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Mr T
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1898 Sixpence with SMALL date / small font digits
Mr T replied to Martinminerva's topic in Confirmed unlisted Varieties.
What is it about the ribbon that seems different? I can see the different distance between the rim and design and the different alignment of the digits. -
Halfpenny ID check
Mr T replied to mrbadexample's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Is the die crack through the R on the one in the slab? I can't quite make it out. -
http://www.predecimal.com/forum/topic/2853-unlisted-12d/ is the the thread (it was hard to find with search).
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Late to the party but I use Google Sheets which I periodically export as a .csv and store on my phone for offline access/as a backup.
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Nice find - noted.
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Looking on a bigger screen the plait looks quite flat but the rest of the coin isn't overly worn - do you have a bigger picture of the obverse?
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I think from the small numbers I've looked at only the halfpenny variety is hard to find.
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First I've seen of something like that - I too thought they came in little draw string bags. How many came in each bag anyway? I've never been able to figure out the monarch's age relating to the number of coins because sets of four are a thing but unequal numbers have been made in some years.
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Weight seems okay and from my phone at least nothing is jumping out as suspicious, but there are a lot of good fakes. Maybe do a search on the forums for previous discussions of fakes and see if there is anything to look out for.
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Decimals are clearly coming into their own!
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Halfpenny ID check
Mr T replied to mrbadexample's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Good point - has there ever been a true explanation of die numbers on the silver coins, or is all we have speculation? -
Not too bad - was that the one whose entire mintage was shipped to Australia?
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Interesting - I've never heard it called die chatter before - must be the mint's internal terminology. I would have just called it double-struck.
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Halfpenny ID check
Mr T replied to mrbadexample's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Yes you're right - there are fainter lower windows. Maybe I meant there are no upper windows when I wrote that - I don't have a reverse I in hand but it doesn't look like there aren't upper windows. -
Halfpenny ID check
Mr T replied to mrbadexample's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
In the notes I've left myself I have reverse G has lighthouse with two windows and one rock between lighthouse and shield, reverse I has lighthouse with no windows and two rocks between lighthouse and shield. -
I agree - I think the design isn't too bad all things considered but it does have a cartoony look to it.
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Sotheby Thorburn 1918
Mr T replied to jasonsewell's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
What is plate 432? Is it a Canadian provincial coin? -
Has anyone read The Diary of Leonard Wyon? It was published by Spink a few years ago: https://spinkbooks.com/products/hard-at-work-the-diary-of-leonard-wyon-1853-1867-by-attwood-p-bns-sp9 Is there anything new or interesting in there related to the coins he worked on?
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English Silver Coins 7th edition
Mr T posted a topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Has anyone got their hands on a copy yet? I'm tempted to get one from https://spinkbooks.com/products/english-silver-coinage-since-1649-7th-edition-maurice-bull?variant=40339604963522 but is there much new in the 1816-1970 section? I don't expect so as Bull doesn't go as in-depth as Davies but the 1837 mule sixpence slipped under my radar in the 6th edition.- 1 reply
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new zealand patterns in 2015 baldwin's auction
Mr T posted a topic in Enquiries about Non British coins
It looks like Baldwin's have a new website and have thrown out all of their previous auction catalogues as a result. Would anyone happen to have a .pdf of the catalogue for auction 95 in 2015? I'm looking for details on https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=1242&lot=2305 and https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=1242&lot=2307 -
new zealand patterns in 2015 baldwin's auction
Mr T replied to Mr T's topic in Enquiries about Non British coins
https://media.baldwin.co.uk/auctions/Baldwins Auction/BA catalogues/Baldwins auction 95 - catalogue.pdf -
Oh nice - they're back.
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The centre one's not too bad.
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More Pennies article in BNJ
Mr T replied to Bernie's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Nice - though at 26 pages I'll have to put some time aside for this. Thanks for posting. -
Prove it's a proof !!!
Mr T replied to 1949threepence's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
I agree - to me it's only really a proof if it's mirror finish with frosted devices, though I know in many cases that's wrong. My understanding was that a lot of 19th century proofs (and possibly early 20th century) "proofs" (i.e. without contrasted finish) were just nice early strikes anyway, but were labelled as proofs.
