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  1. Peckris 2
    Pewter-and-black is a sure colour mixture for a repro / fake.
  2. Peckris 2
    The sharpness of the rim edge is often a good indicator. Also, Geo VI proofs usually have mirrored fields especially FDC examples like yours would be if a proof. However, it could just as easily be an early strike and thus have crisp details.
  3. Peckris 2
    It's a very nice coin especially for the price, but I'd rate the grade lower : VF for the obverse, but not quite VF for the reverse. Pp 72 and 113 of the 'book'. (However, grading is partly a subjective thing).
  4. Peckris 2
    That was some race! I really thought Lewis had done it. My main surprise - given that Max went into the pits under safety car for some soft rubber - is that Mercedes didn't cover that and pit Lewis as well. Then it would have been an amazing final lap instead of the inevitable Verstappen overtake.
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    The curious thing - if it's not kosher - is WHY anyone would create an unknown pattern with no provenance, for no reason at all, especially as it can be so easily doubted? Unless of course it was one person's pet project for domestic purposes only, but it then "got out".
  6. Peckris 2
    Presumably any coin that is Poor (by the UK grading) doesn't get a number, i.e. 1 is a not very good Fair but better than Poor?
  7. Peckris 2
    100% agree. I've a lot of time for Chards (anyone collecting in the late 60s on a schoolkid's budget will well remember their previous incarnation as R&L Coins).
  8. Peckris 2
    Interesting that he started from the bottom and worked up. It would have been a similar system but with different numbers, if instead of starting with Poor = 1, he'd started with Mint State = 100 (for the finest FDC example - an 'ordinary' Unc coin might have merited 90) and then so on down, reaching Poor = 2 for example, or 1.5 even. Which I believe is what the LCGS system instituted over here, at least for a while?
  9. Peckris 2
    Agreed. The UK and US have two different grading systems that overlap to some extent. Both use the terms VF and EF for example, though the American equivalents are approximately half a grade lower than the UK equivalent. That's just the way it is. I'd be fine with a US grade of AU being EF by UK standards - it would be logical and perfectly acceptable provided people knew the two systems weren't identical. But to use AU for a condition of 50...!
  10. Peckris 2
    Given the corresponding raised sections on the reverse, and the thickness of the coin, it must have been hit with some very serious force!
  11. Peckris 2
    It's not that, at least not from my point of view. It was merely a comment on the degradation of the English language. I have no quibbles with it being graded 50 (which is shy of VF, I think?). It's just that no-one who has any respect for language could POSSIBLY say it was About Uncirculated!!!
  12. Peckris 2
    How that can be described as AU in any sense of the word, is quite beyond me. (Not criticising the coin itself, you understand...)
  13. Peckris 2
    Is the 1937 currency crown scarcer than the proof? I didn't think it was.
  14. Peckris 2
    Well, not exactly. It was a parish church until 1847 when the Diocese was formed in readiness for city status in 1853. Liverpool didn't become a city until 1880 and obviously decided to build an actual cathedral rather than designating a parish church as such.
  15. Peckris 2
    And Manchester's cathedral is... ?
  16. Peckris 2
    you sure it's H ? Couldn't it be an upside down E ?
  17. Peckris 2
    Every Xmas we went to the carol service there - many of the carols were medieval things, not your average usual stuff. That cathedral is MASSIVE ( <-- note correct use of word ) inside.
  18. Peckris 2
    Yes, you can upload 500k per post. You may need a few replies to your own topic to get each picture. As for your pictures, I assume that 1 and 3 are of the same coins, while 2 and 4 are the same but of different coins?
  19. Peckris 2
    Wow. The last time I saw anything like that was in Vienna:
  20. Peckris 2
    Eh? If you download the pdf it takes very little time to scroll down to the lots that might interest you.
  21. Peckris 2
    Speaking of which, did anyone get anything worthwhile from last week's sale? I see the 1926ME went for just under estimate - I was sorely tempted but it was slabbed so I decided against.
  22. Peckris 2
    Silly question perhaps... ...but why is the LCA catalogue always posted into a topic here, but never the DNW ? I'd rate DNW higher on the scale than LCA, so...?
  23. Peckris 2
    Very good Rob. No, it's the habit of using "massive" to indicate anything from the slightly important upwards.
  24. Peckris 2
    Footballer: "We have a big game coming up. Absolutely massive..."
  25. Peckris 2
    I almost forgot - there is something massive that annoys me. Can you see what it is yet?
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