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Mr T

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  1. In any case, I've bought from him before without any trouble - if you're interested in the coin I'm sure an email will sort it out. More than likely the listing was copied without updating the link.
  2. I don't know if it's a fake - the strike is bad I agree but if you look at the image on Chard's at https://goldsovereigns.co.uk/1910sovereign.html it's not perfect either. It definitely appears to be a different coin to the PCGS photo though (http://www.pcgs.com/cert/31642079). St George's visor is better defined is the PCGS image and the rim nick just before OMN is missing. The PCGS images also show a rim nick between the R and E of REX which isn't in the other image.
  3. Mr T

    Cleaning Coins!

    I think the acid route seems sound - my memory is that most acids won't harm gold (though aqua regia which I think is a mix of nitric and hydrochloric acid will) but given that the coin is roughly 8% copper I'd be a little hesitant.
  4. Mr T

    Rarest Silver Proof issued by the Royal Mint?

    Surely the actual mint reports need to be publicly released somewhere?
  5. The beaded and toothed reverses are different too aren't they? The beaded one has an extra rock next to the lighthouse I think.
  6. Mr T

    How Are US TPGs with English Coins?

    I very much doubt it - I think I've seen a slab that says toothed border for an 1860 or 1861 - probably about as deep as they get into it.
  7. Oh right - I've used your site before but didn't notice the divergence. Thanks!
  8. I assume you're using Freeman die names and mean obverse 2 and reverse B? It's a bit hard to make out the fine details in the photo but the waviness of the hair suggests it is obverse 3.
  9. Freeman 103 is R19, Freeman 90 is R18 - I think the 103 has the (?) because Freeman found one very worn specimen and wasn't sure if it had a H or not? Can't remember the details.
  10. Mr T

    Recent aquisitions

    Yeah okay - the only Franklin Mint stuff I look for is the Cook Islands and Solomon Islands sets as they're the ones I collect - the 1982 and 1983 sets seem pretty uncommon and the mintages are in some cases (apparently) unknown.
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    No signature function ?

    So where exactly is the signature function? I looked around but couldn't anything labelled as such. I did see an empty text box somewhere in the profile editing area but adding to it didn't produce a signature. edit: never mind, it's at http://www.predecimal.com/forum/settings/?area=signature, not in your profile.
  12. Really? That seems like such a waste... Where did you read that?
  13. Mr T

    TPGCs & 3D printing

    I'm sure I've read that this has actually been done.
  14. Mr T

    Recent aquisitions

    Nice! Did the Franklin Mint cease operations part-way through 1984 or something?
  15. Mr T

    Coin Encapsulatation

    My chemistry knowledge never went that far but yeah, there's probably quite a bit going on - likewise the chemistry of an alloy is probably not straight-forward.
  16. Mr T

    Coin Encapsulatation

    That's true but the reaction between an acid and a base will produce a by-product and that's the risky bit in my opinion.
  17. Mr T

    New reverse type G on an 1861 F20 penny

    Thanks Terry. Not a bad theory with the mint identifier - makes you wonder how the Royal Mint actually did test the output of the other mints when they didn't have something as obvious as a mintmark to denote who struck what.
  18. Mr T

    Coin Encapsulatation

    The neutralising the pH sounds pretty risky - unless you know your chemistry very well I think it has the potential to go very wrong. The ice method actually sounds half-decent though.
  19. It contains the raw numbers of each variety found (though obverses 2 and 3 in the book are swapped from the current book). Definitely worth getting a copy.
  20. Mr T

    New reverse type G on an 1861 F20 penny

    Is the number of beads on both reverses the same?
  21. Sorry for the lat reply but it looks okay to me - the fishtailing on the AB of ELIZABETH is an indicator of a genuine clip I think.
  22. Mr T

    Has This Been Cleaned

    In those pictures the surface looks like the surface of a lightly cleaned bronze coin - cleaning seems to give bronze a pickled appearance.
  23. Mr T

    1946 & 1949 Brass Threepence

    I's say they're both gFine, the 1946 cleaned. I don't collect or know much about brass threepences so can't say much more.
  24. Mr T

    Genuine fakes

    I can't quite make out the second one but is it even worth faking?
  25. I attempted to post in the thread I started about the forum being unusable of an evening (it happened again) but I got an unformatted page with the following text: 403 ERROR Sorry but the page you have requested has encountered the following error: Forbidden Please feel free to browse the rest of my website You may also use the "Search" feature to find the product you are looking for I apologise for the inconvenience. There was also a side-bar showing the sections of the main site (the shop).
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