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This arsehole should be shot at dawn along with IDS. Claiming to have lowered unemployment while dishing out severe cuts to the already impoverished unemployed while giving their Champagne quaffing friends heads up and first dibs on various contracts stinks to high heaven. Hiding the Phedos that languish within Westminster is also another point.The whole establishment stinks and needs a radical clear out because the Tories are in it for themselves and their buddies, Cameron and his cronies don't have a clue about the common man on the street and certainly don't give a shit about them either. One day the shit will hit the fan that Westminster and those who sit there are bottom feeders who should be brought to justice for their cover ups and tipping the wink to their chums on up coming sales of the NHS and the PO for example. The place is rotten to the core, then there's the House of Lords whose members don't pay tax and are unelected, WHY should they be exempt? An absolute joke If this sort of post is deemed to be acceptable, then this forum is no longer the place for me.

It's a lovely thing. I'd say quite a bit rarer than a 1905 halfcrown in similar condition, but probably won't fetch as much. I expect it might go for £12k or maybe a little more.

More details here. I have to say that I quite like it. Well done that 15 year old schoolboy.

Love the under bidder 97% bids with the seller out of 576 bids in the last month Looks like protection bidding to ensure a minimum sale price is achieved. But don't worry, eBay have "sophisticated" systems in place to catch this sort of thing.

I'd be very surprised if eBay do anything about it.

I like the line stating you should avoid 1866 and 1871 halfcrowns, as these are forgeries. OK, thanks for the info..Quoting his eBay blurb here "Victoria's Half Crowns were struck from 1839 to 1901, none were struck between 1851 and 1873 because of the striking of the new decimal coin the Florin which was struck in its place. " Since when did decimalisation come into effect between 1851 and 1873? The florin was so-called a decimal coin, because it was a tenth of a pound.

Presuming that you are interested in the silver One Rupee coins after the East India Company issues then the first date will be 1862. The last year issued was 1947 and that was struck in Nickel. I don't know which dates are key, but 1915 Bombay, 1921 and 1922 are fairly low mintages.

In Victoria's reign there were only crowns minted for circulation in 1844, 1845, 1847 and 1887-1900. There were also proof crowns struck in 1839, 1853, 1887 and 1893.

Not sure I agree. The three marks look just the right width and distance apart to have been caused by a direct edge to face collision between two halfcrowns. Either way though, it's definitely not worth £1,350.

Is he not? I keep seeing him in the list of online users and according to the forum he was last active 17 minutes ago.

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I looked at both pictures and nothing registered as unusual. My brain was fixated on grade, rather than the king's effigy itself.

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It won't be long before you're "Almost a piece of furniture", or something like that.

Having looked at the Royal Mint website, it seems that the £110 refers to the proof Quarter Sovereign. The Half Sovereign is £190 and the Sovereign is £360. There are also bullion versions that are a bit cheaper, but not that much.

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I suspect the Skipton Castle Collection on Heritage will be more to your liking, VS. However, given the number of MS 65, 66 & 67 grades, the prices are sure to be stratospheric.

I would say look at the edge inscription. This seems to be the hardest part to fake convincingly. It should be a well formed gothic script, nicely centred (top to bottom) all the way around.

We are talking at crossed purposes, Stuart. Dave's post references an 1862 florin, which is what I replied about. I agree with you, if we are talking godless 1849 florin.

"Extremely rare...almost impossible to locate in any grade"WHAT? They are rare and not easy to obtain, but I think I'd save his description for the 1863 florin.