Peckris

"Six month gape" - wow, that's a long time to spend gazing on even the loveliest coin!

Have to correct you there. I agree with you about eBay, Amazon, and Google, but not Microsoft and Apple whose interests lie far beyond "just the internet".

You'd be best consulting a specialist work - the nearest I can find in Spink is S37, Savernake Forest type (though yours is not exactly like their illustration - I don't know how relevant that is.)

It could well be AOK - I saw a BU one at Warwick&Warwick a few years back, that was bright enough to be a petrol station football medal! But I was assured it was good.

No, not a mint stamp. Maybe some Customs and Excise thing, or a company's initials? I don't really know. Never seen it before.

Last week there was a great moment on the Beeb: Politics Today were interviewing the guy who'd just started a Remain Party. They were in the studio, he was on the pavement outside the building where his group were holding a press conference. Suddenly the presenter puts her hand to her earpiece and says "I'm just hearing that one of your supporters has walked out of the press conference. Is that true?" "Yes. That was me, so I could be interviewed by you."

A complete shot in the dark: G M could stand for Gulielmus Maria, the Latin names for William and Mary as on their coin legends. The difficulty is that Mary had been dead 7 years by 1701.

It wasn't slabbing in the modern sense - there was no ID or grading or certificate or even label. I.e. there was no TPG connected - it was just a service that encased your coin(s) in a lump of perspex to preserve condition and avoid handling marks. As for actual slabbing, I believe that may have started in the States in the 80s? (Not sure).

Is it just me, or does she have the head of a dog? knight's templar (What's going on? I can only add the attachment as a downloadable link, not as a picture in the post.) Mystery solved - an image has to have the extension .jpg for this forum, even it is already a jpeg. Which is totally pants!

And the 1951 Crown at £4/10 .. not far off what you'd pay for one now, and at least £40 in today's money (probably a lot more).

Lacquering became popular from the late 60s if I remember - about the same time as you could embed your coins in perspex lumps.

Interesting. There are in fact 1798 cartwheel halfpennies, but they were struck for the Isle Of Man and have the 3-legged design instead of Britannia.

Fench? Did you mean 'Wench' by any chance?

No, I think you'll find it's VIC+D:G.+D:+1860

1. There are - as you've said - many varieties of Will III silver coins, and rarity will determine the relative prices 2. They are just guides - as you've said - so need to be taken with a pinch of salt, and two eyes on how the prices were compiled 3. Buy one guide and stick to it. If your interests are George III onwards, then CCGB (link in the banner ad above) is both cheap and comprehensive. If your interests are wider British, then Spink's annual catalogue is "the bible". If your interests are global, then Krause, though bear in mind Krause is not comprehensive for varieties, and their prices don't reflect local values but more what a foreigner might pay for coins of a particular country.

Reported.

No, you're thinking of something else, e.g. die clash. 'Bag marks' are just what it says on the tin - newly minted coins are bagged up and sent out to banks etc. This mass rough handling of BU coins can lead to scratches (usually minor) or small dinks on the edges, but not the effect you see above which is either caused as part of the strike itself or is post-Mint damage such as delamination or deliberate act.

Sorry, but what you've ringed in red are NOT bag marks. Bag marks could be any of the scratches which you haven't ringed. The ringed sections look like delamination, post-Mint damage, or even damage caused by die damage or bits left by the previous strike. To repeat - bag marks are simply the kind of minor scratches and / or dinks caused by coins rubbing loosely against each other in a mint bag, hence the name.

It was the phrases "Pretty disgusting and sordid" and "the link to Trump" that seemed rather obvious.

(1) is quite obvious with experience, and if you see an obverse 6 side by side with an earlier obverse.

Gets watch out, looks at the second hand and waits, tapping fingers gently on table, humming a little tune...

ROFL Even when I was collecting from change in the late 60s, I'd reject those!

Interesting - so the next question is, what's a roof crown?

Neither. It's a degrading E which if you look at the first E of PENSE, is also going rather skewy.

Shouldn't the m be the letter A ?