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And apparently the name "Slaney" was one that was made up to keep the collector' name out of it. An extract from this months coin News This is the sale that the market has been waiting for since 2003. The identity of the gentleman who formed it is a closely guarded secret. For a start, he was not a Mr Slaney (but lets pretend there was). His heirs chose the name for the collection, as it was a family one. It is easy to answer why it is such a special collection. The French have a fine phrase for such a coin cabinet: Coin & Medal Bulletin, direct from Glendinings the specialist numismatic auctioneers (now integrated into Bonhams) and also from Baldwins and Leonard Forrer. He was not a member of the British Numismatic Society and when he stopped buying, he just fell off the radar. For years the Slaney Collection had been forgotten. Indeed, it has taxed the minds of imaginations of collectors as to where the cream that appeared at auction in the 1940s and 1950s had vanished. We now know! embarras de richesse (i.e. a superfluity of good things). The Slaney Collection is an English type collection embracing specimens from Tudor England right through to the 20th century. A collector who only wanted the very best examples formed it in the 1940s and 1950s, a period when some of the finest collections formed in the first half of the 20th century were being dispersed: Lingford, Ryan, Raynes and Lockett to name but a few. The collector who formed it therefore had the pick of the Around 1960 the Collection passed from Mr Slaney to his son. There is a letter to Mr Slaney in the familys papers suggesting that the insurance valuation was £15,000 in June 1960. The son kept the collection intact but his son and daughter, i.e. the grandchildren of Mr Slaney decided to sell. The family decided to part with it in two tranches: this sale and the first part in 2003. best and money appeared to be no object. Very little is known of Mr Slaney. He was an extremely private individual. Not only did he never attend an auction, but also he never visited the offices of any of the London dealers with whom he dealt. He rarely came to London. He bought from Spinks Numismatic Circular, Seabys Before looking back at what happened at this event, lets turn the clock back 12 years. This is what I wrote on that occasion, May 2003 will be remembered as the month when exceptional English coins entered a new watershed of prices . . . Even before the collection was catalogued expressions such as truly breathtaking, fabled and long lost were spreading along the numismatic worlds bush telegraph . . ..

The shilling is still a bit off for me, but if you can live with it then its your call. Crown and half are nice though, plus it all seems evenly toned

Leave well alone

Agreed, its certainly 1 coin i want to add at some point

Paul, make sure you leave a negative comment before ebay deal with it, after they do I don't think feedback can be left

Brilliant, thanks Michael Now you can phone ebay again and Tell them that his intent was obviously to defraud. He in theory should be banned and the police informed, but he'll just get a pat on the back and maybe a month ban for being a good boy.

What a f.&€@.:g tosser. Ebay should Do something about People like this as well an those who claim not to have Received an item but have. Ebay really does my Head in.

The shilling has been harshly wiped i'd say, REV going around the lion and crown and the OBV has hairlines. Apart from that it seems evenly matched for toning Sixpence has similar on the OBV by the forehead

And a Lot of Brits don't care for American dollars or their Gold coins. Its not in demand here and there's only a certain amount of People who collect proofs or florins.

If i remember correctly it cost £120 Hammer from DNW Nicholas, Even though its not UNC it had great eye appeal for me and several others who i was bidding against. The UNC which was up after this one made less lol

Here's mine

Looks like the coin status international was selling over ebay, i saw, i left it

Its been cleaned

On a curious Note, why is it so called negros head instead of blackmoors head?

The whirlwind that is Scott? Lol

Its all about money Peter, the more they can drag a coin down the more profit there is for them

Lol, you could be right

When i sent my 1860 halfpeeny in with the grading price set at the lowest price due to what i paid i got an invoice 3 days after they got it with the higher amount. I also emailed and said i'd only paid 60 euros forthe coin amd asked why they were charging me more, still waiting on the reply 25 days later. I really dislike this womans atritude, she needs a good kick inthe arse, i pity the man whi's married to her.

You can buy the plastic holders that CGS use on ebay. Look up this number on ebay 140874274011

Go through NGC or PCGS, probably more customer friendly

I really have no idea why this woman is still employed at CGS. Every complaint about it involves her and her f@¥$%#g apalling attitude towards people who pay her damn salary. I'm totally done with them after my coin comes back.

The weight of the coin was to heavy so to reduce the weight they adjusted it by shaving Some of the silver off, you can see it on the REV on the lion of Nassau

It certainly has some prooflike fields but the OBV seems to have had problems

Bloody iphone predictive text, that's my excuse anyway

Realised prices Are out, seems to be a few unsold lots in there http://www.baldwin.co.uk/media/cms/auction-results/Prices%20Realised%20A215.pdf