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Not as good as mine which cost £8. Jerry

An unbelievably great thing you and your family are undertaking…a huge inspiration to those of us who spend time moaning about our lot in life!

If you phone them up you can say "Hi Noonans".

Thanks for the suggestions folks. Google translate is where we ended up. It's far from perfect with quite a few hovercrafts, some self inflicted when the wife switches from English to German in mid-sentence, but also when you speak too fast, or maybe it can't cope with accents so well, as it produces garbage on occasion in both directions. But, it's workable, which is the main thing, and has comedy value to lighten the mood. Ah, the wonders of algorithms.

I suspect graffiti/cleaning appears to afflict rarer coins because more common coins that have graffiti or cleaning have over time been jettisoned from the worldwide pool of collectible coins. Graffiti is not an evolutionary advantage in coin-world - unless particularly artful. A Bansky perhaps …

Much MUCH better in-hand, on a huge flan…extremely happy! An absolute bargain at £200 delivered!

None of the three are leaving: "In relation to the shortening of the company name from Dix Noonan Webb to Noonans, Nimrod Dix commented: “There really wasn’t much to debate when it came to which one of our surnames to run with. Pierce had the more suitable one of the three of us and was also by far the youngest, so that was an easy decision to make.” With regards to the future, Nimrod went on to say, “It did cross our minds when we decided to shorten our company name that some people might see it as a sign that Chris Webb and I were taking early retirement, so now is probably a good time to say that this is definitely not the case. I am still working full time heading up the company’s medal department with no plans to retire any time soon and Chris spends most of his time on the road seeing clients. We are excited for the future and still have a lot to do, so it might be more accurate to say that we are only just getting started!”

My first list from FS was just after John Minshull had got this fancy new typewriter with all the new fonts. Pre-computer it was cutting edge. It was a bound A4 light blue catalogue. The ones after that were just stapled I think and were always different colours, light green, orange etc. Always an exciting moment when his latest one popped through the door! They were all chucked out after I went to University but the dates were ~1977-1983. I wish I 'd kept some for memory's sake. He really went to town on the rarities, I remember a 1685 Charles II tin farthing got about a page of write-up.

Here's mine, bought DNW auction Sept 2008 - quite a steep price (£260 hammer), and good lustre on the obverse, but a dark reverse. https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/lot-archive/lot.php?lot_uid=158753 DNW's photography is somewhat flattering to the reverse!

A choice piece of a coin which is rare anyway, but in that high grade, very rare. Really nice, well done. The PT 1853 is even rarer still with an italic date. You might be interested in Ian's post from January 2021 regarding stats for 1853 pennies - here