Good job i'm not in it for the money then, i've probably lost more money on coins over the years than i care to admit to, most of that from buying...
You made much profit on them? I mean i bet the UNC ones sell at the lower end of you MS prices? Got any MS65s for MS62 money for example?
My coin dealer (the one with the William IV sovereign) has handed me over one of his own book that he'd had for sale before, and i looked a coin...
Well my rule has always been, if i come across two UNC coins then i usually get the better looking one of the two, they are usually the same price...
I use those grades, i must admit they suit my purposes to a T, i don't collect UNC coins as a rule. I'm EXTREMELY lucky if i get to AEF or GEF let...
OH RIGHT I GET YOU NOW! Yes i do like the latter idea, i have been known to grade like that on occasions!
I know they must be the most lack lustre designed coins in the World! Euros are bad enough, but i never was a fan of that Irish harp.
What do you mean by that? I mean there's a way of grading a coin by not looking at both sides? :confused: Were you being sarcastic there and i've...
Isn't it enough having the Presidents on the bills? I mean even if the nickel was redesigned radically, Jefferson will still be on the $2 bill,...
That my friend is a Churchill Crown, minted to commemorate the passing of Sir Winston in 1965. It is a five shilling coin from the UK, and a very...
What i always found, amusing and a tad odd is that one English king ruled more of France than the French king did! Which English king was on...
Something like that, referring to the counterstamped portrait of Geo III of England on that of Charles III or IV of Spain. Also since these...
forgive the sloppy wording of the previous post, it's getting late over here...
Ah in the late 1700s and early 1800s we had a major coin crisis and we pinched alot of spanish stuff and overstruck those too, so it was happening...
and it helped me identify my Edward I penny to a mint and class, previous to that i had no idea of how to go about it! Turned out to be class...
It's a big un, all 760 A4 size pages of it. Syl.
For the British stuff dated 1066 and later, i strongly recommend 'R. Lobel, CoinCraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins 2000...
you'll have to scroll to the top of the page on the previous link...
Here's a bit more indepth info on that Stephen coin... http://www.coinpeople.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=24287#24287 but it's not...
Well i can cover some hammered stuff, and some early milled coins... but with regards to ancients, i'm like you... i'd quite like a few one...
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