TomGoodheart

I believe that's coinageofengland's coin that was discussed earlier, no? Same light line from 10 o'clock to 3 o'clock on the reverse and marks by the I of GRATIA on the obv and ET on the reverse. .

Just received a link in an email to prices realised: https://www.spink.com/auction.aspx?id=15031 .

Definitely! Certainly with the Charles Tower coins it's less price (which suggests to me that they aren't that much more expensive, relatively) but availability. I look through something like the Dolphin Coins catalogue from the early-mid 1990s and there are so many coins I would happily snap up if I now had the chance. Now? I'm finding it really difficult to find nicer pieces, whatever the price. .

Gosh, no! Not enough pennies at present for purchases. What was the hammer on that one anyway? .

Though maybe not this one for a while? S.2787 Sharp C2/3 .

I know.. I've shared all of these before: . Another G1/2, S.2799 .

More of a chocolate brown in the hand... S.2784 Sharp B2/1 .

One of those 'sharp as a knife' but with all the faults of hammered coinage (double striking, breaking flan, weak patches where the flan is thinner in parts...) S.2799 Sharp G1/2 .

I have two, neither perfect. The first is decently struck but has graffiti on the obverse and on a wibbly flan: The other is nice and round but less well struck on the reverse (corroded, maybe?): .

They're getting better at faking those NGC slab labels too! Nice to see enthusiasm for hammered gaining ground here.

Thanks Rob. Silly money IMHO. Odd about the legend error on a (presumably) specially prepared die though! .

Out of curiosity, anyone note what Lot 145 went for? Charles I (1625-1649), Silver “Fine Work” Shilling? .

BBC article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-32485012 And the site of the new National Civil War Centre itself. .

Welcome Leendert! What coins do you collect? .

Yeah, what Rob said! The Pyx details are the basis for stating that coins with particular privy marks were issued between such-and-such dates. But sequencing bust designs is not such a precise science. For simplicity I assume Francis and Sharp did their homework and rely on their views! .

I believe .. S.1154, Aethelred II last small cross type. Mint? ... Exeter, I think (EAXEC[...] )... though again with the proviso that I have no experience with the series! .

It causes an injury that bleeds internally but the skin closes over it. Hit the right spot (kidneys) and fatal through blood loss but little external trace. .

HistoricCoinage is your man. But my guess would be if you wanted to buy one you'd need £350+ for a similar coin. The legends are a bit blundered and the flan a bit wavy, but the portrait is nice.

Personally I've seen horrible coins on which the seller has claimed to have used the foil and spit technique. "Just a gentle clean". My preference is therefore, unless you are keeping the coin, in which case drill a hole through it for all I care, leave it alone and let the buyer bugger it up improve it if they wish ... .

Hi dvw. Welcome .... and just to let you know, I've deleted your duplicate thread for neatness!

Ah, just saw this. OK, on the plus side, as I've mentioned before it's a difficult privy mark to find on nicer coins. Trouble is, despite the crispness of the strike, it's not a very nice coin ... I'd have guessed it would have sold in the £60 range myself. But then this is eBay we're talking about, so pretty much all sense and predictability goes out the window! Someone obviously rated it ... rather too much IMHO. But then I suspect I've shown off coins I've bought that you've all been polite enough not to go WTF at! Hammered coinage, .. well, it's perhaps an acquired taste. And what appeals to one may well not appeal to anyone else! Either that or there's more to this shilling than meets the eye... .

Spink Live??? Hahahahaha! I still can't get archive results when I log in. Their website just doesn't work for me. So if I wanted a coin I certainly wouldn't risk it! As for Slaney ... nothing I can afford want .... .

Ah, sadly she had to close the account in France. So she just has a bundle of cash! Oh, well .. she's off to Germany soon so will no doubt find a use for some of it! The rest I guess we'll see what rates we can get and decide whether to hold on to it or deposit it in her UK account. .

Anyone know a good way to turn cash € into ££ and get it into a UK bank account without losing too much on the exchange? Daughter finally received her French housing benefit, but her bank there doesn't do international transfers so she had to accept cash .... .

My understanding is that the photos remain the property of the photographer unless (as is likely in this case) they are an employee or the auction house buys the rights as part of their contact. The rights to the photographs would only pass to the buyer of a coin to use commercially if Spink agreed to this .. which I'm not sure they would be inclined to do. That said, I believe photos may normally be used for personal or educational use. But that doesn't seem to be the case here. .