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It's 2nd Issue S2558 (the Martlet PM is the thing you need to be looking at in the very first instance - just before Elizabeth on the obverse). For your ticket it's Bust 3H, and BCW Penny MR-2:a6. North 1988. Around £40 would be OK

I'd say 100% Davies for general English Silver, far superior to ESC, providing you don't want to go back any further than 1816. ESC of course goes back to 1649!

Looks like plenty of lustre! If I was buying on iPhone pictures alone, I'd say I'd take a chance on it being ok! Whether it is or not would require better images! Looks alright to me, though!

That was much better than I was expecting from our Tommy!

I really do fancy having a little play at that myself sometime! I'm going to try and catch Dave Moneyer over the summer if I can, would be an interesting meeting?

It's BCW Threepence LC-1:c 8/1 variant, so not so common it has to be said! However, it has a nasty clip, which pulls it back a lot. In balance, if it was mine, I wouldn't want to see much less than £100 for it, though you might have to wait some time for a variety collector to spot it. At £80ish 30-day BIN on eBay, I'd say you'd eventually get a bite!

Not even a contemporary copy, looking like that!

What browser are you using? Chrome!

Sounds like you should pay import duty on your in-laws, Stuart! It takes a day to get to your in-law's place? True enough, it's a 2hr+ round trip, so she generally stays over with her mum (with our son), kills 2 birds with 1 stone...I always get 2 full days to function au naturale when this happens, which is always my most productive time, so covers the fuel costs, mostly! As long as I don't stray down to the local (which I didn't this time)!

Where's that plantain skin, they're bigger? Definitely very cheap, as azda says, would really like to see the obverse of the shilling! The threepence looks to be the rarer 8/1 too...I know it makes no logical numismatic sense, but BCW have cataloged one! Could even be a 9 under the 0 (though difficult to tell from the images), making for a mix of the BCW varieties. They do, of course, also list an 80/79 (much more logical), but your underlying number looks much more 1-like (not that I've been able to tell 1's from 2's recently ). I'll take some more pics and post them up soon. And here they are. Obverse of the shilling and a closeup of the date on the Liz Yes, that's the rarer 8/1 and, reassuringly, a straight 0! Nice grade (apart from the clip) for type...good find!

I was uploading on Auctiva today and got a message from Java saying my version was not updated and was a security risks (of course). However, following update, I now get a pop-up asking me to block or unblock when uploading images using the Auctiva applet (if this is the right term), and I can't see any facility to 'always allow'...any ideas?

Pics? Where's the drooling smiley when I want it? And welcome! Yes, come on, where is that drooly emoticon, it would be the most commonly used one on here, accepting the that is? Yes, welcome aboard, atscaper...here's to the next 7 years, and that's just catching up on the info. on here!

Where's that plantain skin, they're bigger? Definitely very cheap, as azda says, would really like to see the obverse of the shilling! The threepence looks to be the rarer 8/1 too...I know it makes no logical numismatic sense, but BCW have cataloged one! Could even be a 9 under the 0 (though difficult to tell from the images), making for a mix of the BCW varieties. They do, of course, also list an 80/79 (much more logical), but your underlying number looks much more 1-like (not that I've been able to tell 1's from 2's recently ).

I'll know more tomorrow about the finer points, as the wife has had to travel to the mother-in-law's to collect them from the PO...she's back tomorrow! I honestly couldn't believe it when she texted it was duty/VAT, I thought the sender had pulled a fast one and not paid full postage!

Furious! 3 second-hand books delivered from the US today...£8.66 VAT charge, AND £9.00 charged by RM for handling! Firstly, I never realised we paid duty on books and, secondly, does this mean it's impossible to import a book without incurring a Royal Mail Handling Fee of £9.00?

I'd say that would be very difficult to make a call, based on the images? There does appear to be a 'blob' in the teeth, and a possible die split running down beneath that into the I. Without a better close-up, for me I can only speculate and say a damaged I and curio/research value only.

Precisely. Like this beaten-up example of a common issue. It just happens to be of Lympne mint. That's quite an amusing description 'Saxon silver coin. Message me for more details'...I wonder exactly how much more information he could've added, given he didn't put a great deal of information in the listing to begin with?

eBay's new mailing set-up, that doesn't allow you to just 'send' an email to just one person...they only have 'send and go to next' as an option! Cheeky bar-stewards!

The more I think about it, the more you're right! Sometimes I wonder why I even post such obvious queries. Occasionally/mostly, however, somebody making an obvious statement, will immediately sheds light on the issue! Cheers! Bugger it, then, on the 'Bay as a regular PM1

I was just wondering whether this could be an unrecorded and potentially very unusual mule, what do you all think? There is a mishmash between the I of REGI and the E of ELIZABETH, which is of course home to a privy mark! I'm hoping it's a 2, as the reverse is a '1' on a 1601 dated coin! To me, even the mess, shows components of a two, in particular the upper curve of one, right alongside the I of REGI, not to mention it looking particularly 2-shaped in the central region???? What do you think?

Not to mention the 'supper rare' (sic) description. Supper plate, perhaps?

&lt;br /&gt;The images have also been doctored to blur away the surface marks.  Mind you, anything can happen after a good plow (whatever that might be).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;<br /><br />It Appears to have gone It went this morning, thankfully. Are you on your iPhone, Dave? It all seems to be garbled in your quotes... That's Dundonian, Clive!

What were they like on the weight?

I have to say, buying these G3 pieces is becoming a bit of a nightmare. I'd definitely spend a month digesting seuk's site before making any big money moves, it'll be interesting to hear his thoughts on these 2 (whether he has them documented as counterfeits/modern copies, etc.). As he has probably the best resource for these coins available to-date, it could be worth him centralising all the above noted points by CGS into one place, albeit non contemporary coinage, no doubt?

Is it the sun or the harp?