Numismatism Begins At Home (A Thread About Coins)

(D and P are the two different mints, they are marked as such on the heads side but it's tiny)

i don't have these:
California 2005 (D or P)
Kansas 2005 (D or P)
Minnesota 2005 (D or P)
Oregon 2005 (D or P)
West Virginia 2005 (D or P)

i have one or the other of these but not both:
Arkansas 2003 (P)
Alabama 2003 (P)
Delaware 1999 (P)
Florida 2004 (P)
Illinois 2003 (P)
Indiana 2002 (P)
Iowa 2004 (P)
Louisiana 2002 (D)
Maine 2003 (P)
Massachusetts 2000 (P)
Michigan 2004 (P)
Mississippi 2002 (P)
Missouri 2003 (P)
New Hampshire 2000 (P)
New Jersey 1999 (P)
New York 2001 (P)
Rhode Island 2001 (P)
Tennessee 2002 (P)
Texas 2004 (P)
Vermont 2001 (P)
Virginia 2000 (P)
Wisconsin 2004 (D)

and i have spares of the following:
Connecticut 1999 (D)
Delaware 1999 (D)
Georgia 1999 (D) x 2
Maryland 2000 (P)
Massachusetts 2000 (D)
Mississippi 2002 (D) x 2
New Hampshire 2000 (D)
New York 2001 (D) x 2
North Carolina 2001 (D)
Ohio 2002 (P)
Rhode Island 2001 (D)
South Carolina 2000 (D)
Tennessee 2002 (D)
Vermont 2001 (D)
Virginia 2000 (D)
plus one of the 1776-1976 things with the drummer on the back.

(phew!)

-What's that?

-He collects coins.

-They have such fancy names for everything these days! When I was young we used to call them beggars.

http://www.westminstercollection.com/pc_5035.htm

"Featuring FIVE new coin designs to be issued for 2006 only. Including two new £2 coins issued to commemorate the life and achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel on the 200th anniversary of his birth. Alongside these is a new £1 coin design for Northern Ireland with the Egyptian Arch bridge. In addition, there is a further two new 50p coins, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the presentation of the first ever Victoria Cross"

ah, ok.

I bet the IKB £2 won't be as good as the Trevithick one was </railway rockist>

There will be Brunel coins? Excellent?

I don't collect them, but I do like to notice them.

ooh

Having just been in the UK, I can say that ya'll have way too many coins in general, even if the pound coin is the shizz.

And on the airplane trip back, I found a 500 yen coin under my seat. It's pretty rad looking.

in other news the new dollar coins in the US look like chuck e. cheese tokens.

(i had a quarter in my change the other day, and was one i didn't have. score)

ooh, i like those new coins, modern.

yet traditional, a good compromise i feel.

the design of the new dutch 5 euro coin (all done using open source software):

http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-make-money-with-free-software.html

great article, fabulous design.

some of the new 20p pieces were mules (new design on tails, old design on heads leading to the date being missing). currently worth about £50...

http://undated20p.com/identification.html

i looked through my pot of 20ps this morning, had about £50's worth. but only 8 of the new design and none were like the above

found a 2011 50p in my pocket yesterday! is that a record?

No, there was a news story last year about a girl who got one.

She was hopeful she could sell it for plenty.

I think she was forgetting one thing...

buy low, sell high, that's my motto.

not sure the new 50ps aren't just a bit big:

http://www.royalmint.com/web/templates/generic_files/graphics/designer-Football.jpg

(29 of them for various sports, it being the olympics and all)
http://www.royalmint.com/olympicgames/sportscollection/LUK50CYC_50P.aspx

Numismatists - is there a reason (other than some kind of compulsive disorder) that would cause someone to repeatedly buy the same coin over and over again, but no other coins? I'm assuming that it's because there's some variation of the coin that's worth tons of money that most people wouldn't be aware of or something.

Just being nosy about someone's Ebay feedback basically.

Modern life is all about specialization. This guy is just ahead of the curve.

whilst i am a bit o_O at the technology used here, i wonder why they bother because the results are fugly.

http://www.westminstercollection.com/p-300N/The-Diamond-Jubilee-Coin.aspx

there are hundreds of them:

http://www.westminstercollection.com/coins/by-theme/diamond-jubilee.aspx

26 New 10p coins celebrating 'britishness'

https://www.royalmint.com/coinhunt/early-strike-uncirculated/

A few of those designs are very nice, but most are just half-baked. And what on earth could be less "quintessentially british" than the World Wide Web?

the world wide web was only invented by a brit, nbd i guess

lack of blood sausage and/or big-bottomed birds is much more of a concern, really

those are pretty uniformly homely

uniform homeliness is quintessentially british tbf

invented by a brit

Oh, yes. What was I thinking? It was invented at a Swiss research institute, as an extension of an existing US-invented and funded network, then standardized and improved by an international consortium of computer experts, and instituted globally, which I suppose must give it the five-times-distilled essence of 'britishness' required to be included in the series.

