Attention geeky coin guys~

[IMaDick]

With only about 20 of these "thought" to still exist that price is cheap.

Especially for one in that condition.

[Middle Finger]

Wow, what great condition. Found in a book, no less. Not colonial, LC, but I'd gladly take it!

[Lady Cop]

The Royal Mint has made it's first ever coin to weigh a kilo in pure gold as a special tribute to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
But while the heavy commemorative coin has a denomination worth £1,000 it costs £60,000 to buy because of its rarity and value as a collector's item.
The coin required a special parliamentary bill to be passed enabling its £1,000 face value to acquire legal tender status.









The Royal Mint also made 1,250 kilo coins in fine silver with a face value of £500, which are less rare than the gold coins, and cost £2,600 to buy.

[Maggot]

Screw the queens coins.

[Lady Cop]

Screw the queens coins.

so you'd turn down a kilo of pure gold?

[Maggot]

Screw the queens coins.

so you'd turn down a kilo of pure gold?

For free ....never!

[Lady Cop]

photos are at link below.

fox

15 million $$$

After a search that spanned three decades, two amateur treasure hunters have uncovered the biggest ever hoard of Iron Age silver and gold coins in the UK -- weighing a full ton and valued at $15 million.

Reg Mead and Richard Miles found the stash using a high powered metal detector called a deepseeker. What they discovered was a large block of clay containing 30,000 to 50,000 gold and silver coins dating from the 1^st Century BC.

The coins—which could have been buried to prevent Roman troops from getting them during Julius Caesar's invasion of the British Islands—come from Armorica, modern day Brittany and Normandy. They have been buried for more than 2,000 years.

"I have been searching for things like this since 1959 and never found anything on this scale before."

- Reg Mead, amateur treasure hunter

Each Roman or Celtic coin is said to be worth between 100 to 200 British Pounds ($156 to $311), according to Dr. Philip de Jersey, a former Celtic coin expert at Oxford University. He believes the haul is “extremely exciting and very significant.”

The trove of coins has since been transferred to the Jersey Heritage Museum, for a careful cleaning and examination by conservator Neil Mahrer.

Olga Finch, curator of archaeology at the Jersey Museum, called it a find of international importance. "The fact that it has been excavated archaeologically is also rare and will greatly enhance the level of information we can glean about the people who buried it. It is an amazing contribution to the study of Celtic coins."

Further excavation is taking place at the secret location by archeologists keen to get to the bottom of the ancient discovery, while it is kept secluded from the threat of looters.

Ownership and value of the findings could take months to determine and are subject to the island's Treasure Act. It is estimated the coins could be worth £10 million (US$15.6 million).

The coins are understood to date back to the Late Iron Age, a time when the armies of Rome's Julius Caesar were advancing north-westwards through France, driving the tribal communities towards the coast.

People escaping would have crossed the sea to Jersey, finding a place of refuge away from Caesar's campaigns. It is thought they may have buried their wealth to protect it.

"I have been searching for things like this since 1959 and never found anything on this scale before," Mead told the Daily Mail. "We had been searching that land for 30 years."

While Mead, Miles and the farmer who owns the land have an agreement over how the split the find, actual ownership of the coins is unclear.

Mead said he is following up with the States of Jersey for clarification.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/2...z1z1Rj3EHc

[Donovan]

I saw a mention somewhere else about collecting coins as a hobby, which I do after a fashion. I'm not so much about staring at dates and mintmarks and errors on the buffalo's asscrack that make a nickel worth a c-nouryte, but I do dick around with a detector now and then and I do like to have unique coins and other one of a kind stuff that I display for my own enjoyment.

Anybody got any cool finds or treasure stories, or neat little scores like unwrapping a coinroll full of mercury dimes or something? I once woke up in a motel room bed with a merc dime sticking to my leg, no fucking clue where it came from. But better believe I stripped that room looking for more hahaha.

[Donovan]

Whoops hadn't seen this thread. Derp. Thanks LC.

[Lady Cop]

Whoops hadn't seen this thread. Derp. Thanks LC.

you mean you haven't memorized every thread in Mock??

no problem!

[IMaDick]

I saw a mention somewhere else about collecting coins as a hobby, which I do after a fashion. I'm not so much about staring at dates and mintmarks and errors on the buffalo's asscrack that make a nickel worth a c-nouryte, but I do dick around with a detector now and then and I do like to have unique coins and other one of a kind stuff that I display for my own enjoyment.

Anybody got any cool finds or treasure stories, or neat little scores like unwrapping a coinroll full of mercury dimes or something? I once woke up in a motel room bed with a merc dime sticking to my leg, no fucking clue where it came from. But better believe I stripped that room looking for more hahaha.

I have a few things laying around that I have found over the years.

I started Metal detecting before it was cool.


carnival token (I think from the 30's)

[Donovan]

What is that? Old bus token?

[IMaDick]

What is that? Old bus token?

From everything I could find out about it and the bow hallmark and where I found it I think it's a carnival token from the 30's.

[Maggot]

The Chinese made coins with holes in the center centuries ago. in the 40's kids would put a chain through the one dick has.

[Lady Cop]

The first coin ever issued in Scotland - a penny - sold at auction yesterday for a staggering £8,400.

The rare silver penny was produced in Carlisle, Cumberland, 875 years ago by the Scottish King David I after he took over the town and its mint, and his name and crest can still clearly be seen on the coin.
it is thought to have been lost by a Scottish soldier 874 years ago in August 1138 at the Battle of the Standard near Northallerton in North Yorkshire, in which King David was defeated by an army led by the Archbishop of York.





daily mail

[Tonyg41]

The Royal Mint has made it's first ever coin to weigh a kilo in pure gold as a special tribute to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
But while the heavy commemorative coin has a denomination worth £1,000 it costs £60,000 to buy because of its rarity and value as a collector's item.
The coin required a special parliamentary bill to be passed enabling its £1,000 face value to acquire legal tender status.









The Royal Mint also made 1,250 kilo coins in fine silver with a face value of £500, which are less rare than the gold coins, and cost £2,600 to buy.

This kind of doesn't make sense,if the coin is one Kilo then it is 32.15 troy ounces. That said, based on today's gold market spot price in raw gold the coin is worth 50,475 dollars. Why would the mint issue it and give it such a low denomination?

[Lady Cop]

A thousand-year-old pot of gold coins has been found hidden under the floor of a 13^th century Crusader castle on the spot where Richard the Lionheart defeated Saladin.

The 108 ancient coins, one of the biggest collections found in Israel, were in a ceramic pot buried beneath a tile floor of the clifftop coastal ruins at Arsuf.

Professor Oren Tal, an archaeologist at Tel Aviv University, said: 'It is a rare find. We do not have a lot of gold that had been circulated by the Crusaders.'

[OnBendedKnee]

[Lady Cop]

A dime made in 1873 has cost someone a pretty penny: It sold for $1.6 million at auction.
The rare coin was minted in Carson City, Nev., during a one-day run of dimes.

[OnBendedKnee]

^
The coin you featured in your post is a half dollar, not a dime.