Hussulo

Hi josie my site is still on going. I am almost halfway there now. I have calculated that there will be about 300 pages before it is finished to a level I am happy to publish it. I am stepping up the amount of time I am dedicating it so hopefully it will be finished in the next couple of months. The main site will be coinsgb.com, but I still own the coins.gb.com and coinsgb.co.uk domain names (I will just use them as a link to the main site at coinsgb.com. Once again many thanks to Chris, Rob, Tom G, Derek Gary, Andrey Tom H, and Geordie amongst others for allow me the use of their images!

I agree neat find. Could it not be a partially filled 5 on the die?

"George IV, trial halfpenny, 1827. Uniface trial piece struck on cowhide or ‘cow horn’ (not in Peck, but other trials were struck on leather, all very rare)" St. James Auctions Ltd > Auction 3 , Auction date: October 3rd, 2005 Lot number: 278 LINK: http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.ph...cID=132&Lot=278

The new 2007 Sovereign recut reverse dies as shown on Lawrence Chard's website ===> http://www.goldsovereigns.co.uk/2007sovere...difference.html Personally, I think they have messed it up, and Pistrucci would not have been happy. Look at St George's face. A lot of detail is lost. Are those tumors growing on the horses legs? What do you think? good or bad?

Laminated flans are when the planchet (blank coin) isn’t perfectly smooth and you have an indent in the planchet. When it is then struck the coin has missing detail (indent). So this error is always displays an indent. You have to watch out for post mint damage. Die cracks are when from repeated use the dies do literally crack (I think the avarage die produces about 200,000 coins) thus when the planchet is struck, the metal fills these cracks and you are left with a raised detail on the coin.

It looks raised. If so I would say it is a die crack.

Hi German. I would say some of the scratches (white ones) will be on the slab itself not the coin. It is hard to take photo's of slabed coins. Nice coin.

Nice! another vararity to try and find now.

Nice find Rob. Do you have any close up pictures of the date?

Great Britain, 1696 Crown, Sharp VF/XF, PCI Slabbed Hmmmm VF/XF you say? Maybe it stands for very faint/ extra faint? http://cgi.ebay.com/Great-Britain-1696-Cro...1QQcmdZViewItem

I suspected you might have to go down this route and I don't blame you Chris. I'm sure their will still be great discussions and at least the guest's can still read them. They can then become members and post topics once they feel ready to. Keep up the good work!

Thanks Rob and Hussulo - I see what you mean about the doubling, I sure you are correct. The 'trial farthing' date seems to be the same as my 1838 farthings- and pictures that I can find of 1838 sovereigns. No surprise really as this must have been struck from a positive patrix (or working punch), that was then used to produce negative coining dies (that would look exactly like your trial). This I assume was a test that the positive patrix was OK. It would have been wasteful - and unnecessary to produce this in gold - when the copper blanks were available. So the fact that it is copper does not mean its a farthing!?. As much, if not more, of a sovereign trial as a farthing trial I would think. Double cool. Teg You have got a point Teg. It may have been a sovereign trial.

Teg, I too thought the B might be triple struck at first, but I think the middle B is actually the bottom half of the first B. I shall try to get a close up of the date on the trial farthing for you.

Yours would be a T2 Planchet Chris. There are two types of blank planchets: Type 1 - Planchets which have just been produced and are newly cut. Type 2 - Planchets which have been cut and then been through the next stage (softening process) which then display rims. I paid about £9 for it. I would like to have one of each type of major error. Hi Teg, I was told it was an fathing trial when I bought it. It is also the correct size weight for a farthing of that period.

I recived a great looking 1/3 Farthing today. I am nearing the completion of my 1/3 farthing set (excluding proofs and varieties). Link below for my 1/3 Farthing collection: http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i317/hus...Third-Farthing/

I have recently added some new error coins to my error collection. Including a nice 1723 double struck farthing bought from Rob at www.rpcoins.co.uk. thanks Rob. Link below: Hussulo's Error coins Edited and made a clickable link

I agree with marvinfinnley to a certain extent in that slabbed coins offering a certain amount of protection for the novice collector, there are a lot of fakes out there. They are also in my opinion good at grading modern coins. However Rob does make some very valid points. They aren't always good at varieties and as for the older coins they tend to over grade. They seem to almost say well it is 300 years old so you would expect some wear. We'll just grade it Unc. An uncirculated coin can't have wear irrespective of age. Below is a 1697 6d graded MS61 by NGC. It is one of mine and even though MS61 is low in their uncirculated range it is still graded uncirculated. The coin does show adjustment marks etc, but it also shows wear. I would not have bought it for the same price as an uncirculated coin of the same type. I did get it for VF price so I'm happy.

Still working on it Josie. I have more or less completed Victoria, Edward VII, a section on Error coins, contact me page, about me page, copyright page. I have just started George V section and I have updated my homepage. I think the homepage looks a lot neater since I bought Photoshop 5. Here's a pic below: P.s. I am not sponsored by Endicosoft. com it won't be there when it's up and running. It is just there now because that is what I am using for the website picture capture.

What kind of a camera is it? Canon IXUS 400 (compact 4m pixel camers). Which on itself is not very good at macro but I bought a macro lens attachment on ebay for it. Here's another attempt: http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i317/hus.../coins/1933.jpg I think I might buy a stand. And another slabbed coin I croped on photoshop.

I recived my new (used) digital camera today so I have been tacking some snapshots. One coin I took a picture of was a 2001 2p I found in my change and kept it due to the nice tonning. What do you think?

This is one I bought recently. Notice the Blakesley effect (named for the American numismatist to discover it) in the red circles. It is a weak area directly opposite the clip. It is hard for forgers to fake this effect, but not all genuine clipped coins display this effect.

Hi Colin, Is this mule still for sale and do you have a link to it?

Hi josie, If in doubt post a picture or a link to the coin you are planning on buying or bidding on, and someone can give you some advise. I too was stung a couple of times when I first started collecting and it almost put me off.