Rob

It requires people to retain all their notes and correspondence which doesn't happen very often. I have to confess I am remiss in that department, but I always keep any notes acquired that I can attribute or provide useful information. Edited to add that 10 years ago(?) or so, there was a lot in a London sale (forget which one) which had a Shepherd catalogue (1885) and a few other things. Anyway , I bid 3 or 400 and was surprised to subsequently find out it had all Shepherd's correspondence which wasn't noted hence the nearly £2K it made. Not being in London meant no viewing. Had I known, I would have gone down for a day to go through it. Apparently there was quite a lot of material. So it is out there if you keep your eyes open.

Sometimes

Beginning W and ending in D limits the options. There's one name in North that consistently crops up for Harold 2 - Wulfward/Wulfwerd and that ties with the visible legend. 4 mints listed - Stamford, London, Canterbury and Gloucester. Eliminate the first on the grounds of insufficient space to put ST in the chipped section and the last because there no Gloucester letters. That leaves Canterbury or London depending on how you interpret the small wedge plus III.

That'd what happens when you combine nerd with sufficient storage space. Catalogues are 3 deep by now, but I still need to fill many gaps. Must be references to other coins because the earlier one was two and a half times the price of the other. Things got reduced and relisted if they didn't sell, but not that much.

It just 79 B'win at a cost of £18.70. It's Michael Sharp's handwriting on the Baldwin ticket.

Those two refer to listings in the Bulletin. The first was in the Sept. 1949 issue, item 9356 priced at 45/-, the second was in Dec. 1951 at. 17/6d

Wonder if it's to do with the manual entry of the last two digits. Until you have an impression it is very difficult to see if the alignment is correct. Once you have a mark you may well find it needs a little sideways or rotational adjustment.

Operator error - faulty moral compass.

The description says they are copies, so no deception there. 1864 die 64 is the standard Chinese copy and has been around for a few years now. Other copies may be available.

It will be. RCB, RCL, JGB, VJER, FEJ, PWP etc are all commonly used unambiguous abbreviations for the relevant collection. Simply because the names crop up so often.

There will be better out there. It isn't a rare thing, though it is in this grade

Interesting. Given it's the second time in a week, it appears Newton Abbot is a hotbed for purveyors of dodgy pennies. I hope the second half of this seller's name doesn't share a surname with the first. Perish the thought.

Looks like it to me. It is illuminated from below which plays tricks with what you are used to seeing compared with top lighting - raised features often appear incuse and vice-versa until your brain has been re-educated. In this case it is lighting the exergue face on from the source, making it appear wider. I can't see any evidence of two lines.

I too had issues with him when he claimed a coin was cleaned and wanted a discount. Interestingly, didn't want to send it back. I wouldn't deal with him personally.

Comber. The style matches this one which refers to both Shuttlewood and Wilkinson.

Looking at the images online, I was put off by the reflective surfaces of most lots, giving the impression that a majority had been cleaned. Though given the number involved, I suspect that the images were over-exposed because when the description included a notable defect, it was hard to see it in the image. Adhering to the adage 'If in doubt, leave it out', I bought a handful of items which were not shiny in the images to hedge my bets.

Correct. That's why MS can mean Mostly Smoothed on occasion, referring to between 60 & 70% flattening.

I would concur. Before I abandoned collecting halfpennies in 2008/9, the only thing I found worthy of keeping was the attached, and fine it ain't.

The detail doesn't look sharp enough for me either, but photography can be a nightmare with proofs. I bought some pattern halfpennies in last week's Noonans sale. One or two look like they've been badly abused in my images, yet in hand they are brilliant with not a blemish to be seen.

It depends on what you have as not all apply in all instances. Generally speaking therefore, a proof will have brilliant fields, square rims, sharper milling, squarer sides to the lettering, a better quality of engraving to the detail and is likely to be in close to as struck condition. Although a few proofs get circulated, the vast majority do not, and in the case of non-set years, almost never. Easiest way is comparing a known currency piece with a claimed proof and then look for reasons why it isn't one rather than saying it is better, so must be one.

https://coins.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=3184+792+4294934363&type=bodycopy-coinworld-news-tem100623 TPG grading of virtual currency. Can't wait for a CAC sticker to say it is genuine. Does a failed crypto currency systems warrant a details grade? Why does a virtual currency need a metal disc in any case? Surely their raison d'etre was to eliminate them? Touted as the most important physical collection of crypto currency ever to come to market, this has to be the biggest load b****cks seen in many a time.

I didn't say that Bitcoin had failed. I asked the question, how they would grade a failed virtual currency? If they are going to grade these things, then they have presumably had to verify that the contents are as it says on the label. The money is there or it's not. If the grading is for the plastic disc only, then that's silly. The money is in the virtual currency, not in the 'coin' and if the bitcoin has been wiped, who pays? Anyway, bitcoin is of limited value to the average person. I've got accounts with 4 different banks, and none of them will allow me to pay in Bitcoins. Nor indeed can I take it round the corner to buy a loaf of bread. But hey, I could be the proud owner of an almost unblemished piece of plastic valued at over £22K that I can't spend.

Thanks.

Did anyone buy anything from the Sanders collection at Noonans on the 19th July? If so, did it have a ticket resembling the attached? Ta.