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    Henry Vi farting?

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    Lot 734

         Find similar lotsEstimate: 1500 GBP
    Price realized: 3200 GBP

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    Henry VI (First reign, 1422-1461), Annulet issue, Farthing, York, mm. cross pommee on obv. only, lis by neck, 0.29g/6h (Cook, SNC December 1998, p.428, this coin; Lessen, BNJ 1993, –; Withers A.1, this coin illustrated; Whitton –; N –; S 1852A). Good very fine with an excellent portrait; of the highest rarity and believed the only known specimen ?1,500-?2,000
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    CIVI/TAS/ EBO/ RACI - York mint
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    Provenance: Purchased "several years ago" [i.e. early 1990s] in West Yorkshire; Glendining Auction, 28 July 1999, lot 89

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    Please HelP! Real coin or fake?

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    For me it would be nothing other than an interesting discussion coin, I'd probably take off the coin I'm wearing, and wear that instead!

    Just out of interest, what coin are you wearing Stuart? I've recently been wearing this:

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    Mercury (though eveyone knows it's a she and She is Liberty) dimes are supposed to be lucky, Mecury being the god of chance. Leap year dates (which this one is, 1944, the last leap year of issue) are especially so, it's said.

    I also have one of those Johnson Matthey replica touchpieces. Though at the moment I'm actually wearing a brass snake buckle on a cord as a sort of amulet.

    :D

    Same Mercury One Dime been found last year on Dublin beach by myself with metal detector :)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-80c3vqjEU (same place) I hope this coin been lost from WW2.

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    Please HelP! Real coin or fake?

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    Why buy it?

    I'm not selling, just want to know bit more information about it... By the way, how much this coin can cost?

    A sixpence in that condition with the hand mint mark .. £30 or so. Pierced .. £20 on a good day. But a unique curiosity? Hard to tell really. If you were fortunate to find the right buyer it could go for quite a bit more than what I've suggested, maybe several times. But finding a buyer will be tricky. How much did it cost you?

    It cost me 85 Euro and I hope it's not so bad for this example...

    Please HelP! Real coin or fake?

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    Well, first of all it shouldn't have two obverses. My first reaction was whether the dies used were the same for both sides which would suggest a cast which has been joined, but the die fill suggests not. I would certainly expect it to show some sort of join around the edge. What is the diameter? a sixpence should weigh 3.0g in theory and be about 25mm diameter. If less than this - say 19 or 20mm, then it will be two threepences joined. Hammered coins are actually quite thin, so you should be able to see a join unless it has been filed down.

    Thanks for reply. The edge is about 1 mm and no any marks on it and diameter about 24mm so this is sixpence, portraits are not a same (one of the bust is bigger )

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