SCBC 2013

[HistoricCoinage 146]

Spink's Standard Catalogue of British Coins is now out for 2013. I have several available for just £25 delivered in the UK. It's a vital book to chart the prices and is always useful for identifications.

Please let me know if you are interested. My packaging is better than Spink, too.

[Coinery 1,153]

Spink's Standard Catalogue of British Coins is now out for 2013. I have several available for just £25 delivered in the UK. It's a vital book to chart the prices and is always useful for identifications.

Please let me know if you are interested. My packaging is better than Spink, too.

Wow, that competes with Amazon!

[ski 1]

could be the last year as a standard referance book, before being split into hammered, milled and decimal, ive always given away the previos years book to a young collector, if the split happens, i shall keep this one as a complete referance.

[Peter 615]

I note Rob has a mention at the start of the book...silver?

I would like it to be split into hammered,copper/bronze and silver.

I don't buy the bugger every year....sod post decimal.

Gold is based on bullion which can never be accurate.

Edited December 27, 2012 by Peter

[Peckris 579]

could be the last year as a standard referance book, before being split into hammered, milled and decimal, ive always given away the previos years book to a young collector, if the split happens, i shall keep this one as a complete referance.

Really? I'd heard about the post-decimal split, but not the hammered. That suits me down to the ground - I can go the library for my few Roman, and just get the milled book which hopefully will be reasonably priced.

[ski 1]

sorry peck, ive got that wrong......seperate book for decimal and suggested in 2013 edition, a book for gold.

ski.

Edited December 28, 2012 by ski

[Peckris 579]

sorry peck, ive got that wrong......seperate book for decimal and suggested in 2013 edition, a book for gold.

ski.

That makes a certain amount of sense, especially if their research shows that buyers of gold are a much smaller market. Splits up the issues for most reigns though, which is a pity. I'd buy into a "Standard Catalogue Part I Roman to 1662" then "Part II 1663-1967". Those who collect hammered AND milled would buy both (as at present) but others could just buy the half they were interested in. There is a precedent of sorts - in 1968 Seaby published a catalogue of coins from 1816 onwards - unlike the main catalogue up until then, it carried values for every date, not just every type.

[PhilipC 0]

sorry peck, ive got that wrong......seperate book for decimal and suggested in 2013 edition, a book for gold.

ski.

That makes a certain amount of sense, especially if their research shows that buyers of gold are a much smaller market. Splits up the issues for most reigns though, which is a pity. I'd buy into a "Standard Catalogue Part I Roman to 1662" then "Part II 1663-1967". Those who collect hammered AND milled would buy both (as at present) but others could just buy the half they were interested in. There is a precedent of sorts - in 1968 Seaby published a catalogue of coins from 1816 onwards - unlike the main catalogue up until then, it carried values for every date, not just every type.

Don't think this is quite right - what was promised in the foreword was a NEW book for gold, containing details of varieties, like ESC is for silver.

They will split the standard catalogue into 2 books, predecimal and decimal. You will get less varieties in these books going forward as these will be listed in the updated ESC ( and the new "EGC").

Think this is major good news, as ESC is so out of date, and an "EGC" has been needed for years.

Philip

[Peckris 579]

sorry peck, ive got that wrong......seperate book for decimal and suggested in 2013 edition, a book for gold.

ski.

That makes a certain amount of sense, especially if their research shows that buyers of gold are a much smaller market. Splits up the issues for most reigns though, which is a pity. I'd buy into a "Standard Catalogue Part I Roman to 1662" then "Part II 1663-1967". Those who collect hammered AND milled would buy both (as at present) but others could just buy the half they were interested in. There is a precedent of sorts - in 1968 Seaby published a catalogue of coins from 1816 onwards - unlike the main catalogue up until then, it carried values for every date, not just every type.

Don't think this is quite right - what was promised in the foreword was a NEW book for gold, containing details of varieties, like ESC is for silver.

They will split the standard catalogue into 2 books, predecimal and decimal. You will get less varieties in these books going forward as these will be listed in the updated ESC ( and the new "EGC").

Think this is major good news, as ESC is so out of date, and an "EGC" has been needed for years.

Philip

Please don't use that ugly abortion of a phrase "going forward" in my hearing ever again.

However, I wonder what you mean by "less varieties in these books" as a Spink equivalent of ESC for gold would have no impact on the silver and base metal issues? Which Spink have been adding varieties for on a regular basis. And if there is to be a new ESC, it won't carry any values, so Spink will still need to include them in their catalogue to give the latest values especially if a new ESC stimulates interest in the market as it surely will. It would be totally artificial and a bit silly, if Spink were to cut out all the varieties of silver while keeping all the base metal varieties in place.

The split of decimal and predecimal will result in two volumes, one of which will be about 1/20th the size of the other, or even smaller. On another level it makes sense, as the market for Royal Mint decimal issues (a money-spinning sideshow) is a completely different one to the "normal" one for proper coin collectors.

[TomGoodheart 402]

Yes, I was wondering whether there could possibly be enough decimal issues to justify an entire volume, then I remembered the 6000 varieties of Olympic 50ps and all the rare £2 coins you see on ebay!

Personally I think they'd be better with a proper book on silver, one for base metal coins and a 'check your change' type for decimal collectors.

And on that thought ... I'm curious to know how many here actually collect decimal coins, as in the same way you collect bun pennies etc, as opposed to just accumulating the things because they are of (passing) interest?

Because I wonder, as Chris suggests above, if the potential customers for a decimal volume might be .. different from people who collect the sorts of things people here do. Or am I unknowingly insulting some fellow members?

Edited January 3, 2013 by TomGoodheart

[azda 979]

sorry peck, ive got that wrong......seperate book for decimal and suggested in 2013 edition, a book for gold.

ski.

That makes a certain amount of sense, especially if their research shows that buyers of gold are a much smaller market. Splits up the issues for most reigns though, which is a pity. I'd buy into a "Standard Catalogue Part I Roman to 1662" then "Part II 1663-1967". Those who collect hammered AND milled would buy both (as at present) but others could just buy the half they were interested in. There is a precedent of sorts - in 1968 Seaby published a catalogue of coins from 1816 onwards - unlike the main catalogue up until then, it carried values for every date, not just every type.

Don't think this is quite right - what was promised in the foreword was a NEW book for gold, containing details of varieties, like ESC is for silver.

They will split the standard catalogue into 2 books, predecimal and decimal. You will get less varieties in these books going forward as these will be listed in the updated ESC ( and the new "EGC").

Think this is major good news, as ESC is so out of date, and an "EGC" has been needed for years.

Philip

What was promised was promised last year for this year which was to seperate the decimal into a seperate issue, but will apparently happen next year like it did'nt this year. Not sure how popular that would actually be, but an edition every 5 years would probably suffice. What would be great is an updated ESC which is in the pipeline and also an Updated "Coins of SCotland, Ireland and the Islands as

The last was now 10 years ago

[Peter 615]

It really isn't expensive.Considering what I spend on coins...I just don't need a catalogue every year which is a guide only.A detached shamrock 1853 1/4d ww incuse took some tracking down....look in Spink and it really doesn't go much above novice.

[declanwmagee 122]

A detached shamrock

Are they die fills or design change, Peter? I can never decide whether to include them or not...