HistoricCoinage

I understand your scepticism, Paulus! But yes, this is definitely the real deal.

Looks like quite a bit of gold there!

Thanks, Stuart. It looks better on paper in Spink. Photoshop. And yes, indeed it did, thank you very much! Enjoy the scrumpy and Talisker, good sir.

Festive wishes to one and all!

Rob isn't offended, merely commenting on the chances of it being a gold one. There are many different senses of humour on this forum.

Whichever way you look at it, a nice coin but a dear price.

Not so much a laugh but I saw this earlier and laughed at the comparison to the gold Coenwulf...

As I said, someone is going to get badly burnt. On the plus side, if he actually had a Richard III you could get a bargain as it wouldn't correspond to any of his 'Richard IIIs' which everyone knows read Edward or Henric etc. Tempted to buy all of the misidentified coins and then request a refund through the moneyback guarantee through eBay/PayPal.

Apologies. Rectified.

Now over £100 for the Edward/Richard III.

Probably more so at the moment due to the discovery of his body and the media furore over his new burial place. But some of his issues are much more common than others, namely some of the Durham and York pennies compared to, say, London pennies.

I guessed as much regarding its age, I emailed the seller but no response. As for the fake counterfeit, most people would be happy! Well done on the Mary, though, I look forward to seeing some of your own pictures if you get the chance. As Rob says, it's Richard II. Very noticeable difference, especially with the portrait.

Well, none are, unfortunately.

eBay do occasionally do something about misdescribed items when, in this case,it appears to be blatant fraud/deception. As for your quote, my money's on the latter.

Well, Saxby's have a whole selection of Richard III pennies on eBay that are all Edward III, Henry VI and Edward IV... e.g. This Edward III. Otherwise, a Lizzie fake for Stuart.

It's real! Just not quite as described...

Unfortunately this is not the genuine article.

Very nice coins!

Copies have been available well in time for Christmas on Southampton Row. Did you pre-order, Peter, using their silly email form?

Definitely keen. I've got some Talisker and some Arran single malt, too. Peter will bring the cigars, I'm sure.

It would be impossible for me to predict what would arrive on the market next year. Whilst I do sometimes get wind of forthcoming sales (e.g. the Ross Blakey collection as he was a friend of mine) I just do not know what will appear in the auctions and lists of that year and so just buy what I feel would sit within my collection. It's worked so far.

I started by collecting coins from change as a child and ended up with a sizeable collection with many Victorian silver issues but soon discovered the joys of English hammered coinage. I began with the less-expensive types of Henry III, Edward I, Elizabeth I, etc. before moving progressively back and now my main focus is mid to late Saxon material, Viking issues, Norman pennies and the occasional early Plantagenet coin. My focus at the moment is trying to build up a body of high grade mid-Saxon material, but it's not cheap, so focusing on the pennies of Aethelred II, Cnut and Edward the Confessor are allowing me to do plenty of research. Hopefully I'll get around to publishing some papers next year.

It's a hard life, Gary, but someone's got to live it!