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Now this makes for a refreshing grading approach to a commonly listed pewter coin...321669490983 "GRADING IS A OPEN PIT BUT MY OWN GRADING OF THIS COIN IS 6/10" 6 out of ten it is, then! 60p Edit: connect them up with a coin grading company and they'll take the pewter world by storm!

I bet if we could look at the edge, particularly at 3 and 8 o'clock on the reverse, we'd see some giveaway issues? It doesn't have a milled look about it somehow? Anyone know how many dies might have been made for this issue?

Brilliant, Nick, thank-you!

Does anyone on here know how easy, or whether it's possible, to embed a sound into a word document? What I want is to place a series of small images (I guess a bit like a smiley) into the text, which activate a sound when you click on it or, ideally, hover over it, without taking the reader away from the page. Is this possible? I'd settle for either!

I'm carrying a £10 version in my wallet for a couple of months, just so I can pull it out at the pub one day when the old boys are reading the scarcity reports in the papers! I'll be sure to have a copy of CCGB handy, so I can point to a couple of PAST rarity values...then, K'ching, £50 anyone?

Wow! Really? I didn't know that!

I have to say, I've never observed this, yet, but I am extremely particular about 'decontaminating' and 'flipping' my coins! To be fair, however, it's true that anything bigger than an HC is unsuited to 2x2's and folders, though I do have a couple of crowns in mine! I would definitely source some good thick card dividers, regardless of the coins! 2x2 crown-sized flips have so little card remaining at the edge, and are generally under such tension, that they often unknowingly/knowingly split along the edge of the plastic window, which risks uneven tonal changes! I think I'd look for another alternative if I was thinking of acquiring crowns on a regular basis?

Paulus, Paulus, come over to the light side!

Yes!

Can we see some photos of the edge?

Absolutely, totally agree...will be interesting to look at it, though, even if the details only flag it for a fake?To be fair, where ARE the details for these coins? We revisit them time and time again, but still haven't arrived at a place beyond 'send it to CGS,' and/or a couple of random posts on here, or thereabouts, which is crazy, especially when we batter CGS so badly! Why are we, as a cohesive group of intelligent numismatists, saying 'what do "they" know about coins and grading,' and yet send off all our 'scary' coins to them for endorsement? Are we saying, with that above statement, that we need CGS to tell us what is a Northumberland Shilling, for example, or can we say it for ourselves...as a pretty serious body of collectors?

OK, I'll keep a few flips aside for 2015, just in case!

John Stephenson always seemed to have his finger on the pulse with modern silver, I'd definitely buzz him about it if it's a possible genuine? I'm guessing you wouldn't be flagging it up here unless you had an 'odd' feeling about it? VS and Nick are also pretty on the ball with silver! Peck also has a pretty big resource and insight into G5! Keep us posted...I'm always interested in the material that sits on the fake fringe!

How manipulative of them! 100, my arse, what a pointless 'circulation' mintage, when they are offering coins which they argue 'hypothethically' WON'T be circulation coins on account of their purchase price to the general public! So, general public go Oooooo, one of those, how much is it worth? Hmmm, you can buy a brand new one at the mint! Further edit: so bugger all! Further, further, edit: I'm tired of all this 'intelligent' marketing! My circulation collection will now end at 2014...like that ain't crazy anyways! Bye, bye, RM, from stuart!

Not on your cabbages, old bean!

Now we're getting somewhere on the big slab debate! Give it another few decades and the truth will out! Get your shares in pliers and acetone while you still can!

Bugger! I'd all but written a dissertation then, and my phone battery went flat! Probably a good thing? Anyway (briefly, now), I think point 4 is nothing without points 1,2 and 3! So, I was just about to break down my own values, based upon the remaining 3 points, when I realised that surface preservation was my most important feature of a coin, and deserved at least 60%...but then there was lustre? Well, that's surface preservation, in my humble opinion??? I gave up, then!

Double struck edge lettering! Too many howlers for one coin! Also, a couple of features that highlight it...for example the stop after D of England wouldn't have been entered into the arch of the letter itself! Edit: sorry, the 'upright' of the D

I think there's a tendency to think that you devalue the coin by being brutally honest? However, the types of collectors that buy at this level are hardly going to miss such a significant problem...why don't they just say it as it is!

And Davies!

Dave Groom's a member of this forum, and I know he openly offers a discount for members here. It would be worth sending him a message. CCGB belongs to Chris, the owner of this site and forum, as you probably know, so you can also get that direct from his homepage. Happy hunting!

Welcome aboard, Kev! My own personal preference between Raynor and Davies is Davies! Davies only goes back to 1816, however, but I do find it a gem from that period on. Groom has added a few extra varieties to the pot from 1900 onwards. Either way, get some pictures up as soon as you see anything interesting, as that's where it all begins! Nothwistanding the fact that these forum pages are probably the best education you will get in coins! Staggering amount of information!

4! The squiggles between the front legs are an eagle if you look closelyAh, an eagle! Yes, of course! Lovely to find ANY medieval copper in an uncorroded state! Very nice!

I'm surprised you didn't value it higher than the other one? I thought it was infinitely better.

With all that tin on it, I didn't think it to be a detector find? Least not a traditional soil-found coin?