Hussulo

Thats some balancing act! Check this out: 1920 Great Britain One Penny [Rare Quality] "Sharp Clear Date Amazingly Low Overall Wear, a Rare Quality for a coin this age" Link to eBay 1920 Rare Quality Penny

Thank you for all your kind wishes. I'm into day three now and the days have just flown by! We are starting to get a bit more settled now and Lorraine would also like to thank you all as well.

Thank you all for your kind wishes. I am so happy. I can't stop smiling! Hopefully she will be into history and coin collecting like her dad and granddad. As for spending money and the coin budget taking a hit, it already has. Prams, Moses baskets, cots, baby monitors, car seats you name it my wife has probably bought it. I might have to take you up on your offer before I know it Chris.

Great News! I am now officially a dad. My first child, a beautiful baby girl, Sophia Estella Sulo was born Wednesday 1:39 a.m. she weighs 8 pounds 11.5 ounces (3.95kg), she is 35cm tall, and I am over the moon. Sophia and my wife Lorraine are now out of hospital and are home safe and well.

Great coin Teg displaying a multitude of errors.

Interesting coin Coin-Hunter. I would agree with Colin's verdict. It is a repunched letter. I would also like to use it on my site if possible I could list it in the error section. I am planning on listing more error types soon ie. repunched letters, die cracks, wrong spellings etc.

By “officially marked†does the seller mean the scratches along the centre of the reverse?

Thanks guys Bill I will probably take you up on your kind offer shortly.

www.coinsgb.com Its finally here it has taken me over a year to build (so far), with a lot of help and a lot of sweet and tears. I know it’s still not perfect and it needs a little fine tuning etc but I have uploaded it to the net for your viewing pleasure. I would like to say big thank you to everyone that has been kind enough to have helped me and who continue to help. I would also like to ask if anyone has any pictures of coins missing from the site and that would be kind enough to send me them to be uploaded to the site for which I would be most grateful. I would be happy to add your name below them and an address to a coin related website if you have own one. You can contact me at sulo@coinsgb.com P.S. the forum should be up and running in a week or so and I would be extremely great full if you would do me the honor of joining it. Many thanks, Hus

Welcome Mike!

Is the error incuse or raised? If its incuse it could be a struck through fragment if its raised then it could be a die cud. A cud is a damaged area of the coin. It looks like a blob on the coin which and is raised above the field a little caused from a chip in the die. Similar to a die crack or cracked die error.

It could be a struck through fragment error. Where a small piece of metal fragment has been struck onto the planchet and merged with the coin.

Yes I saw it. It is an error a brockage infact. "A brockage occurs when a coin is struck and then sticks to usually the bottom die. Then a new planchet is fed in and struck. The original coin that was stuck then acts as a sort of die and leaves an incuse reverse image on the other side of the second coin. Brockages can be found which are miss-aligned and partial. The most sought after type are the "full" or "mirror" brockage, where the image is fully centred and a mirror of the opposite side." Is it worth £595. Well it was to the bidders bidding on it but personally I wouldn't have paid that much for it. I have got two now a Penny which I paid £220 (eBay) for last year: and a gothic florin which I bought for £250 (Lockdales) not long ago:

You're welcome, Hus

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Nice coin Gary, You haven't pictures of a normal 1911 6d for comparison by any chance?

The over date seems so obvious, I wonder how they missed it! It must have been friday late afternoon coming up to clocking of time when that sailed through NGC. A rare and lovely coin, nice catch Rob.

If only I had that kind of money to spend on a coin I would have quite happily bought it.

A lot of dosh for a gothic crown. Personally I think the one in Baldwin's sale last year was nicer, albeit a bit more expensive. On the collecting side of things, I thought the 1839/41 proof halfpenny was a lot more interesting. Nice proof Rob, Good price too. You weren't the lucky bidder by any chance?

$36,800 (including buyers fees) realised for Gothic Proof Crown at Heritage. Link to coin

Dentist oh no! That should be cutting it close. Good thing your not going to the emergency dentist in the UK I’ve heard a couple of horror stories locally. People going into get fillings done and getting their teeth pulled out instead, as it is quicker and cheaper for the emergency dentist. Plus it’s quite hard to get on a dentists list here. I had a lot of trouble getting back with a local dentist after I left the Royal Navy as I was no longer on my local dentists books. So are you back to the UK for business or pleasure?

