Chris Perkins

.heic pics don't work here, here are jpg versions. The first thing to do would be to get a very accurate weight and compare that to normal ones, which should all be 8.75g. It certainly looks very coppery for brass. It could well be an error and the wrong alloy has been used or there has been a mishap with its treatment along the journey of it becoming a coin. If the weight and size are about the same as normal, another fairly cheap and easy thing to do is use a coin slide (with powerful magnets under a felt strip) to see if it slides down at the same speed as a normal one. And the ultimate way of checking it out is to use an XRF machine to tell you the exact composition of the metal ring. Edit: Another easy test is to put a magnet against it, just i case the coppery part is copper plated steel, as used for 1p and 2p.

DrLarry has voluntarily left the forum, only his last comment above remains visible. Absence of Uniformity, it's not the first time you've rubbed someone up the wrong way. 👀 ___________________________________________________________ < line drawn under it.

Looks like a (post mint) scratch to me. The blob above the C is displaced metal moved aside from the rim, caused by the scratch.

I have a couple of copies in the "Archive". I remember having brief email contact with Roger Keenan (I think) but it was 20+ years ago and I no longer have any details.

I remember being shown that coin. I told the person who sent the email pics that it was a mangled sixpence: "It looks like damage to me. Who knows what caused it and how much circulation it went through after the damage. Some damage can be hard to fathom. Maybe someone was trying to cover the SIX PENCE in order to pass it off as something else. It's possible I suppose that it did suffer some kind of defect when made and then someone made it worse, but either way, it's a bit of a mess. I really can't imagine anyone would be willing to pay more than the silver value for it. " Also here: https://britnumsoc.blog/2025/11/11/an-1834-william-iv-sixpence-with-a-laboratory-confirmed-multi-strike-error-from-the-steam-press-era-a-ikraam/https://britnumsoc.blog/2025/11/11/an-1834-william-iv-sixpence-with-a-laboratory-confirmed-multi-strike-error-from-the-steam-press-era-a-ikraam/ Erm, ok.

It should calculate it as £2 flat-rate for all deliveries to international addresses. I send the international ones from Germany as it's much, much cheaper than from the UK.

I think even a couple of the brass threepences came out very washed out, almost greyscale like, but everything was colour and the content is the same for this new colour p/b version.

The 2009 should be colour throughout but some of the silver coins can certainly appear like greyscale. Give me a few sample page numbers and I'll compare.

The Standard Guide to Grading British Coins has been in print since 2009, initially as a colour hardback and then since 2014 as a black and white (greyscale) paperback. Some have criticised the black and white images over the years, and rightly so, but re-printing in colour was very costly and I always felt the price of the finished product was too high. But I always felt it deserved to be in colour again, so now, for the first time in about 13 years, a colour version of The Standard Guide to Grading British Coins is available. Price is £20.95 (£2 off the normal £22.95) and it can be pre-ordered here, with delivery later this month and free postage within the UK: https://coinpublications.com/product/the-standard-guide-to-grading-british-coins-colour/

If mint 'error' or just worn? I think it's probably been weakly struck with the result that some detail is not properly formed.

They aren't rare. I have no idea what crazy nonsense is on eBay for them, I suspect it's people asking silly prices, money laundering, the usual rubbish (but not actually genuine sales). We have that one valued at £1 in normal used condition in the Check Your Change app: https://www.checkyourchange.co.uk/the-app/

These are the pics as jpg. I don't think the forum can handle jfif images.

Didn't notice myself and the online user number is quite low at the moment. Will put it down to a glitch and keep an eye on it.

I think probably the opposite. People not using actual cash means they are exposed to less of it, or even none of it. So casual collectors who keep the odd shiny coin and perhaps get into coins that way will be far fewer. There will probably always be people who deliberately spend cash in order to get change to check and collect from but I wonder if the younger generation growing up now who have only ever paid electronically are a lot less likely to become coin collectors of any kind.

You only ever post links to coins you have for sale, which I don't mind now and again but because you have never actually participated in forum discussion and because I have no way of knowing if you are a genuine seller, I'm afraid I'm going to remove the link above and suspend your account for now.

None of what you just said makes sense now as I split the post you responded to into a new topic, here: Now I understand how that feature works!

I split this to a new topic (sorry Paddy, thought it would take your reply with it).

The user above was a member when they posted that, but they asked me to delete their account. I left the recent post and others elsewhere for posterity.

I hadn't seen the other one! Yes, that's enough website linking for now Ancientart. Join in with some conversations by all means, and add your website to your signature. On a bit of a tangent, I was wondering about offering paid and not obtrusive banners/ads on the website, just as a way to cover the hosting costs etc. Obviously members that are also dealers would have priority, perhaps even a sub forum for each advertisers' offerings or something along those lines - just a rough idea for now.

Hello Ancientart, welcome to the forum. I'm not suggesting your account or website aren't absolutely genuine, but to anyone reading this and visiting the website linked to above, I think caution should be exercised - the very generic looking website was created less than 6 months ago, the address is a PO Box (and has opening hours!) and the links to facebook, x, pintrest etc contain no content (yet). I'm sure Ancientart will build up a reputation in due course. 👀

Polish! Russians have even weirder letters ;).

Quite an impressive first post, to say the least.

It's not entirely bad, but there is certainly wear on the king's hair/beard/brow/cheek/tash/ear and on the lion's body/tail/feet and also on parts of the crown.

Yeah, I'll merge it with the previous post...

Is this not the same subject matter as here: