How Sad Am I?!?!

[TomGoodheart 400]

I recently bought the 2001 BNJ for the Eaglen article. ("Coin Tickets in the British Hammered Series Robin J. Eaglen, Peter D. Mitchell and Hugh E. Pagan")

And I've now spent an enjoyable evening photocopying my coin tickets and cutting them out to replace, or supplement, those illustrated in the article.

What can I say!

[HistoricCoinage 146]

Were you not tempted to use the digital version and scan in your own tickets to print off a new database of tickets?

http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/2001.shtml

[TomGoodheart 400]

Were you not tempted to use the digital version and scan in your own tickets to print off a new database of tickets?

http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/2001.shtml

LOL Sadly, having now bought three BNJs in their original form, I've realised that very handy though they are, the digital scans aren't terribly good for showing detail in illustrations.

So no, I went for the paper copy. Which I am very happy to confirm is much better for my purposes.

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Edited May 9, 2014 by TomGoodheart

[HistoricCoinage 146]

the digital scans aren't terribly good for showing detail in illustrations.

I entirely agree. It's worth the BNS membership just for the BNJ alone. When I needed scans of some of Parsons' Aethelred II examples with extra symbols from the BNJ the online copies were useless.

[Coinery 1,147]

Brilliant!

[Nicholas 51]

Love it. I noticed in the plates one of triple unites of Brooker was purchased for £95. So that's how he was able to afford that collection...

[TomGoodheart 400]

Love it. I noticed in the plates one of triple unites of Brooker was purchased for £95. So that's how he was able to afford that collection...

I've not done the sums (though perhaps Rob has?), but get the impression that throughout the earlier part of the last century, probably to the late 1960s, most coins were comfortably affordable by your average professional.

If you look through the descriptions of collectors it's not just landed gentry but teachers, solicitors, doctors, plumbers and electrical contractors. Some of whom amassed impressive collections.

I'm starting to think that if prices for better pieces continue to rise then in another few years that may no longer be the case. Certainly my budget is feeling the strain, though it was pretty small to start with!

Perhaps I should just collect tickets? Might be a bit cheaper! And I've gaps already. I've sadly no Brooker ticket with my coin. None for Roger Shuttlewood (do any exist?) No Lockett or Francis. Though I did confirm one of Alan Rayner's from the article and on old Format one too. Such fun!

[Colin G. 147]

If it makes you feel any better, I spent half a day not too long ago counting border teeth on Victorian farthings

[Coinery 1,147]

OR, I last night spent just over an hour sifting £8.48 from my brother's savings jar?

[Peter 615]

I spend hours on updating and variation hunting but spend very little.

It is always new interests that broaden my focus.

When something rings my bell I say ding dong.

[Nicholas 51]

My great uncle once purchased 6 10 gallon tins full of Australian pennies. He was somewhat entrepreneurial and wanted to put pennies into plastic holders as key rings when decimal currency commenced in 1966. He decided against it and gave me the tins, I spent weeks, no, months sorting thru every coin as a young boy. At nights I would see pennies when I closed my eyes. And you know only a handful of rarities. Rarities are so rare!! Certainly no 1925 or 1930 pennies, and only one 1946 in VF cond. the best was a 1948 FDC. 20$!

[TomGoodheart 400]

I don't mind the true rarities as much. You just don't see them until one turns up.

It's the 'conditional' ones that I find frustrating! The coins that you can find by the dozen on eBay, but that might take years (and many coins checked and dismissed) to actually find a really nice example. And of course, when you see something a little better .. you wonder whether to get it in case you regret it later, or to hold out in the hope that perfect coin is out there!

Oh, well. As I tell my wife, it keeps me off the streets.

If I didn't collect coins I might have turned to a life of crime and we could be retired in luxury somewhere sunny by now.

[davidrj 194]

If I didn't collect coins I might have turned to a life of crime and we could be retired in luxury somewhere sunny by now.

I've always wondered why "International Playboy" wasn't on offer in the Job Centre when i left school - I'm sure I would have been good at it

[Peter 615]

Help me I've just bought Mr Perkins latest decimal coin book.

I shall be raiding Mrs Peters purse.

[Coinery 1,147]

Help me I've just bought Mr Perkins latest decimal coin book.

I shall be raiding Mrs Peters purse.

it's a good bit of cheap fun! My 1971 halfpenny shines like gold!

[Peckris 579]

Help me I've just bought Mr Perkins latest decimal coin book.

I shall be raiding Mrs Peters purse.

it's a good bit of cheap fun! My 1971 halfpenny shines like gold!

So do all 175 of mine!!