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  3. Posted

    Are the Baby Sets BU or circulation quality?

    The reason I ask is the Mint were advertising that 2016 £1 coins in circulation quality were only available from the Royal Mint visitor centre tour when you were able to strike your own.

    That said I doubt many would be able to tell the difference between the two.

    Ian..    

  4. Posted

    16 hours ago, Rob said:

    Trust me when I say that as both a collector and a dealer, it is not clear cut.

    Don't get me wrong Rob, i'm not taring all dealers with the same brush, but those that engage with me are those I buy from.

    I'm probably guilty of saying "I'm just browsing" usually when I'm looking at stuff I'm not that interested in and wouldn't want to take up a dealers time when he/she could be talking to a "real customer". but I do wonder if playing it cool and not showing interest stems from all those antique shows on TV?

    Manning a show, especially a two day one, must be mind numbing at times but there are a core of dealers who are far more interested in their laptops, papers or chatting among themselves than  serving their potential customers.

    If I ever make Wakefield I'll be sure to introduce myself :)     

    Ian..

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  5. Posted

    I couldn't make it this time, I normally attend the Saturday due to work commitments,  but find a lot of dealers, shall we say "less than interested".

    A couple of years ago a dealer tuted at me when I asked him to move his newspaper that was open across his full table. Goes without saying I didn't buy from him.

    May be  I can't be a serious collector turning up on the Saturday? 

    Ian..

  8. Posted

    Is someone at the Daily Mail cashing in?

    Do a little research on a coin with a lower than normal mintage, buy them all at low prices, publish an article saying they are rare, then SELL, SELL, SELL.

    Ian.. 

  9. Posted

    19 hours ago, 1949threepence said:

    I am intrigued as to precisely what the hidden top secret security feature is though.   

     

    8 hours ago, Nordle11 said:

    I'm also interested in the secret feature, at first I thought it was just a combination of a lot of different features..

    On a visit to the RM's Visitor Center the guide said the new £1 coin contained "Fairy Dust" a secret ingredient that the RM would use to identify genuine coins from forgeries.

    From the way she said it, it sounds as if it is something in the metal mix.

    Ian..

  13. Posted

    3 hours ago, Sarah G said:

    All I want to know is which coin Florence Jackson was given and is sitting in the Royal Mint museum!  I have emailed and phoned the museum and Royal mint and they will not give the information out.   

    I'm sure her gold coin must be dated 2009 as it would be a poor presentation if they said "congratulations, we will give you a gold coin in 2 years time".

    Insistently, presumably the gold Olympic coins would be produced from proof dies, which means they would have been produced separately from the dies used for the BU Set & circulating coins, therefore there could be other design differences.

    Also was Jonathan Olliffe's gold Aquatic 50p an under water one?

    Ian..  

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  15. Posted

    WOW Brian!

    I have a number of pennies that have been saved over a number of years which I have just started sorting, I hope to add to the work above, but I'm under no illusion that I am "Standing on the shoulders of giants". or "late to the party" depending on your view :)

    I cant help thinking if there are a number of reverse dies there must have been a number of obverse dies too :ph34r:

    I feel in coming years people will be hunting down obverse & reverse die pairings.  

    "I need a 1992 BHX -  D + 3"   

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  16. Posted

    9 hours ago, bhx7 said:

    Just checked beads and as you suspected Ian, the 1992 pennies "Rev a" has 110 bb and "Rev b" has 113 bb. I am now about to photograph the other 2 coin dates which display these characteristic's and see if they are indeed the same.

     

    ***UPDATE**** Just checked and both the 1991 & 1994 penny variants both have the same bead counts as the 1992 but with the addition of the Portcullis Type 1 & Type 2 giving the combinations for both 1991 &94: Type 1(Rev a) & Type 2 (Rev b).

    1993 still has the combination of Type 2 (Revb) but now the Type 1 is paired up with 1 & P both directly to a bead. Will check the bead count for the latter.

