craigy

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/mar672110/m.html?item=132421579531&hash=item1ed4f0f30b%3Ag%3AWMEAAOSwLJ9aJDYX&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 are they rather collectible then ?

maybe there is a half and ounce one, weird how i never see this and i'm always on the site and getting emails etc,

500 minted

found this https://global.rakuten.com/en/store/j-walk/item/10003389/ from what i can gather its extremeley rare

nice coin though

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1937-King-George-VI-Great-Britain-Gold-Proof-Five-Pounds-5-PCGS-PR65-Cameo/162778623693?hash=item25e65caecd:g:uMkAAOSwEOpaHbbn would you buy this coin without some more realistic pictures ?

any idea of how many die pairs used in the coins you observed

its just variation of tolerances with mass production, nothing else ,

Here is my 53 proof set, the silvers(cupro nickle) are all cameo, and only the half penny is cameo (frosted) out of the bronzes

you might want to go here (been a bit of a discussion of late as to proof, vip proof, frosted proof) here here

the rare one is the frosted proof from the plastic set, i of DEI to a space, anything else is bog standard, trust, i got ripped off by Ingram coins over one of these coins so i am now a bit of an expert

i know he's got some serious coinage

there was a small smattering of late ironage pottery but no coins, this could also be early roman as well, the hole area is covered in roman farmsteads, i have boxes of pottery and ceramic build material, roof tile, hypercaust, floor tile then nothing after the roman period apart from the odd lizzi 1 and a couple of eddies thats it

because the patina is the same around the hole and no other evidence of habitation has come off that field other than roman and neolithic and the coin is still on the ROMAN VILLA AREA, IF IT WAS FOUND AND DONE LATER THE COIN WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST SOMEWHERE ELSE UNLESS ITS PURE COINCIDENCE IT WAS LOST ON A ROMAN VILLA SITE, sorry didnt mean to write in caps, i have no doubt its contemporary

does anyone own such a thing ? would love to see

better than a whole mint one in my opinion, the fact a Roman or saxon person or even later made a hole in it for what ever reason, has some real personal contact to it, if that makes sense, i'd say the hole was contemporary with the age of the coin, and not done at a later date as this was from a villa site that i discovered a few years back, take the Groats of Edward I they always nearly turn up gilded and made into a brooch, rare as hens teeth unaltered

beautiful designs that era, our modern designs are utter pap lol

what is my one lol

https://finds.org.uk/treasure/advice/piercedcoins https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/727225

I assume its a well clipped silliqua under 1600 odd years of crud , as it has been pierced in antiquity it falls under the Treasure act

one of my 37 proof florins, think this is I to a gap in shilling ?

i'm still out on the subject and believe there is no hard and fast rule, we'll see what the museum come up with,

and asked about the specimen finish,

i also asked about the 1937 vip proof crowns etc

a few weeks back i emailed the Royal mint museum in regards to the 1953 VIP proof crown, mine ticks all the boxes in the books but as the debates have shown its a contentious issue, this was the museums reply, have replied and am awaiting my next reply, 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