The most recent Covid-19 statistics available for East Suffolk to September 11th 2024 are here - eastsuffolkcovid19.uk
(Last updated on: 19th September 2024 at 6:57pm)
(Last updated on: 19th September 2024 at 6:57pm)
-----◄►-----
- - - LINK TO GULL WING BRIDGE LIVE STREAM - - -
-----◄►-----
Click HERE to go to the latest uploads in the forum's gallery of bridge construction images
Coins
- boatbuilder
- Site Administrator
- Posts: 58386
- Joined: Sat Aug 28, 2010 4:36 pm
- Male/Female: Male
- Location: Carlton Colville - Lowestoft
- Contact:
Coins
From time to time over the past 15-20 years I have purchased a number of sets of UK Proof Coins. I recently added the 2015 set, which incorporates the new portrait of the Queen, to my collection and today I decided to try and photograph them but they are not easy to do, particularly as a complete set, mainly because the coins are enclosed in an air-tight (unfortunately reflective) sleeve which shouldn't be opened to avoid spoiling the coins and thus reducing their value as proof coins.
After various trials I found the best way was to set the SLR up on a tripod and take the pictures with a flash from a distance of about 2 metres using a telephoto lens set to about 200-mm and at a slight angle from above with a black cloth underneath and in front of the coin set to minimise any reflection from the table. The other problem was the light refracting through the sleeve which gives rise to a slight 'ghosting' in parts with some of the coins and which is more obvious with the Queen's portrait and particularly noticeable when the images are viewed at full size. Of course it may well have been easier with proper studio lighting but unfortunately I don't have those luxuries at my disposal.
Anyway, here are some of the results.
After various trials I found the best way was to set the SLR up on a tripod and take the pictures with a flash from a distance of about 2 metres using a telephoto lens set to about 200-mm and at a slight angle from above with a black cloth underneath and in front of the coin set to minimise any reflection from the table. The other problem was the light refracting through the sleeve which gives rise to a slight 'ghosting' in parts with some of the coins and which is more obvious with the Queen's portrait and particularly noticeable when the images are viewed at full size. Of course it may well have been easier with proper studio lighting but unfortunately I don't have those luxuries at my disposal.
Anyway, here are some of the results.
See my Suffolk Pictures at https://suffolk-world.com
S t r e t c h e d - O y s t e r
You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget
S t r e t c h e d - O y s t e r
You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget
-
- Gold Member
- Posts: 7106
- Joined: Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:16 am
- Male/Female: Male
Re: Coins
BB: Excellent photos - especially realising how difficult it can be to get them with no reflections! Did you also get a few of the Gold Sovereigns?
‘Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet’ - Professor Stephen Hawking
- boatbuilder
- Site Administrator
- Posts: 58386
- Joined: Sat Aug 28, 2010 4:36 pm
- Male/Female: Male
- Location: Carlton Colville - Lowestoft
- Contact:
Re: Coins
Thanks, Trigger. I might try and see what sort of pictures I can get with some of my older sets.Trigger wrote:BB: Excellent photos - especially realising how difficult it can be to get them with no reflections! Did you also get a few of the Gold Sovereigns?
I'm afraid I didn't get any Gold Sovereigns but I do have some £2 proof coins in Silver with the outer ring 22 Carat Gold Plated. It's my birthday in a little under three months so if you want to treat me to some Gold Sovereigns they would be a much appreciated present.
See my Suffolk Pictures at https://suffolk-world.com
S t r e t c h e d - O y s t e r
You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget
S t r e t c h e d - O y s t e r
You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget
- Suffolkboy
- Gold Member
- Posts: 4681
- Joined: Sat Aug 24, 2013 8:11 pm
- Male/Female: male
- Location: Norwich North.
Re: Coins
Looks to me like you already have enough BB,perhaps we should share them out to LOL members.boatbuilder wrote:I'm afraid I didn't get any Gold Sovereigns but I do have some £2 proof coins in Silver with the outer ring 22 Carat Gold Plated. It's my birthday in a little under three months so if you want to treat me to some Gold Sovereigns they would be a much appreciated present.
Nice photos though.
Always be a first -rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Pablo Picasso
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Pablo Picasso
- MEG
- Silver Member
- Posts: 630
- Joined: Sun Jan 03, 2010 1:06 pm
Re: Coins
My friend Jill and her children and me and Michelle arrived in England after the coins were first changed-we had no idea what was what!!We tipped a porter something and he thanked us profusely.Didn't take long to learn the money though.By the next time we visited the coins had changed again and Barclays wouldn't take some of them.These were ones we had kept from our last visit.We have lots of the old pennies,halfpennies etc and a Churchill Crown among other coins.
-
- Gold Member
- Posts: 7106
- Joined: Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:16 am
- Male/Female: Male
Re: Coins
Thanks for the early hint about your forthcoming birthday Whilst I would be delighted to meet your request, unfortunately, at my greatly advanced age, there are more pressing needs to cause me to draw money from my bank account at Coutts.boatbuilder wrote: It's my birthday in a little under three months so if you want to treat me to some Gold Sovereigns they would be a much appreciated present.
But, do enjoy your birthday - and just make sure the fire brigade definitely are on standby when you light all those candles!
