A lot of things irritate me. This is one of them

I get so aggravated when I look through the British coins listed on eBay and so many people seem unable to translate the monarch's name from Latin to English. A typical listing says "one penny georgivs V." Come on, you can't figure out that's George V? A really good one I just saw says "culielmus IIII 1831." For those of you scoring at home, that would be William IV.

 

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usually they are people who aren't really collectors, mainly people trying tomake a quick buck.

 

Well, Georgius and George, that is something pretty much everybody who has just found some old coin in a jar could easily figure out. Now the Latinized version of William may be a little more difficult. (Side note: On a few German East Africa coins depicting Wilhelm II you find "Guilelmus" too ...) But I think that the time spent on a little research before you try and sell a coin would be well invested as the final price may be higher.

Christian

 

How many coin collectors do you think took Latin? Give me a break. Some of the people here are in dire need of Spell Check!

veni, vidi, vici!

Chris

 

Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo

 

Ditto, but hold the vegetables!

 

Well if the Brits would have just put this on thier coins, there would be no problems. "Another Sick degenerate Saxe Colburg butcher."

 

I look for sellers on ebay that don't know what they have or know what the coin is worth. That gets you some good deals. And as far as people knowing how to spell, just go to a fast food place or gas station and have the workers make change without a computer and you will find out that they can't count either.

 

My best buys have been sets or coins from vendors who don't sell very many coins at all. Sometimes people who deal in mainly collectibles or other things miss a VAM or other variety, or simply place a good BIN price on an item. But there is a lot of competition among buyers for these things. You have to get lucky to get a good deal.

 

You are correct that you are more likely to get a deal on these types. I'm hoping that William IV penny doesn't get a lot of bids because people don't know what the heck it is, because I'd like to buy it. But I'm a copy editor so the Internet is just one big source of frustration for me.

 

a little bit over thetop that comment ripley! but as a confirmed anti royalist i agree with you.

 

LOL a good thick skin and a stiff upper lip. that's the sprit !

 

From years of bludgeoning from their monarchs... LOL...

 

not to mentioning the amount of money we have to pay for the privelege..................oh for another oliver cromwell.

 

It's definitely aggravating when people can't spell the name of what they're selling, but at the same time it opens up the door of opportunity to plenty of really good deals I collect Russian notes and coin, and I've gotten some incredible deals because of "rouebels" (Roubles), "Nikolai" (Nicholas II), "USSSR" (USSR), you name it... Often times I search ebay with terms that are intentionally misspelled to see which categories those couple items are hiding.

 

I used to do searches for spelling mistakes, got some really good stuff until everyone else cottoned on.

Glod, Sliver, Palastine, Doller, to name a few.

 

Why on earth do you decide to let that irritate you? I love coins. I have British coins. I never knew until right now that "culielmus" is "William." And, I'll probably forget that point in the future. See, I have no interest in learning Latin. But, like you said, "a lot" of things irritate you.

Let go of the anger.........decide to be happy.

 

Here is a GEORGIUS coin I picked-up last weekend. :smile

 

Anymore?

 

Here`s GULIELMUS TERTIUS and his faithful horse REX :smile