It had to happen

[It had to happen]

I'm ploughing all my retirement investment funds into NFTs personally, clearly the way to go

 

[Let's See Your Copper Coins, Tokens, Or Medals!]

On 8/3/2023 at 10:20 PM, will1976 said:

On 8/3/2023 at 10:18 PM, will1976 said:

Latest addition to my Kempson Bath series, extremely pleased with this one, Somerset D&H70. These are the sellers pics

 

Very nice Will. I'm also collecting Kempson's Coventry buildings (along with Bath and Birmingham), I don't have an example of that one yet.

Here's my little collection of Coventry buildings so far

 

[Let's See Your Toned English Milled Silver!]

Increasingly liking this one, my best example of a George II young head roses halfcrown type

[Question About "English Silver Coinage" - ESC 7, Bull]

Sounds like a bum issue to me, return it

[Elizabeth Halfpenny, good or wrong?]

My vote is thick

[It's amazing what photography can do!?]

2 minutes ago, Iannich48 said:

MS70, is that the true grade of the coin in question?

In this instance MS 70 is a cleaning product

https://www.amazon.com/MS-70-oz-Coin-Cleaner-Bottle/dp/B000YQBZPE

 

 

[Spink Hoover Crown Sale]

There is ever increasing evidence imo that due to hype, blind acceptance of TPG grades, record prices being realised, and laziness, greed has become a big factor in our hobby

[1852 Florin Query]

Thanks David! I guess that could be it, but I still have my doubts!

[1666 Crown]

On 10/17/2021 at 6:23 AM, Taikonaut said:

Hi All,

I don't usually collect British milled coins but I'm looking for a 1666 crown as a one off. 

Did you want one with elephant below?

[1852 Florin Query]

This was slabbed with a yellow label stating 'Altered UNC'

You could ask LCGS not to slab rejected coins.

LCGS has now stopped their slabbing/grading service and the database appears to be unavailable.

[1852 Florin Query]

Just now, DaveG38 said:

Have you considered that no TPG is infallible, and that they may simply have it wrong?

Certainly, in fact I have decided that is the case! But I decided eventually to share, it will be the first that Rob has heard of it too!

[1852 Florin Query]

Thanks for the opinions so far chaps, much appreciated!

I did think they could have meant some kind of tooling, but I can't spot any (not an expert in that anyway), and I'm not sure what the point would be? It's a solid GEF to my eyes and I don't believe there's a scarce variety someone is trying to mimic?

 

[1852 Florin Query]

Can anyone spot anything 'wrong' with this florin? I bought it from @Rob over 4 years ago, and it remains my nicest example of a gothic florin.

At the time I was prone to sending some of my nicer coins to CGS (as was) for grading, attribution, etc. I'm not after another debate about the rights and wrongs of slabbing, or the goods and bads of CGS.

It was rejected as 'altered' (no further explanation was forthcoming), but I'm damned if I can find anything awry with it!

[DNW Sale - Alan Palmer, Cleaning Guru?]

27 minutes ago, VickySilver said:

HI all on a happy Saturday.  I was looking over the DNW coming up [again] and was [again] sadly disappointed by the cleaning on so many of the earlier Vicky half crowns and Gothic florins, not to mention Old Head Crowns. Can't take it back....I wish the collector hadn't as mostly I will pass.....

Yes, disappointing that so many are cleaned - I suspect they will still realise very high hammer prices, given the current market ...

[1737 Shilling - 3 over ?]

Thanks chaps, I'm leaning towards a recut 3 (as did the seller)

[1737 Shilling - 3 over ?]

What do people think of this one please, 3 over 3? Recut 3?

[1915 Florin - R2?]

13 minutes ago, Peckris 2 said:

Still waiting to know what this variety is - I thought there was only one type of 1915 florin?

Standard type, just querying the rarity rating?

[1915 Florin - R2?]

Bull / ESC have this listed as R2, which doesn't seem to be reflected in Spink or realised sale prices. Probably an error?

Anyway, here's my only example, not particularly high grade.

[Degree of double strike]

Here's my 'double-struck' shilling as an extreme example

[Newly arrived, 1653 halfcrown]

My latest Tower Mint halfcrown, this one lower grade but mm Sun over Eye / Sun and Reverse reads CHRISO AVSPICHE REGNO

 

[Newly arrived, 1653 halfcrown]

On 1/15/2021 at 6:04 PM, Coinery said:

What’s the history of this one, Paulus?

A recent detector find, in the process of finding out more (if there is any more!) Reputable dealer though

[Next day tracked delivery - consequential loss fee enhancement]

I often increase the insurance on Special Delivery, I thought the maximum cover with the RM was £2,500? Good value imo, never had to claim so far ...

[Newly arrived, 1653 halfcrown]

[Die Numbers]

I think they are not to be relied upon, I have this die no. 49 1878 shilling which I'm (fairly) sure is fourth head Bull 3051 even though the maximum die number is stated as 47

[1696 Bristol Sixpence - Tickets]

Sterling work gentlemen! 

4 hours ago, Sword said:

looked up tickets written by Peter Mitchell.

Looked them up online somehow, or in something you have locally?