20mm and 7.9g, but it appears to be that coin described in the link. Cheers guys.
Was cleaning up some uncleaned greeks a couple of days ago and spotted this. I'm not quite sure what the host coin is, maybe Egyptian, but the...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southport_Pier There is also a shop called Parkinsons which sells minerals, fossils, antique books, as well as coins...
When haggling, it also helps when you know if you are dealing with the business owner or one of his hapless employees. Hapless employees, for...
However, they are so massively in credit that they can afford slow growth or even contraction. As net creditors, they don't need to borrow...
This might be of interest to you two: http://www.24carat.co.uk/faketwopoundcoin.html
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My record is £500 for a Jesus' lifetime Tyrian Shekel. I'm not likely to spend that much again for quite some time. The only reason I was prepared...
Bunhead coins (1860-1894) tend to be somewhat more desireable than later pennies (if they are in reasonable condition) however, ordinary...
Might be slightly harder to rip people off that way these days when an extensive library of expensive coin books and auction catalogues is no...
In a more on topic related note. King Farouk was supposed to be a notorious coin cleaner. I wonder how many rare and priceless coins in his...
In aesthetic terms, they probably ought to go with someone else, maybe the Austrian Mint or the Royal Canadian Mint. I am British, but frankly,...
The vast majority of fakes are easy to spot at first glance, particularly if the dealer is a specialist in the type of coin it is trying to...
Ethically, I think it was the dealer's responsibility to ensure the coin was genuine before he bought it. We are supposed to be the 'experts' in...
Personally, I would trust Royal Mail (in Britain) before I trusted the US Postal Service. We sent something to the US using international signed...
Yeah, I'm inherently sceptical of any coin originating in that part of the world, and as far as I am concerned, they are guilty until proven...
LOL, I will. See you in about 10-20 years!!
I'm also trying to assemble a collection of each monarch (plus the Commonwealth), I don't think I'll get each variety though, some of them are far...
I'm trying to assemble an example of each shilling from Edward VI (see my avatar) to the present day (including the present 5p coin, that was...
To be fair, people were literally starving for days and/or queueing up for miles for soup during the depression, I'm not sure that is going to...
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