Spur of the moment purchase...? Worth bothering about?

[Lindeman]

You know when you buy something and then regret it?!

I bid on two sets of silver UK threepences recently, and won a date run from 1911 to 1919, but lost out on the other bid for the WWII design  

I know they are cheap, and plentiful, and not much silver content,...but actually now when I look at them and imagine the number of transactions they must have been through ...I am actuallly quite pleased to have them! Part of it is the novelty - as I don't have any crowns, shillings, Florins etc etc. 

Slippery slope ? Maybe the collector gene will now dominate and I will need to start looking at those as well!!! 

Anyways - anybody else a fan or collector of these tiny British coins ??? 

Lindeman 

[sovereignsteve]

Not personally. They look really nice but I need something bigger at my age. I usually go for crowns and half crowns, sometimes florins.

[Lindeman]

Don't tempt me down the florins and double florins route Steve! I know what you mean though... they are small. And not exactly valuable...so not really sure what I am doing with them (as I am big...and rich??). 

[Roy]

'Joeys'? 

@SilverTanner may have a fondness for them?

I like all old English coins 

[Stu]

I have a few Oz of them, bought for the 90% content at spot , having received the,, like you , I really like them. 

[sovereignsteve]

I'm thinking of getting shut of all my old silver, nothing really of any quality, and buying a couple of really high graded crowns or halfcrowns.

[Micky9776]

I quite like them, I have a few, I was trying to get a date run from 1900-1946 but I still need quite a few, I only seem to buy them when I haven't bought anything else in a while lol

[Lea79]

I bought some a while back just for the silver content.  I do kinda like them though as u said imagine how many transactions they've been used for. A little piece of history rite there in your hand ?

[jayboat]

Some of my spare of the moment buys have turned out great for me. I have plenty more but im a lazy man and will only bother uploading pics for my favorite 2. 

Ebay for £18.79 with free p+p

Ebay for £20.95 with free p+p

Others include x3 1oz lunar goats for £45, 2009 koala for £19, 2004 kook for £22 and a 10oz stacker bar for £115. Im not even counting using discounts vouchers they add to my account, the mean reason for the spare of the moment buying. My last voucher i used to buy x2 2017 kooks at £22.50, free p+p. After the £15 discount, they cost £15 each. 

Nothing wrong with spare of the moment  

[Lindeman]

On 26/03/2017 at 16:32, shortstack68 said:

A high grade florin would cost more than a 1/4 proof gold, in fact i sold one for around 1oz gold value, so you may need to do your homework on that.....This got MS65 finest known by PCGS. A florin is 30mm and a halfcrown 32mm, so not exactly small either

Hi @shortstack68- nice Florin! Don't get me wrong - I was referring to the threepences as small and not exactly valuable, not your fine florin!. At about £1 each they are the reason why I did not worry greatly about buying them - but they are not exactly worth flipping/ selling. As others noted - they are just kind of fun and "historically connecting" to have.  Whether I graduate like you and Steve to getting Florins and crowns - remains to be seen?. Mind you having seen that MS65 I am impressed ! 

Like @jayboat I have also bought some other wonderful stuff on the spur of the moment, including silver from the Shetland Bullion Company that I have never seen elsewhere... the joys of surfing the net.  

[metalslug]

On 3/26/2017 at 16:32, shortstack68 said:

A high grade florin would cost more than a 1/4 proof gold, in fact i sold one for around 1oz gold value, so you may need to do your homework on that.....This got MS65 finest known by PCGS. A florin is 30mm and a halfcrown 32mm, so not exactly small either

I can confirm that it nearly did nearly cost the price of a 1oz gold coin.

 

[sovereignsteve]

Beautiful though