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Everything posted by Mr T
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Does anyone have Bull volume II (gold coins from 1816 onwards)? I'm wondering whether to buy it or whether Marsh's books (and subsequent updates) contain the same information.
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I was looking at the Royal Mint Museum's website recently and was unable to find a listing of all the coins - I know it used to be at http://collection.royalmintmuseum.org.uk/index.asp (it could be filtered by year etc) but it looks like this is now gone. Was it replaced or is it coming back again?
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Royal Mint Museum collection
Mr T replied to Mr T's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
I got in contact and they say it will be back soon.- 1 reply
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Interesting. I don't there was ever any consensus on the dot on 1922 pennies which looks quite similar.
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1861 Sovereign, F/V in Def or F/something else
Mr T replied to freewheels's topic in Confirmed unlisted Varieties.
Looks like something but not a V to my eyes. -
Hm, the B in BRITT looks too close to Victoria's head to be obverse 6, but I don't see an LC WYON either.
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Not in the 3rd edition (1964) of A Guide Book of English Coins.
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Literature recommendations
Mr T replied to TomGoodheart's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
No joy with the first two but https://www.britnumsoc.org/images/PDFs/1967_BNJ_36_26j.pdf opened up for me. -
New Edition Freeman Bronze Coinage
Mr T replied to Coinery's topic in Rotographic Publications Forum
A shame he didn't publish the raw numbers for the lower denominations. I'm sure I read he got interested in the 1940s when he was in primary school (I think). I don't remember where I saw that though. -
Literature recommendations
Mr T replied to TomGoodheart's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Yes looks to be back now. -
Rob Page Henry3.com website???
Mr T replied to Coinery's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Still keep your own copy - last year something went awry and Google was incorrectly classifying people's personal files as pirated content. -
Literature recommendations
Mr T replied to TomGoodheart's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
English Silver Coinage 30th Anniversary edition by P Alan Rayner is still saying September 2024 which seems like quite a lead time for this sort of book. Also, is http://www.spinkbooks.com/ not loading for anyone else at the moment? -
Hocking catalogue now available online
Mr T posted a topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
It was mentioned in a recent Coin News but in cased you missed it, Hocking's catalogue of the Royal Mint collection (and Webster's as well) is available at https://library.royalmintmuseum.org.uk/archive/catalogues-of-the-royal-mint-museum-collection? -
Got pictures of the fake 1850 shilling?
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Sounds like how ebay works these days...
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Nice, well that answers that.
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Where's the Freeman 8B numbering from?
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I don't care for Discord as a forum replacement - not so easy to search, and it's very easy to miss a discussion if you leave it too long. Forums and threads work best I think, and that's what I prefer.
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Confirmation of Dies Please
Mr T replied to Kipster's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Do you have the coin in hand to check? I haven't been able to find a lot of die letter A examples but it looks like the coins with A near or touching the linear circle have faint/no rocks while the coins with the A touching the lighthouse definitely have rocks. -
Exactly - it's clever but I didn't think the designs looked good on their own either.
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Confirmation of Dies Please
Mr T replied to Kipster's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Interesting, there are more die letter A examples than I expected. Anyway, left with more questions than answers as usual. -
I agree - nice designs. I was never a fan of the sections of shield.
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Confirmation of Dies Please
Mr T replied to Kipster's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
And a little bit of an update to this - I haven't done a in-depth study of the G with rock/G with no rock from 1861 to 1873, but I have had a brief look. From 1863 to 1873, the pictures I have at hand all seem to show a rock (though a bit faint at times). More interestingly, the 1862 with A to left of lighthouse has no rocks while the 1862 with A to right of lighthouse has a rock, at least from the handful of images I've looked at (https://www.baldwin.co.uk/product/victoria-1837-1901-halfpenny-1862-die-letter-a-rrr/, https://www.londoncoins.co.uk/?page=Pastresults&auc=124&searchlot=555&searchtype=2, https://www.londoncoins.co.uk/?page=Pastresults&auc=162&searchlot=2355&searchtype=2). -
I don't really track US coins but yeah probably the high mintage would be part of it. I'd assume that collectors are very much divided (like here) into classic (1960s or earlier) and modern (alphabet sets/state quarters) and maybe these sets fall in between.
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Looking forward to hearing what comes of it. It's good that the Royal Mint still do look into things like this - the Royal Australian Mint stopped years ago I believe.