Peckris

It's actually chronicled that Victoria refused to sit for the portrait wearing the heavy State Crown, preferring the lightweight 'perched-on-top' thing that made her an object of ridicule, much to the annoyance of Boehme whose original design - which may have looked something like my Photoshopped version - was indeed a dignified portrait. There are two flaws with this story though - one, she DID pose with the larger crown, hence the bronze penny pattern shown in Peck; once executed, that design could have been used for all denominations. Why wasn't it? And second, she did wear the big heavy crown for the Old Head portrait.

As a general overview of a set, that looks fine to me.

It's the crown on the JH portrait that makes it look silly (IMO) and is why that portrait was so unpopular at the time. You might be interested in this adaption I did in Photoshop, showing it without the crown (apologies for the JPEG artefacts): To my mind, it looks more dignified. Also, in Peck there is a plate showing a pattern for a bronze JH portrait where she's wearing the same crown as on the Old Head bust, i.e. much lower on the head - it looks so much better.

Ahem. Get in line. At least I'm unequivocally a Chris. Oh wait...

It rather looks as though earlier halfpennies often came in 'single exergue line' flavour? (Judging by the number of examples posted at random in this topic.) The double line, especially on the later issues, is pretty clear as witness my 1750:

I'm not sure what this language means especially coming from a woman (I assume VickySilver is a woman), but just the way you say it...I'm interested in the results too. The clue's in the name...

Spink prices for decimals change about as often as those for Roman, i.e. about once every 10 years, perhaps a bit less. You could probably get away with publishing once every 5 years Chris, which would save you time for the important other books.

Oh yes, I could see the halfcrown picture fine, but it was a small picture (by Dave's standards) so I clicked it. If I'd known I would be taken to PF I would have simply zoomed my screen a bit. I'm using an iMac and I generally have no problems seeing posted pictures. For me, the ideal size of picture would be somewhere between 600x600 and 800x800 pixels. My own are smaller, simply because they are lifesize scans from my database, and the maximum size they can be enlarged to is twice that (they look bad enough at that). The other forum I'm a member of (photography) that uses the same forum software as this one, doesn't allow external links, but does allow direct url links that posts the picture straight into the topic, as Paulus described.

1) Because it looked like a forum thumbnail, which should be clicked to enlarge it 2) Because compared to your usual dinner plates, it's small, so even more reason to click to enlarge 3) Because there's nothing with the picture to say "If you click me you will be hijacked to Photofuckit". What Paulus said is how I always assumed you did it - and your pictures were large enough not to need clicking on.

Vert pomme, but Goom can anglicise (fix) that. But French pommes aren't vert! They're a horrible sort of spotty pasty yellow, and described, laughably, as "Delicious"...

Dave - that's a useful link but you above all people know that you can link directly to pictures without sending people to the site in question. Just copy and paste the relevant Photofuckit 'forum URL' and Rabbie's your uncle...

My first Motability car was a Clio and I had absolutely no problems with it at all. Nice little cars. My second was a Corsa, and didn't offer half of what the Clio offered, thought both were extremely reliable. (I would say the Vauxhall was less well made).

I'm on my cell phone.. small screen, however I concur...I see nothing to indicate a beaded border on either side... The reverse is toothed and the obverse appears to be the same... I can't determine the Freeman number from the images though... If I was forced to hazard a guess though, I would lean towards an F-13.... Poor quality coin and small screen conspire against me... Interesting views. The reverse definitely looks beaded to me.

Just adding to what Dave said : you bought it in the first place because it was a "dream coin", therefore by definition those are (i) going to be the most desirable coins in your collection, but (ii) the last ones you would actually sell.

I don't personally, but there are other members here who are signed up to several other forums (this is my only one).

Your pictures have used 5Kb of your 500Kb allowance!! Could you post larger pictures please?

Praline Next we have number four, 'Crunchy Frog'. Milton Ah, yes. Praline Am I right in thinking there's a real frog in here? Milton Yes. A little one. Praline What sort of frog? Milton A dead frog. Praline Is it cooked? Milton No. Praline What, a raw frog? Superintendent Parrot looks increasingly queasy. Milton We use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose. Praline That's as may be, but it's still a frog! Milton What else? Praline Well don't you even take the bones out? Milton If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it? Praline Superintendent Parrot ate one of those. Parrot Excuse me a moment. (exits hurriedly) Praline Well, the Superintendent thought it was an almond whirl. People won't expect there to be a frog in there. They're bound to think it's some sort of mock frog. Milton (insulted) Mock frog? We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind! Praline Nevertheless, I must warn you that in future you should delete the words 'crunchy frog', and replace them with the legend, 'crunchy raw unboned real dead frog' if you want to avoid prosecution.

Hmm. I can't see that at all. I do see a few very small areas where the toning has ?rubbed? away revealing the silver beneath. But wear? I just can't see it. Remember that Victoria YH hair detail has to be viewed at quite a precise angle to see it fully.

Oh, she knows now. Believe me, she knows..

And Now... No. 3 The Larch THE LARCH And now...

Nice designs, but this isn't perhaps the best place to sell them : we are mostly concerned with predecimal, i.e. older, coins.

Harrumph. I've been back several hours, you know...

eBay is certainly a problem area for fakes, especially from China, but do bear in mind that such coins can occur anywhere. Even reputable dealers have been taken in by extremely high-quality repros of - e.g. - Northumberland shillings or gothic florins. As an original genuine coin was used in their manufacture, only by comparing two examples with the identical minor blemishes of the original could you be absolutely certain you had a fake. It's a huge problem, which eBay has not caused but has certainly exacerbated.

The nearest you'd come to that is from someone who buys scrap silver and has just bought a whole load of Victoriana - but they would of course be rubbish grades. Buying a bulk lot of decent-to-high-grade Victorian crowns and d/florins would be a once in a blue moon opportunity. Good luck looking though.

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