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Ætheling

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  1. Depends; New coins (1800+) then uncirculated is preferred, although high EF's are acceptable. Old coins (pre-1800) then VF/EF is the best. Anything older than say 1500 then we're talking whatever looks eye appealing.
  2. Not a paper fan sadly, not enough uniformity and sameness of design, too colorful too. Sombre dark colors are good, bright abstract modern looking note designs, not too intriguing. US notes are the preferred here, simply because they are in a word old fashioned, old fashioned is good.
  3. You know there's a whole load of proper terminology for numbers like that on notes, can't remember any of them at present.
  4. Sounds like you got one of the 'rulebook' brigade. They exist unfortunately, they are a menace and they always cause the long queues at the Post Offices. You've got to hate them.
  5. Of course if you did that now you'd be accused of AT-ing the coin.
  6. Sounds rather familiar...
  7. As one dealer once said; "The general uneducated public are very stupid, they believe what they want to believe whether it is true or not". You get them, way of the World.
  8. Currently only ones been in this collection are; Gold, Silver, Copper, Bronze, Cupro-Nickel, Tin, Zinc, Aluminum, Steel (plated with either Zinc or Copper), Nickel Brass, and some Brass gaming tokens. I think that's them all...
  9. Not too bothered about Platinum, but Palladium always sounded like a good metal to have! Afterall Platinum whilst more expensive (if memory serves correct) is just a run of the mill noble metal. Palladium is more interesting. Although zinc and tin are firm favourites also. The zinc as exemplified by this collection currently being worked on. Currently trying to get a full date run of these in UNC with lustre. (Lustre was hard to capture, but it is there). Infact a whole Nazi Germany Berlin (A) mint date set in UNC is the ultimate goal eventually, but the 5 reichpfennigs are currently the only denomination being pursued.
  10. Ah the Liberty $20... gorgeous coins. Must get another one, one day to replace the vacant spot left by the other that got sold. US gold coinage is an interest of mine, amongst others.
  11. Wonderful! With a thread as inspiring as this it is very tempting to switch to collecting by type. Needless to say the date collector within is now pulling the covers over his head and crying.
  12. Question as topic heading, including the following; 1) Was it a particular coin that caught your eye? 2) World coins are generally cheaper than US? 3) Just fancied something different? Note; If you're not in the US then the question still applies, how did you get into non-native coins and why? Finally, is there anything, country-wise/denomination-wise you think you'd like to persue one day, time/money permitting?
  13. Have a few collections on the go but it's unlikely that there are any albums available for any of the collections currently being worked on. Prefer to store them via other methods that won't tone the coins anyhow.
  14. Never lost one either, touch wood.
  15. Mr Simon was to be disappointed, as John Roettier retained the post.
  16. A very nice coin of a very important person in history. Definately not the favourite Emperor though.
  17. Reeded or Milled edges were introduced at varying times in varying places. Most commonly in the 17th/18th centuries with the progression away from hammered coins and onto machine made coins with milled edges, hence the term milled coinage. Other feature such as edge lettering were introduced for the same reason as the milling was introduced, to prevent people from clipping silver off of the coins and passing underweight coins on. Hence why British coins of this period are enscribed 'DECVS ET TVTAMEN' (An Ornament and Safeguard). Gold coins were similarly done. Which brings to mind one story about eighteenth century England. Up until a certain point the edge milling on the gold guinea had been like most of the other denominations, set diagonally. However due to the prevalence of the guinea filers, who would file gold from the edges of the coin and then reingrave the reeding, something had to be done. It was noted that certain issues were more suceptible than others to this filing. Issues where the legends were near to the edge generally escaped, but coins where there was a gap between the legend and the edge of the coin usually got filed down. Thus by the mid-late 18th century the mint changed the obverse and reverse legends so that they were as close to the edge as possible and then the edge milling was altered from the diagonal style to a chevron style. The problem was greatly solved on the new coins. So the edges of coins don't just make forgery more difficult, they also ensured that making a profit at the mint's expense was greatly reduced.
  18. Andy seems to have out done everyone. Pity about this now redundant double sided one. (No PNG file to be found so it had to be JPEG again)... The general idea was to cut out the black strip stick it where the arrow points (on the blank side) running down the space provided. The to fold the other side over and glue it shut. Making a two sided note. Hopefull the measurements were accurate enough to ensure the watermark area in the CP was lining up on both sides. (If you were to draw on the inside of the watermarked area it might show through when held up to the light), as would the strip.
  19. Thanks, the PNG will be useful in future. Jpeg was chosen for a reason, size issues mostly, but blurred vision helps to prevent people printing them off unofficially.* Unlikely that the jpeg ones above will even make it to printing anyhow because another set of designs are being worked on. MMD will probably do the circulation versions. As for the others they are in the works. Double sided ones are being designed slowly, for the CANE thing and maybe for a few other events. *Signatures should solve that issue. MMD will be signing most if not all of them.
  20. Another set of designs ar been worked on exclusively for the new 'CANE' awards. The colours are proving tricky to match up.
  21. Wonderful! Oli that is the best yet undoubtedly. Although there is one slight question raised by the inclusion of Shrek and that is Copyright. Could printing off say 6000 Shrek notes not be a bit open to a legal minefield?
  22. Here's the newly designed $1 note. Got a bit carried away with the lines going across the note, they appeared and followed the course spontanously, whatever looked good at the time. Sitting further back though those random lines actually look alot like a 'P' turned on it's side with a 'C' resting on top. This CP design was not intentional but just occurred.
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