I find magnets useful when searching through old pennies to pick out the pre-85 coins. All our bronze coins since 1992 are copper plated steel and...
Infact both Trantor_3 and I started out just on world (well i believe), and since posting on US based forums we've been lured into collecting US...
You know sometimes i think US collectors worry because they think you're either one or the other, you're either Liteside or Darkside....
What you so afraid of?
I've already got my eye on an aVF one at the coin shop! Excellent strike. (Dunno if to get it reserved or not yet). What kinda groat is yours?
Whatever you chose to buy, buy the coin for the enjoyment it will give you, not for the investment potential. Too many people worried about $$$...
Darkside gold very much so. Trust me, been there, done it, bought a t-shirt from most of the periods going.
I like groats they have something about them... can't explain it.
Thanks Peter!
Hey thanks! I hadn't seen that.
I dunno if i'm allowed to ask this here, but i'll give it a shot because i duno what else to do. I'm wanting to start collecting 1920's P mint...
Are you sure that H2O2 doesn't damage coins? :confused: It is afterall an oxidant, a bit corrosive too, if you don't believe me drop a hair or...
Hey no need to take offence. I wasn't criticising, i was just pointing out that technically it is cleaned although you know that might not show...
Running under water is still cleaning. I'd say VF.
Yes i think he did mean that. They weren't exactly new even when he posted that.
Tournai i'm not sure exactly where it is these days, but i think it's once of those places that switched hands alot back then. Kinda like Calais....
English. But i can catch the odd word of French (yes i too am amazed when people can't understand Republique Francaise etc.), and i recognise...
So Pink Floyd now enters the equation.
Sounds like you've been dabbling in my old area. I was into sixpences of that period though, but alot of the knowledge learned on those is...
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