‘Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet’ - Professor Stephen Hawking
- boatbuilder
- Site Administrator
- Posts: 58386
- Joined: Sat Aug 28, 2010 4:36 pm
- Male/Female: Male
- Location: Carlton Colville - Lowestoft
- Contact:
Re: Coins
I'm sure you have more candles on your cake than me.Trigger wrote: But, do enjoy your birthday - and just make sure the fire brigade definitely are on standby when you light all those candles!
See my Suffolk Pictures at https://suffolk-world.com
S t r e t c h e d - O y s t e r
You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget
S t r e t c h e d - O y s t e r
You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget
-
- Gold Member
- Posts: 7106
- Joined: Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:16 am
- Male/Female: Male
Re: Coins
Don't you believe it!! My "birthday" cake is now a Cupcake with ONE candle on it. This is because a few years ago there were not that many candles on the cake - but, after being lit - we had to get the fire brigade in.boatbuilder wrote:
I'm sure you have more candles on your cake than me.
‘Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet’ - Professor Stephen Hawking
- boatbuilder
- Site Administrator
- Posts: 58386
- Joined: Sat Aug 28, 2010 4:36 pm
- Male/Female: Male
- Location: Carlton Colville - Lowestoft
- Contact:
Re: Coins
See my Suffolk Pictures at https://suffolk-world.com
S t r e t c h e d - O y s t e r
You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget
S t r e t c h e d - O y s t e r
You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget
- boatbuilder
- Site Administrator
- Posts: 58386
- Joined: Sat Aug 28, 2010 4:36 pm
- Male/Female: Male
- Location: Carlton Colville - Lowestoft
- Contact:
Re: Coins
Found this interesting page about 'oddly shaped coins'
http://blog.royalmint.com/oddly-shaped-coins/
http://blog.royalmint.com/oddly-shaped-coins/
See my Suffolk Pictures at https://suffolk-world.com
S t r e t c h e d - O y s t e r
You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget
S t r e t c h e d - O y s t e r
You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget
- Mel
- Gold Member
- Posts: 11424
- Joined: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:15 am
- Male/Female: Male
Re: Coins
There are certainly some great shaped coins there Boatbuilder, the Somali geometrics would certainly be a pain in your pocket and I don't know if I like the idea of a scratch and sniff coin. I think maybe the Bermudian triangle coins might be prone to disappearing thoughboatbuilder wrote:Found this interesting page about 'oddly shaped coins'
My Flickr pictures look here
-
- Gold Member
- Posts: 7106
- Joined: Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:16 am
- Male/Female: Male
Re: Coins
My favourite odd-shaped’ coin (from me ‘yoof’!) was the “thrupenny bit” - or “Joey”! It has a long history: “The three pence coin – expressed in writing as "3d" – first appeared in England during the fine silver coinage of King Edward VI (1547–53), when it formed part of a set of new denominations.” Source: Wikipedia.
- Attachments
-
- Joey.jpg (6.62 KiB) Viewed 5334 times
‘Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet’ - Professor Stephen Hawking
- funkychick
- Gold Member
- Posts: 3057
- Joined: Mon Jan 04, 2010 7:26 am
- Male/Female: female
- Location: Lowestoft
Re: Coins
Now you ve surprised me as I always thought a joey was the lttle tiny silver sixpence blow wrong all these years
Always be yourself because the people that matter don't mind, and the ones who mind, don't matter.
-
- Gold Member
- Posts: 7106
- Joined: Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:16 am
- Male/Female: Male
Re: Coins
Don't despair - you may well be right! I seem to recall, through the whirling mists of time, that, as a kid, we called the threepenny piece a "joey". But, that's no way definite!
Did a bit of "research" and, according to the OED: Joey -A threepenny bit - slang
Earliest references:
1936 - George Orwell - “Keep the aspidistra flying” “He took out the miserable little threepenny-bit.”
1965 “Australian Post (Melbourne)” - A ‘joey’ was originally London slang for a fourpenny bit; and later was transferred to the English threepence).
Can also can recall the "silver" 3d piece that Mum put in the Christmas Pud! Don't think I ever got the piece with the coin in it - unless I swallowed it! But, sometimes families used words/terms which were often just theirs. As a kid, if anything in the house couldn't be found - it was said to be "Probably, up in Nellie's room"! Still haven't found out who Nellie was!
Did a bit of "research" and, according to the OED: Joey -A threepenny bit - slang
Earliest references:
1936 - George Orwell - “Keep the aspidistra flying” “He took out the miserable little threepenny-bit.”
1965 “Australian Post (Melbourne)” - A ‘joey’ was originally London slang for a fourpenny bit; and later was transferred to the English threepence).
Can also can recall the "silver" 3d piece that Mum put in the Christmas Pud! Don't think I ever got the piece with the coin in it - unless I swallowed it! But, sometimes families used words/terms which were often just theirs. As a kid, if anything in the house couldn't be found - it was said to be "Probably, up in Nellie's room"! Still haven't found out who Nellie was!
- Attachments
-
- Threepence.jpg (14.18 KiB) Viewed 5364 times
‘Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet’ - Professor Stephen Hawking
- morty1753
- Silver Member
- Posts: 725
- Joined: Sun Oct 31, 2010 3:32 pm
- Male/Female: Male
- Location: Lowestoft
Re: Coins
Seems the Royal Mint thinks a Joey is a thruppenny bit. I guess they should know
http://blog.royalmint.com/coin-nickname ... or-change/
http://blog.royalmint.com/coin-nickname ... or-change/
I before E except after C - That's weird