Peckris 2

Wow. I'd never seen even an image of one.

But RCL35's post - which I was responding to - clearly refers to the 'apostrophe'!!

You're using "commemorative" in a very literal sense. In the coin world they are often just designs created to be sold to collectors rather than as currency. I would class the 1951, 1953, and 1960 crowns as such, even though there was no specific event on them unlike the Churchill. As for wreath crowns being issued for 9 years, that was only because the 1927 was very popular with collectors and the Mint saw an opportunity to make money (hey, what a concept!), which accounts for the very low mintages; why else do you think so few were minted? I've read that the 1927 was originally planned as a one-off, which indeed makes it a "commem" or whatever you want to call it.

The 1946 dot has been published for a long long time. It was a footnote in Peck and later Freeman. It was included in Gouby's first "Bronze Penny", and I was instrumental in getting it into Spink about 10 or so years ago.

Is that the missionary position, or just that you've posted the picture sideways?

I'd go AEF (as a cautious minimum).

Not at all - it was an entirely new design so nothing to be nostalgic about. 'Commemorating' new designs, in that sense.

Agreed. It's not "one in a series". Like my 1964 filled die sixpence with the I of GRATIA missing - unless others turn up and it gets recorded, I'm not going to make a fortune from it.

That will teach me not only to go back and look at a missed picture, but read the rest of the page as well! That makes your example possibly unique? And therefore sadly undesirable as a collectable though a very interesting curio.

I think it may well be because 1911 fell between the death of the crown as currency (either 1901 or 1902) and its rebirth purely as a commemorative (1927 and after).

I hadn't seen your picture (I often reply to a topic without noticing there are more pages, unread). That dot is somewhat elliptical though not the apostrophe it clearly is on other examples. Two hypotheses: 1. It started as an ellipse which 'grew' a tail due to deformation. 2. It started as an 'apostrophe' but the tail - being rather thin and fine - got filled in.

The 1946 have never been a 'dot' but more like an apostrophe.

Did they meet at a dansak?

True story: my late dad's bladder complaint was operated on by a surgeon called Dick Pocock.

Try reading my post out loud...

I wish I'd bitten the bullet and bought early milled in the 90s. I'm not saying I could have easily afforded it then, but compared with now... Mind you, I do have a representative type of William III crown, shilling and sixpence in at least VF. "All" I need now is a halfcrown to complete the set but the prices of them are a bit ouch.

You sure it wasn't Mike Hunt? Has anyone seen Mike Hunt?

A friend gave me a Big Big Train album - I do enjoy it, but of modern 'prog' I think I prefer Steve Wilson, Mercury Rev, Radiohead, Porcupine Tree, and The Reasoning.

It's a very interesting question. A vague comparison would be rare records. I recently updated my own 'collection' (mostly bought as music not as rarities!) and where a flexidisc was issued by a music paper, it's worth twice as much if the issuing edition is with the disc.

Is that a specimen, Mike? It has a pronounced rim.