HistoricCoinage

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!

Mile high coin club. That's a new one on me...

Clear copy.

There wasn't much quality Saxon material in it so I'd rather save my money and spend elsewhere. Buy the best you can afford, and so on.

Plenty for the hammered penny collector though.

Good to see you haven't changed, Dave, even if your browser has.

I've always found this site useful when getting rough prices for Canadian coins but I hope someone else will have an up to date Charlton.

Bid on one, won one. I'm happy now until DNW.

I'm out and about today so have had to get someone else to do my bidding. Let's see how that turns out.

I'd hate to try and park that in London or Cambridge! But not 'Romany' as such, just doing bits of research. I'll return to normality...eventually.

I go to as many fairs as I can but tend to frequent the London and York ones more than others. I haven't had a table...yet.

I feel they show the coin from all angles. Nicely done!

And at other fairs. I spoke to him a few weeks ago in London.

I'm not permanently based in one location and so the coins are occasionally posted from around the UK.

The item location of this penny implies that he has not yet dug it up.

Fair enough. It is worth noting that eBay has become a buyer's world to the extent that you are guaranteed a full refund if the item is not as described. I bought a penny for a sizeable sum on eBay recently whereby the seller had 'conveniently' forgot to describe a chip that the photographs 'conveniently' also didn't show due to some 'convenient' positioning of the camera. As such I was able to obtain a refund fairly easily against the seller's wishes. The same could be said for this coin if it did turn out to be fake upon further inspection in hand. There has been talk elsewhere online of this Burgred's patina being typical of a fake, but I'd like to illustrate one of mine which I feel exhibits a similar 'patina' and is genuine.

I'm confused. When you say the like, do you mean the coinage/type or the appearance of the coin giving a certain impression?

I'd need to see it in the hand, or at least images of the edge, to convince me that it isn't genuine.

What's the laugh? Dave suggests it might be a copy, not sure I agree with him though...

Apologies! Should work now.