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Nice intro., Chris, thanks for all the time you’re putting into this…much appreciated! 🤝

No, not a threepence, it’s a threehalfpence. Coys is right, though, you definitely need a set of scales. 👍

Agreeing with this wholeheartedly!

Cross Crosslet Penny 👍

I have to say, whilst I can’t explain away the flaw/issue, I feel the coin looks genuine to me…at least as much as studying an image can conclude. What about weight?

Many thanks, Gents, much appreciated…will inform my soon-to-be-disappointed friend accordingly 👍

If these are genuine mint errors, are they still worth the silly money that was being paid for them 8 years ago? Any recent sales for comparison? Best to slab if genuine?

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Hi @Chris Perkins are we anywhere near a fix for these issues, yet? I have to confess I don’t envy you trying to maintain a forum like this.

Not my area but an interesting read…and 30,000, wow!

I’d say the reverse is VF but the obverse NVF. So overall hovering a whisker below VF for me. In reality we’d only be talking small £s between the two grades anyway.

No, unfortunately, I missed my bid 😩

Glad it’s gone to a good home at least! Well done…I did wonder! ☺️

Felt extremely stupid to have missed this ex Shuttlewood, eglantine penny, after my alarm failed to go off (I’m between nightshifts at the moment). Hammered at £260 - how cheap was that for such a great example!

Another glitch! I couldn’t edit the above post just seconds later (I wanted to remove ‘anyway’)…it said the post cannot be edited as it’s either been deleted or is too old! 😩

Anyway, it sold for £860, I thought the Americans might push it into the stratosphere…still prefer mine at £298

Possibly, but there’s something other than contrast about this coin for me. My main bother is balance, the flat spots fall awkwardly for me, and the area at the obverse 3 o’clock is either crushed or corroded, which is also way too much for me. It’s a rare coin I guess, but…

Correct 👍

What are these worth, now? I’ll be bidding.

100% agree with you. Eye appeal on a technically lower graded coin, outranks a higher graded “road accident” on just about every occasion IMHO

Having said that, try and buy a nice Elizabeth Halfgroat…VERY difficult

I think so…it’ll be interesting to see what the slab actually represents in this particular example. We have an essentially scarce to, more likely, rare shilling (around 10-20 across auctions and eBay in the last 10 years [including the dross], so maybe 30+ available around, maybe a few more?), sitting as a “top pop,” but likely on account of the infrequency an anchor shilling is slabbed by NGC…it could even be the only one? Will bidders potentially gather in expectation of it being the finest known? I hope not!

The link! https://ebay.us/m/otVMw2

I’ll be interested to see what this fetches, as I think it’s aesthetically awful, but is apparently NGC AU58. I bought one of Chris Comber’s Anchor Shillings, which is at least a grade less, but I prefer mine to the NGC graded piece by a golden mile!

Pot hook N and star on breast a clear class London 9b