All 1658/7 Cromwell crowns show this flaw at some stage of development so this shouldn't be a worry. The flaw on this coin is at a relatively early stage. If you look in Spink 2007 it shows the flaw in a later stage. I'd worry about the MS64 grade though. It looks as if there is obverse wear at the eyebrow, to the hair in front of the ear and lower down. The laurel leaf edges look a bit devoid of toning as well which would indicate light wear. The reverse has light wear to the lion and at the top right of the shield. There is also a possible rim mark at B& in the obverse legend. I'd give it good EF at best (which in US grading company parlance means MS62-64 bearing in mind that MS60 is typically no better than EF). In NGC's favour, at least they gave it the PF prefix applicable to patterns and proofs which is technically correct as they were never circulated and so remain patterns. Sometimes these Cromwell patterns are given MS prefixes which is wrong. It seems NGC have graded some Cromwell half crowns as business strike ie MS**. Link to NGC census Rob I'm sure I have read somewhere that there is on going debate into whether or not the Cromwell coins are patterns or just rare. I remember reading that a contemporary account of the day said that there where quite a few Cromwell coins circulating but that they were quite worn. Is it possible that these coins were at some point melted to be used in other monarch's reigns, thus making the remaining Cromwell pieces rare? Edited to add: Having never had the chance or privilege to examine one in hand, I cannot pass judgment. In your experience does the strike and legend etc. make the balance sway for these coins being patterns? They were never proclaimed legal tender by Parliament as Cromwell died before production got into full swing, so technically must be considered patterns. I'm sure some limited numbers will have circulated unofficially because you come across pieces that are really worn from time to time and there is nothing to suggest that people had any more scruples then than now. The short time between production and the accession of Charles II would mean only limited opportunity to circulate these and certainly would have been frowned on post-1660. Most Cromwell pieces are not particularly rare. Thanks for clarifying that for me Rob. Indeed you make a valid point "the accession of Charles II would mean only limited opportunity to circulate these and certainly would have been frowned on post-1660". As far as I can gather the public were behind Charles II and 59 signed the Death Warrant to execute his farther Charles I. Oliver Cromwell was the third.

All 1658/7 Cromwell crowns show this flaw at some stage of development so this shouldn't be a worry. The flaw on this coin is at a relatively early stage. If you look in Spink 2007 it shows the flaw in a later stage. I'd worry about the MS64 grade though. It looks as if there is obverse wear at the eyebrow, to the hair in front of the ear and lower down. The laurel leaf edges look a bit devoid of toning as well which would indicate light wear. The reverse has light wear to the lion and at the top right of the shield. There is also a possible rim mark at B& in the obverse legend. I'd give it good EF at best (which in US grading company parlance means MS62-64 bearing in mind that MS60 is typically no better than EF). In NGC's favour, at least they gave it the PF prefix applicable to patterns and proofs which is technically correct as they were never circulated and so remain patterns. Sometimes these Cromwell patterns are given MS prefixes which is wrong. It seems NGC have graded some Cromwell half crowns as business strike ie MS**. Link to NGC census Rob I'm sure I have read somewhere that there is on going debate into whether or not the Cromwell coins are patterns or just rare. I remember reading that a contemporary account of the day said that there where quite a few Cromwell coins circulating but that they were quite worn. Is it possible that these coins were at some point melted to be used in other monarch's reigns, thus making the remaining Cromwell pieces rare? Edited to add: Having never had the chance or privilege to examine one in hand, I cannot pass judgment. In your experience does the strike and legend etc. make the balance sway for these coins being patterns?

Any pictures josie? I think it was probably done after minting, unless it is a double struck coin.

Thanks Tom I'll second that. Nice to see you are a modern man. It wasn't many years ago that the father was expected to and was kept well out of the way during the birth of their children, women's work and all that. Have you thought of a video phone, best of both worlds Thanks Gary. A video phone now that’s an idea! but she would like me to hold her hand as well and I draw the line at cutting my hand off just to go to Coinex.