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JLS
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If sovereigns are legal tender in Australia to today, what is their nominal value ?
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26 minutes ago, blakeyboy said:Do penny people think it's a bad time to sell? The opposite scenario to gold coins? Never seen so much gold in this catalogue before....
Not sure if I have enough expertise in the series to be a "penny person" but I've consigned some decent pennies recently - all to BSJ though.
The ones in the last sale did alright; it may well quickly become a good market to sell in if people don't consign.
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On 8/13/2020 at 7:54 PM, Peckris 2 said:fake or repro?
Well, a repro sold as genuine is as good as a fake to me on eBay. If you're not familiar with the type the style might be convincing, especially from photographs. This is one of the only relatively good copies of a common 18th century token which comes up with frequency; previously published in TCSB among other places.
But whether the original intent was to deceive is unclear.
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Exeter-Halfpenny-token-1792/402352651395
A notorious modern fake - pretty obvious if you compare closely to the original, but we token collectors don't normally have to worry about such things too much....
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I wouldn't give up hope on it being delivered or safely returned by the postal service...an item I sent to Singapore in February landed in my post box a few weeks ago, envelope was covered in stickers from Germany, who ended up receiving it in error - I assume it got stuck to something on the way...
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3 hours ago, Diaconis said:If it was a polished disk then I agree, but the overall dimensions do not take into account any variances in reeding/relief/embossing. The volume of displaced water accounts for this.
You'd have to have really quite precise equipment to distinguish between minor differences in volume. Callipers may be quicker !
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The Pirates of...Palau ?
It weighs half a kilo of pure silver so I guess it might make a (rather morbid) paper weight...
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8 hours ago, 1949threepence said:Looks like it could do with an overnight soak in balsamic vinegar.........
As the owner of this piece...I'm still tempted to do this but the rest of the metal looks OK...
I think anodized copper wire treatment is the next step; if I can't get all of it off mechanically I'll consider chemical cleaning. Don't think it will ever be problem free though.
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Masonic-Penny-unpolished/133390637391
I didn't know that the Queen was a freemason ! Or that 1967 pennies get more valuable if you polish them...
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274326733979
Someone actually thinks a cartwheel penny is a farthing...were the 1790s an age of giants ?!
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17 hours ago, Michael-Roo said:The same seller does though have two other treasures for my consideration, so all is not lost. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/daa2323/m.html?item=254606269370&nordt=true&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562
That 1807 is a well known and relatively common contemporary forgery with the casting flaw across the reverse, I think I paid a good £20 for my example...
Curiously the pound coin also appears to be fake !
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22 hours ago, alfnail said:One of my better purchases on ebay, open auction, 5 bids, got it for £23. Actual ebay picture and one I took of the coin when it arrived.
8/6 ? Nice !
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A very rare token I noticed in a bulk lot last week, paid £15 and there was an EF 1901 halfpenny and some other odds and sods as well.
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1 hour ago, will1976 said:A new unlisted unofficial farthing variety which landed today. I believe it relates to the famous gun makers Holland & Holland but I'm yet to research properly. Thoughts and comments welcome
As a keen collector of the Birmingham series....WOW ! Diameter ?
White's 1849 Directory of Birmingham, p. 182, "Holland, Henry, gun and pistol maker, 21 Steelhouse Lane".
The Henry Holland of Holland and Holland was, according to Wikipedia, only apprenticed in 1861, so possibly this piece is unrelated.
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32 minutes ago, rpeddie said:i always thought a reducing machine was used for these, but might be too early for this tech?
As far as I know, yes, no reducing machines anywhere until the 1830s, and none at British mints until the 1850s or 1860s. Definitely not used at Soho in Boulton's day !
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A good diagnostic for a proof of this issue is whether St. George's belt is sharp all the way across his chest. It's very rare to see a currency piece with this feature as they generally were not well struck enough.
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2 hours ago, Sword said:To be fair, most dealers don't consider dipping as cleaning either. You are one of very few that mention dipping in the description.
Unless it was a US coin where dipping is "market acceptable" for some reason, I'd be pretty annoyed to be sold a dipped coin as problem-free.
Last year I bought a nice looking Edward VII florin out of DNW at the reserve on an opportunistic bid. It was in a MS61 holder and described as EF+, bright...
In hand, blank, lifeless surfaces, no real mint brilliance. Luckily I didn't pay too much for it and found someone at Bloomsbury who took it off me for what I purchased it for...
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He also seems to have never seen a proof George IV shilling:
plus, as a bonus, PCGS LOVES his cleaning technique...
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10 minutes ago, Peckris 2 said:I don't think £25 is a lot for a BU 1871 space filler - especially as the repro is scarily realistic.
Pretty sure you can buy these out of China for around two pounds each...AliExpress might be worth checking....
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1794-Halfpenny-Token-The-Lancashire-Unc/303594651936
Not "Unc."...and the seller unfortunately has a whole group of common 18th century token given the same treatment
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On 6/7/2020 at 6:13 PM, mhcoins said:glad at least someone did, how were there phone bids if there wasn't a live sale ?
Well, it sort of was a live sale, as there were a few phone lines open, and so lots had a defined closing time. You had to pre-register which lots you wanted to bid on, as they skipped lots which no-one wanted to phone bid on and just decided them on commission. Most of the time I was just bidding against commission bids though.
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5 hours ago, Sword said:Did you manage to arrange any phone bidding? Let me guess: no it didn't happen.
Yes and it was relatively straightforward, I won 6 lots !
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8 minutes ago, oldcopper said:I'm guessing there probably aren't that many phone lines, maybe in the region of 1 or 2, so for any popular coin, you might not have much of a chance of making a reservation. Besides' if the person on the telephone is bidding for someone else a lot or two before they won't have time to phone you before your coin comes up.
Hopefully these are the worst case scenarios, I've never phone bid personally, so good luck!
Given my collecting (and dealing) interests, the chance that anything I bid on is popular on what is likely a poorly attended auction seems rather remote ! But we'll see.
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55 minutes ago, Trebor said:Hi,
I’m new to the forum and am hoping some of you might be able to help. I’m currently trying to locate something that is a bit on the fringe of coin collecting. I am trying to build a set of the S G Onions Teaching coins. I have five currently out of the 10 or 12 that were made, the rest are proving elusive. I was hoping someone might have some ideas on dealers that might stock this sort of thing?
Thanks in Advance
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Hello and welcome to the forum !
Have you tried John Boardman at Whitmore Coins, Tokens and Medals ? He typically has a large number of toy coins in stock...current listing here, but there may well be more unlisted: https://www.whitmorectm.com/toycoins
If you let me know which ones you're missing, I'd be happy to watch out for them.
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Out of stock already.
I'm tempted to buy up some sets for the other years with no currency 50 pences...if a few people go for it, it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.