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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 24284, member: 708&quot;]I still find the North catalogue a headache when trying to attribute a coin to a particular class.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah so GD does the Renaissance, Reid and co do the ancients. It kinda leaves people like me left to browse the medieval field practically undisturbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>I tend to find English silver coins from 950-1327 most interesting, i&#039;m not too fussed about the 1327-1500 period, but my interest is picked up again by the profile portrait coinage of Henry VII running to the downfall of Mary Tudor in 1558. I tend to focus on the pennies from the earlier era (usually cos they were the only coins struck), and i intend to focus almost exclusively on groats or halfgroats for the Tudor period. Something with a good portrait.</p><p><br /></p><p>My interest in English gold coins fills the gap running from Edward III (1327-1377) through the Charles I (1625-1649).</p><p><br /></p><p>I tend not to be too bothered by the Elizabethan-Charles I period in silver coinage terms, and the Commonwealth period (1649-1660) really does nothing for me at all. The designs are insipid for the Republic.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the later issues my interest is rekindled by the 1662-1787 issues. Anything post that doesn&#039;t really interest me.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Mediæval coins are an hard one to figure out how best to go about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>You could collect one denomination of one monarch by class, by moneyor, by mint. Obviously mediæval era it&#039;s difficult to collect by date.</p><p><br /></p><p>My aim as i see it, is to collect one coin of every English monarch (excluding rare ones) from Eadgar to Charles I (I have actually go most of the ones after that to Geo III, but they don&#039;t fit in the hammered collection).</p><p><br /></p><p>I intend to have at least one silver penny of every one from Eadgar to Edward II (Sometimes more perhaps if there is a major difference between one issue and another, i.e Long cross/Short cross).</p><p><br /></p><p>Edward III-Richard III in gold coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Henry VII &amp; VIII gold and silver</p><p><br /></p><p>Edward VI gold</p><p><br /></p><p>Mary Tudor - one of every denomination that i can afford (obviously not the Ryal), but Mary is a particular interest to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Elizabeth I- Charles I in gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>Charles II - George III a full set of milled sixpences by date from 1674-1787.</p><p><br /></p><p>That it with my collecting aims. It&#039;ll take me a good 50 years but i&#039;ve got time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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