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And some shillings ..an early Easter egg. 😄

1908 Freeman 164a e,bay find , rare in this grade much better than nearly all finds out there

Ironic that a post titled ‘quiet’ has become the busiest post on the forum right now! 🤷‍♂️

Gotta love the large pennies from early in the reign of Victoria:

Medals

The F44 slender 3 penny - The seller contacted me separately afterwards asking me to verify the coin - he withdrew it earlier after realising what it might be. I asked him what he's going to do with it but he didn't reveal his plans.

Honest posts like that are always required! I haven't bought anything interesting for ages- just been too busy trying to sell so much crap that's built up over the years, and get a website up to help with this. However, I read all that's posted. The one good thing I get from this site is getting an insight into other people's passions, and trying to understand what they see in coins I know nothing about....

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I'll agree with Paddy. Let's have a gander at a few of your medals. And some Tower shillings please. Every day is a school day and I'm willing to learn. And if it awakens some latent desire amongst the masses, all the better.

Still lurking in the hammered section, admiring people's new additions every couple of weeks 🙂 Spending more time on my own website and at auction houses & museums these days. Also tried my hand at mudlarking, so not all bad! Get to take photos like these:

Ironically, one if the prettiest hammered coins I managed to find was this Henry II short cross coin. I usually find most short cross coins a bit crude or poorly struck. This one caught my attention immediately. Sure it has a few flat areas on the high points, but it's a cracking looking coin in hand. The photos do it no justice.

Well yes, I have this one. Different designs. S1251 "Bonnet type" minted in London, moneyer sadly not visible. Large fragment.

I don't know if I speak for others, but I would love to see your medals! Like many others here, I pick them up occasionally when there are no affordable coins I need available and I find their designs and history very interesting,

I've been buying far more medals than coins of late, which I suspect are not of much interest to members here. And the coins I have are all Tower shillings of Charles I, so again, outside most people's scope. Don't want to be the cause of people's eyes glazing over! 😄

I'm still here. Check in at least once a day. Mike once asked me why I didn't contribute more. Told him I didn't have much of interest to say. 😐

I didn't know I had photos of these - a bit blurred, but the best I can do as I don't have the coins to hand.

The mint reading NICOL for Lincoln as seen on other issues isn't recorded by Allen, so it's likely that the moneyer is NICOL(E), which would be supported by the initial cross at 6 o'clock. He is recorded as working at Gloucester, Ipswich and Norwich. For Gloucester, it isn't Allen 277, but could be 276 (not illustrated). For Ipswich, all the legends showing the end of the name terminate in an E, so given it looks like the stop of a colon after L, would eliminate Ipswich if the signature is consistent. Norwich could be 663 or 664, but the Allen image is flat in all the parts where yours is struck up and vice versa. It isn't Norwich 665-668 In summary, it looks like one of 3 possibilities. Allen 276 at Gloucester and Norwich 663 or 664. The first two are bust A1 and the last A2, but some detail would have been useful! Sorry, can't do better.

Henry II Tealby coins are much more difficult to pick up in decent condition. I have this one, loosely identified as S1341 or S1342, moneyer and mint uncertain. If anyone can enlighten me further it would be much appreciated:

Yes, I have quite a decent Henry II Short cross too, and I believe Northampton mint, which makes it a bit more unusual:

I don't have a 2 stars penny yet. I'm waiting for one to appear from a scarce/rare mint that is still on my list of wants. I wanted Stewartby's Stafford, but fell a couple bids short. Nice coin that one. If you want a William I, the cheapest option is a PAXS. Thanks to the discovery of 6500 or so at Beaworth in Hampshire in 1833, the previously rarest type was transformed into the commonest type overnight. 95 % of all PAXS pennies are from this hoard. See example below. A bit double struck on the obverse, but presentable.

Stunning coin, even being clipped. William I is another monarch I've yet to get. I get keep getting distracted by Stephen's!

this place and wealth of knowledge is awesome, i can see I have a long way to go......but I'm at the right place! 58 and still learning carries on, many many thanks "H"

a cross between a shitzu and a jack russell is acctually called jackshit