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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 1252674, member: 15588&quot;]Thanks for the replies everyone!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m really really new to this... a downright neophyte, to be exact. I only have an Elizabeth I 1565 three pence and an Edward I penny at the moment... but I feel the addiction building... these are amazing little works of art... so for the moment I haven&#039;t settled on a period or monarch. I&#039;m just picking up pieces that look satisfying to me, namely, the 2 mentioned. But I do have to mention that the Edward VI schillings look pretty cool...</p><p><br /></p><p>As for books, I started VERY basic and ordered &quot;England&#039;s Striking History&quot; from Amazon UK. I&#039;ve read the majority of it in small random sections. It runs from Edgar to Charles II and delineates the history and coinage, mintmarks and denominations of each era. Very simple, very readable and a great place to start. The books mentioned above sound like the next best place to explore.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for being easy to fake, I&#039;m only going by what I&#039;ve heard from various places. Are these coins more difficult to fake than it seems? I think it was the Yahoo Hammered Coin group that talked about the multiple fakes recently seen on E-bay. Some were apparently even identical coins, as if mass-produced. In any case, I&#039;m hoping to educate myself on forgery techniques to at least a degree that will lessen anxiety.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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