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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 70309, member: 708&quot;]If anyone knows sixpences of this era then it should be me. I used to have a date run of sorts from 1674-1787, i was only interested in the sixpenmces and from a few years of trying to get one of each date i can tell you that the following dates turn up ALL the time;</p><p><br /></p><p>1674, 1693, 1696, 1697, 1703V, 1711, 1723SSC, 1732RP, 1739R, 1741R, 1743R, 1745L, 1746L, 1757, 1758, 1787NH and 1787H.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got fed up of seeing those dates by the end.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other dates that are considered &#039;Key Dates&#039;, actually by the time i was winding the collection down were becoming infuriatingly common. 1694 and 1750 are not as rare as it&#039;s made out (they&#039;re expense but seemingly if you want one you can find one!). If you wanted 1710, 1717RP, 1720RP, 1726RP, 1736RP or 1751 then you really can forget it. You can&#039;t find them for love nor money.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Although i sold all of my sixpences off now i still take an interest in the series and one day i hope to return to them. Of the set i had managed to acquire i had the following;</p><p><br /></p><p>1674, 1675/4, 1675, 1676/5, 1680, 1683, 1693, 1694, 1696, 1697 (obv 1, rev 1), 1697 (obv 3, rev 3), 1703 Vigo, 1711, 1723SSC, 1728, 1728P, 1728RP, 1732RP, 1735RP, 1739R, 1741R, 1743R, 1746L, 1750, 1757, 1758, 1787H and 1787NH.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which was about 1/3rd of the way to a full date run. I stopped because the grades varied too much for my liking (i&#039;m a perfectionist) and although most of the coins were VF with a few EFs and an AU 1750, some like the 1680, the 1703 and the 1735 were more like F or VG and i can&#039;t live with grades that low... I figured i&#039;d probably get into a continuous upgrade cycle and i&#039;d never get out of it again. So the collection went on hold whilst i figured out what to do. And that&#039;s when the Æthelstan penny turned up (after 13 years of waiting for one i wasn&#039;t going to let that one escape) so it was bye, bye sixpences. Oddly i don&#039;t regret doing it either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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