Coinery

Quick question: what does RCB refer to from the 40s? Also, a useful document, that I’m sure you’ve all seen before, so forgive me, I’m simply sharing it here to log it for myself https://www.britnumsoc.org/images/BIOGRAPHIES/6_Coin_Tikts/Coin-Tickets-Main-List-008.pdf

Something I’ve only just discovered if you use an iPhone…when you select your image, in the bottom left of the screen you’ll see an options button. Click on that and you get to choose a size to attach it at, with it also highlighting the Kbs at each size! Nice touch Apple!

Superb, thank you, excellent resource!

I’m part of an Elizabeth I group on FB, looking at interesting historical facts, articles, items, etc., and someone shared today (obviously) that this is the day that Elizabeth became queen, at the death of Mary, using this picture. Does anyone know the origin, source, date of it? I haven’t got any further with the OP, and can’t seem to find it anywhere online!

Yes, try closing all the pages entirely before trying again. The file limit is a pain in the arse!

Thought this was good! “King’s Cross station, June 6th, at 4am - there’s something unusual going on?”

Definitely rare in that grade! You’d have to walk a very long, long, mile to better it.

So funny, I have just posted a near mirror comment in the gardening thread

This thread really isn’t for me, but I cannot help but be impressed by your dedication to this, and I of course love your historic referencing in this particular post…amazing passion, input, and care! Superb!

Exquisite, Rob…you have some of the loveliest pieces out there, that could easily be the best of that mark/date?

I was a total idiot, yesterday, and let this go because it went £40 beyond my decided top bid…I should’ve just decided I really wanted it instead. The commonest of 3ds but uncommonly beautiful! I’ll never learn!

I’d also 100% concur with the two dies matching yours, what a find!

Oh, wow, minus the crack, that’s a great penny with ANY mark. Goodness me he fell on his feet with that one…they’re out there, then! Viva la eBay

That’s exactly how I would approach it too!

Could be, Scott, difficult to say with certainty. Do you have it in-hand, it might be more obvious then, because the pictures don’t really show whether it’s simply 2D marks, rather than an incuse-raised device? On the reverse, does the line I’ve drawn fit with the mark on the obverse, because they generally show through on the reverse too, and there potentially looks to be signs of that?

That’s great! Many thanks, @jelida & @Rob, really appreciate that!

What’s the thoughts? Chris Comber in biro, rather than his blue ink fountain pen, or someone else?

I’m aware that other HAL.F coins exist, like this ‘67, so I’m curious!

I picked this up yesterday and know very little about the series…there looks to be a dot in HAL .F and also what appears to be a lustred indent in Victoria’s shaw? Are there micro-varieties that address this, or am I looking at post mint flaws? The dot could quite simply be corrosion/delamination, I haven’t seen it in-hand, yet? I know similar HAL.F dot coins exist, so thought it worth asking.

I think the bits that were trimmed off in the late 1500s may have graded ‘good fine?’ What’s left is melt at best!

I did notice that one, but there are SO many things I’d like from that sale. I believe it could be my most expensive day in coins, with my early successes (or not) having a big bearing on whether I survive for other bids! I’m buying to sell too, just to offset my personal wants, so fingers crossed. The Eglantine Penny is just borderline for me, despite its rarity, I may bid…though this would absolutely be a target, in that grade, had it been acorn (your one is lovely, and your overmark lovelier still). I’m so glad I raised this question, and genuinely thank you for your generous sharing! Incidentally, is your friend’s acorn Penny a clear example, or a die comparison? Best, Stuart

Well that’s pretty spectacular, Jerry, what a coin…what’s your thoughts on it potentially being in the hand of the queen herself? BCW only had access to one single coin in the research collection…bloody well done! 👏👏👏

Not looked at Eglantine but, yes, I’m thinking an Acorn Penny may actually have been in the possession of, maybe even in the hand of, Elizabeth herself? I confess I can’t find one, not even an image!

So this is the conundrum, because I’ve read that “7200 pennies were ordered at short notice for the queen’s own personal use, presumably for Maundy Thursday 4th April?” Does that undo the idea, I honestly don’t know?

How much coin would, say, Elizabeth Tudor have given out as Maundy coinage, and how much of that coinage would’ve actually been handled by, or been in direct possession of, the queen? How would the ceremony have worked/happened? Would it have been mixed denominations, or just pennies? I’ve recently learned that pennies were given out as Maundy, would there be others? Many thanks in advance!