How to Sell Coins in the UK: Getting a Fair Price Before You Sell Anything, Do This First A friend of mine – a retired schoolteacher from Derbyshire – inherited a biscuit tin full of coins from her late father. There were Roman denarii rattling around next to Victorian pennies, a handful of pre-decimal shillings, … Read more
Where to Buy British Coins: Dealers, Auctions and Online Starting a coin collection can feel like standing at the edge of a very large, very old ocean. There are centuries of British history minted into metal, thousands of dealers and auction houses, and an internet full of listings that range from genuine bargains to outright … Read more
How to Organise a Coin Collection for Easy Reference There is something quietly satisfying about tipping a bag of coins onto a table and knowing exactly where each one belongs. Whether you have just started picking up interesting 50p pieces from your change or you have been accumulating British and world coins for years, the … Read more
Coin Storage at Home: Temperature, Humidity and Light You have just received your first coin from a dealer at a coin fair, or perhaps you have pulled a handful of interesting old pieces from a relative’s biscuit tin. Either way, you are now the custodian of something that may be hundreds of years old, and … Read more
How to Handle Coins Without Damaging Them One of the most common mistakes new collectors make has nothing to do with what they buy — it is what they do with a coin the moment it arrives in their hands. A single careless touch can reduce the value of a proof coin by a significant … Read more
Cleaning Coins: Why You Almost Always Shouldn’t You’ve just picked up an interesting old coin at a car boot sale in Lincolnshire, or perhaps you’ve inherited a small collection from a grandparent who spent decades quietly gathering British coppers and silver. The coin looks a bit dull, maybe a little grimy, and your instinct is … Read more
How to Store Coins Safely: Albums, Capsules and Folders Getting Started: You Don’t Need to Overthink This One of the first things new collectors worry about is storage. You’ve picked up a handful of interesting coins — maybe a few old British pennies, a commemorative 50p, or a circulation find that caught your eye — … Read more
Queen Elizabeth II Coins: Building a Reign Collection Why a Reign Collection? There is something quietly extraordinary about holding a penny struck in 1953 — the year of the Coronation — and placing it beside one minted in 2021. Nearly seven decades separate those two small discs of metal, yet both carry the portrait of … Read more
King Charles III Coins: What Collectors Should Know There is something quietly thrilling about holding a brand-new coin and knowing you are among the first people in the country to own it. That feeling hit me properly in September 2022, when I pulled a 50p piece from my change at a petrol station on the … Read more
Sixpences, Florins and Crowns: Collecting Pre-Decimal Silver Why Pre-Decimal Silver? There is something quietly compelling about holding a Victorian florin or a George V sixpence. These are coins that passed through countless hands – paid wages, bought bread, dropped into church collection plates – before the world they inhabited vanished on 15 February 1971, the … Read more