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DNW changing names.....?
oldcopper replied to 1949threepence's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Well, they quoted the excellence of their website and its exhaustive arichies as a reason for increasing their premium last time, so by that logic looks like they'll have to reduce it now. It never works like that does it..... -
I think the key desirability factor in the Medusa if it you can see her face, and this SARC specimen isn't too bad an example of that.
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Yes, it's the act of assuming that "full original colour" means just that.
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I wonder if everyone has found this, but when I type "Noonans" or "Noonan's" into Google all the results are for the (previously unknown to me) genetic disorder Noonan Syndrome. So I wonder how they are going to differentiate their website location from that? I don't think they've thought this through. They'll hardly want to, or even be able to, displace important medical information off the top of the search results.
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Yes, of course, they are bronzed, mainly currency pieces. The reason he didn't list them is they're unofficial as well.
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Perhaps he phrased it ambiguously but if he did think they were official surely he would have given them a Peck number.
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OK not that one! Its PT twin, so these later bronzed coins are out there.
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That might be the coin originally sold by Baldwins as a bronzed proof (sale no.52) where Roland Harris bought it for ~£600. I saw it then and it was obviously a currency piece, so why Baldwins said it was "undoubtedly a proof" I don't know. People presumably sussed this as it only made £190 at the Harris sale (LC 2009), with LC's description somewhat ambivalent about the proof designation.
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There was an unofficially gilded 1841 in the Colin Adams sale of 2003. Peck is saying that these post Soho examples are all unofficially gilded so he isn't contradicting himself.
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Paper supplies must have run short!
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DNW changing names.....?
oldcopper replied to 1949threepence's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
If you phone them up you can say "Hi Noonans". -
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.
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Glamour Shots: 1853 PT
oldcopper replied to VickySilver's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
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! -
As one dealer told me, this micro-incremental grading scale is just a way of making more money out of collectors. This here being a prime example.
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It's amazing what photography can do!?
oldcopper posted a topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Just spotted this at Atlas: anyone recognise it? (trick question, I do): a snip at $14,500 for the discerning collector PR65BN. -
It's amazing what photography can do!?
oldcopper replied to oldcopper's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
I think the truth has definitely changed with this one in the last 4 months. -
It's amazing what photography can do!?
oldcopper replied to oldcopper's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Yes, shame the blue toner has added >$10K to the price! -
It's amazing what photography can do!?
oldcopper replied to oldcopper's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Put us all out of our misery: -
Peck Number required
oldcopper replied to azda's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
And could be the ANNA SLABBA INCOMPETENS legend variety. -
Hope it's not one of those fake Godless that were doing the rounds not so long ago in "NEF" condition. The colour does seem suspiciously uniform!
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Peck Number required
oldcopper replied to azda's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Looked at Peck earlier and the of two obverses it could be, KH22 and KH23, Peck says the only difference is a flaw on the first G of GEORGIUS in KH23 - I can't seen it at all in Peck's plaster cast photograph of KH23! Perhaps other people can spot it. However, your photographs give better resolution I suspect, and I can't see any flaw on these either. -
Peck Number required
oldcopper replied to azda's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
I've just checked and P.1242 is KH21 and has 3 dots instead of a K on the truncation. https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/lot-archive/lot.php?lot_uid=404661 -
Peck Number required
oldcopper replied to azda's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
I haven't got Peck to hand but from memory isn't P.1242 the copper proof with a sequence of dots instead of or next to the K? It's not the 1233-1235 series as it lacks the die flaw on the drapery (I can't see it), so is it the bronzed analogue (P.1244?) of the gilt P.1243. I take it it's got an engrailed edge. There may be other choices though but P.1244 is the common alternative to P.1234 I guess. From memory again I say quickly! -
The Tyrant collection
oldcopper replied to PWA 1967's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Thanks Rob - very interesting. Fascinating about the removal of the graffiti and possible plugging.