|
Prepared By
Rainbow Data Limited |
|
| |
ABOUT-US |
|
A BOYHOOD interest in coin collecting proved the starting point for, Charles Snowden, whose numismatic career spans nearly 45-years. Like many people, he became interested in coins during the run-up to decimalization, when most people began collecting coins from change; however, his approach was slightly different, as he explains. " My Grandparents were farmers, and at the age of 14, I would cycle down to their farm at the Black Bull near Pickering on Sundays, working for around four hours cutting the lawns and gardening. grandma looked after the chickens and sold the eggs for 2/6 a dozen. I worked for 2/6 an hour so was always paid in half crowns, every now and again one would turn up in sterling silver, so I imagine she did not go to the bank very often. I did not at the time have any real numismatic interest, yet in a short time I found myself wanting to know a little more about the magnificent coins I had worked for. From there my interest in coins was born". In 1985 Charles issued his first catalogue of coins for sale as a part time dealer, trading as Ryedale Coins.
With the arrival of the internet, he had a web site built trading as Ryedale Coins. This early site had no pictures, so with the coming of eBay and other picture web sites the old site soon become a relic of the past. Now with a new up-to date and a change of trading name to www.charlessnowdencoins.com.
Charles is on the verge of going full-time with over 250,000 items in stock, which include British and World coins, Medallions, Tokens and some Banknotes, which he is still in the process of listing, ranging in price from £3-£3000, of which there will hopefully be something to suit everyone. |
 |
| |
|
|
| |
GAIL: My daughter was born in 1972 and from an early age of 3 took an uncanny interest in coins,"The story starts with a local builder who had been renovating an old chemist shop in Pickering around 1975, and found a mint bag of Victorian farthings under a staircase. The bag contained one pound worth of farthings dated 1900 that's 960 coins; they had probable layed there untouched for over 60 years. The builder knew I collected coins so contacted me, we agreed a price of £50 he said he would drop them in at my house. when I came home Gail had opened the bag and was seeing how high she could stack them, before they fell over, bless her!. Since then quite a lot have been sold on, but every now and again I still come across little finger prints on these coins, they have to be down graded. Still it was a good deal 1900 farthings in uncirculated and are now one of the hardest date to find in the old head issue and can command over £30 each in top grade. If at any time I was having the occasional night off with-out sorting, or reading about coins, Gail would be heard to say "no coining to day Dad". Gail is now a full time working mum, and an equal partner in the family firm of www.charlessnowdencoins.com. helping out when ever she can, manning the phone when I am at auctions, so if you phone there is a good chance you will be speaking to Gail, she also deals with most of the administrative side of the business, giving me more time to purchase new stock to up-load to the web site. The father and daughter team is a family business founded on long -established traditions of accurate grading of stock and always dedicated to customer satisfaction. |
| |
|
|
|
| Latest addittions:
- Latest
We welcome consignments for purchase, so if you're thinking of selling, whether it be your entire coin collection or just some coin duplicates, please contact sales@charlessnowdencoins.com
or Tel:
|
Charles Snowden
Coins
Our website is easy to use, even for those of you who are using the internet for the first time will find our specially designed web pages quick and simple to navigate. Features such as using the search and the ability to look at up to four photographs of each item, with the ease of return to the COIN MENU, were designed with the collector in mind.
|
Charles Snowden
TEL:
|
|
|
