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Coinery

1567 Sixpence, Coronet/Lion obverse

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And there was me thinking, after selling ALL my coin books for a song, that I’d never buy a hammered (in fact any) coin again!
I still love the Elizabeth I coins the best…blimey, I now need to buy a BCW again! 😳

In the meantime, anyone happy to share photos of the sixpence section, with the relevant rose, lions, shield and Lis bits at the back of the book to accompany? 
 

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Frustrating that uploading images I’ve just screenshot and cropped on my phone is SO difficult because they are apparently still too large! 

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If it took selling off all your books (and coins?) to rekindle your interest, then it was worth it! Love to get a decent Elizabeth I at some point myself.  

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1 hour ago, Sword said:

If it took selling off all your books (and coins?) to rekindle your interest, then it was worth it! Love to get a decent Elizabeth I at some point myself.  

I agree, and I’m grateful it’s still deeply under the skin, it’s such a tangible and lovely art!

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Coinerys images

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REV

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Ah. Excellent acquisition. That's a box I still need to tick, so when you get fed up and sell things off again - yes please.

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20 minutes ago, Rob said:

Ah. Excellent acquisition. That's a box I still need to tick, so when you get fed up and sell things off again - yes please.

Ha, ha, yes, of course…it’ll probably be yours eventually :)

Hope you’re all keeping well!

 

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Look at all that red wax in the legends !

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7 hours ago, mhcoins said:

Look at all that red wax in the legends !

Strange isn’t it? Not a super-grade coin…I can’t imagine it being worthy of copying.

I appreciate the overmark is of interest to a small minority, but otherwise nothing noteworthy about it in the context of the other specimens out there.

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Is that wax indicative of someone wanting to make a cast copy?

If it is, then the copy will have faults where the wax as left on the coin....maybe?

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1 hour ago, blakeyboy said:

Is that wax indicative of someone wanting to make a cast copy?

If it is, then the copy will have faults where the wax as left on the coin....maybe?

Not usually, but maybe I guess. Normally it's for illustrative purposes in a catalogue or an article, and yes, you can see the wax in the pictures. For an example of this, Nicholas(?) posted a Chas.1 halfcrown with a superb provenance going back nearly 200 years where you can see the wax on the image in Hamilton-Smith's 1919 sale. I can't remember which thread, but it's probably Coin acquisition etc. However, museums also took a wax impression on occasion, if they wanted a record of the dies. e.g. My Edward the Elder penny is unique, so when Lockett bought it at the Vatican Hoard sale, the BM took an impression which left a tiny blob of wax.

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On 2/8/2022 at 7:46 PM, Coinery said:

@Peckris 2 blimey…how do I resize an image on my iPhone? How are you, by the way? :)

Not TOO shabby...

Yes, resizing on a desktop is a doddle, but on an iPhone...! Best thing is to go to the App Store and type in "jpeg" and hopefully an app to resize images will show up?

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41 minutes ago, Peckris 2 said:

Not TOO shabby...

Yes, resizing on a desktop is a doddle, but on an iPhone...! Best thing is to go to the App Store and type in "jpeg" and hopefully an app to resize images will show up?

Ahh, yes, a good and logical shout, thank you :)

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