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Aye, all finished! Fat nothing, will have to dig deeper than I can manage at the moment!

Unbelievable! The two I was most interested in went for more than 3x estimate! Estimate 5-600, my top bid £1k, hammer price in excess of £1500! Think I'm gonna start collecting Charles shillings, they seem to be about right...some nice coins going at reasonable prices! On the up-side, I know where my upgraded coins are going! I got 3 lots of Chas I, but its a tough auction Nice one, still a couple liz coins to go...nothing exciting, though!

Unbelievable! The two I was most interested in went for more than 3x estimate! Estimate 5-600, my top bid £1k, hammer price in excess of £1500! Think I'm gonna start collecting Charles shillings, they seem to be about right...some nice coins going at reasonable prices! On the up-side, I know where my upgraded coins are going!

RESPECT!!!!!!!!!!! SCOTTISH HAMMERED JAMES,III, 1460-88 Regal issue c.1470's Farthing Edinburgh Mint Obverse- IACOBVS DGR (Crown over IR). Reverse- MO NE PA VP (Cross with crowns & mullets alternatively) Moneta Pauperum (Money of the poor!) Seaby-5312 VERY RARE http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Scottish-Hammered-JAMES-III-1460-1488-Farthing-1470s-Edinburgh-/300823492412?pt=UK_Coins_BritishHammered_RL&hash=item460a7a373c

Another excellent avatar happenin' there, man! What's going on around here, my rose looks awefully boring now!

Sadly, I could never boast that at my butcher's shop!

North East (sunderland) telephone code...say no more!

Good luck with them, let's all keep our fingers crossed that Christmas comes early!

I'm gonna have one of these this time round! What's the date range? 1800-present i think Chars! Will certainly try it out, then!

I never see any hammered copper at the big houses? That's all I can afford to dig at at the moment, I'm stretched as thin as...well, a thin thing, really! They do tend to only come up when a collection is sold, it is not very often you will see one or two at auction...I don't know why It IS strange, I agree! Especially when it's possible to sit through many a lot where even a £2 increment on £20 is a struggle! Copper farthings would hold their own at auction, surely? Big apologies for my constant edits, I'm sure my phone is doing its own thing. I edited this post because my phone inserted an 'an' for an 'a'! Bloody annoying that you have to watch the screen like a hawk, when all you want to do is look at the tap-keyboard and have what you plonk your thumb in (classic example...i just tapped in 'on,' and the phone, for whatever grammatical logic it can fathom, auto-changed it to 'in') arrive, in the way you WANTED it to, on the g'damn screen! It's not too much to ask, surely? Grrrrrr!

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I'm gonna have one of these this time round! What's the date range?

I can't even imagine for a second yhat TG would part with even £10 for that one. Unless of course he's in the Christmas spirit and fancying a bit of 'the ghost of Carolvs past'? cuFknig ioPnesh!

I never see any hammered copper at the big houses? That's all I can afford to dig at at the moment, I'm stretched as thin as...well, a thin thing, really!

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Perfect, enjoy the decorating

Thank acc. and coppers, all sorted! As also being a new bidder you had me worried there. Now I'm worried about the amount of interest Fancy a game of pontoon, Gary? I don't think our hammered lots will clash, it's Clive and Rob I'm worried about!

It is a worry, but I have even less trust to write a blank cheque to someone who's got a vested interest in the coin selling well! I still can find the strength to state exactly what I'm prepared to pay, it feels really alien. Don't suppose you, or anyone else, is going to be on the floor, by any chance?

Thank acc. and coppers, all sorted!

I've submitted my bids already but I notice that when you click on "Bid Live" it pops up with: "This facility will be made available on the day of the auction." Promising, but I'd ring them today to be sure - 020 7016 1700. Thanks, Clive, just phoned, and all sorted to bid! For any other web viewers seeing this, it's quite simply a case of creating an account, no credit or debit cards to register! And, they do just run it on the day!

Does anyone know whether DNW have their live-bidding facility operational for tomorrow's sale? I can't remember if it was their website that has it just sat there but never actually doing anything? I did email them, but all they did was send me an online catalogue! Pah!

I guess this would be another example of how a web resource cataloguing as many of the dies as possible would be useful. Because finding a matching obverse die with a '62 reverse would provide the answer, and maybe this is the next natural line of enquiry. I think the use of drawings have their place, and for the most part are excellent in BCW, though I still think a quality photographic equivilent would be better. Just imagine a resource where you could find say 5 different rose 9's in varying grades and states of break-up! And then with another click, pop up 5 rose 5's to view alongside! And re the orientation, they are not consistent, though I will know a great deal more when I start poking around with the dies. I've been playing with the shillings up until now, so no roses involved. A matching obverse won't be needed - I was mainly thinking about the letter punches as it would be unlikely that only the rose punch were changed during the period. Thanks, seuk, I'll take a look and see what I can dig-up, I've got a couple from both periods. I've just spent all morning searching the internet for a decent image of a rose 9 without success, so... Does anyone have a 1565 Pheon threepence, or can lay their hands on a good image? These are all meant to bear rose 9, as does one obverse of the 1565 rose-mintmarked threepence. Will check-out the letter punches

I guess this would be another example of how a web resource cataloguing as many of the dies as possible would be useful. Because finding a matching obverse die with a '62 reverse would provide the answer, and maybe this is the next natural line of enquiry. I think the use of drawings have their place, and for the most part are excellent in BCW, though I still think a quality photographic equivilent would be better. Just imagine a resource where you could find say 5 different rose 9's in varying grades and states of break-up! And then with another click, pop up 5 rose 5's to view alongside! And re the orientation, they are not consistent, though I will know a great deal more when I start poking around with the dies. I've been playing with the shillings up until now, so no roses involved.

Thanks! It was Stuart and his cut out roses that inspired me! Totally outclassed me with that one, TG, excellent! I will of course be pinching the idea as part of a website design!