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  2. Posted

    9 hours ago, Peter said:

    Tell me more Peck.I have type 2 diabetes but love a beer or 5.I suffer over 6 pints  and treat myself to a good cleansing.I also like a good Cuban cigar.

    Scrumpy is a no go area...and my daughters buy this for me knowing I will only have 1 pint...sneekie as their Mum.

    "Harro, gate" :lol:

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    7 hours ago, alfnail said:

    Here is another example of fully doubled date, but this time on an 1844 with plain tails to 4's.

    Doubled parts of the legend (including full date) I have seen quite often within the Victorian Copper penny series.

    My feeling is that this is due to the mechanics of striking the coin (die bounce?) rather than intended human repairs. Having said that, there are undoubtedly also many examples of legend / date repairs within this same series.......but generally to individual letters / numbers rather than 4 in a row.

     

    1844 Pain Tails 4's Doubled Date.jpg

    Good point - would you see recut numerals all offset by exactly the same degree? You might if the whole date was on a single punch but as we know, they never were.

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    3 hours ago, Guest Wendy said:

    Hi I have New Pence 2

    D.G.REG.F.D 1971 ELIZABETH II 

    I want to sale it... What will be the offered price?

    I believe the value of the metal used is now worth more than 2p, which is why the Mint switched to steel in the 90s. The problem would be finding a buyer who would be willing to pay - say - 2.1p so they could make a 0.4p profit. :lol:

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    21 hours ago, zookeeperz said:

    This coin is impossible to photograph. Such is the unusual toning . I guess because it's just starting . Although I can clearly see the lustre the effect of the toning makes it look matt like in pictures and does no justice to the coin at all. here are 1945 Shilling  scottish arms and scarcer D2121 1946 english arms:D

    Not sure why you say 'scarcer'? All George VI silver dated 1944-1946 - and even earlier - is very common even in top grades, due to general hoarding of genuine silver coins once CuNi came in. (This is also why high grade silver 1915 - 1918 is more common than post-1920 when they were debased to 50% silver).

  15. Posted · Edited by Peckris

    26 minutes ago, copper123 said:

    hey these coins ain't bunnies you know

    B for Beatrix!

    (Actually, Boudicca would have been better than Bond - after all, she actually existed :ph34r: ... though she hasn't brought in as many £££ as Bond.)

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    21 minutes ago, copper123 said:

    yes only the loch ness monster is a hint anything outside england exists

    (does the loch ness monster exist?)

    Mackintosh is Scottish. And yes - the Loch Ness Monster DOES exist ... in the minds of the Tourist Board :lol:.

    J for Jubilee is pretty poor too - I can think of things like Jodrell Bank, J Arthur Rank, Joyce Grenfell, and I'm sure many others, that would have made a better choice. I suppose we mustn't  forget that the Mint makes a fair old packet out of every Jubilee. :(

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    20 hours ago, copper123 said:

    "B" should be for brexit not bond , in fact james bond does not even exist - how can something that does not even exit be typically english ?

    You might as well have "E" for eastenders or "C" for coronation street

    Along with F for Failed (in every football tournament since 1966), B for BNP, O for Oswald Mosley, N for Nigel Farridge, X for Xenophobia, you mean? By the way, it's British, not English.

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    1 hour ago, zookeeperz said:

    unlike this piece of crap that landed on my doorstep this morning. How on earth they can make a picture look so different is beyond me. Hard to believe it's the same coin

     

    1887hc-tile.jpg

    My take is that it's NOT the same coin and you'd be justified in returning it on those grounds. There are many many signs that get my suspicions going, but here's just three:

    1. the teeth on the right coin (from the V anti-clockwise to the left hand edge of the bust) are thin compared to the greater wear on the left hand coin

    2. the totally different style of the JEB - particularly the E which is curved like a reversed 3 on the left, and a normal E on the right, sloping to the right 

    3. the upper knot on the pendant ribbon has a complete incuse line on the right, which  can barely be seen at all on the left.

    Add to that the scratch on the last A of GRATIA (not present on the left), and a faint doubling of the ear lobe on the right, and I'd say you've been the victim of possible malpractice.

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    5 minutes ago, craigy said:

    so why does spinks and davis quote that the vip proof crowns  are frosted yet also a standard proof with no mention of frosting  for the 1937 and 1953 crown ???   the same with the rare frosted proof 53 half crown from the plastic set, , the standard one is easy to get yet no mention frosted proof for the standard proof, still out on this subject, i know there are 2 versions of the 53 half crown, dots to gratia etc, 

    I don't regard Spinks and Davies 100% accurate on this (Spink probably took their information from Davies anyway). The fact is, all regular proofs between 1937 and 1953 come with or without frosting, and those that are frosted have variable levels of frosting, and some coins in sets are frosted while others aren't. You can't determine a VIP proof from frosting alone if there are no other  differences.

  20. Posted · Edited by Peckris

    2 hours ago, craigy said:

    but them coins look worse than my set ???    well the silvers, but there is no mention of any other vip denomination and it seems lc seem to make up there own opinion and after recent experiences and knowledge i have gained i believe a lot of dealers are abusing this vip status and that frosted/cameo are not as scarce as they say, i have a slabbed pf 66 1937 cameo half crown and you can see there is something special about it, and them coins in the lc link do not look special,  not being rude but if the royal mint cannot answer that question i'm pretty sure you wont be able too, 

    Because there is also a normal proof set for 1953, you wouldn't see any difference between those and the VIP proofs. VIPs are usually for years when there are no regular proofs issued, hence their rarity. However, that rare 1953 penny on its own makes the set a very sought after commodity, and you can bet your bottom dollar that the buyer was only after the penny, for which a very high sum was paid.

  22. Posted

    On 25 February 2018 at 5:43 PM, Paddy said:

    Ebay, along with most of the Internet giants (Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google etc) see themselves as above the law and routinely ignore national governments, let alone some small academic group. Bear in mind, through Google, they also have a stranglehold on online media.

    Have to correct you there. I agree with you about eBay, Amazon, and Google, but not Microsoft and Apple whose interests lie far beyond "just the internet".

  25. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Stamp said:

    Hi peckris, thanks for your answer. 

    So, stamped by the mint ? But would it not be more common.

    No, not a mint stamp. Maybe some Customs and Excise thing, or a company's initials? I don't really know. Never seen it before.

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