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Nice 1888 there.

I got 14 lots this time, which was better than the first three sales. Some were above book, others below. I managed to tick 7 episcopal issuers which I was very chuffed with together with a few other criteria. To put it into context, I have spent the last two and a half years at York, Harrogate, Wakefield and the Midland trying to get decent examples of specific medieval bishop pennies from provincial mints and have picked up precisely none. The Stewartby collection might not be the highest grades in many cases, but is comprehensive enough for the nerds amongst us to fill our boots. There are significant numbers of issues that simply don't exist in better than VF or sometimes even lower grade, so you have to take VF or below. The book might only give a price in VF of 100-150 for a given coin, but very often it's a case of you try and find one at any price It would not be unreasonable to say that a lot of the coins in the collection have never been seen by even specialist collectors. Roll on part 5

Thanks Paul I am pleased with it. I still need to find a 1888 Halfpenny, Silver Threepence, Florin, Double Florin, and Crown. So quite a few gap to fill. I do have the 1888/7 Shilling so not sure If I need to look for another 1888 Shilling. I have just filled the gap for the 1888 Farthing pictures below.

Just thought I would add my latest 1888 addition to the collection for your comments. Sorry for the difference in colour its my photo's the reverse is as the obverse in colour I just cannot get my photo's quite right every time.

I found this very interesting today. This came with a load of other coins and had a label stating it was a Philip and Mary Groat with portrait of Mary only. I thought nothing of it at first because it's not in great condition, but on closer inspection the shield and cross looked wrong. On even closer inspection the legends also looked wrong - what's left of them. In fact, for a P&M groat they are totally wrong. It took me quite a while doing detective work (hammered aren't my thing really), trying to work out what it says after the very clear 'PHILIP' and on the back between the arms of the cross. There are a lot of tooling marks on the shield and the faint bust of Mary. As my eyes tuned-in better to the writing style of those days it gradually became clearer with a lot of googling that the reverse actually reads ...NOME DNI BENEDICTVM, which led me in a French direction and eventually helped decipher the obverse which instead of reading PHILIP Z MARIA, actually reads PHILIPP DEI G D BVRG Z COM FLAND.... It's Philip Duke of Burgundy (1384 - 1404) and the coin is a Flanders Groot (groat) which should look like the coin posted in the comments. Someone at some stage, at least 150 years later and for whatever reason, has filed off what should be on the obverse (a lion with a flag) and has replaced it with a scratched out effigy of Mary in order to masquerade it as an English groat. That's a lot of effort to go to on a piece of silver that would have probably been readily accepted as cash at the time in its original form! Why?

Hello, Hopefully I have attached a picture of my 1882 withou H, Not forsale I'm affraid

Here's mine for comparison.....