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Mr T

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  1. Mr T
    What does the text around the rim in the first image say?
  2. Mr T
    Who's writing it?
  3. Mr T
    What extra varieties does it mention? I tend to stick to Freeman but also look out for any new dies as reported by Gouby and the penny people here. I avoid all flaws, date varieties, re-entered letters etc to keep things manageable.
  4. Mr T
    I remember reading or hearing about a 1000 mohur coin (15,000 rupees?) from India which was supposed to have existed in the 1600s I think. I doubt it circulated as such. Interesting reading anyway: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1600_1699/jahangir/hugecoin/hugecoin.html
  5. Mr T
    The image doesn't work - looks like you've tried to link to an email attachment.
  6. Mr T
    The image doesn't work - looks like you've tried to link to an email attachment.
  7. Mr T
    Ah, they are, but it looks like the mintage figures are omitted - devious. Perhaps write to the minister whose responsibilities include the Royal Mint?
  8. Mr T
    In any case, I've bought from him before without any trouble - if you're interested in the coin I'm sure an email will sort it out. More than likely the listing was copied without updating the link.
  9. Mr T
    I don't know if it's a fake - the strike is bad I agree but if you look at the image on Chard's at https://goldsovereigns.co.uk/1910sovereign.html it's not perfect either. It definitely appears to be a different coin to the PCGS photo though (http://www.pcgs.com/cert/31642079). St George's visor is better defined is the PCGS image and the rim nick just before OMN is missing. The PCGS images also show a rim nick between the R and E of REX which isn't in the other image.
  10. Mr T
    I think the acid route seems sound - my memory is that most acids won't harm gold (though aqua regia which I think is a mix of nitric and hydrochloric acid will) but given that the coin is roughly 8% copper I'd be a little hesitant.
  11. Mr T
    Surely the actual mint reports need to be publicly released somewhere?
  12. Mr T
    The beaded and toothed reverses are different too aren't they? The beaded one has an extra rock next to the lighthouse I think.
  13. Mr T
    I very much doubt it - I think I've seen a slab that says toothed border for an 1860 or 1861 - probably about as deep as they get into it.
  14. Mr T
    Oh right - I've used your site before but didn't notice the divergence. Thanks!
  15. Mr T
    I assume you're using Freeman die names and mean obverse 2 and reverse B? It's a bit hard to make out the fine details in the photo but the waviness of the hair suggests it is obverse 3.
  16. Mr T
    Freeman 103 is R19, Freeman 90 is R18 - I think the 103 has the (?) because Freeman found one very worn specimen and wasn't sure if it had a H or not? Can't remember the details.
  17. Mr T
    Yeah okay - the only Franklin Mint stuff I look for is the Cook Islands and Solomon Islands sets as they're the ones I collect - the 1982 and 1983 sets seem pretty uncommon and the mintages are in some cases (apparently) unknown.
  18. Mr T
    So where exactly is the signature function? I looked around but couldn't anything labelled as such. I did see an empty text box somewhere in the profile editing area but adding to it didn't produce a signature. edit: never mind, it's at http://www.predecimal.com/forum/settings/?area=signature, not in your profile.
  19. Mr T
    Really? That seems like such a waste... Where did you read that?
  20. Mr T
    I'm sure I've read that this has actually been done.
  21. Mr T
    Nice! Did the Franklin Mint cease operations part-way through 1984 or something?
  22. Mr T
    My chemistry knowledge never went that far but yeah, there's probably quite a bit going on - likewise the chemistry of an alloy is probably not straight-forward.
  23. Mr T
    That's true but the reaction between an acid and a base will produce a by-product and that's the risky bit in my opinion.
  24. Mr T
    Thanks Terry. Not a bad theory with the mint identifier - makes you wonder how the Royal Mint actually did test the output of the other mints when they didn't have something as obvious as a mintmark to denote who struck what.
  25. Mr T
    The neutralising the pH sounds pretty risky - unless you know your chemistry very well I think it has the potential to go very wrong. The ice method actually sounds half-decent though.
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