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Paulus, What is your eBay ID? I would like to take a look at what you are offering. PM me if you don't want to state it in a post. Me too, if you wouldn't mind?

Actually I'm not. Not sure lower grade is really their thing. Probably said this before but I've certainly seen one of theirs graded F which really should have struggled to make Fair. Could have been an aberration, but unlikely as it was hen's teeth rare. In this case I'd give it NF but could change in hand. A good £69 worth - that definitely doesn't suck! I concur with your assessment of Fair+ Peck (obv better, reverse only Fair), but at £69 you stole it! I am old school when it comes to this issue and find it hard to reconcile F, GF and NVF (which most dealers and auctioneers would grade it) with a coin exhibiting so much wear. I think W&W back then were more realistic in their grading, and (if memory serves) didn't rate it even Fine. But prices have certainly gone up dramatically since then! But it wasn't as much of a steal as my 1903, which I bought from a US dealer for the princely sum of £26 !!!! Ah, the good old days Ebay used to have loads of nice bits on across the pond at very reasonable prices too. Sadly our cousins have caught up in the pricing game This was the 1990s (pre-eBay) but still one hell of a steal when you see it... It actually looks better than that in hand - there's lots of lustre on the reverse, which tends to disguise what appears to be heavy wear to the shield edges and is not so noticeable really. These days it would probably grade VF so £26 in 1999 really was a steal. When I saw it on the dealer's list for that price, I thought it was going to be a pig, but you should have seen my face when I opened the package! I was selling A/Fair 1904's at the time for £12, so you get some idea of the context.

Yes - I think so, for a BU 1928 penny. You haven't paid 'over the odds'. Excuse ME! Don't judge our wine by the appalling (and now legendary) 1970s popularity of 'Hirondel', and our lapping up of the notorious Blue Nun. There are now some extremely good - though small scale - British vineyards : Astley in Worcestershire (or is it Gloucestershire??) is one, and they have won international awards. Apparently our climate is suited to one particular grape. I used to know what it was, but I've forgotten already - which shows you how much of a wine buff I am! (Oh wait - something is stirring ... is there a Madeleine Anjou grape? Or something similar?)

Actually I'm not. Not sure lower grade is really their thing. Probably said this before but I've certainly seen one of theirs graded F which really should have struggled to make Fair. Could have been an aberration, but unlikely as it was hen's teeth rare. In this case I'd give it NF but could change in hand. A good £69 worth - that definitely doesn't suck! I concur with your assessment of Fair+ Peck (obv better, reverse only Fair), but at £69 you stole it! I am old school when it comes to this issue and find it hard to reconcile F, GF and NVF (which most dealers and auctioneers would grade it) with a coin exhibiting so much wear. I think W&W back then were more realistic in their grading, and (if memory serves) didn't rate it even Fine. But prices have certainly gone up dramatically since then! But it wasn't as much of a steal as my 1903, which I bought from a US dealer for the princely sum of £26 !!!!

Actually I'm not. Not sure lower grade is really their thing. Probably said this before but I've certainly seen one of theirs graded F which really should have struggled to make Fair. Could have been an aberration, but unlikely as it was hen's teeth rare. In this case I'd give it NF but could change in hand. A good £69 worth - that definitely doesn't suck!

"Do you imagine, even for a moment, that a nice young girl would be remotely interested in a middle-aged brilliantined stick insect like you, Basil?" Classic!

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Interestingly your example looks like a regular 8 with a possible small 8 undercutting it.

me neither.........you ever seen one? The 1902 edge error is something I would like. I do have the 1935 currency and proof edge error, I also have the 1951 and 1953 edge error. Would have loved that 1953 with no edge lettering in DNW but someone else was too determined. I was reading my 1979 edition of CCGB earlier, and Mr Marles had listed the 1953 proof using sandblasted dies, after which he had added the comment "dismal, extremely rare". Doesn't sound highly desirable to me

A photo or a scan always helps. But it sounds like a misstrike, which are happening more and more frequently these days (quality control at the Mint ). An interesting curio, which some people collect, but of no great value I suspect.

im going with the hearts, or no hearts coins......were nearly there and we havent seen it yet...man were good......... Semée, feel me, touch me, heal me... lol, to think that Tommy was about that all along, I shall probably have very weird dreams tonight now! Didn't you realise that "We're not gonna take it" referred to eBay fees and policies? And 'Fiddle about' was really about certain coin sellers! I'm your wicked Uncle Martin...

im going with the hearts, or no hearts coins......were nearly there and we havent seen it yet...man were good......... Semée, feel me, touch me, heal me... lol, to think that Tommy was about that all along, I shall probably have very weird dreams tonight now! Didn't you realise that "We're not gonna take it" referred to eBay fees and policies?

im going with the hearts, or no hearts coins......were nearly there and we havent seen it yet...man were good......... Semée, feel me, touch me, heal me...

Well, that's EAST!! Any further East and it would be Holland I know I for one would not be metal detecting there! Better ways to spend your time in Amsterdam?

Not from me - I'm more than happy with my BU specimen

peck did you see the time team programme where they were excavating a moat at a castle in Derby, a metal detectorist was checking out the spoil pile from the moat and found a henry V noble.....it looked as minted.....fantastic. the guy was shaking with nerves.....a terrific find, apparantly he donated the coin to the local museum. series 15 episode 6 for those who may be interested I didn't see that - but I can understand the excitement! (I'm afraid as an impoverished student, the thought of donation to a museum just wasn't a starter - not sure Corinium Museum would have been interested in a Julia Domna denarius anyway...) That's been horribly polished. Ask them to pay you to accept it. Yeah - looking at the very obvious reflection that runs from halfway across, it must have been polished quite severely. That treatment would devalue it by 66% at least (much more if it was a more common coin).

Well, that's EAST!! Any further East and it would be Holland

Rather than the usual DECUS ET TUTAMEN ANNO REGNI II, there was this ANNO REGNI ET TUTAMEN II DECUS coin that was sold... Description: Edward VII, crown, 1902, with error edge reading ANNO REGNI / ET TUTAMEN / II DECUS (E.S.C. - (cf. 361); cf. S. 3978), extremely fine and toned, apparently a previously unpublished variety http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/edward-vii,-crown,-1902,-with-error-edge-reading-1-c-66wkbzhvss Good find, but pathetically small picture

Yes - the equivalent French bronze piece is almost exactly the size of our bronze penny, if not exactly.

Where did you get your information from? The 18thC was the era of chronic shortage of copper coins, but after the sporadic mintages of Geo IIII and William IIII, from Victoria onwards, the mintage of copper, and then bronze, was huge. Sorry, I don't have any information about the counterstamp

Quite. And don't forget the fava beans and a nice chianti! I have to say I am unclear on whether it's the French or the buntings wearing the tea towels. Either image is slightly disturbing. But as for strange races, I doubt (in culinary/gastronomic terms) the Chinese can be beaten. How anyone can derive pleasure from eating gristle or chickens' feet I cannot fathom ... .. says he tucking into his lentil, bean and quorn cottage pie. With a nice chianti of course! Dim is the lighting, then you pay the Sum at the till for what you thought you ate...

Me too. And if everyone thought like us, it really wouldn't matter how CGS grade coins - people would buy purely on what the coin looks like.

Yes, I agree. The dinner plate size doesn't help perhaps, but the second coin hasn't got the same eye appeal of the DNW example IMO.

Gone YAY Do we have another one? Here... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EF-Tudor-period-Hammered-Silver-Coin-Dated-1546-/380600909448?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D14587%26meid%3D6380055177802333763%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D1005%26rk%3D5%26sd%3D261187061833%26