Coinery

if only it had any! Once you get all that black off you will see it. Surprised he didn't call that a 'rich even rose-chocolate patina'!

if only it had any!

A thoroughly interesting and educated read!

Wouldn't mind seeing that Stuart. Will put it up the moment it arrives! As promised but, brace yourself, it's a bit of a shocker! I bought this just for the bust, but it's turned out to be a bit too pitted in all the wrong places for what I want...guess you can't win 'em all! Not such a good buy after all!

In my heart of hearts, mine too, my first ever coin was Her's!

Wouldn't mind seeing that Stuart. Will put it up the moment it arrives!

Now that's exactly the thing with hammered; even the most amazing ones aren't perfect, they all have a unique historical stamp, wear, mistrike, weak strike, thin edge, thicker edge, stressed flan, edge splits, and so it goes on, each absolutely dripping with history whatever the grade!

Just out of interest, what coin are you wearing Stuart? I've recently been wearing this: Mercury (though eveyone knows it's a she and She is Liberty) dimes are supposed to be lucky, Mecury being the god of chance. Leap year dates (which this one is, 1944, the last leap year of issue) are especially so, it's said. I also have one of those Johnson Matthey replica touchpieces. Though at the moment I'm actually wearing a brass snake buckle on a cord as a sort of amulet. I've always had an Elizabeth I sixpence, for about 15 years now! Makes me feel all kind of ancient ! This is my third one, my son pulling one off my neck in a swimming pool...I returned to the pool minutes after losing it, gone, nobody handed it in either!!!! The other, can't remember what happened to that? I like your's, it's a nice thing to wear something such as this, especially to wonder who else, or how many others, have worn it...and when!

Not that I'm proposing this, but what you say is true...they're one of the few types you can fumble and drop without sh****g yourself! Not to be recommended, of course!

I've just snatched a raggy-edged penny, but with a very nice bust for £5! Good enough for my punch project, and nothing to be ashamed of generally! ;-)

Amazing indeed, that's what first got me into all this! Around 15 years ago I discovered I could own a real Elizabeth I coin for around the same price as a museum replica, about £10 back then...the same is still true today, albeit £20-£30 instead! I lived in Bath for many years, where i forever stood incredulous at the tourists paying £4.99 for a copy of a roman coin to take home to the family! You can buy VF and better for £3!

The word swastika is an ancient Sanskrit word (svastikah) which roughly transltes to good luck or well being. Since its use by the Nazi party, its original meaning has pretty much faded into the distance and more often than not it is looked at as being a racist symbol, quite the opposite of its original meaning pre 1930's. Some take the shape as being 4x letter L's. Love, Luck, Life and Light. Wasn't the swastika of peace the other way round though? I'm sure I remember hearing that somewhere before?

One of those big stones Debbie gave the link for? I've ordered one!

Apologies, Richard, I'm not ignoring you, I just haven't had a chance to use the laptop today and checkout your suggestions! I have been working from the phone today, which doesn't give me all the full website features, settings etc! What phone are you using coinery? If the iphone it has an app for forums called IPB, this gives you full website functions, but its shite when predictive messaging kicks in and you don't check it before hand Thanks Azda, yes an iPhone, will check that app out! Predictive text is a pain in the arse unless you're incredibly vigilant which, on a small screen in the small hours... The keys are really close together too - the number of times I've nearly written coon for coin is immeasurable!

I'm not selling, just want to know bit more information about it... By the way, how much this coin can cost? I think on the whole people are looking for 'types', whether micro-varieties or not (whatever's your bag with that one), but an oddity, a curiosity? I'd be spending my money on a similar grade coin that could actually be classified, linking one moment in history to another, that's how it works for me at least. For me it would be nothing other than an interesting discussion coin, I'd probably take off the coin I'm wearing, and wear that instead! Now, if you can find a 16/17thC oil painting with the subject wearing the 'famous double-headed sixpence', I'll buy both. Welcome back to the forum!

Of course clipping does reduce the desirability of a coin, but it's my thoughts that it depends very much on where the clipping is...essentially, does the clipped coin still have a 'balanced' feel about it? That's what counts if I'm buying a coin for myself! Two coins can be clipped by exactly the same degree...one is as ugly to look at as sin, and the other I would happily buy and gaze at for years!

No way! That's got to be a hoax; funny business, as my old nan used to call it! That cannot surely be a legit sale? Let's give it a go! Azda, you free? I need a model!

'an it harm none!' is another!

Apologies, Richard, I'm not ignoring you, I just haven't had a chance to use the laptop today and checkout your suggestions! I have been working from the phone today, which doesn't give me all the full website features, settings etc!

I've just realised PM's are no longer being redirected to my hotmail account as they once were! Any ideas?

Ah, that's more my thing. Since I barely have enough money for coins let alone classic cars (Dinky or otherwise) I collect rubbish ephemera and oddities. Bottle caps (of bottles I have emptied myself usually!), fossils, beach pebbles, shells, bits of bone, religious medallions and talismans, four leaved clover and stuff people have thrown away or that catch my eye and imagination. Sometimes I make them into .. assembages. Other times, they just sit in a box. That's my man! Are you sure you're not living in a caravan too? Looks a tad hippy to me!

The line of bagmarks(?) running along the middle of the truncation looks wrong too. I would have thought that was almost impossible to achive in normal handling. It's almost as if the raised portion of the design is cominaway from the surface. 100% agree, no way for normal circulation, looks more like it's done a few rounds in a cement mixer! However, and here's the thing I find interesting, the quality of the detail, DES, crown jewels, numerals, etc, are all so well executed that I can't see any reason why the counterfeiter would opt for such a raggy surface if his intentions were to cream it in from the collecting fraternity.

Anyone think it possible that this might be a contemporary forgery, designed only to fool an Edwardian for the sum of, well, a shilling? If you took a random shilling from circulation, back then, and then went about creating your forgeries using the coin as your model, would it matter that you just happened to have picked the rarer type? A shilling's a shilling to a forger and the spending public! Where are the others? Maybe this is one of the worst ones, looking suspicious on account of a lumpy field and not the most amazing edge...I'll bet they weren't all like that so, where are the others? Maybe taking pride of place somewhere, much as this one did! Whilst the coin is very much exposed by magnification, in-hand you'd turn it over and over quite a number of times, it's very good! Why so many 'bag marks,' if it was intended to make the best price as a more recent low-grade rarity? The 'marks' must surely have been there pre-silver plating, as it would be inconceivable that the base metal wouldn't have revealed itself if subjected to such strife, post manufacture. Not a hypothesis, just a point for debate!

What? I thought that was massive! I've only just realised it's being hung from the gallows! Female engraver then! If this sells for £300 I swear I will dig out my old engraver!