Ætheling
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That's a stunning coin! There's nothing quite like Norman era coins.
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Knew this coin is going to stir something.
Don't get me wrong, I do like it. I'm always interested in the unusual, just has that extra pull in this case is that it also happens to be poisonous too, I wonder how many fell ill from Antimony poisoning using these things in everyday transactions? Very similar effects to Arsenic by all accounts.
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Sylvester:Other Precious Metals:Group 7 Exonumia: 1/10 oz 2004 Lewis & Clark Stillwater Palladium Bullion Lewis & Clark Palladium
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gxseries, Base Metals, Group 8 Special coins, China Guizhou Province 1931 antimony 10 cash gxseries China Guizhou Province 1931 antimony 10 cash
Antimony?
Well there's a new one on me. You wouldn't want to bite into that one to see if it's real!
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I seem to recall these do quite well
Please note the picture wasn't taken by myself but I do own the coin.
Sylvester:Base Metal - Cupronickel:Group 5 1901-Present:1952 East Africa Shilling East Africa 1/-
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Please note the picture below was not taken by myself, but I do own the coin.
Sylvester:Silver:Group 5 1901-Present: 1921P Standing Liberty Quarter 1921P SLQ
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Note; the picture was not taken by me, but I do own the coin.
Sylvester:Gold:Group 2 1501-1700: 1547 Edward VI Half Sovereign Tudor Half Sovereign
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Art's Gold Entries
Art:Gold:Group 4 1801-1900:1912 Half Sovereign:Art;s 1912 Half Sovereign
This little beauty came into my collection as part of a trade I made years ago with Syl. It's the only gold coin in my collection and a design that I truly enjoy.
Ah i'd forgotten about that Art, always nice to see an old friend! You know that was the first gold coin I ever owned!
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Sylvester - Silver Group 1 - Ancient & Medievel: XX-1500AD - Domitian Denarius (92 CE)
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Loving the hammered coins, haven't bought any hammered myself in a fair while! The Cnut and AEthelred are particularly good. You've got an eye for a good portrait.
The portraits on the Henry and Elizabeth coins are well struck too with nice crisp legends, a rare combination!
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Since we don't have Coinstar, i'll break the rules a little, I found a 1988 5p coin in change. Long time since I've seen an old 5p masquerading as a new 10p coin!
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That certainly is interesting. Although I'm at a loss to offer anything other than what has already been discussed and considered!
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Well you've got until the 30th!
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I can delay BPCI by another week to the 30th if it makes any difference. I was going to wrap up the submissions on the 24th, but next weekend i'm going to be out for all of it, so no time to arrange it all then.
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Here are the groups
A - Ancient/Hammered (Celtic, Roman, English, Scots, Irish) [16 entry spaces]
B - Early Milled (English, Scots, Irish 1662-1815) [16 entry spaces]
C - Early Milled Tokens (17th/18th/19th century) [8 entry spaces]
D - Late Milled Gold (British Mainland 1816-1968) [8 entry spaces]
E - Late Milled Silver (British Mainland 1816-1967) [16 entry spaces]
F - Late Milled Base Metals (British Mainland 1816-1967) [16 entry spaces]
G - Decimal (British Mainland 1968+) [8 entry spaces]
H - Channel Islands [16 entry spaces]
I - Canada [16 entry spaces]
J - Australia/New Zealand (predecimal/decimal) [16 entry spaces]
K - India/Pakistan [16 entry spaces]
L - South Africa [16 entry spaces]
M - Asian Islands [16 entry spaces]
N - African Colonies [16 entry spaces]
O - American Colonies [8 entry spaces]
P - Other islands [16 entry spaces]
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General Points
* You may enter coins in as many of the groups as you wish.
* You may enter a maximum of three (3) coins in each group.
How to set out the description for your coin
* A heading before each coin image url should in the following format:
Your Id - The Group - Date [or approximate if applicable] - Country /Amount /Denomination
eg. Sylvester - Group M - 1910 - Ceylon 5 Cents
Providing links to images of your coin
* Images of the coins must be in omnicoin --- reasons for this have been discussed on a number of occasions. Post only the url of the image -- not an img post
e.g. http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/972703.jpg
[To get this you have to first upload your coin onto omnicoin. Once this is done you go to the 'large view' of your uploaded coin [see here], once there right click on the image or your coin, go to properties, on the next window that comes up you will see Address URL; this is the address you need).
* You may [if you wish] include a brief description of the coin/item that you would like included along with the image in the competition. Here's your chance to bring the historic importance to the forefront.
Example of how a submission should look
Sylvester - Group G - 1992 - UK Ten Pence
http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/972703.jpg
Thanks and good luck.
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Well Art at the end of the day it's your collection and ultimately your decision how you proceed with redistributing it (per say).
However, I would emplore you not to make any quick fire decisions regarding total sale of collection. It's easy enough to decide but once it's gone it's gone. I personally would leave it there for a good year more to fully decide how to go forward, that way you've not only slept on the decision (as they say) but ensured that it's not just one of those blip or trough phases we all go through in our rollercoaster collection journey. If in a year's time you still feel exactly the same way, then maybe the way you feel now is the correct decision. I however, expect that given a year's passage you might feel differently about it than you do at present.
I've sold many a coin off that was 'exactly' the right decision at the time, it was logical, it made sense, i would have nailed my decision to an iron gate post, painted it to a flag and waved it to a crowd of 649 people, but a mere six months late came the regret, and there's nothing you can do once the horse has left the stable.
Just a thought, i don't give em out as often as I used to.
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Some great coins in here, but I have a soft spot for nobles.
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Syl, is that a full head?
No, funnily enough all of my others are full heads but I just took a shine to this one.
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For me it was between either the Russia or the Peso, in the end I went for the Russian because I've always liked the whole double headed eagle thing!
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Dug this one out of the basement hey? It's been buried down there a long, long time!
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...here in the UK we start at a comon base for "Modern" post 1797 when they made the cartwheel stuff, its more right as near enough the age machines were used to make mass coins
Yeah but you could argue that it was 1662 when the UK went modern. When milled coins finally banished hammered, as it was a triumph of technology (admittedly milled coins had been around a century at that point but it wasn't until 1662 that they actually won out). Which was the bigger jump? Hand held dies and a hammer switching to machines, or machines going steam powered. You could argue it either way I suppose.
I don't think this is a thread that can ever be truly resolved to any one date, it's always going to be a ballpark figure imho.
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2013 Numismatic Goals
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I've not been buying many coins these days to be honest, I really ought to save up money rather than buy coins! Although there is the P mint SLQ set that needs finishing!