Rob

That looks a bit bright - is the whole hoard like this? As it is likely to contain statistically significant numbers for mint and/or type, hopefully the content info will be deemed worthy of publishing in the public domain rather than as an internal memo, because once it disappears into a museum the majority of us are stuffed as regards access. I know they like to keep the hoard intact for research purpose, but as I understand it they didn't extract the coins layer by layer in situ, so any info on how the parcel was compiled has already been lost. What they ought to do is keep examples of what they don't already have in the BM, and sell off the rest so that the rest of us can acquire a stake in it should we so desire.

I agree with you 100%. What's even more absurd, when a coin comes up for sale, it gets both a bump in price from the "market-grading" bump, and the additional "toning premium" that people think it deserves. People who don't know that PCGS has already upgraded a coin because of it's "eye appeal" are then stupidly also bidding it up again because of the eye appeal / toning. This idiocy has becoming the norm for pricing of USA coins. One of the many reasons that I collect almost no USA coins. In a similar vein, this is why I pay absolutely no attention to the silly CAC sticker that has surfaced on USA coins in the past 7 or so years. That sticker basically means that one man (John Albanese) likes the coin at the grade on the holder. That has absolutely nothing to do with whether I will like it. While I do buy graded coins often, I buy what I like -- and often couldn't give two shits what the grade is on the label. I own coins in MS62 holders that are heads above the same type of coin I have seen in an MS65 holder. Appositely named.

Just get the lot, then you are suitably equipped to deal with any or all the options.

Hi. Welcome. All of the above books would be suitable. Depending on the degree of specialisation and the proposed time period you want to cover, you will prefer some publications over others, but mostly they will complement each other. As regards auction catalogues, the list is endless. If you intend sticking to halfcrowns, then Adams is the most comprehensive collection compiled to date with a few smaller sales to back this up. If you intend collecting both hammered and milled halfcrowns you have over a century's worth to build a library from, so a short list would not do the question justice.

What do you mean? Looks just as if it was made yesterday.

In all probability, I'd grade that as some as struck modern tat.

OK, you're forgiven, some of us were a bit late to the party. These amended things crop up from time to time - a bit like the Ethelred 12th coin that looked distinctly like a Charles I shilling 2 or 3 years ago.

George II halfpennies and farthings are notorious for blocked dies. They used them until there was virtually no relief remaining. It is not a case of soft striking imo as you often see a well struck side paired with a weak other side. e.g, here are two examples of the 1738 V/S in GEORGIVS obverse die. Nicholson's is on the left, my current example on the right. There is only one die, so any wear or die fill confirms the chronological order in which individual examples were struck. The case for die fill is helped by the profile of the weak areas in the head, which are concave on the coin (and not flat, thus eliminating wear). The Nicholson coin which is the earlier example, has more wear, so allow for this. Apart from the hair detail, the Nicholson coin is also marginally stronger in the legend.

But he does say 1882 penny with H........... Sorry, looks like a bad case of reading what you want to see.

I concur An early Royal Mint trial using steel (not cupro-nickel as listed in the Adams sale) with cancellation cuts as seen.

It's ok. The coin is in Spain - he has probably tried to compensate for the curvature of the earth.

2/8d just before the war was about right.

Interesting how he has said a 1658 coin is dated between 1662 and 1816. The Chinese must have been busy earlier than was previously thought.

I wanted to find the Goldberg's Live bidding page, but couldn't do so. Any way in would have been acceptable but it was not to be.

Virtual drinking?

Why on earth would anyone, however passionate about slabbing, want to waste money having that graded? The only rarity value it has is that thankfully there are very few in such bad condition. This also begs the question why it wasn't given the minimum possible grade (the apposite - poor 1) on account of the lack of detail. It must be very difficult to decide when to give the lowest possible grade as there is precious little to go on when deciding the reason for the lack of detail.

Oh, I don't read the descriptions, just look at the picture to give me a better idea what's on offer.

I had the BT person check all the settings and he also tried with IE, but that gave the same results.

A guinea weight at £50 is not too far off the mark.

Hello stranger.

ok. though it has been like this for a year or more, which seems a bit long for someone else not to flag up the same problem. I can't be the only person using their server. I'll try to find someone in the morning. Thanks.

Server: BThomehub.home Address: 192.168.1.254 DNS request timed out. timeout was 2 seconds. Same again *** Request to BThomehub.home timed-out. If that makes sense.

Which means that the DNS lookup failed. The DNS server is provided by your ISP to translate names into IP addresses. Therefore it sounds like an IT issue at your ISP. Ok, ta. I doubt they will do anything other than check the line and say it's working ok though. This internet is p'ing me off a bit. It keeps stopping for a few minutes every hour or so and then restarts of its own accord - really frustrating. This can't be the same problem though as other websites work ok, such as this forum. I can't find any figures for what constitutes acceptable net down-time. If it was mine and not BT's, I'd say it is crap.

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