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[Mister T]

Wasn't sure where else to put this, so I put it here.
I was using http://www.australian-threepence.com/silver-coin-values/great-britain-silver-coin-values.htm recently and it looks like some of the dates are wrong. Half or so have 1901 - 1920 through I think they should extend back further than 1901.

[markn]

Hi Mister T,

All of the the calculators for any country go back to 1901.  I could say it was because of some deeply thought out logic that coins before then couldn't really be called bullion.  But it was really because I pulled all of the figures from the 1901-To Date Krause and couldn't be bothered looking back further.

Mark

[AaronG]

For me the calculator isn't 100% accurate, when converting the calculator to oz, I put 1 in the 50% shilling box and it tells me spot is $2.72, when I go on kitco.com (the spot used by the calculator and type $30.01 (current spot) x 0.0908 (asw in a 50% shilling) now it comes up as $2.72, but on the weekend it was a couple cents off, anyone know why?

[markn]

For me the calculator isn't 100% accurate, when converting the calculator to oz, I put 1 in the 50% shilling box and it tells me spot is $2.72, when I go on kitco.com (the spot used by the calculator and type $30.01 (current spot) x 0.0908 (asw in a 50% shilling) now it comes up as $2.72, but on the weekend it was a couple cents off, anyone know why?

Silver prices and exchange rates are retrieved from Kitco every 15 minutes.  These vary pretty much all the time apart from about a 40 hour period from about 8:00AM on Saturdays (Australian time).  Figures start updating again sometime on Sunday night or very early Monday morning when the Sydney markets start trading again.  Basically this means that if you're checking values on a weekday the values will almost certainly be different to those on the weekend.