I. A warm welcome to Daves rare coins.
Hi, and welcome to my website. I've been collecting antiquities for several years now and coins for just a few years. I still buy the occasional antiquity from time to time but my love these days is coinage. I started my coin collection with Edward I Medieval coins, then moved on to mainly Short Cross cut halves and quarters, especially Henry III. Parallel with these I also collected Norman (a field I still enjoy to this day) cut coins, Henry I and Stephen. I then discovered Saxon coinage, in particular Edward the confessor. I guess it was a logical progression from here to (sell most of the rest of my collection and) try to aquire some rarer Saxon coinage when and where I could. These I bought (and continue to buy) in fragment form as I have never had the best paid job in the world !!
But I have always found these fragments or poor quality coins to have as much, if not more character than whole coins or higher grades. You can sense that they have been handled a lot in their own era, and not always respectfully !! If the coin is a ground find perhaps it has rotted in the earth or suffered plough damage etc...You can grab yourself some real bargains with coins in this state. They cost a fraction of the price of quality examples and generally the fragments are as rare as the complete coins. The unloved are loved by some of us !!!
- Posted by dragonbloodaxe on 27/02/2006.
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