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copper123

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  1. copper123

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    Rogers book is sadly missing from my collection I really would love a copy and it keeps its value when you want to sell it on . I would agree a website would be best , but it's working out that it does not leave you out of pocket thats the hard thing
  2. copper123

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    Looking through com listings on ebay I found 204153815779 Item specifics Item not identified as the wrong spelling fetched around £25 in postage , coin in nothing like the same grade as mine - I am sure it could have gone higher.
  3. copper123

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    The european lauer pieces are a never ending subject with new designs being found all the time - I would expect the german pieces to have been well reserched locally over many years but a lot of the others were probably made in low quantities and many were lost in the first and second world wars , I would have expected the richer economies of europe, ie, france and belgium and germany to have fallen for these coins very quickly others like portugal and spain might have been less profitable so were overlooked , they could also have been used as dolls house money for posh kids rather than family keepsakes like they were in the uk.
  4. copper123

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    Other side of the to hanover counter - It's a generic design common to most of these coins but insted of being dated 1837 it's dated 1830 so a bit different
  5. copper123

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    In my opinion its a really hard job seperating joseph moore coins from many many makers of tokens-jettons-counters whatever you call them the production of these just exploded from about 1850 onwards in birmingham and to a lesser extent London, the lauer coins are a diferent matter as few makers seemed to copy what they did . By the way have you got the lauer QUEN VICTORIA to hanover token dr larry ? I picked one up in birmingham for the usual £1 about six months ago, I was dead chuffed to buy it as its quite an embarasing thing to do having QUEN for QUEEN in the legend . It has Lauer on the queens breast so you can tell it's a german import. If you need anymore information just google it and you should find it . And yes it's in A/unc condition as well as the scan proves
  6. copper123

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    You are right it could be a pendant it has a reeded edge and could have been coated in brass but it has come off - I really dont know anything for certain about this coin - there again thats one of the great things about collecting these coins you are never sure where they have come from...
  7. copper123

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    Appears to be dated 1872 and posably in the style of joseph moore , very much an unknown item , again a pick up from birmingham
  8. copper123

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    Wow did not know that. The model mille is not mine though i wish it was , I lifted the picture off the internet - i think its about the best i have ever seen mine grades about nvf
  9. copper123

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    Found in birmingham for the princely sum of 50p , and its a rarer type
  10. copper123

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    Some of the stuff I have picked up over the years is certainly a lot more in demand , but its a small but growing market a lot of the collectors from the seventies that collected just as an interest have much more knowlege so people are less willing to let the more interesting item go for a song . By the way do you have a joseph moore quarter sov?
  11. copper123

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    Will have a look through my collection and see if i can find anything interesting and put it on next week , going to birmingham will take up most of sunday
  12. copper123

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    Sorry but I could not justify paying around £40 for one of those george v coins they are simply a bit poor for that sort of money , about £12 might be right , I surpose they are really rare though.
  13. copper123

    24 Hours in Police Custody

    Ahhh but did it get him a lenient sentence? The answer is no
  14. copper123

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    I have seen a couple of george v 1911 coins I think a shilling was one of them , they are pretty rare , I would certainly love to have a couple , soon afer 1911 the climate changed for german firms selling to the uk and never really recovered
  15. copper123

    24 Hours in Police Custody

    He should have phoned the police first not being a policeman himself it does not even cost anything , easy to say now but the only course of action really
  16. Hope they had plenty pills as well , if so it might not have closed down in the sixties and been very popular with hippies .That beeching had no soul
  17. copper123

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    I would say probably 30-60 I don't think there are less than 10 My example anyway
  18. copper123

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    The answer to the "Albert " coin might be quite simple Albert was given the title "Prince consort" in the middle of 1857 so the "albert" coin was possably an early version before he was titled that of course means all the rest were post summer 1857. How rotten is this country giving him this title so late
  19. copper123

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    I too have a single ALBERT piece not sure how rare it is but there are at least two existing mine is in much better grade than yours though
  20. copper123

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    I am pretty sure my 1902 hairy head farthing is copper coated iron but its in such great nick I dont fancy scratching it to find out. Sounds like rogers spotted the farthing specialist 1849 quarter farthing too late after John had sold it to another collector and he never found another one , life's like that for coin collector's isn't it?
  21. copper123

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    Is it in rogers the 1849 I mean? I saw one listed in the seventies in a farthing specialist list so theres more than one hanging around
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