Rob

Liberia 1c 1862. The image file title says so. Or more specifically 1862 with the 6 over 4, the reverse die being a leftover from the 1847 issue.

Hats off to you for doing that! You must have the patience of Job. I struggle looking at more than a couple dozen pages. I'm not sure I would survive the ordeal of a couple hundred.

What a useful article. Thank you.

http://www.irishcoinage.com/L0001.HTM Although the grade is not the best, this page is a bit more helfpul

I concur. The hair detail has the typical coarse cutting you often associate with copies. The harp detail also doesn't match. However, the Spink illustration is for 1766.

Which for many I suspect is move on and get a life. The number of people willing to surmount any and all hurdles that eBay introduce must be a fraction of the total number of viewers meaning that the default action is more likely to be not bothering doing the search. The most successful things are the simplest - such as the lottery, where all you have to be able to do is point or grunt and hand over a quid.

I don't think there is one, so if you want to get started, feel free. I don't know what he was making before the Soho Mint shut in the late 1840s, but following the sale in 1848 he moved to Australia where he set up the Kangaroo mint office in the early 50s. This was not a succes and so he returned in about 1860 or so. His work producing restrikes is thought to have started around 1862 and continued for the next 20 years.

Which one of the 3 is in the greatest need of help? Piers Morgan, Simon Cowell or the woman - whoever she is?

And I wasn't fully conversant with Thatcher's yard without good reason.

Nothing wrong with being a Mancunian, after all I've got offspring that were brought up here. It's just that I am about as far removed from one as it's possible to be, despite having lived here for decades.

In the days when many people couldn't read or write, they used to sign themselves with a X and this was witnessed by a literate person.

I see the three judges got their questions wrong on the first video, or was it celebrity signatures?.

Nobody who has met me would ever accuse me of being a Mancunian, surely? If anyone needs an audiologist, please PM me.

Yes. Meaning?

Wow. Your English is so good I would never ever have guessed it isn't your first language. A lot of Europe is like that. Within a few years of my wife coming here, my customers didn't realise she was foreign when she answered the phone. and her grammar is better than the locals'

Something that is currently priced less than book based on the description given? They want to believe. Hey-ho, only just over 2 days before this bloke in red comes here with lots of bargains.

Is that really you saying that Azda..??..lol ! I think there's a certain member of parliament he'd make an exception for I didn't think Alex Salmond was a Westminster MP yet! The MP I'm thinking of would get all his non-existent cronies to ensure any vote went his way Yes, I thought Ed's parliamentary friends were running out rapidly, but the union vote will get him out of jail.

Nice. It's good that we all see the faults in our coins, as it allows us to be objective rather than thinking the sun shines out of our collecting ar*es.

Well done, that's better.

There's nothing stopping you buying one. Prices change over the years, which is something we all have to live with. Prior to when I bought mine in the Andrew Wayne sale, the going rate for a nice one was 1500-2K. I ended up paying just over 2100 all in. some thought that was crazy as only a couple years previously you could pick them up for 1500 tops. Nobody is saying it was silly now as it would likely sell for double what I paid, just as hindsight has shown many similar 'excessive' purchases a decade ago to be quite a good deal. This goes for a few other memorable pieces such as the 1966 Foley pattern five pounds. When Mark Rasmussen sold the Barr collection in 2004-6, his was listed at £200. The one in London Coins last sale went for over £4K. I don't think anyone would complain at that more than 20-fold return, but might baulk at paying such an increase without a great deal of thought. That it is a private pattern rather than a Royal Mint one is irrrelevant if thatis what the market wants to pay. Whilst that example may be relatively excessive, most hammered gold has undergone a threefold or so increase in the past 10-15 years, whilst the cheaper end of the market has gone up by a larger percentage for choice pieces, being more generally affordable.

Choice Cromwells are not so easy, whatever the denomination. Given the availability of less than perfect examples, it is a case of supply and demand, which remains unsated. Cromwell is an historically important figure, every crown, halfcrown or shilling collection will have an example, as would a collection with a representative example of each reign or period. It ticks a lot of boxes and adds variety to a collection as it doesn't have a conventional design or legend. In the case of the example in question, it would probably be worth more with the plug carefully removed.

Allegedly bent by the plough. That'll be the Plough's landlord then............

Just means that nothing will change. The entire hoard will be taken by a museum, and collectors won't get a sniff, neither to see nor research - not that the world isn't already awash with Cnut pennies from common mints. More important will be the number of rare mints that are squirrelled away.

Where?