    ***UPDATE***** 1993 Portcullis Type 1 has only 109 border beads;

    Great work Brian.

    But must say my brain is starting to hurt :wacko:

    Also sorted all the pennies from the better half's copper jar last night...What have you started :)

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  17. Posted

    Excellent work Brian. Must raid the Missus' penny jar B)

    The beads on your 1s & Ps to the left & right look different sizes, have you counted them? I wonder if there are different numbers.

    Love the "No Rivet" variety also, what is your thoughts, is it a worn/filled die or a different die altogether?  

    Ian.. 

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  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, azda said:

    This is how ebeyers want to be treated, read the description :lol: The 2nd link is from the same seller, the 3 coin set is sold from the mint at £750 so he has to make £825 just for the fees alone then the PP fees, let's see where it goes

     

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2017-Gold-Sovereign-in-22-Carat-Gold-/322309614034?hash=item4b0b2669d2:g:EIwAAOSwn7JYE7i0

     

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2017-3-Coin-Gold-Sovereign-Set-in-22-Carat-Gold/322311411956?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D38661%26meid%3D8410b073127640a48d96b354074b1232%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D322309614034

    He says:

    " You will receive 3 Gold Sovereigns. 
    1 Full Gold Sovereign in 22 Carat Gold. 
    1 Half Sovereign In 22 Carat Gold. 
    1 Quarter Sovereign In 22 Carat Gold."

    So I suspect your not getting the pretty box, for your money.

  20. Posted

    4 hours ago, Sarah G said:

    Hi Ian

    The coin I am referring to is the athletics coin 2009 (blue peter coin) and 2011 (2.2 million athletic coin)   Its the 2 different coin covers that the royal mint and royal mail did to celebrate the olympics. (coin cover 1 and coin cover 30 - both athletics with 2 different pictures.  One is  coin cover 1 and the other coin cover 30.

    The royal mint and royal mail did a series of 30 coin covers to celebrate the olympics.  The first coin cover was the athletic one with the 2 runners on the front.  This coin cover was produced very early on as has a very low olympic hologram.  This coin cover contains the 2011 athletic coin.

    In 2011 the royal mint and royal mail got together to produce another coin cover to celebrate the athletics to make up the 30th cover. This was produced in 2011 and has a picture of a high jumper on the front of the cover.  However, it has come to light that this coin cover with the high jumper produced in 2011 contains the 2009 "blue peter coin"  I personally haven't seen one and wanted to try and get one to have a look. Apparently someone has opened it and it does contain the 2009 blue peter coin.

    Hopefully this makes sense even though the royal mint/royal mail seem to have very strange procedures.  The problem is you cannot see the coin in the cover.  You have to open the cover up to find out whether it is a 2009 or 2011 coin!  

    Sarah

    Will add a photo of the runner coin cover in next post to try and explain further.

    Thanks Sarah, 

    I misunderstood,  I thought the 2 runners were on the coin not the cover :unsure:

    I'm not a fan of coins in covers where you can not see both sides of the coin.

    It would be really insetting to know if the coins in the 2 covers are consistently dated or whether both designs hold both dates.

    My hunch would be that the coins for the second "High Jump" cover would be a specific batch produced for the purpose and therefore would be additional to the mintage for the Blue Peter coin holders, making the 2009 coins more common than the mint figures suggest? 

    Ian.. 

  25. Posted

    17 hours ago, azda said:

    Doubtful, as there is some sort of control at the mint, even if it does seem crap judging by what they pump out

    The presses used for circulating coins strike 750 coins a minute and their hoppers are loaded with 10 of thousands of blanks at a time, so even if it was only 1 "batch" that escaped the "meticulous" quality control it should result in a lot of affected coins. And as a pair of dies can strike up to 400,000 coins it could be a very high number.  

    If the die "worked its way loose" or moved during the striking run, so it didn't affect a full batch, I would expect the rotation to vary between coins, which on the limited evidence Chris has reported doesn't seem to be the case.   

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