Ætheling

Hey, is the Final going to be posted sometime soon or am I just looking in the wrong place?

 

Also, why does it list August 26, 2006 as the date you posted this topic?

 

Sorry for the dumb questions.

Because it was posted on August 26th!

These pinned posts are here for a few reasons. Notably much like say sports listings, say wrestling/boxing/football etc. they are a list of who's going against who, who they're going to be against next, and also results of each show off. If there's ever a dispute or some posts get accidentally deleted there's a record here of who won what and against who. It also helps to keep me organised so that i don't end up with an odd one out due to lack of fore planning or any missed out for any reason.

Plus it also has the added advantage of letting me just copy and paste the links and descriptions from one easily accessible location, and really helps to reduce the time spent on setting up the competitions.

The proper final is up and running now, it was supposed to go up yesterday but i ran out of time.

Each coin entered must follow the following specifications;

1) The coin must have a short title following the following formula exactly;

Member’s Username; Country/Denomination/Date

Examples;

Bob’s; USA/Lincoln Cent/1942-D

Fred’s; France/Ten Francs/1903

Mary’s; Scotland/Groat/c.1430

John’s; Roman/Domitian Denarius/AD90-96

2) A direct link to a picture of the coin hosted upon a website that will host the picture indefinitely.

WARNING; Coins hosted on sites that only host images for a limited period (say two or three weeks), will probably ‘disappear’ mid way through the competition when the hosting expires.

3) The link can either be one single link to a picture where the obverse and the reverse of the coin are pictured together, (such as on omnicoin, this type of link is preferred), or they can be two separate links; one for the obverse and one for the reverse.

4) The link itself must comply with the following rules;

I) It must be no longer than 60 characters in length, anything over that causes problems.

II) The link must be direct, i.e I must be able to see the http://www in the post and not an underlined short link. e.g;

It should be;

http://www.coinpeople.com/index.php?showtopic=11783

and definately not;

Link (Entries with links like this will be ignored)

III) It must end in .jpg, if it doesn’t then it won’t work. (This is how you know if you've got the right link or not)

5) The description must be placed BEFORE the link and not after. Thus once your entry is completed it will look something like;

Gxseries'; Russia/200 Rubles/1992

http://www.banknotebank.com/notes/900371A.jpg

http://www.banknotebank.com/notes/900371B.jpg

The organisers of PCI reserve the right to exclude any entries that do not meet the above specifications. If in doubt don't hesitate to ask for clarification.

100% raw here. I have bought coins slabbed but i cracked them all out. I like touching my coins, if i can't touch them it might as well be like looking at them through the glass in a museum. There's no historical connection.

First British monarch was James I (aka James VI of Scotland).

First English monarch, then Egbert's your man. Although there are other contender's for this, Offa of Mercia had much of the important part of England under his power just prior to Egbert's reign. Other contenders are Egbert's decendents; Alfred the Great, Æthelstan and Edgar. Needless to say England was definately a unified country when Edgar died, which was long before William the Conqueror's father was even a twinkle in his father's eye.

First Scottish monarch, then i'd be thinking Kenneth McAlpin.

I posted this in my purchase section but thought that it might be relevant here.

 

Egypt 20 piastres 1939:

I also noticed that my Hong Kong dollar (1970) has this same edge.

I like that! Looks like pearls on a crown... what is it with me and the royalist imagery?

Medieval coins of the region of Blois and Chartres with an abstract portrait dating to the period between 950 and about 1350.

 

I'm sure other interests will arise as time goes by, such as the coins of the period around the Blois-Chartres region, the royal coins of the same period, and the precursor types and types that immediately follow the bléso-chartraine period.

Did Count Stephen Henry or Count Theobald IV of Blois have any coinage? I definately need to get some coinage of that era especially for such a distingushed family. I also need to get down to Winchester Cathedral to pay a visit to a certain someone.

If you can get the dies and some round silver blanks then all you really need is a hammer.

I have seen reconstructionist using that method for issuing their own hammered coins and they look fairly good to me.

Liberty head, the rest were rubbish.

Well i've actually orddered it from Amazon.co.uk so it's not even coming that far.

I've ordered a copy of K. R. Potter's, Gesta Stephani (Oxford, 1976)

It's not like it's even a big book, but it's been out of print since the mid-80s i think. Original issue price was £10 and that was a fair bit of money in 1976! I don't think it's quite like £75 is now though...

I do have a copy from the Uni library sat here next to me at the moment... in fact i checked it out of the library for nearly a year at one point when i was doing my project at University. I'm thinking of extending this project and perhaps seeing if i can get it published. And University is really gonna want their copy back, unfortunately i leave at Christmas and thus the only copy i've been able to source anywhere i'll not longer have access to.

The cheaper option would have been to 'lose' the Uni's copy, declare it lost and then they would have charged me £10 for the book (which was the issue price), however i'm a] honest and b] someone else might need this in future. So i've had no choice but to cough up another £65.

Of course i could have photocopied the whole thing but that's illegal, so i won't.

Finally it arrived today, after Amazon sent replacements.  Looking forward to some bedtime reading

I've just ordered my first book from Amazon and having read that i'm hoping like hell they don't lose it! £75 is alot to go missing... only another six weeks to wait before they can get hold of it and send it.

Never failed to get a reaction that one. If you ever get the urge you might want it, it's quite likely still in the hands of Rendel Ingram.

That would be the Madge Kitchener pattern threepence. I actually really like that design much nicer than the one they adopted for the George VI coinage. Also be aware that Edward VIII brass threepences also exist with the George VI reverse. Presumably the George VI reverse was the winning design of the two.

I can't help wondering what would have happened if George V had lived longer. Would they have introduced the brass threepence in his reign or would they have waited for the new monarch anyhow?

There was also a Edward VIII version that was either never issued or was extremly rare.  I have an image of it in my Spink book,  Once I get a scanner I will scan the image & post it on here unless the image already exists somewhere online?

Correct it has a reverse featuring six interlinked rings. Due to Edward's abdication however, it was never released. Very few were minted anyhow. I think there is at least one in existance, probably only a dozen of them at the most.

You will also notice James II is missing and a George IV type too.

Hmm i could live with that!

There's only one thing i want more than anything else either a 1796 or a 1797 dime in GVF.

I don't even go to Starbucks in this country! (I associate Starbucks with being mostly coffee and thus i avoid it, i avoid all coffee shops too). I generally prefer to call in at a tearoom.

Of failing that a cafe and get a chocolate milkshake.

Well you know me Michael i'm up for any numismatic debate even if i'm coming from a totally unorthodox angle or if i'm just plain wrong... i'm not fussy. But i enjoy talking about coins both on basic levels and on more advanced levels.

This is definately a step (or three) in the right direction and i heartily welcome it!

This is what happens when the English arrive on a forum, first thing they do is set up a Tea Room...

I wouldn't go to the US unless i could take some tea in tow with me.

Ah but it could have been much worse. A small mercy perhaps, but at least it wasn't Earl Grey tea that went overboard. ;-)

Now that would have been sacralige! We can only hope it was Dajeeling that went overboard!

Nowhere was the taxation felt more painfully than the American colonies due to the imposition of harsh duties on imported goods like sugar, tea etcetera.. The seeds of discontent were sewn big time.  It is generally understood that the seven year war directly led to the overt parting of the ways between the American colonies and Britain and led to the subsequent war of independence.

Hmm the Boston Tea Party... i still shudder to think of all that wasted tea. What a loss.

An Anglo-Saxon penny and a 12 Sols coin... yay!

Something European... and not French, for a change.

I haven't actually seen him around in a while.

Where is Oli?