Peckris 2

Nice finds!

I know! Gobsmacked is an understatement of how I feel..

I'd go for a grade of AUNC on that reverse - it may in fact be UNC but the 'lustre wear' together with the fact that it's a slightly weaker strike than the obverse would make me downgrade it a little.

It also just "looks" wrong, on an intuitive level.

wonder if the buyer has bounced it yet?

Interesting that the market was featured on tonight's BBC Spotlight

I've drawn a blank.... ⌷

That's in a pretty good grade too...

How do you know all this?

I would have been tempted but I bought one off Gary some years back. If you ever have this obverse with the normal reverse for sale ... let me know!!

Windows appeared in the 80s! And the first useful version 3.1, was 1990?

apparently that's one theory. another says it's from an OED editor CT Onions. yet another says it began in the US.

no problem here, using Firefox 78 ESR

Yes, somewhere I have a couple of those. Very nice and probably my only toy coins. (I think the engraver - SGO - has the surname Onions??) It's the future Edward VII in case you were wondering...

You have a beautiful example there Richard - one of the best I've seen, superbly struck up compared with the average example. HOWEVER... even at a glance I can see the differences on the reverse. From the eyebrow height of the helmet and head, down the neck, to below the breast area, and the drapery adjacent to the shield - it's all more vague and less precise, which is inevitable when you consider the deep cut portrait on the obverse. Which is why I sigh admiringly at your example, which is so obviously genuine, but would run a mile from the other which is just too precisely modelled to be anything but fake.

I reckon the seller has misread HONI as WYON.

I'd run a mile if I saw that. Britannia fully struck up? Teeth prooflike? Sharp portrait? It screams 'fake' to me.

Possibly he started well before 1967? But yes, in time it would have been a real pain.

for some reason there was no Kindle ed of the last CCGB, which I think is a shocking omission.

What is that? I have the first ed of his book on British Bronze, didn't know he had done just one on Vic bronze pennies.

As in title.

the letter is almost more of a collectors' piece than the coin itself.

I assume that as they were planning the Great Recoinage of 1816 they needed to be sure there was no denomination overlap to cause confusion?

Also - that particular coin has been photographed badly as far as the lighting goes: a top grade 1934 should be a completely different colour; remember, they were mint treated with hypo so shouldn't be all bright and shiny beige.

I think that whatever the collecting field - Pokemon, vinyl, coins, cars - the rarest items are highly sought after and go up and up in value. By comparison, the more common items are so much cheaper, if not actually declining in value. This is how it's going to be, year on year.