craigy

is that the royal mint lot ?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/sovereignty.coins.ltd?_trksid=p2047675.l2559

found this reference regarding the 37 crowns

so what the hell are the other coins then ? i have a 53 proof penny which shows that same finish, i know its not clear in that link but i can see it straight away, yeah i'm sure one of them has a toothed border on one side and beaded on the other, not sure if thats a way to tell that its a "vip proof" there was thread on here that mentioned that variety, i might send my frosty 53 crown in to the mint museum and see what the beards say,

anyway you mentioned the VIP word not me

have you ever seen a complete set that have all toned nicely and are the same coins in the box from when they were minted, i would imagine that is a rare beast,, yes i am excited about it, all the questions it raises and the fact no one except people who have these vip sets knows the real answer, i know they are fairly modern coins in the great scheme of collecting,

having had a little delve into these sets i have seen a common feature, you can buy a set where all the silvers apart from the crown are cameo, yet you can pick up the loose cameo crowns and to an extent the bronzes, what bugs me is why is this so ?

the royal mint are reluctant to give me a picture of their 1953 vip proof crown as it might not be representative of one ?? whatever that means Dear Mr Cook I am very sorry for the delay in response to your enquiry, dated 4 August. Frosting is a variable feature of the 1953 proofs. We cannot comment further without seeing the coin you have, but even then it is extremely difficult to identify the so called VIP finish referred to by coin dealers. With this in mind, it may be that any photographic examples we could supply will show a variation of frosting to the type that your pieces display. Yours sincerely

i have a several 53 proof half crowns now that show the frosting, seems the rare frosted proof is the one in the plastic set, my latest one,

vip proofs that the royal mint wont even comment on, leave it up to whoever to judge what is vip proof/proof

i'm going for 10fcfffc wotsit lol

nobody seems to know, even the Royal Mint museum, same with the 1937 cameos's, no one can say for certain what is vip or standard proof,

i am the owner of this one now though lol https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/George-VI-Proof-Threepence-1937-/173222055804?hash=item2854d6cf7c%3Ag%3A9RMAAOSwbgparXPD&nma=true&si=kCKkOc3cL2pR6OLh9ph7hU%252FpXT4%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 hopefully his hands were clean lol

is that cheap ? my slabbed cameo pf 66 was £67

yeah i did think that, to think i put cotton gloves on holding a billy basic lol

nice half crown up on the bay, ending soon, was gonna have a little punt but have 4 already lol https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/George-VI-Half-Crown-Proof-1937/173222088188?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2055359.m1431.l2649

bargain lol https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Trial-Of-The-Pyx-Royal-Mint-2016-50p-rare-collection-coin/192485294879?hash=item2cd104831f:g:UT0AAOSwam1arX3P

wonder who graded it,bit dark to judge

they do love a dark picture, maybe thats to hide the dirty great gouges by the ear and back of neck "Good morning. A happy weekend to you all. We have a 1926 Modified Effigy for you today. We get more questions about this variety than any other. The key to spotting the difference is to focus on the initials BM on the kings neckline. On the ME version the BM is smaller, more to the right of the line, and has no stops, between the B and the M. Now if you can't see the BM clearly enough, to work this out, then in our opinion, the coin is not of sufficent grade to make the distinction. We reckong Good fine is about the lowest meaningful grade needed to discriminate. There are other differences, but we think these are the easiest to make the distinction. Our coin has been graded NEF and the price is £1250. For a full list of our Pennies."

i do have a soft spot for these, bearing in mind Ingram coins sold me one of these for £550 and i had a hell of a time getting any of my money back, so i don't think a £20 note for this inc postage is a bad deal, maybe he will give me £300 for it !!!! anyway it has a nice bit of cameo going on there

they all do it, bucks coins esp

would take anything london coins say with a pinch of salt

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1937-King-George-VI-Great-Britain-Gold-Proof-Five-Pounds-5-PCGS-PR65-Deep-Cameo/392000034709?hash=item5b4505d795:g:6YUAAOSwx2haqTvd oneof these is on my bucket list, even considered selling what i own to buy one if that would even scrape up enough

is that just for chichester or all, the dies were made centrally and sent out tot he provincial mints ?

is that a known thing for the 5b3 chichester, the broken eye punches