TomGoodheart

Welcome Sunnyboy! As people have said, modern errors tend to catch peoples' imaginations and then prices eventually settle down when collectors get a better idea of how many examples really are available. And of course, unless a coin is unique (and no modern issues are) collectors want the coin in the best possible condition. As soon as it's been spent and been bashed around a bit in circulation it loses some value. That said, and although I wouldn't actually buy any of these issues, I'd be delighted to find one in my change! .

Thread here: http://www.predecimal.com/forum/topic/7188-a-blast-from-the-past/?hl=stockton%23entry75197]http://www.predecimal.com/forum/topic/7188-a-blast-from-the-past/?hl=stockton#entry75197]http://www.predecimal.com/forum/topic/7188-a-blast-from-the-past/?hl=stockton#entry75197 .

It makes you wonder how dealers survive then...... Yes. It's clear a profit can be made, particularly if you select from amongst the best known examples. But the timeframe needed to make a profit would tie up funds for significant periods ... Unless you're a millionaire to start with you'd need to balance potential gains with cash-flow somehow ... I'd imagine there are many 'better' businesses, where profits can be realised almost straight away.

Mmmm ... I was looking on eBay and saw this: .. fairly worn example I reckoned and no better than a good Fine to my eyes. However NGC have decided it merits AU53 ... something I doubt they would have done if it wasn't from the Eric Newman collection. Subjectivity is clearly a worldwide phenomenon.

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 ... .

You could try coincommunity.com also. There are more collectors of modern commemoratives there than here. However you need to have been a member for a while and posted a certain number of comments before you can list things there to sell... And there's always eBay. As an aside, my Dad was sent to Siberia. But it's not the sort of coin I collect I'm afraid ... .

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