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Dave.....thats a mighty impressive result. my question is though......what's the difference between tarnishing and toning? and equally important if their the same, why remove it?. i have to say, i like your coin in both pictures, theres been lots of discussion on this forum about shiny versus toned for silver, with many preferring toned to bright, the reasoning being the toning adds that bit of character.....if i were buying your coin......the toned pic may sell it to me. ski

japanese without the a is......japnese.....or jpanese......or jpnese.....but never japenese jockinese..........im completely illiterate....... och aye the noooooo yamato having a whaling ship out and about to catch a pike is a little ott, dont you think.......but then ive seen the movie clip where crocodile dundee goes fishing with dynamite..........did you ever see any crocodiles in dundee or are you sworn to secrecy. do crocodiles like to eat pike or trout and if so, with chips or with green leaf salad?.

for shit.......did i pass?

sooo many questions...... 1/........did they throw the pike back? 2/........if so, how many people did it take to throw back the 55lb pike? 3/........if not, is the lake now over-run with trout? 4/........why were you sworn to secrecy?......was it during the war? 5/........how did they get all the trout to exactly 1lb? 6/........what car transported the fishing tackle to the lake?

this thread probably will........but there's still cars to do yet.... irish coins had a salmon on the reverse.

iyve kno eyedea....

taking the goose out for an airing tonight, even though she's on drugs at the mo, we'll have a nice meal and end up having sex in the p1800.......... my pet hate.......high rates for sellers commission and..................... vat

David Groom notes both varieties in his book but for business strikes, however CGS have both varieties listed for busines strikes and proofs. ski.

and yet sometimes difficult to be completely reproducable on a consistant scale. its a wonderful concept.....the process can be initiated on a very basic level by individuals working to a time scale, its human nature to develop easy ways and short cuts to achieve an end product..........but at that time, with the limited resources, im not so sure. that said if blank flans were prepared by 1 or 2 individuals....who knows.........worth persuing. are there blank files ever reported/ found from this mint for these coins? ski

me too, two to Dave...........i hope the Queen is proud of us

once a scot always a scot, taffy tommy paddy etc etc......good, .......okays here the wiki quote. so just proves these colonials dont speak proper english like wot we does.

i get most of the auction houses catalogues, either by snail mail or download from websites......i wonder if im typical of most here?.......but the more news the better, so yea keep posting Paul theres great banter here when something funny comes along and if you read many of the posts, theres usually a remark regarding daves spelling, but thank you for clarifying........we now know that dave is in fact a pseudo yank and not jockinese after all forgive me dave......i couldnt resist.

Thank you Peter.........thats helpful in at least establishing an approx value. ski

my 3 1937 coins are :- proof, B to right of corner, ree away from rim business strike, b at corner, ree close to rim, 2 coins the same ski

if this was the process set up at the exeter mint and it did produce crowns where the shape of the flan could give information on production runs, may i ask.......would we not see similarities with other denominations produced at that mint?? ski

sorry dave.......must have been writing my reply when you added yours.....

warning, warning, less than useful response coming up due to a knowledge score of ZERO on this period of coinage, i can only say.......i lurve #3 and #9. werent coins trimmed by dodgy oiks of the time to get a little silver.....could it be that some of the cuttings of the coins shown was maybe post production?

Hi Nickie.......welcome to the forum.......the olympic 50p collection certainly seems to have started a lot of people on the path of coin collecting. just a few words of advice........if your thinking of buying coins from ebay, ebay sellers describe many 50p coins as very rare or extremely rare and theyre not, dont be fooled into paying over inflated prices for coins that are fundamentally worth at best 50p!!!. enjoy the forum ski

i dont know kinda why i was looking for some advice....... okay....i guess nice will have to do.

nearly as old as me!!!! .....me too would you agree that grade is fine?.

and the obverse

maybe worn, maybe softly struck , maybe both but what do you think of this 1554 sixpence, would you grade fine?

hi tom......on the right hand side of the page under the "this weeks top articles" is the item on henry 111 pennies. ski

i think most people understood it, its just that it wasnt really relevant to the interview.

its a lesson learnt for sure, but now with that knowledge, your better placed to bid in any future auction. dont dismiss auctions on the basis of 1 bad experience, by bidding on individual coins rather than bulk lots, you may fare better. ive never bought a bulk lot, ive had reasonable success with my bids on individual coins, i have returned 1 coin (in many lots)as i thought it wasnt of the grade the listing suggested and was given a full refund. maybe ask some help here on a piece and take another punt. ski