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9 pointsVery pleased with this 1874 penny - F65 in top UNC grade with probably 90% lustre, ever so lightly toning. Just £250 as a BIN. These are obviously not desperately rare, but they don't turn up every 5 minutes, and definitely not in this grade. Looking back at other sales of similar grade, the price compares very favourably.
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6 points
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5 points1959 Gillick Sovereign
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4 pointsTalking of 8+I, keep looking out for the very rare 1873 (sic) 8+I too. Unrecorded originally in Freeman, it is now mentioned in Appendix 4 of the reprinted version. Dracott records 3 specimens seen, and here's a fourth: (obverse to follow)
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4 points1877 Young Victoria Sovereign
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3 points1957 Gillick Sovereign
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3 pointsObverse: @secret santa Richard, if you want to use these for your rare halfpennies website, be my guest!
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3 pointsCompleted listings shows it last closed at £155 so I suspect, whatever the seller ID, she's now so familiar people are happy to have a bit of fun at her expense. Who here remembers the slightly faulty decimal coin she asked a million for because she wanted to buy a chippy?
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3 pointsYeah, these holes you know, they tend to wear their way right through the metal, naturally.
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2 pointsThis was a surprise find in a lot picked up in auction last week - same obverse die mentioned in last post but with model half dollar reverse. Rogers 2467.
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2 pointsAs a general rule of thumb, rate of reaction doubles for about every 10°C temperature.
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2 pointsAnd the obverse.
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2 pointsI hope this is allowed here - The New Model Crown by Allen and Moore. This one in almost pure silver (XRF tested at 98% silver).
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2 pointsGet an ice cream container, place a couple of tablespoons of flowers of sulphur in the bottom, place tissue over and the coin to be toned on top; replace the lid and place in a warm place. The coin tones very gently, more rapidly the higher the temperature. Check every day or two. Natural toning largely relates to atmospheric sulphur compounds, this just accelerates the process. Jerry
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2 pointsMy 1915 florin a reasonable example.
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2 pointsAll my florins from 1912 to 1919 have a weak strike on the upper shield, but in my case the best is the 1915:
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2 pointsYes it seems 1914 is a better year for florins. Here's my 1914 NGS MS 64. Still weak on the lion's faces but the shield fully struck along with the crowns on each shield.
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2 pointsVery nice. I think my AU58 just the common variety.
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2 pointsLatest coin arrived today a 1918 PCGS MS 64 florin. An improvement on the MS 62 I had . This coin still has the usual weakness in the upper shield on the reverse. Having said that I don't think I have seen a fully struck reverse on the George V first series florins with the exception of the 1911 proof. The coin took about a month to arrive in Australia from the UK and the package had been opened by customs for biological hazards.
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2 points1918 George V Sovereign The new item isn't the coin, but some lights that facilitate taking pics showing the coin's lustre better. Here are a few pics taken of sovs with the rig.
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2 pointsMust admit, I was relieved to see that the envelope contained the coin that I purchased.
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2 pointsA recent win from Noonans I'm very happy with Charles I Scottish Thirty Shillings, Third Coinage (1637-42), Briot’s coinage mm. flower and b on obv., thistle and b on rev SCBI 35 1427-9, S. 5553, Bull 6 (this coin) Ex. Maurice Bull collection SNC April 1989 (1846)
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2 pointsThere's only one response to "one up her chimney"...
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2 pointsVery nice. The old fashioned "Manks", rather than "Manx".
