Peter

Looking at the bidding 2 people were after it.The rest dropped out at £44. Lucky Bevpub.

Nice coins. The 1820 has a few edge dings at 12 o'clock on the reverse and both have a few digs. They are practically as struck and IMO GEF+. From the pictures I cannot see evidence of cleaning.

Come on Paulus Give us the grades now and it will be interesting to see what CGS return. I do believe CGS will be harsh on grading.I bought a PCGS veiled florin PCGS MS65 from CC and CGS interests me.I might just crack it out.

Thanks Bill Your posts are honest and informative. Being realistic USA TPG's are grading everything including brand new coins trying to get the magic grades. Unbelievable. It just won't happen here. CGS nice idea but.....

You could put it on Ebay with a BIN & best offer but good images will be required. Some investigation will be required on which way to go. Unless you need the money I would stay as is.I could spend many a happy evening with that.

I have 2 of my Fathers stamp albums.The 1st is the one he collected as a young lad in the 40's and the 2nd quality collected in the 50's/60's.Both have been looked at by experts and apparently worth very little.There are many Vickies from all commonwealth countries & USA with some very high cat values. I have been toying with selling pages at a time on Ebay. I also have a small suitcase full of Ciggie cards. I would love to convert these to some nice coins.

Now you know it is genuine crack it out of the slab. If a TPG won't grade it

Very nice Colin. I won't be upgrading mine but I reckon you are selling your old one too cheaply.It took me 20 years of searching to get mine. I'm sorely tempted.

The size and weight would tell you whether it was gold or even a simple trip to the man on the market who buys gold would of done this FOC with his potions. I believe with out being slabbed it would of generated more on Ebay as a raw coin.

Brilliant work Nick.

Mr Stephen Are all those bites in your coins caused by you checking the silver?

It occurs when the dies are struck together without a blank in between. You'd have thought it would be catastrophic but it seems that they survive pretty well, leaving just an impression of one on the other. Clashed dies are extremely numerous on pre-Jubilee Victorian coins, especially the smaller denominations. This is an 1840 farthing (2 prong trident) variety that is struck from clashed dies, this variety always has the clash evident and it is very clear. That is the best example I have seen. I have an example.Colin Cooke stated he had only seen 3 in 25 years. There was one on Ebay the other night and several of us knew what it was.The seller must of been shocked as it was a 99p coin without the clash. This is mine. http://www.omnicoin.com/coin/947669 I'm happy with mine and have no intention to improve it.

There is cleaning and cleaning.Soaking Roman grots and using tooth picks to improve is fine with me as well as removing grunge on silver..carefully.Polished milled I can't live with.I've been experimenting with acetone and goddards silver dip.With isolated area's I've have had good results. Ebay has full coin dippers who I have sold to.

I digress it is a beautiful coin as minted and worthy of the finest collection.

And killing a dragon the size of a Labrador Yes, it's a beaut of a crown. As for proofs, those crowns weren't issued for circulation I believe, so in a way they're ALL proofs. Kind of. The Dragon is appearing to tug at a non stallion appendage.

I'm sure our Peck has his price but I prefer the knowledge and not the visual unless Peck is really Kelly Brook in disguise and I claim my £5.

Maybe I'm I'm not seeing the real picture but a company that has slabbed just over 25,000 coins since conception of which over 2,000 are Bills and I'm sure he hasn't had over 60 1967 1d's slabbed.I still can't get my head around it. Whilst I may seem anti to TPG I would hate the UK market to end up with a Greysheet of fixed prices and people buying slabs and not the coin. Please,please CGS keep away from pre 1672 and by all means concentrate services on known fakes (charge more),1847 gothic,s Northumberland shillings and 1864 die 4 gothic florins.Protection is needed here but not on a 1915 vf 1/4d worth 75p or 1967 1d's worth diddly.

Double post

There is not a coin club within 40 miles of me and considering if I'm commuting it won't work. Same with detecting. I'm in the middle of Suffolk. I've searched the net and found Ipswich detecting club were holding a rally 5 miles away...an enquiry made and they were fully booked.A bit clickie I feel to get into the GANG.

Lovely coin. It has been mentioned before but what is a naked man doing riding a horse the size of a Great Dane?

Good luck.

Chatting to a well known dealer at the Midland Fair he was taking the pee out of finest known claims for UK coins when only a fraction are slabbed.The benchmark coins would be interesting to find out about and where they were sourced.

A cotton bud with a drop of acetone would sort out the marks.Pity it is entombed.

For those interested here is the 1874 halfcrown. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1874-Queen-Victoria-Half-Crown-CGS-AU-78-Valued-in-Spink-at-750-UNC-Condition-/290857415069?pt=UK_Coins_BritishMilled_RL&hash=item43b873f19d I got the seller and USA TPG wrong but the grades correct.

I suspect you referring to the 1874 halfrown from the seller „goldguinea“, ex PCGS MS64, now CGS AU78, UIN 25124 (as I cannot see any YH Victoria halfcrown on AJW coins website or Ebay listing). IMO, based on my experience with CGS grading, this coin was marked down because of two spots in hair and some minor contact marks on the cheek and on the field in front of the bust (lustre cannot be assessed correctly prom the picture). I am fortunate to have this coin in CGS UNC 80 and for those interested I have attached a picture to show the quality needed to achieve basic UNC80 grade. Correct Mike I have been surfing,taking on reasoned arguments for and against. Bill took the decision to slab over 2,000 coins. With me my cabinet/trays/aluminium cases/flips in Albums/Lindner trays,2x2 coin boxes containing flips would not be a reality or affordable.It would have to be all or nothing.My few slabs are in a separate container with a coin ticket in the available space in the cabinet.Most of my slabs were bought via Colincooke who seem to ignore a premium for slabbed coins.eg PCGS MS65 bn 1891 1/4d £10 when other 1891 1/4d's especially BU were considerably more.The jury is out on the slabbed coins in my collection.