Love it.
Born and bred in Bury St Eds and now living in a village just outside.I will never leave the place...West Suffolk is where my bones will sleep.
By the way he implies "token" I guess it is fairly small, so that or a commemorative medalet from the Great Exhibition sounds likely. I don't know for fact.
I think he needs to divide his price by at least 100 to get near to something sensible, unless he can come up with some really interesting historical facts.
March is traditionally Yearly Bonus month... perhaps people are pre-emptively spending.
I know my hope-to-get bonus is long since gone and it hasn't arrived yet lol!
Hi I think its an optical illusion. I have broken the coin out of the slab and examined it closely and the letters are all the same size. Will work on the other slabbed coins tomorrow and take a closer look at them as well.
And that's WITH "For the sake of completeness, a few spots of foreign matter are noted around Victoria's head". You mean, the coin would be incomplete without a few spots of foreign matter???