copper123

I would not value that coin as much more than £12 or so , you say lustre is still present , its not clear on the coin at all if it is or not . This is quite a common problem with some copper and bronze coins i have put many a coin on ebay and had to say that it has lustre traces but they don't show on the scan. Try getting hold of a nice coin in the £60 to £100 price bracket and trade this one in. I agree coin is gvf and lightly cleaned.

it could be of course that the person was genuine and had just realized that there local jewelry shop also stocked sovs. But the lack of contact after does not bode well for them being genuine

Sounds very suspicious Chris, if all you want is a bog standard sov and you are not bothered about the date you just go to the nearest large jewelry shop and get one for £20 over face or something. There is no really shortage of sovs around there are hundreds in every major town. If you want something special you might try a coin dealer.

those 50p coins are not silver

agreed very nice

It is a well troden suject on these boards though, isn't it . Lets let sleeping slabs lie, LOL, basicly they just seem to upset everyone on here.

More yap yap yap on slabs , yawn

I love the way the arguement over a coin worth less than £1 to any normal coin collector suddenly becomes a deep theological discusion on the Mail forum , with seemingly no-one able to spot the coin is a worthless fake ........... and everyone argueing over if jesus existed or not

yes teacher

wot u think the above is LOL

I can see the Dailly Mail headline now "Shock . horror immigrant jihadi forgery gains illegal enterence to country via Auction house and tries 9-11 isis murder tactics with innocent coin dealer"

True, don't slab it it's pointless .

Yes I must admit the coinage of George V is totally one of the most interesting reigns ever from the early pre war well struck silver and bronze those farthings are superb in tip top grade , you suddenly find a rapid plung into poor struck and poor alloy coins culminating with the debasement in 1920. The existance of the H and KN pennies so the royal mint could concentate on medals in 1918-1919. The potrait change and later new designs which I find quite atractive . Not forgeting that lovely 1935 crown of course and the wreath crowns

Ali G might want it round his neck on a chain innit

Early advert for Lion bars?

Yes that is one of the french coins i was refering too that are more often counterstamped than the english coinage. I am not sure if there was a law that stated the king (or queens) coin should not be defaced back them but I am sure this never applied to foreign coin (which would mostly circulate in london bristol or hull and liverpool) I would presume. I would also presume that the populace would also find english coins that are defaced , to say the least,objectionable and at the worst unacceptable

Might have been a cartwheel penny - i have seen several of these counterstamped - always very worn ones though..

NOT SURE WHATS GONE ON HERE - BUT STILL A LOVELY COIN

Many Victorian coins were counter stamped as advertising pieces it is rarer to find uk coinage that is counter stamped as it was more often done on french or Spanish penny sized coins that often circulated in the uk along with our own currency . These i must admit are common finds uk stuff is rarer as is was considered bad taste to ruin coins of the uk. Halfpennies of george the third 170-1775 are often counterstamped to weed out the forgeries (most people were illiterate and totally unable to tell if coinage was real or not , so many were coutamped as a warning not to take them

I dont think peter would not make a good britania now but back then he wasn't bad. Britannia is "forever young" to steel another great songwrighters lines

Must admit it's a beauty though , wish it was mine.

Of course the ironic thing about "The pheonix" is the best thing you can do after reading a copy is burn it

like MP's Gradeing then , laughable

Yes but the pheonix gives you 2-4-1 on this item , but does still does not give value for money. If they gave one away free to anyone requesting their list of overpriced rubbish I might have a bit of admiration for them

A dark knight eh. I saw spamalot the other day and now knights just make me laugh. Best bit is when the taunting french hurl that cow out and it land on top of one of the round table members