Paddy

Yes - I have had a very informative email from Matt. It seems that it would cost me about £50 to get it slabbed - based on a guesstimate retail value of £500. Conservation is extra - 4.2% of value - any thoughts on whether that is worthwhile/a good idea?

Yes - I know. That is why I am in such a dilemma! I dislike slabbed coins and would never buy one for myself - unless I planned to break it out. However if spending £50 getting it graded would turn it from a £400 coin to £1000 coin, it makes sound business sense. The profit I could then use to buy more coins for my own collection! 🙂

That's kind. Please PM the contact the details. I suppose the question I don't know is whether on the Australian market slabbing will make enough difference in the value to make it worthwhile? Personally I hate slabbing, but one has to go with the market.

Thanks for that - very helpful. I will think on it for a bit.

I am posting this here in the hope that anyone with knowledge on Australian coins can comment. I recently picked up at auction this 1967 silver one dollar coin. I have found it easily enough on Numista - see: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia78083.html It is a "Fantasy" Swan dollar, issued in 1967 by the editor of the Australian Coin Review because the government had declined to create one when they went to the dollar system. It is apparently quite scarce - only 1500 issued at "currency" standard, and sought after by Australian collectors. Of course the Chinese have produced fakes, but I am pretty sure it is not one of these - it passes the tests suggested at https://www.australian-coins.com/collecting-coins/1967-australia-1-dollar-pattern-crown-goose-dollar-90-silver-copy-coin-counterfeit-fake/ and also I saw it arrive at the auction house, kicking around in the bottom of an old tin with a Victorian Crown and a few other silver coins, straight from a house clearance. I can see a couple on Ebay, typically listed in the £1500 bracket, but both slabbed. One has sold at an offer, presumably a bit lower than that. I do not plan to hold onto mine. It goes against the grain, but should I get it slabbed? If so, with whom? How best to go about it - I have never had anything slabbed before and baulk at the cost! What grade and value would it make (roughly) slabbed or unslabbed? Thanks for any advice.

Thanks for that @Coinery - mine is certainly a different die and mintmark. All those seem pretty much the same, not matter how much the forger has tried to make them look different.

The lack of rocks seems to be a fairly plain variation and I'm sure was discussed on this forum before. Here are pics of my two 7+Gs, one with rocks and one without: My 1861 7+G clearly has rocks, so it was news to me that there was a no rocks variety of this too.

and fifth and finally this, which I can see is Henry VII Groat, probably S2258, but is it authentic?

Fourth is this one, which I believe is Edward the Black Prince Denier:

Third is this one, which came with a ticket suggesting Kentish Unit:

Second is this that I believe is Durotriges Stater:

I have come across a batch of coins that I had previously only loosely identified/confirmed. Can anyone help and/or pass comment? One per post - First is this that I have loosely labelled Iceni Stater:

Am I right that the "no rocks" variant occurs both for 1861 and 1862? I appear to have two of the latter, but could not find mention of either in Freeman. (One is spare if there is anyone after an example - PM me.)

An "ex" is a has-been and a "spurt" is a drip under pressure...

I found this post while checking back through all the good stuff I had missed. Made me think of this one that I took in Vietnam - Hanoi - a few years back. Entirely as it presented, no special effects - I love the surrealism and that it takes a few viewings to get the hang of what's going on:

I found this while I was trawling back through all the posts I had missed. Thank you all for your kind thoughts - as you can see I am now back in circulation, though probably less active than I used to be. Unfortunately life sometimes gets in the way of the important things in life - like coins!

I thought this was an interesting piece found by a detectorist in Norfolk. Article mentions he had previously found medieval coins in the same area. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-66245232

... or even "The London Mint" or any of the others turning out scrap metal to the masses...

Certainly looks Ptolemaic to me. This reference page may help: http://ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy_series.html

A belated reply. I can't help with Col Leigh, however the coin is not at all scarce. A couple of years ago I bought a job lot at an auction of over 100 of these early Indian sub-continent coins for very little money. I suspect in the modern age of metal detectors they are turning up in huge numbers in India. They were low value when they were made and have remained that way!

That is brilliant - thanks @Rob !

Now even my vu has got deja.

OK - I know it is no great shakes, but can anyone help get as full and ID as possible on it? Thanks

That is awful news! Does anyone know who the victims were - or what was taken? That way we can keep an eye out for any that appear on the market.

I think the software will let you load more images immediately if you do a refresh of the screen - using the F5 key or the refresh button at the top. Or else come out of the thread and back in should do it. (The software is not clearing the fact that you have already loaded an image and thinks you are trying to load another image alongside your first.) This has worked for me in the past.