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Posts posted by copper123
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Did not a Bury mp go to prison for fraud , really we should vote martin Platt MP for bury.
I think you are very generous gradeing the platt mule GVF or vf - I am sure its not that nice.
I think i am closer with good fine , or maybe my grading is bit strict.
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I see the ex used car salesmans mrs has a mule farthing for sale for £1250 , real bargain that isn't it chaps?
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ef easy - very nice
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Peter Ireland only died a couple of years ago I think he was in his late sixties - a mear youngster compared to many dealers
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And nobody has mentioned farthing specialist yet ,
TUT ,TUT ,TUT
Somebody should make up a witty saying
We all no the one about golfers and their balls
surely a numismatic one is needed
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"the pheonix" a great name You might as well burn your cash and then say a few harry potter spells and try and ressurect it LOL.
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Ahhh,, the numpties get the full pocket emptying treatment again after the undated 20p rip off .
Any guesses on the final retail price then /
My guess would be an ads in the mail and express/ telegraph , telling the story (and a great one it is too), a nice little plush box (imported from china @ £2 each.
and a final sale price of £50 +
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I am afraid that this lot of farthings will not sell for anything like the estimate - I suspect that roughly 30 years ago loads were released onto the then fast expanding coin collecting world - this lot will in effect be the straw that broke the camels back.
I would value this lot at around £5,000 and that i believe is generous
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ta colin sounds plauseable to me
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I really wonder what colin would say!!!!
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The London mint office could buy them up and sell them in a velvet box for £25 each as a very rare hoard coin OVER 100 YEARS OLD MINT CONDITION to their clients/ suckers.
If they are up for a £100 20p it would seem like very little to ask
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LONDON MINT OFFICE ????
"But who's going to want to pay that sort of money for over 2700 of the same coin? Not Quite a rarity is it"
Worked with them undated 20p coins
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This hoard is massive and far to large for the coin market at the moment to absorb.
(I hope you put all notions about bidding out of your head colin)LOL
Seriously though this ammount of coins should have been drip fed onto the market for many years and due to it being one of the most common dates along with 1891 and 1886 possably it was for a time.
Looks like it was wraped in john minshulls lustre preserver , so undoubtedly he had a few.
A brave (or foolish) mans buy i think
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I HAVE A 1991, FIVE PENCE PIECE. IT'S UNUSUAL IN THE FACT THAT IT HAS NOT GOT A MILLED EDGE LIKE OTHER FIVE PENCE COINS. THE EDGE OF THE COIN, IS SMOOTH AS YOU WOULD FIND A 1P OR 2P HERE IN THE UK. CAN ANYONE SHED ANY LIGHT AS TO HOW THIS MAY HAVE OCCURED?
Don't shout, it's rude.
Probably knocked up by someone in a shed as a curio
and yes it's rude to shout
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Going back to the original subject - the farthing , Victoria old head I am very sure these coins become more common in the higher grades the nearer you get to the end of Victoria's reign
I have only ever had to wait to get two high grade dates 1895 and 1896 , I am quite sure that 1895 is the scarcest coin of the whole series, though 1896 runs it close.
It always appears that the public hoarded many farthings , even the relatively unattractive dark ones , unlike the penny and halfpennies which never seemed to get a look in for some strange reason - even today a find of a small tobacco box full of Victorian and Edwardian farthings some in near mint grade (usually the later ones) is something that every dealer comes across three or four time in his lifetime
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The civil war ended in 1660 did it ?
I always thought this country was a republic for eleven or so years after charles's death but maybe i am wrong
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I have I bought it seven years ago for the princely sum of £1.50.
Lovely and black with that gleam that tells you it would be unc but for the mint darkened finish
I paid 10p for my UNC but that was 30 years ago.
Damm ! I was really ripped off!!!!!!
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I have I bought it seven years ago for the princely sum of £1.50.
Lovely and black with that gleam that tells you it would be unc but for the mint darkened finish
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Maybe it will not be long till the undated 2008 20p coins outnumber the dated ones as the royal mint gets on with the job of melting down the old currency and issueing the new!
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THE ERDINGTON COIN COMPANY WENT BUST PROBABLY LOL
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If coins are acceptable is totally up to the buyer - I must admit I personally am very surprised by the sellability of cleaned coins these days , back 20 or 30 years ago the coins fetching good money on ebay, would have been considered almost worthless (mostly silver by the way), cleaned copper and bronze is another matter.
IF YOU DON'T FIND CLEANED COINS ACCEPTABLE KEEP IT REALLY SIMPLE AND DON'T BUY THEM!
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There was no more chase, you just waited for the next set to appear ever few weeks. The post office was just churning out more and more junk issues for collectors purely as a revenue stream. I think coin collecting is going the same way. Who in there right mind collects modern commeratives?2
Very true - but it is really wrong to dismiss the recent output of the mint the 50p issues have been very good and will draw coin collectors in for many years to come - the kew gardens 50p for instance.
we will need new blood to come into the hobby or it will die, just as surely as collectors lost interest in stamps in the seventies and early eighties
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freeman 530 found today in a £1 junk box at a local collectors fair.
Adds to the other 15 or 20 or so known examples .
Just shows it can be done
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acetone is quite good - inert and does not produce a cleaned look
Soap and water is pretty much the same but you might have to use a bit more elbow grease - a small pack of toothpicks is often good for getting off gunk from around lettering.
Good Fine Mule £1,250 Any Takers?
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Ah yes and John welsh has been hawking total rubbish and selling it for good money for 40 years or so a crying shame.
Lets hope martin ain't around as long.