HistoricCoinage

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.

I've listed some items that have to go tomorrow, including a scarce mint for Edward I and some rather nice Tudor pieces. Please take a look.

£2 coin for £1.98...

I definitely agree here. The amount of hours spent by Customer Service sorting out problems like this must cost far more than any potential commission they would earn on fakes in any given year.