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  1. Nick
    Competition must be fierce in the fake market, they've reduced the price by 5% on a $3 item.
  2. Nick
    Is this the thread you are looking for?
  3. Nick
    I presume you've seen this 1866 threepence in the Heritage archive? It's an A4 and certainly looks like a Maundy. The NGC slab doesn't mention Maundy but the Heritage description does.
  4. Nick
    I can't say for certain that there would be no A4 Maundy 1866 threepences, but it seems unlikely. If the obverse 3 dies existed as early as Feb/Mar 1866 when the Maundy coins were struck then I would expect a lot more examples of A4 1866 threepences to exist. I suspect that the A4 1866 examples were struck at/near the end of the production run for 1866 threepences, when it is more likely that dies for obverse 3 would exist.
  5. Nick
    I wonder quite what they were expecting. Low feedback seller from China, selling via German eBay. Doesn't get more iffy than that.
  6. Nick
    Indeed, but that's only a concern for ethical companies.
  7. Nick
    We might as well just get used to it. Chinese fakers are not going to stop producing fakes, eBay are not going to stop taking their cut and the authorities of whichever country it might be are not going to stop looking the other way.
  8. Nick
    They will definitely be fakes. If some items look good, it's because the pictures are genuine and have been taken from other vendors' sales. You can still see the gkcoins watermark on some of the images.
  9. Nick
    2791 50/185 2799 35/140
  10. Nick
    I've often wondered that too. One picture that is especially bad is the 3914A threepence. Surely, they could easily find a better picture than that. Having said that, they are life-size pictures so not much use anyway however good the condition.
  11. Nick
    £650
  12. Nick
    60/275 and 100/450 respectively.
  13. Nick
    Arrived yesterday. Will give me something to study this weekend. A cursory glance (of milled silver prices 1816 onwards) shows that young head Victorian silver has increased modestly in UNC, but little else has. Some values have also reduced, as have the prices for most lower grades dictated by bullion value.
  14. Nick
    My 2015 Churchill £5 is similar, frosted reverse and BU obverse. I have to say that Waterloo commemorative design has to be the worst the Royal Mint has ever released. I really don't like it at all. Your picture makes it look much nicer than it is.
  15. Nick
    Proven? Do you have any examples of this? It would be interesting to see the proof as this is a commonly asked question, but is seldom answered satisfactorily.
  16. Nick
    It's the shallow portrait, 4023A.
  17. Nick
    I suspect Paulus is referring to the perception that a US MS62/63 equates to a UK gEF, and therefore cannot be called mint state. Whether it's accurate or not, I don't know, I've not seen enough MS62/63 coins to be able to judge.
  18. Nick
    The numbers work out at approximately £305,000 and £20,700 respectively.
  19. Nick
    The best way to spot the specimen is from its semi-prooflike appearance. It also has a better strike than most currency pieces.
  20. Nick
    Even better!
  21. Nick
    If you got it for the price of a specimen, then it is an excellent find.
  22. Nick
    The specimen has incuse lettering. As far as I'm aware, the only type with raised lettering is the sterling silver proof.
  23. Nick
    Surely they tone nicely because they normally sit in a felt lined box for years. That's mutually exclusive to circulating. Indeed, but there is no way to know how long the Maundy coins were stored before they were put into circulation.
  24. Nick
    The Maundy threepences are much more likely to tone colourfully than the currency threepences, but whether the toning would persist after having circulated for a while I don't know. I've always found it surprising that the Mint didn't use different dies for currency vs Maundy, but mostly it seems that they didn't.
  25. Nick
    I know, you might scratch them - the tweezers that is.
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