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You can do much, MUCH, better than that for £220! I couldn’t tolerate those spots for that price tag. Also, I wouldn’t let the hands stress you out too much, as long as you’re prepared to degrease it when it arrives. I degrease all of my milled, even occasionally hammered. Take a look at the threads surrounding acetone (surgical, not nail removal stuff with moisturisers), see what you think?

Ah, well, who needs Freeman when you have Richard’s headsntails14 site! It’s funny though, but my badly wired brain always reads it Heads n Snails!

Have you heard of any re-runs on the grapevine?

This made me smile that, in the title, the seller drew attention to the fact it was holed, as if to avoid its other more noteworthy issues! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186237807944?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=csjIN_gZTVq&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=qduwzHkQTWC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I can’t seem to buy this book anywhere, not even here, any ideas?

And I even managed to buy a book…so everything is now working perfectly!

All good now so must have been!

Ah, OK, that makes sense. Quick work in acquiring a top grade example

I’ve just been looking at the two links PWA initially put up of the narrow dates he’d found, just to take a closer look at the waves, wondering if it was wear/strike that was affecting the shape? Anyway, again it could lighting, but I wonder if the hem of the drape/dress is also potentially different?

This could be a lighting phenomenon on this one but, yes, it looks over a tooth, but different to all the others, in that the 0 appears tilted backwards? In the original 4 example images I noted that the gap in the waves appeared to sit over the top of the 0 like a hat on the narrow date (hopefully you can see the fine red lines in the image), unlike all the others, which were either off centre or under a differently-shaped wave gap entirely (circled). So, in your example it ‘looks’ as though it’s over a tooth, yet sitting under the wave-gap like a wide date, if you know what I mean?

Now that is VERY clever, I never knew such a tool existed! That’s just amazing! Thanks, TG

Great coin! I’ve never collected the groats, I’ve no idea why, because they’re a very impressive and pretty series.

I guess as Martin says, the printed medium remains king! Rob Page has said he plans to go to print at some point, so fingers crossed that comes to pass. In the meantime I guess there’s always the option of copy & paste or storing a print copy yourself?

Many thanks, Jerry…thank goodness it’s still out there, it’s an excellent and very functional/logical resource!

Many thanks for this…I think I’ve just shared the document you were referring to

https://britnumsoc.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/h3-booklet-rp-4th-edition-august-2020-1.pdf?force_download=true https://britnumsoc.blog/2019/12/13/a-guide-to-the-long-cross-pennies-of-henry-iii-and-edward-i-rob-page/

A little harsh, Rob…I think the main problem for many is time when it comes to collating quality information at the top level. I like your idea of copying and pasting, but that resource is equally as vulnerable, unless you’re saving it to a cloud, and then even that will disappear again one day. We need nerds and nerd sites ! Fortunately Rob Page has dropped his knowledge in a hopefully more permanent location! https://britnumsoc.blog/2019/12/13/a-guide-to-the-long-cross-pennies-of-henry-iii-and-edward-i-rob-page/

Sorry, currently enroute but will come back to you all https://britnumsoc.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/h3-booklet-rp-4th-edition-august-2020-1.pdf?force_download=true

They’re definitely the ones, interesting.

Does anyone know what’s happened to the amazing resource that was Rob Page’s Henry III website? I believe he was Surrey Coins, but not sure? The H***y3.com website now appears to be an asian p@rn link (wouldn’t let me use the actual word).

This provenance claim in an eBay title made me smile When taking a little nose into the description I was tickled to read the following… Elizabeth I found bent as a love token Comes with provenance from 2015

Fantastic! I used to ring our local church bells…I can’t hear an old bell without thinking the same sound has been heard for many hundreds of years in some cases! As magical a sound to hear across the land as any! Happy new year to you all!

All sorted, gents, thank you!

Absolutely love it! Happy New Year!

I personally stopped wasting my time messaging eBay a long, long, time ago! I treat it now for what it is, its own little mini government, and all the flaws that come with being that!