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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Uberman, post: 700915, member: 20803&quot;]Today, I had mine &quot;wow I&#039;m an idiot moment&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I had the afternoon off, I went to my local coin shop out here on the island, Miller&#039;s Mint (probably the only coin store in Suffolk County I will deal with). As they are extremely nice folk, they don&#039;t mind a younger broke collector into world coins searching through their junk box stock. I sat therefor about 2 and a half hours, as they dumped 20 pounds of new stuff into the by-the-pound mid/low grade box. </p><p><br /></p><p>After pulling out about 3 lbs of stuff and culling it don to 2.5, I happily went home. In the junk-box this week there was a LOT of pre-decimal Great Britain coinage. I couldn&#039;t resists and grabbed handfuls of post-silver 6 pence and shilling coins, as well as a cart-load (ok, a slight exadducation) of pre 1930&#039;s farthings, halfs and large pennys. </p><p><br /></p><p>As I was sitting down tonight going through mint dates on the Shillings, I noticed something weird. On a bunch of Elizabeth 2nd shillings the # of lions inside the shield changed. Some had 3 some has 1. At first I was stumped for a god minute or two, then it came to me: Scottish shillings. I was aware of the previous monarch&#039;s issuance of shillings in both English and Scottish varieties, but the design was so obviously different that I noticed it right away when I got into G.B. coinage. With Elizabeth 2&#039;nd, I did not. And I have looked at the shilling section of Krause too many times to make that mistake.</p><p><br /></p><p>Off to my G.B. set I went and had do dismantle half of the Elizabeth 2nd shilling set into two sections, one for English crest one for Scottish. </p><p><br /></p><p>Moral of the story? No matter how many varieties of Queen Victoria portrait I can tell apart w/o a lope, I still made an obvious mistake that a cub scout could have called me on. Live and learn!</p><p><br /></p><p>On the upside, I now have twice the coins I need for Elizabeth 2nd set. back to the hunt![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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