Coinery

Apparently the gold angels are distinguishable, following die sequencing, which I guess could be possible with the silver coinage, too? There can’t have been too many dies? I’d be curious to know, though, how even when discovering that one dies comes before another, for an entire series, you can say the hammer fell on a particular flan after the death of a king?

If you’re looking for a type-set, there’s also this ‘choice uncirculated’ crown to go with it!

I personally don’t have a problem with these kind of irregularities, either, especially when they fall outside of the main design (as they mostly do)…they are the charm of the heavier silver imho, something I seldom have issue with.

The one with the chip is Class 9 (Edward I), the other one looks to be the rarer class 12a (Edward II), which has the strawberry leaf crown.

NICOLE ON CANT

No it’s a class 3 Edward I penny 👍

This one’s a class 3 London penny 👍

Yes, a threefarthings with Bust 3I, the threehalfpence were only ever issued with bust 3G. You’re lucky with this one because, even though you can’t see a mintmark either side, we can say it’s a pheon (broad arrow), because you have lions 33 on the reverse, which were only ever present in combination with a pheon. Equally all the other corroborative reverse devices are unusually clear (Lis 19, leaves 15, and shield 24). They were only ever present in combination with the bust and mintmark for 1561. Without all this lucky info (the clear devices I mean) it would’ve been difficult to even offer a mintmark. Also the date could easily have been min-interpreted without the amazing efforts of BCW. Edit: and yes it would (does) have a rose behind the bust.

Yes, second coinage penny with bust 3H Jerry has given you the mintmark.

And the length of the front legs

Just spotted that eBay are from February planning to hold seller funds until 2 days after delivery, which is fine, except in the cases where Royal Mail haven’t scanned items as delivered! Example: I had an item arrive in Australia this week which track and trace still apparently have at the PO I posted it at! Also, I have a standard package (RM label printed via eBay itself; the ‘will only update when delivery is attempted’ kind), which the recipient has had since before Christmas, which still remains ‘undelivered’ on track and trace! I sense some big headaches coming on!

A Canterbury Class 9 penny 👍

Ironic that a post titled ‘quiet’ has become the busiest post on the forum right now! 🤷‍♂️

Nice one, Paddy, well done with that lot! 👏👏

Rather than an exposure to cash, it was the affordable access to a tangible history for me, that’s how I came to coins. I agree though, it is disappointingly quiet on here nowadays.

Great stuff…any identifiable hammered coin at £5 is always going to be a win. This one is very identifiable, it’s a Threehalfpence. The Greek Cross is only known on this denomination with dates 1578/5 and 1579, so not that difficult to say which yours is, it’s clearly the overdate, showing a definite 5 in the mix. This is BCW CR-1C:a, S2574 - a nice piece to have at £5 definitely. Edit: If you have some scales it will likely weigh a smidge over 0.5g (maybe as much as 0.6g) with the missing piece and wear taken into account.

£5 😲 That’s phenomenally good…can we see?

I noticed this around 2 years ago, the upward climb of the better Edward’s. Every auction nowadays they seem to fetch a little more. I went at this one as an upgrade, thinking £250 inc. premiums would get me close? The sum of £412 truly staggered me if I’m honest! It’s a nice coin, of course, but rather annoying that I’ve missed the boat by a couple of years, much as I ultimately have done with Elizabeth.

What IS the privy mark?

Blimey, Pete…considering the number of eyes that fall upon the eBay pennies, you certainly manage to winkle out your fair share of the gems!

It’s of course 1678 and not 73 - I think the Maundy money was first of the press, so generally the better pieces but, in practice, I believe there to be little/no difference as far as collectors of Maundy are concerned - they still of course aim for the very best pieces. I was looking at some completed items on eBay, a lot of them were holed.

Well please can someone get in there and screenshot everything for a file at least? I don’t collect halfpennies myself but can appreciate the tragedy should it fall foul.

@Rob saw this and thought of you!

Nice little win of a superb sixpence. Weak portrait but, to be fair, exaggerated in these auction images…actually much better in-hand…will try and post another image soon. I did try to look out the images of your 1573 @Rob because it worried me a little bit to find another little-worn acorn coin, but I couldn’t find them to compare the dies.

You’re having a good root around the forum…as educational as any book on coins for sure!