It was invented at a Swiss research institute

Wikipedia:

English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He wrote the first web browser computer program in 1990 while employed at CERN in Switzerland.

and tim berners-lee was born in...?

now you're just trolling

yeah, you’re right

glad we’re on the same page about the world wide web being invented by an englishman tho, which is after all what led us down this path in the first place

I was researching ancient coinage recently and was kind of blown away by the fact you can buy a beautiful ancient Roman coin for under $500 and --- well --- I had thought there'd be tons of restrictions and the coins wld be outrageously expensive etc etc.

I guess the brits have to find something other than blood pudding to be proud of.

Westminster Abbey might have been a more quintessentially british 'W' choice than the Wubbly Web.

wanking, shurely

ha, i only stumbled over the new 10ps because someone has already done an alternative set

https://www.dezeen.com/2018/04/02/one-rise-east-royal-mint-a-to-z-britain-coins-alternatives/

(and those only feature men, so i imagine there'll be a female version shortly)

x is a real stretch

I think after helping Hitler finance 2 apocalyptic wars of annihilation and also laundering all that plundered Jewish gold to Spain, that it's more like the Swiss had more of a hand on creating WW2 rather than the WWW, amirite?

I've got a collection of a number of Roman coins I inherited from my Granddad. The coins themselves aren't worth too much, save for a couple, but the story of how he got them is pretty good.

He was friends with a labourer, who on laying the foundation for a new build (this would have been somewhere in the Central Belt of Scotland) unearthed some ancient pottery. Naturally the labourer told the foreman, and building was paused so a group could come and excavate the site. This held up the building process for weeks at great inconvenience, with no paychecks for the labourers on that site at least, and the pottery I think went to whoever owned the land.

Anyway the foreman gave him a bollocking for the delay and said to ignore anything cropping up like that again. The archaeologists/excavators didn't find anything further and work continued.

So a few days after work starting again my Grandad's mate was on a different part of the site and found a literal chest of coins. He kept it quiet and at the end of the day he just took as many as he could away with him before burying the remainder on the site.

Anyway he gave around half of them to my Granddad and kept the rest. It's kind of sad to think there might be several sites like that that could have been properly excavated but weren't properly reported.

found a literal chest of coins

this is why the sale and possession of Roman coins are not regulated. there are quite a lot of them about. they are fairly valuable in terms of conveying information about the dating of an archaeological find, though.

Amazing stuff!

(that was a plot point in season 3 of detectorists, foremen covering up archeological finds)

https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/events/royal-wedding/?utm_source=RoyalWeddingSocial

https://www.royalmint.com/globalassets/the-royal-mint/images/pages/shop/events/royal-wedding/bu/celebrating-the-royal-wedding---hrh-prince-harry--ms.-meghan-markle-2018-uk--u5-brilliant-uncirculated-coin-rev-1500x1500.jpg?width=300

I need help trying to come up with a solution to this problem.

I'm not big into coin collecting, but I play the tooth fairy in our household and have been buying coins from other countries (from ebay) to sneak under my daughter's pillow at night. Usually I look for an animal motif, because she loves the hell out of animals.

Last week I gave her this, from Papua New Guinea:

http://www.gcoins.net/coins/big/c32387_a.jpg

After getting this one, she remarked "I hope that for my next tooth, the tooth fairy brings me a coin from England!" This has thrown me into a bit of a panic because I have several coins ready to go for her, none are from England, and she has a very loose tooth.

I thought it would be cool to get her something the current standard set of UK coins with the Royal Shield Reverse. They are from England and have lions so they fit the bill. But it doesn't look like there is much of anyone selling them on ebay, particularly not based in America where I could get it shipped quickly enough. I don't want special uncirculated collector sets that cost a lot of money. I've called a local coin dealer as well as a local currency exchange and neither of them carried those.

Any ideas? I'm in Washington, DC. I don't think it should be difficult to find 10p or 50p somewhere. I feel like this might just be an issue of not knowing where to look.

That's a sweet PNG coin!

I would maybe suggest posting to https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/ or even https://www.reddit.com/r/Favors/ with the issue. It seems more than possible that someone stateside might have some spare change from a visit and would be willing to help you out.

If not stall till the next tooth and I could send a coin over by International Standard delivery?

I just remembered my parents went to Scotland a while back and it turns out that they brought a couple of pound coins back with them. Crisis averted!

