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  1. secret santa
    And the rest! Don't forget that 2 specimens sold this year for £2232 & £1860 inc commission so it may not fetch much more - we'll see.
  2. secret santa
    Don't get hung up on the note. It's interesting but the real value is in the rarity of the coin. Should fetch £2500 plus.
  3. secret santa
    Nice coin. Not the rarest, as you say, but much harder than most to get in good condition, and virtually impossible to find in BU.
  4. secret santa
    I haven't really kept records on this variety other than unc specimens of which the Bamford/Alderley, Workman and mine (ex-Colin Adams) are the only ones I've seen.
  5. secret santa
    Don't worry, Pete, it's well accepted as a rare variety now.
  6. secret santa
    Well, he did catalogue the 1897 dot as F147 (and probably regrets it)
  7. secret santa
    There's a fortune to be made by adding random "dots" to pennies......................
  8. secret santa
    Can anyone see the 8 over a 6 in lot 1197 ? I can't.
  9. secret santa
    Just tried again and it worked with the same image as before - very strange !
  10. secret santa
    This beauty went for only £825-00 in Jun 2014 !
  11. secret santa
    2* is a newly discovered obverse - unrecorded by Freeman or Gouby - a variant of obverse 2 (Gouby D) with 2 extra border teeth such that the A of VICTORIA points directly to a tooth rather than to a gap between teeth as on normal obverse 2 (Gouby D). See my varieties website for more details.
  12. secret santa
    I'm trying to upload an image of only a few Kb but get the message that the maximum is 500Kb - is there a problem ?
  13. secret santa
    Cathrine, I don't know what you paid for the coin but I'd be inclined to keep it. These coins very rarely survive in pristine condition unless they've been protected from day one and your own coin photos show exactly how most of these early proofs appear in hand. I just wish I had the knowledge to photograph my coins in the way that PCGS did - my collection would look absolutely stunning !
  14. secret santa
    No-one yet has answered my question as to how PGCS managed to produce such fantastic photos.......
  15. secret santa
    Really nice coin and that's how photos of my own F4 come out - wonder how PCGS make the coin look so perfect ????????
  16. secret santa
    Thanks, Dave - I got that OK.
  17. secret santa
    That video never loaded for me.
  18. secret santa
    OK - what does a sovereign weigh ? And are they a (pretty) standard weight ?
  19. secret santa
    How much relevance can we give to a quoted weight of a coin ? I have a cheap Chinese electronic scales which gives a very different reading to a coin that I bought with a quoted weight. I cannot believe that these scales are particularly accurate, especially when they give readings to 2 decimal places of grams. Freeman weighed most of his coins I believe but using what technology ? And if coins weigh differently on every cheap scales, is there any point to weighing them ?
  20. secret santa
    James, are you happy to describe how you do this ? I have one or two coins that would benefit from such treatment. Cheers, Richard
  21. secret santa
    The camera never lies ?????????????????
  22. secret santa
    Spink photos really don't do justice:
  23. secret santa
    It looks very like the one sold at Spinks in June this year - lot 1513. Some spots in the same place.
  24. secret santa
    Bog standard F10 (2+D) although the specifics say N over Z. The bidding history looks very suspicious.
  25. secret santa
    Take a look at this - something very fishy going on............. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-1860-One-Penny-Victoria-Coin-Extremely-High-Grade-a-UNC-low-start-price-/142160133177?hash=item2119677c39:g:t8wAAOSwMVdYD0eT
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