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Words are not enough .............RIP. Thank you for the memories and remembered with a smile.

F192A, 1932 & 34 proofs

Verica Quarter Stater

I doff my hat, Richard, great buys. Will look forward to seeing that one on your site

That's a fair amount of money. I hope he enjoys it in good health and spends it before the tax man or some other bugger wants a share of it for whatever reason.

Got my 3 on Thursday and they're all beauties (but they should be - cost me a fortune).

My first chance today to have a look at my new arrivals, very pleased and they arrived already in quadrums. I hope Mr Copethorne did well out of the sale and just to let him know, the ones I purchased have gone to a good home. "A penny is not just for Christmas its for life"

1762 Quarter Guinea. Struck from a rusted obverse die.

Thanks Bob I will also post individually as the pic sizes do not seem to work otherwise, been a labour of love!

This coin illustrated on plate 14, item 13 of “A View of the Silver Coinage of England” is listed under unknown mints and referred to as “Amongst the very great variety of this King’s money, altho’ we meet many very rude, and of bad workmanship, yet we think none of them comes up to the halfcrown No 13, the barbarous work of which was certainly that of a smith and not of an engraver.” This coin engraving is also used by martin Folkes in ‘Table of Silver Coins,… Plate XXVI, Fig 5 in 1763. - These plates were prepared before his death in 1754. Ruding in the following century republished the Folkes’ plates, in the three editions of his work. Although now commonly referred to as the ‘Blacksmith’s halfcrown’, in 1861, Aquilla Smith assigned this piece to Ireland’s Rebellion necessity series and specifically to the Confederate Catholics in Kilkenny circa 1642. I believe the coin is identifiable by the weak striking of the horse’s raised foreleg, and the unusual reverse decoration of ‘wheat ears’ or as Maurice Bull describes them, three lilly buds, upper left and right on reverse. (Bull 19A, Rev 2). The coin’s known provenance is Marsham, Murdoch, Hilton-Price, and Lockett. In the Lockett catalogue June1957 this piece is described as “Reputed to be the finest known example of this ill-struck series, very rare”.

Looks like everyone got most of what they wanted judging by conversations today at Harrogate. Durham House bust 6 coins rarely come up in very good condition. FWIW I thought I paid tops when I bought mine, but in retrospect it was not so bad. There are a handful knocking around in acceptable condition which were illustrated in the past - which says something. Mine is ex Parsons and Ryan.