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Yes, but Spink's have sold better coins than the 1578 3d I'm referring to! They don't need public contributions!Irony is it doesn't even have to be a 1578, it could be something rarer (mint mark) that they may sold as a single lot previously?

People strike all the time! I wonder how easy it would be to shake the echelons of power by boycotting a Spink sale, declaring, stop taking the...? Give us a decent website, put some decent images in your expensive book, stop eating peeled grapes, you're falling behind!

It's just about aesthetics, and the art of the whole thing! Just seems a really lazy thing to do? In a copy I'm looking at, a very common elizabeth 3d and halfpenny are clipped and damaged, an unnecessary inclusion into what is after all an expensive purchase?

Haven't you got a job to go to, you're forever replicating my posts? Or am I replicating yours? Any thoughts on that price, it's surprising? Having said that, is your rarity lumped in an S-number with all the common stuff?

How does that compare, is it a C1 shilling? Is it a levelling out of prices for that series? Edit: EF and rarity material aside!

I can't open the images as I'm out at the moment with a poor connection. However, for further clarification, when you say creeping, do you mean in a malign way? I mean, have you watched these develop? If not, it's likely the result of old, old, grease on the coin, which has protected the surfaces from taking a tone? That's my first guess, at least?

Here's a question for you? Why don't Spink's use images of the best available examples of type in their plates? They must surely have access to some pretty good imagery? I know some of the coins have only a couple of examples known but, excusing these, what about the rest?

60/275 and 100/450 respectively. Thanks! Looking pretty stagnant as well, then! I did expect a small rise in the 6ds as a lot have sold really well in the auctions this year! Made me realise I sold a couple of coins a little too cheaply to a fanatic Liz collector! I really like him, though, so it's OK! I believe Chris Comber advises on most of his purchases.Edit: predictive text issues!

Come on, tell me you didn't know this was going to happen? Can I ask a favour? What are the F and VF values of 2561 and 2577? These numbers best represent the non-rarity values of the Elizabeth sixpence and shilling, IMHO. 2013 had them: 2561 65/240 and 2577 110/450

At risk of putting a silver moon in that dark night, though?

If it's the green, acetone on a cotton bud would probably ease that away?

I guess the legend errors, etc. could be good pointers, but do we know whether the maundy dies continued into currency use? I'm guessing they did? And if they did, just for debating's sake, what might separate the last maundy coin from the first currency, other than strike pressures? I know it's a grrrr issue, but one that will repeatedly catch out all but the most dedicated collectors of these coins!

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Do we now need to change the Statue of Liberty's right hand to bear a sword?

Very SOHO England 1797! If you're going to have a slabbed collection, it's an obvious choice to re slab a poor slab! You won't hear me say that too often, but BRG's a died-in-the-wool collector of slabbed coins!

Interesting point, VS, but how do we then decipher strong 'early' strikes from Maundy? It seems to me, in that case, that the only identifiers to determine type here are 'indistinguishable' qualities, based on that of a typical 'maundy' coin, and whether the owner is happy to call it such and fit it into his/her maundy collection?

I tell you, error, this is the world's best coin forum! Ain't it just?

Comparable to the egg collectors! As kids we would take one egg, which I know we shouldn't have, of course, but these adult collectors take the entire clutches of rare birds...I don't get that at all!

Many happy returns old bean!

Yet another TPGC cock-up!

And PF on the slab?????

Me too! My classic example, and I'm sorry it's a link to my site, but it's the easiest way, is this Halfgroat of Elizabeth! It has weak centres (as with most of them) but a truly lovely coin, colour, everything, in fact...not a coin I'd be selling, except I have an example with the bust you see as my avatar! Eye-appeal is everything! http://george-coins.co.uk/ProductImages.aspx?ProductId=3129578

Has anyone ever noticed that a lovely field in daylight, can look like it's been treated to a wire-wool clean under artificial light? Also, when we look at coins under magnification, at what point do we stop? If we viewed a coin by an electron microscope it would look like the moon, full of craters! So, on a slightly more serious note, should we say, when describing a coin, 'stunning coin, amazing fields, when viewed in daylight. However, it looks rubbish under artificial light!' Just out of interest, what does your coin look like in-hand, in daylight?

In which case, Morpheus, you have done exceedingly well, as I would never have guessed that English wasn't your first language, rather that you were an Englishman with a few literary hitches! Well done, do stay onboard!