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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Here are my latest ebay purchases...    I might have ten of those 1930 pennies at $400! Or, should I go for a best condition one for $4,400 (decisions, decisions). Hanley and James is quite good condition but no dust jacket. No publishing date but would have been edited in 1966 -new, decimal coins just get a mention. A trove of interesting information, tit bits and stories [am I alone in thinking coin collectors have stories a bit like fishermen?]. The other is Canadian published and quite comprehensive for Commonwealth countries up to 1967. Broken spine (but all pages still adhering) and yellowed paper. Plus plastic cover with lots of yellowed adhesive tape inside (why don't people learn how to cover a book without sticking tape onto the book itself?). While I'm at it I will have a few Waitangi crowns at $700 EF. Anyway, I am interested in information on any older books you might have. Then I know what to look for. Jeff |
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Australia
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Was that Hanley and James book the one that went for $7.00 a week or so ago? If so, I was the underbidder...  Darn it, I only saw it at the last few seconds, and chucked in a quick bid, but didn't set a better top price, and saw it go away! This book was the one I used to borrow at our library at Bacchus Marsh in the 1970's, and there's some great stories in it. I have since found a copy of the second edition which came out in the early 1980s, but that first one is really nice.  |
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Was that Hanley and James book the one that went for $7.00 a week or so ago? Must have been another one. I was the only bidder at $6.00. The other book was $6.50 (and combined postage discount with a US Statehood Quarter folder too at $7.50 -OK, I know I could buy one direct from Whitmans but postage from US makes it expensive). Jeff |
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Australia
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"That $400 Penny..." Ha ha...
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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The oldest Australian coin book I have is The Australasian Handbook of Coin Collecting by Alan J. Patterson (1982).
The oldest coin book I have is Renniks New Zealand Coinage Guide by Dion H. Skinner (1966).
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I remember Tom Hanley well.
He was one of the nicest and friendliest gentlemen ever to be associated with numismatics. My daughter remembers him well also. She was only about ten years old at the time she met him. She is now thirty years old.
She said that he would make anyone's ideal grandfather. He was that sort of nice guy.
Enormous numismatic knowledge to boot.
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Valued Member
Australia
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taken from an old coin book I have , Quote:
to provide a circulating currency , pages from church hymn books were glued together and pressed between dies , this piece was valued at 30 stuivers hands up if you new that before today .. ,, kel ,, |
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Valued Member
Australia
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the book ,
COIN COLLECTING AS A HOBBY
BY BURTON HOBSON .
,, kel ,,
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 Australia
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I own a copy of the Hanley and James book; it came from a Library disposal sale, with a Chinchilla Library stamp inside it. I well recall borrowing the school library copy of this book for several months straight while I was in primary school in the early 1980s. Quote:taken from an old coin book I have , Quote:
to provide a circulating currency , pages from church hymn books were glued together and pressed between dies , this piece was valued at 30 stuivers hands up if you new that before today .. ,, kel ,,  Ye be talkin' bout the Leyden siege money, I believe. ESylum link. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I picked up Renniks guide from 1966 & Seven Seas Stamps guide to Coins & Tokens from a ebay UK seller,he included them with some Oz coins I purchased off him saying he no longer had any use for them.A dealer offered me $50 off any coin purchase for the Renniks guide so they must be fairly rare. 1930 value is similar to the OP,$350 for VG through to FDC-BU(Lustre) $1600.VG 1925-$6,VG 1946-$2.50, so the 50% ratio still applies today but the 1914 is listed as $2(VG) so that ratio to the 1946/1925 has crashed.  Edited by Basil
07/24/2012 8:38 pm
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Valued Member
Australia
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This is the one I missed.... http://www.ebay.com/itm/COLLECTING-...t_500wt_1182someone got a bargain  In the last Downie sale, the original 1921 issue of Arthur Andrews book on Australian tokens went for $110, plus commission. A book to look out for, as it is often on offer for over $200. I was the underbidder on this one |
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Valued Member
Australia
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i believe you are spot on sap ,.
my book also comes from a school library in mackay qld ..
,, kel ,,
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Valued Member
Australia
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this is my book  ,, kel ,, |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Valued Member
Australia
428 Posts |
these ard hand held , must have been hit hard ..  ,, kel ,, |
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Australia
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this was the next one used ..  ,, kel ,, |
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