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Post by Uncle Henry on Jan 30, 2018 0:14:41 GMT -5
Cheap and Common Coins
Between 1965 and 1985, while in London and various parts of the continent, I collected 25,000 coins. Each one is different in design, date, or mint mark.
Now that I am rapidly approaching eighty years of age, I would like to sell each of these 25,000 coins individually. They are all now in Tasmania. Many are common, but some are rare. Many are cheap, and a few are comparatively expensive. Almost all of them are coins that circulated at some time; I did not collect mere commemoratives.
It is quite a job to list 25,000 coins, but I will do it as quickly as I can.
My simple grading system runs from 1 to 7, as follows:
1 - bright uncirculated (BU) 2 - almost uncirculated (AU) - bright but only in parts; no wear 3 - extremely fine (EF) - hardly worn 4 - very fine (VF) - your ordinary circulated coin in good condition with all details clearly present 5 - fine (F) - a circulated coin with considerable wear in parts but with all text easy to distinguish 6 - average (A) - a so-so coin that is very well-worn but has no missing information 7 - poor (P) - a coin that is very worn, bent, corroded, cut or damaged
Coin-issuing entities (prior to 1985): A: Europe
B: Middle East
C: Asia
D: Africa
E: Oceania
F; South and central America
G: Canada and its neighbours
Order form, methods of payment, methods of delivery: ****
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Post by Uncle Henry on Feb 6, 2018 6:18:28 GMT -5
To Be Done:
- get a suitable "copy-stand"
- get a PO box
- [maybe] open a new Giro account
- write up "ways of paying" (a money order costs $9!)
- write up "ways of delivery"
I have acquired some "free web space" at "Award Space"; it looks just the thing. But I still need a reliable method ofproducing photo-graphs. There is no longer a camera shop in Ulverstone, so a cheap "copy-stand" or similar will have to come by mail-order.
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Post by Uncle Henry on Feb 13, 2018 2:23:18 GMT -5
I found a useful forum here: www.coincommunity.com/forum/default.asp?CAT_ID=25I have three bags full of about a hundred ancient South Asian coins, mostly copper, and I do not doubt that a number of members there will be able to shed some light upon them. Also I believe I was wrong to be looking for a camera "copy-stand". What will be more useful and cheaper is an USB microscope. Power for the lighting is supplied via the USB socket, and the saving of the magnified photo-graph as a computer file is performed through the same socket. I have ordered one from the State Country and it will arrive by aeroplane in less than a fortnight. I have already noticed how useful an ordinary hand-held glass can be. Tiny print that is on a coin quite illegible for the everyday eye is at once with the aid of the glass perfectly revealed. www.amazon.com/Plugable-Microscope-Flexible-Observation-Magnification/dp/B00XNYXQHE/The site cheapandcommon.dx.am can now be put together at the rate of about half a dozen entities per sennight.
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Post by Uncle Henry on Feb 27, 2018 8:56:56 GMT -5
The electronic microscope arrived to-day, and it is both better than expected and preciselyy what I wanted. It's called a "plugable" with one 'g'. Here is the very first photo-graph I used it to take. The date there is on the original coin hardly visible to the "naked eye". Now I can get on with doing Portugal, and open the web-site.
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Post by Uncle Henry on Mar 2, 2018 1:13:27 GMT -5
Well the web-site here: Cheap and Common Coins of the Worldwas opened to-day. So far it offers only four countries - Luxembourg, Mauritius, the Comoros and Portugal, though I hope to add to it more quickly from now on. There is one web-page for each country, and just one photo-graph per country. Perhaps I might mirror the pages here as they appear, but I doubt there are any other numismatically inclined members at present. What amazes me is - as I have gone through the values in the Krause catalogue even for the first four countries - the number of rare and valuable coins I have! Example: Portugal 5 centavos 1920.
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