Gary

Have not seen that on a farthing before but I have seen it on an Halfpenny, see this thread 1861 T over T almost identical!

With cleaning, I would go for about £20-£25 on a good day. They are interesting coins but quite common ones (I've got no less than four in Fine-VF), so Palves, tell your friend to keep his money in his pocket and shop around. Just one word of warning, they do get rather expensive in the very highest grades. sound advice

If thats the jubilee medal in questiuon, how the hell did it get so worn?

willing to help if I can.

Nice one Rose. Welcome to the forums.

heres another one, also in germany! W**kum

You're not going to believe this Dave, but, I have been there thousands of times! ditto and I didnt need to look at the pic to know what azda was on about. Your not ex military by chance John?

however I did come across this on Ebay while searching. A novel way to sell your coins...................... €10 Gedenkmünze

Item Removed.... how did you do that?

Done a search on the german sites and can come up with nothing. I am going to stick my neck out and say that it is probably a jeton and not a real coin or medal. Until we can get a pic with size and weight thats all I can add at the moment.

looking at your pic of the sideways view, it looks as if the coin has been shaved either intentionally or by accident. It seems to have slight ridges around the edge as though someone has scrapped a sharp edge around it.

The two that I have weigh in at 9.04 and 9.41 gramms. both are 30.7mm in Diameter. Neither have an irregular edge like your example. Sorry John, cant help other than that.

Sadly I agree with you, and the 1863 looks to have received a little polish, so unfortunately not very much. sorry, but I concur with the above opinions. Aww okay thats a downer, was getting excited because http://www.coinlink....a-record-17500/ only one of them found so far

Sadly I agree with you, and the 1863 looks to have received a little polish, so unfortunately not very much. sorry, but I concur with the above opinions.

First of all. hello and welcome to the forum. Most of us are pretty friendly here. As to your question regarding gold coins. I am in no way an expert on this subject but I think I am right when I say that modern gold coins will have a very limited collectors value. Obviously all gold coins have a minimum value based on the gold prices at the time of sale. In the past few years gold prices have risen steadily as I am sure you know. As to the question will they rise in value, who knows? Maybe 200 years down the line they will have attained a higher collectors value, but what will be the gold price be in 200 years? You mentioned a dealer who was "nasty little piece of work", care to elaborate on that? Always good to hear peoples thoughts/warnings about particular Dealers.

Clearly an A. You can clearly see the slightly offset V underneath as well. Nice find RLC35.

Could'nt dispute the advice already given. If you can get that coin for £20 then you will have been lucky and will have bagged a bargin.

M.Freeman, 2nd Edition (1985) M.Gouby, The Bronze Penny 1860-1970 (1986) M.Gouby, The Bronze penny 1860-1901 Specialised (2009) J.Jerrams Bun Penny Varieties 1860-1865, 2nd Edition (2003) D.Groom, Identification Of 20th Century Bronze (2010) P.Rayner, Silver Coinage Since 1649, 5th Edition P.Davies, British Siolver Coins since 1816, 1st edition (1982) D.Groom, Identification Of 20th Century Silver (2010) C.Perkins, CCGB (2009), must update that one! Coincrafts, Standard Catalogue of Scotland Ireland etc. (1999) Coincrafts, Standard Catalogue of English and Uk Coins (2000) Spink auctions, the Norweb collection Part 1 (1985) Krause, standard Catalogue of German Coins 1601 to present 2nd Edition Battenberg, World coin Catalogue 20th century (2005) and I will have to get a new Spinks....

Ok, have'nt seen that before. Are you sure its not post strike damage, a chink out of the R? Cant really tell from the pic, a close up of the R would help.

Thats one heavily repaired obv die! Seems that there are other letters that need looking at closely, E of PENNY and maybe other double struck or recut letters. Nice find David, pity about the hole

Hi Becki, welcome to the forum. I would say thats a good image considering the 150Kb retriction. Cant comment on the coins though, not my area. Your best bet is probably Rob who has already picked up on this thread. You can get around the 150Kb restriction if you have a place to upload pic's to, such as Photobucket which is free picture hosting. All you need to do is then paste the image code into your post and it will appear in its original size. The image code is already shown on the photobucket page all you need to do is copy and paste. However, there is also another restriction to the number of pics that you can post using an outside source, as I found out yesterday where I had to split a post with 6 pic's into three seperate posts. I can only assume that this is an anti spam measure to stop the forum getting swamped by nasty pic,s. Sorry Azda have to correct you on this one. The 150Kb restriction is not confined to one image but the total amount of all pic's in the post. The most that I have posted in one post was 3 to a total of 148Kb.

Almost forgot. there is one other coin that caught my eye and that was this one from Peckris. This ,I thought was a particularly well struck up 1911 penny. I have two Unc 1911's, both with almost full lustre and neither of them have as much detail as this one. This is probably the reason it feels and looks different Peckris. However note the border teeth, they are joined to the rim and close together, merging into another as they meet the rim. On the Gouby x the teeth are seperated from the rim by not being struck in such high relief as the rim plus where they meet the rim they are still seperated from one another.

here are some price's that have been supplied by members. London Coins A130 - 4th & 5th September 2010 1675 Penny 1911 Hollow Neck I of BRITT points to a rim tooth Near Fine with some worn areas on the reverse, Very Rare realised £40 Colin Cooke James Workman II 90 1911 BMC --. F --. Gouby X. Hollow Neck. Fine, extremely rare SOLD FOR: £100 Colin Cooke Crocker collection 148 1911 BMC 2242. F --. Gouby Obverse X and Reverse A. Unlisted anywhere except by Gouby. I of BRITT points directly to a tooth border. Rare to find in any grade. Fine, only Sold For: £160 Michael (Gouby) Coins, price list BP 1911 B X + a - Rare F £85.00 - unsold Other's that I know of, 1911 Gouby x F £40 1911 Gouby x F £40 1911 Gouby x F $41 I found and bought one on ebay within 10 days of starting to look so they are out there!

Peckris sent me this pic of his 1911 which he says the I points neither directly to a tooth or to gap. Drawing a line, trying to keep parallel to the sides of the I, shows that the I does point to a gap (plus it also has 181 teeth) however this was the only obv that appears to have the lower serif of the I touching, or indeed any where near the R of BRITT. My conclusion is that because of the larger serif, the I appears to be sloping and gives the impression that is neither to gap or tooth. The hollow Neck tag should be laid to rest as there are normal 1911 pennies that display this characteristic, at least in pictures anyway. Davidrj bought this penny thinking it was a "hollow neck" and I can see why, only to be confirmed wrong on receiving it. Once again I would like to thank all of you that sent me pictures and thanks to Davidrj who responded to more than one request from me for more pictures. I still have the Rev pics to compare but I don't expect to find any major differences between the two type's and in my opinion there are only TWO types, normal and Gouby x. Unless I am proved wrong of course!