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  1. 1 hour ago, Peckris 2 said:

    S.G.Onions is the person behind my Albert PoW 12 PENCE MAKE ONE SHILLING (must be, as the initials SGO are on it.)

    Yes one of the groats from the series sold for £103 the other day 

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  2. On 6/26/2023 at 11:12 AM, kai1998inc said:

    All good here thank you, hope you are well too?

    The one on eBay is only the 4th example I am aware of - this one, my own one, and 2 within a (presumably) full set, in the original mesh purse, in the original box (which I can only wish I owned!). Interestingly, the 2 in the full set are different. One has a grained edge and another plain.

    Only ones I’m now missing are the Sovereign and Half Sovereign, which appear to be rarer than others likely because in the full set, there were only 1 and 2 examples of these respectively. The Penny however there were at least 6 of in each set, so more common.

    Like you, I’m amazed and pleased to see toy/model money achieving good prices! This one surprised me, and also some of the H Hyams Model Crowns seen in good condition also, fetching £200+ each recently.

    I am excited to hear you have so many of the onions I would love to see them side by side too. I have been trying to collect them but I suspect I shall not now continue.  My collection is too broad a church and eventually have to decide what I can and can't collect.  

    I'm happy there are some full sets around . Amazing really that they must have once been quite common in schools. 


  3. 31 minutes ago, kai1998inc said:

    Hi Larry, not me, as I already have one, and it wasn’t the person who I thought was going to win either (I won’t name them as I don’t think they are a member). No idea who got it, but congrats to them, as it’s a very rare piece.

    LOl  ok   yes it must be  very rare first one I have seen.  .  Hope you are keeping well ?

     


  4. I am still somewhat surprised that I have a piedfort proof  kew gardens 50p with a great sliver of silver sticking off the edge it is not as if it is microscopic being about 4 mm long and 1 mm high.  I am going to assume it is an error minting and so may be more valuable , but as more and more mistakes are made perhaps I am assuming wrongly.  


  5. Does anyone know who it was who purchased that S G Onions 3 Fourpence make a shilling token last night.  It sold for an extraordinary price £103 .  I thought I was being generous at £25 LOL  but yes it is a rare one, unseen by Rogers ,.  If it is you Kai please post a picture 

     

     


  6. On 6/9/2023 at 11:51 AM, VickySilver said:

    I posted this in the general British coin forum but noted with interest that 2 days ago Noonans sold at auction what is evidently an extremely rare decimal coin. It may be the rarest of all currency from the decimal era!

    This would be the 2009 10 pence, uncirculated currency piece with the lion reverse of 2007 and earlier. Out of curiosity I looked it up and could only find record of a different piece sold at London Coin auctions about 8 years ago and then vague mention of one other specimen from a 2008 (!) currency specimen set, I think it said for babies born that year or similar. 
     

    Regardless, I didn’t even know this coin existed - maybe because I have focused on the later milled pre-decimal coins of 1837-1970. Do readers know more?

     

     

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    could you post an image of the normal reverse for comparison ?


  7. 1 hour ago, Peckris 2 said:

    If E over R what do you think about the protrusion showing above the E downstroke, which could not possibly be an R ?

    I am not sure it seems to be on all of them something has been done at least with 3 errors I think perhaps my thought something put on backwards or rotated .  It still has me confused after 5 years 😅 

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  8. I thought I had two others but seems I only have 3  the 4th seems to have been marked up wrong which might man it is in another envelope or it may be that one is still in the US . 

    Whether or not these new  images help I am not sure but there are the three examples one about EF one VF and the other F .  Personally I cannot make any sense of some of the protrusions above unless a letter has been rotated but even then some of the angles seem just to be "wrong" and correspond to nothing else nor the piece that comes out from the central section of the E .  I have only ever thought of it as an understruck R with the weight on the upper section because there is no negative space in the lower section to see if it is an R or a B ...  Obviously there is a lot going on and it is a busy error !  as far as I am aware 5 maybe are known one was listed in a London coins sale I believe prior to my asking the forum back in 2018 

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  9. 38 minutes ago, Peckris 2 said:

    I'd say quite possibly E over B ? The top picture quite clearly shows the lower loop curving left back towards the downstroke, which the R wouldn't do.

    There's also something else going on above the E - something protruding above the top right hand side of the downstroke, and something to the right of the top serif which could in no way form part of an R

    There are some strange characteristics,  I will look out my other examples and add them .  Larry 


  10. Apologies for not doing much to Toy Coins been busy rebuilding my camper took a nice trip up the northumbrian coast painting .  Beautiful beahes and lots of castles.  A full set of the School merit Awards  The Princess Charlotte 290, 291,292. 

    Here are a few pieces 

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  11. Could I ask if anyone else has any 1861  1 to the side of 1 in date pennies?  I have three but I would say the position of the 1 to the left of the last 1 varies two show the 1 distinctly to the left by 1mm or so and one other which shows the 1 high and to the left .  This one seems to be the BP 1861 Ka -(J =d) as noted by M Goulby the first I mentioned which does not touch the fully stamped 1.  Each one of the latter 2 examples seem subtly different , both however have the 6 over a 6 and it appears to be a reverse F  , in BP 1861 Ka the 6 is fat but there is no evidence of the 6 being over a pre-existing 6. the LCW exists on the one listed by Goulby and the other 2 I have no LCW the rock appears to the left of the shield 

     

    Could those who have them please take a look .  Many thanks 


  12. On 6/6/2023 at 10:26 PM, Nonmortuus said:

    I dont have my copy of Davies to hand but @DrLarry posted about this a while back. Be interesting to see what the forum thinks, is it a B or R? Im leaning towards R.

    yes I think I asked questions of the forum back in 2018 there are some images posted there I will have to check but I think I have another since then ,  I didn't add to the post further  

     

    E over R DEF 1817 Halfcrown

    By DrLarry, May 18, 2018 in Confirmed unlisted Varieties.


  13. Does anyone have a commonwealth Crown 1651 ?  I have one of the correct weight struck slightly off set but I think it may be a fake, yet a good one, possibly an electrotype (although usually the weight is off on these ) What I would like to know is what the edge looks like ? 

     

    any help appreciated .  Well I say it is right the weight but I may be wrong this one weighs 30.52 grams 

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