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I think those particular farthings are being sold by a member of these forums Tom. I actually thought it looked quite reasonable, if a little pale. ? I don't think so Peck. Yes - didn't you see the thread from our friend who has bought a lot of UNC 1825 farthings? It COULD just be a coincidence of course...

I think those particular farthings are being sold by a member of these forums Tom. I actually thought it looked quite reasonable, if a little pale.

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Happy birthday Badger

How's your collection of 1940s Irish floríns scott?

By the same now-broke-but-certified individual??

I've often wondered why low grade (or common) coins are submitted for grading. Could it be that CGS UK give discounts for bulk submissions? Or perhaps, some people are just deluded into thinking that their coin is the best out there. They haven't necessarily been submitted by a paying customer. They slabbed some themselves to get the populations up, particularly the cheap items. Expensive coins are a different matter as you have to spend money to acquire the coin in the first place, so some of these can be reasonably assumed to be from paying customers but it would be wrong to assume that all are. Thanks Nick, Rob. That one small scratch does seem to give the game away. Presumably CGS - if they have recorded some low-value coins themselves to boost populations - took photos and have all the statistical documentation, but may not have incurred the expense of actual slabbing? Unless they decided to 'sell on' the slabbed items at a fattish profit to recoup expenses. One does wonder though, why they would bother to boost the population of something like 1929 halfcrowns, unless it was some kind of statistical self-aggrandisement. (I.e. the total number of CGS slabs done to date...)

It's not that Colin - in the slab it looks a bit worn, i.e. EF maximum, but outside it looks not only UNC but most lustre too. It is the same coin though (the tiny scratches and specs in the patina match up). It shows that it's possible to flatter a coin simply by choice of angle of lighting. How can you be sure Nick? The pictures aren't that big (it's one time where "azda size" images would actually help ). I can't make out any scratches at all. As for the toning, the dark patch surrounding GEO is the same on both, but the similar dark patch around REX on the right, doesn't appear on the unslabbed picture (left). Also, there appears to be loads of lustre on the left, but none at all on the right. The only way to completely 'kill' lustre is via scanning, but the slabbed picture must be a photo not a scan. Either way, I wonder at the seller paying £10 to slab a sub-£30 coin - its population rating of 9th out of 9 comes as no surprise at all. What is surprising is that 9 people have bothered to pay CGS to slab a 1929 halfcrown! CGS have made £90 minimum out of that particular exercise. "Nice work if you can get it".

It's not that Colin - in the slab it looks a bit worn, i.e. EF maximum, but outside it looks not only UNC but most lustre too.

You would make an excellent TV critic with that kind of attention to detail! I AM an excellent TV critic! Call round any evening and I'll give you a demonstration

Here's an oddity from the same seller : http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1929-George-V-50-Sterling-Silver-Halfcrown-CGS-EF-60-/290568189198?pt=UK_Coins_BritishMilled_RL&hash=item43a736b50e#ht_3911wt_953 Scroll down to the pictures below the picture of George V etc. Do you agree that the coin obverse in the CGS capsule looks - as graded and advertised - to be only EF, whereas the same coin (apparently) pictured obverse / reverse on a black background, appears to be UNC?

"Antiques and Collectables", often in the SW? Glenn Ogden present?

Looking at the way the blue is precisely on all four crowns, but has also slightly 'crept' over the raised top of two shields and contaminated a few random harp strings, I'm thinking it's probably artificial. Having said that, it's certainly not unattractive, but I'd want to see it in 6 months', a year's, time and check if it's still the same.

The eBay gallery picture looks fine, but the seller's pictures won't load at all.

I'm afraid if the coin has "a great deal of mint lustre", then there isn't much you can do. Having said that, olive oil is the least invasive thing you can do, but you should monitor it regularly and pull it out at the first sign of any deterioration. If it didn't have lustre, my advice would have been : leave overnight in blasamic vinegar. This will lighten the whole tone of the coin quite a lot, apart from the verdigris patches which will be converted to darker patches with the green all gone. The coin can then be washed carefully, dried, and thinly coated with olive oil as a finishing touch (you wipe off most of the oil leaving only a lustrous sheen). If you can live with the lightening, this is an effective way of dealing with green. Needless to say, practise your technique on a low value coin!

Yeah, but even so. That's trading a BIG collection for a single coin. Something I'd never recommend a collector do. Like I say, if it was me, I'd end up regretting it.

Don't let me discourage you friend, but you'd really be willing to give up your entire collection that includes some rare dates, just for one rare bun? Not sure I'd do it if it was me, but it's not...

OY!!!!! 'Ave I bin wasting me time posting the last two years??? I'll come rahnd yer 'ouse and shove me wit right where the sun don't shine

£440 for a BU 1865/3 ???? Shome mishtake surely?

Right, organised gathering at the RP Coins table what time!! 5 minutes after someone snaffles the Peck

i struggle to understand him. ive heard though that rioters have stormed jdsports in walthamstow, apparantly theyre taking back the arsenal shirts they nicked last month ski

Rendel (Ingram) is pretty reliable - if he says it's a proof I think you can be confident that it is. As for rims on something like that - if the milling goes evenly from edge to edge, without a chamfering fall-off towards the rim edge, and if the rim edges feel sharp to the touch, then it stands a good chance of being a proof if all other factors are in place. You'd have to see and 'handle' the coin to be sure though, pictures generally wouldn't do.

It's amazing the number of regional versions of our language..... Your wife is fluent in Englsih, GeoffT uses Englisn and Azda is fluent in ******. Brilliant. Lol, just noticed the TYPO Robert, thank you. I'm fluent in ass kicking ...and wiping