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Yes, it's a real shame! However, if the reverse was anything like the obverse, it would never have made it onto the market in my lifetime. The Sword's an uncommon mark too, to have the mark, and a good reverse strike combined, would've been a jewel to be held. That's a potentially obvious, but sometimes ignored point Stuart, if the coin was more perfect, you would never have acquired it, because it might never have come to market or have been too expensive for your budget at the time ... can't we kind of say the same for all the coins in our collections?Yes, I'd say that's true, as it would only be a deceased estate, or an important collection put together by an advanced collector who'd reason to break it up, that such coins ever become available. You only realise when you start looking around for those perfect coins, how very few there are!

Yes, it's a real shame! However, if the reverse was anything like the obverse, it would never have made it onto the market in my lifetime. The Sword's an uncommon mark too, to have the mark, and a good reverse strike combined, would've been a jewel to be held.

Isn't it ever! Definitely one to cry about!

OK, so that's it for this side of Christmas! The G5 1930 Halfcrown has just listed, and that was the final coin of the day!

Another 15 starting tonight (G3 farthings, Liz 6ds, 1930 HC, and a few more Lizzies), and then that's yer lot for now!

Now there's a man who knows his way around eBay!

Racing on too fast with old Auctiva templates, as usual! Good spot!

Oh, too late for apologies now, Paul, he'll be giving you what for, and no mistakin'!

Of course, I knew you were just throwing ideas at it, young Paulus! I do appreciate it, you know! ❤️ And, by the way, your C1 shilling is full-on eye candy, one of the most pleasingly balanced reverses I've seen, really nice die! I couldn't say so on the 2014 thread, just in case TG was looking in, you know what he's like?

Absolutely! Whilst nobody on high could ever admit it, shill bidding is in eBay's best interest! If they can make it more difficult to detect, without crossing any boundaries, why wouldn't they? Hey, ho!

And to be honest, re unique bidders, knowing the number of assailants doesn't help one little bit in whether you win the coin or not. Or, for that matter, how much you bid as, in all reality, you only have your top bid, and the top bid of one other person to contend with!

I should add, of course, that an auction house could be seen as an endorsement, but, equally, eBay packs a pretty punch in favour of the buyer nowadays, so is as much an endorsement as the aforementioned...privately listed or not.

What benefit from knowing how many unique bidders, though? Because, as Rob effectively says above, a bid's a bid...a coin bought in an auction house is a private listing, and also has an undisclosed number of bidders until the hammer falls? Oh, and not forgetting honestly!

I know it's not popular with some, PWA, but it's something I've always done since selling driftwood, and historical artefact design, ideas (amongst others, and a lot of years ago, now) that were very often picked-up and replicated when eBay was in its infancy! I don't blame anyone for that, I used to surf eBay all the time, looking for ingenious ideas too. I'd trawl through others' feedback and go 'wow, £50 for that? And look, £62 for that one?' Etc.Also, whilst on this occasion I forgot to watermark my images with sales@george-coins.co.uk (which I usually do), I'd say I'm pretty much transparent, and most people are able to find and contact me if they desired? I'm not sure why it would put anyone off, although I've heard it does, as any purchaser gets a chance to look at feedback comments, business information of the seller, etc. etc. Ah, well! Actually, you've got me thinking now...why does it put people off?

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?

Hey, get bidding, you might get lucky again and win yourself a lovely entombed piece of copper?

Totally agree with you! I would guess however that the farthing I'm selling got its grade on account of the lustre, which sits pretty high on (and over, in some instances) the devices (in places which would ordinarily appear to be wear)? My honest thoughts are the coin has been struck from a worn/knackered/corroded die, and maybe weakly so too? Indeed, these blinking TPGCs! Oh........"Some nice things on there Stuart."

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

OK, if only to get eBay throwing my .99p starts to the top of the pile because you've clicked on the link, I add this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/george-coins/m.html?item=331409764825&hash=item4d298fb1d9&pt=UK_Coins_BritishHammered_RL&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 Maybe of interest, and likely to go cheap are a Brit error halfpenny (and a W&M unbarred Maria farthing...Scott et al.), a slabbed C2 '74 farthing, and a Lockett/Asherson provenanced James I Trefoil shilling.

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!