Perhaps the thread starter and resident Britisher can help. Oh, wait...

daytime tv throws up a lot of limited edition coins. the one i saw today was a dunkirk memorial coin that was sandblasted using actual sand from dunkirk beaches.

One thing in my mother's estate is the collection of coins that she and my father collected. Mom was a bank teller for 30 years and she bought every pre-1964 silver coin that came across her window. There is a shitload of metal here, a lot of it probably not worth more than face value, but a few items of interest. Can anyone recommend coin dealers or sales methods where I can maximize return with minimal work?

no. but the coinhunter (UK) and RobFindsTreasure (US) videos on youtube are fascinating and oddly soothing. watch as they work their way through 100s of pounds worth of 50p pieces / us equiv.

xp

The last I looked, years ago, there was a market for 'junk' pre-1964 silver coinage, where 'junk' means they have no specific interest as individual coins because they are in bad shape or not rare enough to merit collecting. The price of junk silver generally reflects the price of their silver content, plus a small premium because they are legal specie. Ask a coin dealer.

As for maximizing return with minimal work, I think you get to choose one or the other, but not both.

As of a couple of years ago, spot price for silver in silver coins was a good bit higher than face value.

I found a calculator that let you enter in the face amounts by era and it would give you the actual silver ounces.

Yeah, those silver amounts and values are available at cointracker.com, very handy.

https://www.londonmintoffice.org/images/stories/sn/diana-the-people-s-princess/Diana_NNA_Coin_-_with_edge.png

https://www.londonmintoffice.org/shop/n-r/diana-the-people-s-princess

(free! not sure it's legal tender though)

also available in solid gold (£495)
https://www.londonmintoffice.org/shop/n-r/the-english-rose-1-10-crown

Is Gibraltar money just the same as UK money?

don't think it's legal tender here, strictly, although it is often exactly the same size and shape so it's hard to tell unless you look very closely. i get them in change from time to time and they are often more interesting than the uk equiv.

i have a couple of these, for instance

https://www.westminstercollection.com/p-821P/Gibraltar-Neanderthal-Skull-1-Pound.aspx

Anyone here have any experience with coin ID apps?

hat tip to maresnest

10,000 pound coin
"‘For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “· CHARLES III · D · G ·
REX · F · D · 10000 POUNDS ·” and the date of the year, and for the reverse a depiction of
six iconic vehicles from James Bond films over the last six decades accompanied by the
inscriptions “007” and “∙ SIX DECADES OF 007 ∙”. The coin shall have a plain edge."

2021 version here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56920734

7,000 pound coin
‘For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “· CHARLES III · D · G ·
REX · F · D · 7000 POUNDS ·” and the date of the year, and for the reverse a depiction of
six iconic vehicles from James Bond films over the last six decades accompanied by the
inscriptions “007” and “∙ SIX DECADES OF 007”. The coin shall have a plain edge.’

5,000 pound coin
‘For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “· CHARLES III · D · G ·
REX · F · D · 5000 POUNDS ·” and the date of the year, and for the reverse a depiction of a
guitar head and piano keys with Paul McCartney’s signature. The coin shall have a plain
edge.’

500 pound coin
‘For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “· CHARLES III · D · G ·
REX · F · D · 500 POUNDS ·” and the date of the year, and for the reverse a depiction of the
Greyhound of Richmond accompanied by the inscription “· GREYHOUND OF RICHMOND
·” and the date of the year. The coin shall have a grained edge.’

200 pound coin seems to have one of each of the above
‘For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “· CHARLES III · D · G ·
REX · F · D · 200 POUNDS ·” and the date of the year, and for the reverse either:
(a) a depiction of the Greyhound of Richmond accompanied by the inscription “·
GREYHOUND OF RICHMOND ·” and the date of the year; or
(b) a depiction of six iconic vehicles from James Bond films over the last six decades
accompanied by the inscriptions “007” and “∙ SIX DECADES OF 007”; or
(c) a depiction of a guitar head and piano keys with Paul McCartney’s signature and the
inscription “MCCARTNEY”.
The coin shall have a grained edge.’

elsewhere (there are hundreds of variations)
(a) a depiction of a steppe mammoth accompanied by the inscription “MAMMUTHUS
STEPPE MAMMOTH”; or
(b) a depiction of a woolly rhinoceros accompanied by the inscription
“COELODONTA WOOLLY RHINOCEROS”; or
(c) a depiction of a giant deer accompanied by the inscription “MEGALOCEROS
GIANT DEER”; or
(d) a depiction of the character Mary Poppins with an umbrella and carpet bag
accompanied by the inscription “MARY POPPINS”; or
(e) a depiction of three military medals accompanied by the inscription “STORIES OF
THE SECOND WORLD WAR”.