmd 80]

Ha! Scared of the competition- don't make me laugh. I can do all the things which you say so I don't see what you're getting at. A cabinet is just as easy to store coins as whatever you use, if not better. Whatever you're trying to make this into, I'm not following it.

I meant that a cabinet shelf can hold more farthings than pennies

[Emperor Oli 0]

...so you have a cabinet?

[Master Jmd 80]

...so you have a cabinet?

nope, but i will for christmas...hopefully

[Emperor Oli 0]

So you don't have a cabinet therefore your point about you being able to store coins easily was false. Nice going

[Half Penny Jon 0]

I hope to get a cabinet when I have completed my date run, which will be a while.

[william 0]

I am hoping to get a cabinet as well

[Half Penny Jon 0]

It will be like an atomic bomb to me financially.

[ikkle-monkey 0]

Probably to late for my vote but i always belive that its better late than never so i went for the first one as i think its a very attractive buy

[Emperor Oli 0]

HPJ, it is not that much of an expenditure when you think what you gain. My cabinet cost me around £100 - that was for the best model of its range (called the Mascle). It comfortably houses my collection and I can make space by chucking out some of my rubbish/foreign (!) coins. Think of the money you would save instead of buying trays or whatever system you use - although it is a significant outlay, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

Alternatively, which I am thinking of doing, is buying a separate cabinet for just my farthings. Although it's not a cabinet per se, it's more of a box. It could be made to house 54 farthings, so all my farthings are in one place. The huge bonus is that it's only £40 (approx.). It's called Martlet if you're interested.

If you're dead set on buying a cabinet, I thoroughly recommend this man, Peter Nichols. He caters for all budgets and needs and produces a great product at the end. They're so good, the British museum even have them! A clever thing also is that he names the models after provincial mints (I think this is true although it may be utter tripe).

Edited June 21, 2004 by Emperor Oli

[Half Penny Jon 0]

I might ask him to make me a custom made cabinet for my half pennies. I will keep my trays for the rest of my coins.

[william 0]

That'll be expensive...

[Half Penny Jon 0]

I know but it will really make my collection look impressive. At the moment, my Lindner trays don't make them look impressive at all.

[Emperor Oli 0]

Don't waste your money on a custom-made one, just go for the standard. Nobody really cares what method your coins are displayed in and a custom cabinet won't look any different to a generic type.

[Half Penny Jon 0]

But those cabinets don't come in my half penny's size (26mm)

[TomGoodheart 400]

Hang on HPJ - you want to leave a little room don't you? 28mm should do fine surely, or you'll not be able to get the coin out again. And with 20 recesses per tray the Mascle will hold 280 coins.

Just watch out for the doors - mine are completely different grain from eachother - I was somewhat disappointed. Then again when it's open it's nice and I have a tray for each sub-type of Charles I shillings (plus a tray with larger recesses for seige coins that I can't afford!)