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  3. Posted

    On 9/16/2017 at 4:59 PM, Rob said:

    COMBER, C

    Chris Comber is a specialist in Tudor Coinage and a co-author of the standard Elizabeth I reference. The ticket has obviously been trimmed to fit into a tray hole.

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    I was hoping this ticket would be Comber’s, but it looks as though he prints in capitals, unless he ever went through a phase of lowercase italics?

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    On 11/12/2022 at 8:55 AM, 1949threepence said:

    ....and has been for over 48 hours. 

    We are told that tracking can still be done on the Royal Mail app, but when you look it's totally unclear which one.

    Still down! I downloaded the app., but will be deleting it, just as soon as the site’s back up.

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    I was simply looking at various dies for the double crown and came across these two that were difficult to reconcile.
    I initially assumed them to be different coins of the same die…I think it a tricky call, photography versus analysis, for me at least.
    Interestingly the chronology is all wrong at London Coins, which counts against me to be fair!

  16. Posted

    Fabulous little halfpennies you have there! 
    It was always my understanding that they were cut from sheet with shears but, on reflection, that seems incredibly labour intensive, and I can’t remember how, or where, I came to that conclusion. I’ve just had a read through BCW and they make no mention of it.

  20. Posted

    Nice little win of a superb sixpence. Weak portrait but, to be fair, exaggerated in these auction images…actually much better in-hand…will try and post another image soon.
    I did try to look out the images of your 1573 @Rob because it worried me a little bit to find another little-worn acorn coin, but I couldn’t find them to compare the dies.

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    On 9/3/2022 at 5:47 PM, Rob said:

    I consider it implausible you could get that depth of impression from 28g of silver falling onto another edge, perfectly aligned so as to produce the incuse A as if it were part of the edge.

    Just to clarify, I wasn’t proposing it was the force of one coin falling against the other. :)

    I do know we did some strange things with coins as kids, with just a couple of things springing to mind, such as opening modelling paint tins, making cross-pistol mechanisms from old penny pieces and, maybe relevant to this situation, we used to squeeze chunky washers edge-to-edge in a vice until they’d finally fly off like a game of buckaroo!

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    6 hours ago, Peckris 2 said:

    It rather looks as though your incuse A almost exactly corresponds to the (raised) A of ANNO, in size , style, and position on the edge.

    Also, that the thicker side-bar of the ‘A’ corresponds (namely right on the raised and left on the incuse), makes for a far more likely clash of edges post production. 

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