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I saw both those problems. However, given the unbelievable alignment of milling, and the other devices, etc. and the fact that the jewels on the 9 o'clock crown of the 8/7 coin are completely out of sorts with all 7 of the others (I was open to a repair of that significant flaw), the proposal still holds water for me. The star would be a bread and butter improvement for a die that was going to be overdated, surely? the alignments appear more than a happy coincidence to my eyes, even now! I'll overlay them tomorrow and see what turns up! maybe we underestimate the die-sinkers ability to effect a repair? i will satisfy myself, one way or the other tomorrow!

Hey, chaps, I've found a die-match for the two reverses! They are both posted at the start of this thread, the reason the two errors look the same! i've only eye-balled it here on the phone, but overlaying it would be pretty conclusive I'd say. Even the milling lines up. using the information from both G overs, might be enough to expose the truth of the matter?

I quite like the G over inverted G hypothesis myself...for both coins.

I've always found that the acetone evaporates from the surface so fast that it leaves a smear at its periphery. Hard to explain but if you put a small drop (only as an example) onto the field of the coin, it (I'm guessing) forces any surface residue/grease to the periphery of the acetone 'bead' and then quickly evaporates to leave a circular ring/smear in its place. Of course, putting a flood of it on the coin replicates this to a greater degree, at least in my experience. i genuinely salute you if you can pull it off, I'd love to be able to. I've long since given up with decontaminating high-mirror proofs, preferring to leave them to someone else, you perhaps? no, I have one very strict rule with mirror proofs, and that is I have to like them as they are, or walk on. don't get me wrong, I'm brave enough to play around with anything currency, and always do, even with hammered. Though with hammered it's generally nothing other than an exercise which says 'I love you, coin'!

I 100% agree with this! Leave the proofs alone unless you like what you see...you'll never artificially make a better coin of them. Lovely phwoar coin, by the way. I do hate the fragility of proofs, you can never EVER touch them. You can't even degrease them with acetone, as it smears horribly. maybe some of that stuff from over the pond might do a better job? ?

What a difference a re-shoot makes!

A lot of the stops/no stops of even modern coinage are spurious it's true...would be interesting to see the coin that Withers used to mark this punctuated Canterbury variety. Makes me wonder whether it might be a flattened example of the raised dot I have in this coin? I wonder if they used a coin from the North collection for this? Anyone for a quick browse in SCBI 39 for me? He couldn't have had too many Canterbury Class 11s around, maybe I can match dies?

It has slowed me up, TG, I've gotta say! ...crack me up, Mr P!

But I still manage!

This is how it is still looking on an iPhone!

£22 delivered...quite pleased with that, a nice quality flan. I was particularly interested in this one because of the distinctive reverse die (rim fragment punched into die, and interesting O in CANTOR - probably a C punched twice [normally and reversed to form an O of sorts - the C overlies it quite nicely using software]), and also for the possible punctuation mark after HYB? Apparently there is a Canterbury variety that has said punctuation, anyone for a vote on this one? It would've very much looked like it had the coin been slightly more worn, and the mark flattened somewhat????? Clogged, maybe, cruddy die??? In the exploded view it looks a little more shallow, though it's actually only just below the height of the letters. It looks bolder if you look at the full coin image here.

Yes, I've been having android and iPhone issues, as per above, since the adverts went in a couple of days ago, not just since catawiki.

Falling clearly short of UNC for me too! Bag marked and over exposed, preventing a good assessment of any lustre (if any)!

Gone!

A very good copy of English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British Museum 1558 - 1958 2nd ed 1970 by C. W. Peck FOR SALE! £100 + postage

SCBI The John Brooker Collection: Coins of Charles I £12.50 + postage

Using Chris' Price Guide for UNC (not BU) the below coins price up at £230 (90% of them have come from Chris himself and Declan Magee Coins). 95%+ of them are in uncirculated, and most of those are BU. There are obviously too many coins to justify photography, but I feel confident that any buyer would be extremely pleased with the delivery. I'd like £100 + postage FARTHINGS 1953 1+A (set) 1953 1+B 1956 3+D HALFPENNIES 1953 1+A 1957 3+E 1958 1959 3+G 1960 3+E 1962 3+E 1964 3+E 1966 3+I 1967 Narrow Rim 1967 Thick Rim 1971 PENNIES 1953 1961 1963 1964 1965 1966 1971 1986 1987 TWO PENCE 1975 1978 1986 1987 1988 1999 2000 2001 THREEPENCE 1953 1957 1961 1966 SIXPENCE 1955 1+B (1+C see Groom) 1956 1957 1+B 1958 1+B 1959 1+B 1962 1+B 1966 1967 SHILLINGS/5ps 1953s 1953e 1954s 1954e 1961e 1961s 1963s 1964s 1965s 1965e 1966s 1968 1969 1970 1971 1975 1977 1979 1982 1987 1988 1990 1992 FLORIN/10ps 1953 1+A 1965 1968 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1978 2003 2006 TWENTY PENCE 2003 2006 FIFTY PENCE 1973 EEC 1976 1977 1980 1981 1982 1983 1985 ONE POUND 1983 TWO POUNDS Bill of Rights 1986

Thanks, matteo, will check it out!

A reasonable-priced SCBI 39 North Edwardian Silver Coins, please!

Anyone for a good-condition copy of Peck (1970 edition)? £100 + post would straight swap for SCBI 39 North's Edwardian Silver Coins I'd prioritise the swap over a sale!

There would have to be a snapped off spur from the casting somewhere? Just thinking out loud!

No, it would've been legal tender, right up to the recoinage in William III's reign. After Elizabeth's reign all shillings were produced with XII in the fields, maybe to rectify the possible confusion that unmarked coins had had in Elizabeth's reign? So my theory is people began marking the 'unmarked' Elizabeth shillings with an X to ease identification, especially many decades later when people had gotten very much used to the XII coins. You have to remember, with clipping, worn sixpences, and unmarked Elizabeth groats, it probably wasn't easy for a lot of people. Holed? My guess is a piece of jewellery, maybe contemporary? In the 17th century, as today, there was great respect for Elizabeth so, even though the coin was still valid currency at the time, it was starting to become an antique. An old hammered coin around your neck, when milled coinage was now the norm, which you could still spend in an emergency (a credit card), must have had appeal?

Such a simple yet brilliant design that it remains unchanged today!

I know nothing about these things, but the first thought that came into my head was bottle stopper? Either used as it is, to stop insects from entering, or maybe even more functional if little holed discs of leather were passed over the lump at the end to form a cylindrical tube of leather, much like you'd thread on a tap washer?

I wouldn't say it was a love token, personally. Great find, though!