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  1. secret santa
    I'm sure it's gone to a very good home............
  2. secret santa
    The Wordpress software that I've used to create my websites, including my collection, is straightforward and free. I maintain details of my collection on a Word document which is easy to maintain. See example page
  3. secret santa
    I've bought one (£60 cost) coin from this dealer and everything was fine.
  4. secret santa
    Surely not a proof or even a specimen - look at the state of those border teeth !
  5. secret santa
    drop an email to Neil Paisley at Colin Cooke - see website.
  6. secret santa
    Here, here - Neil's done a fine job with the pics.
  7. secret santa
    Does that beautiful but naughty Britannia coin have a Peck number ? And where can I get one ?
  8. secret santa
    Yes - Lot 84 photo is definitely rev H (Gouby j) small date.
  9. secret santa
    I've been talking out of my rear end again - the Max Brehm mule was sold by Spink as part of the Trevor Legge collection in December 2014, not the Andy Scott collection in September 2015. Are we talking about 2 different coins ?
  10. secret santa
    I'm sure that unsold coins will still have the buyer's premium added.
  11. secret santa
    Prax, I'm attaching the excerpt from the Numismatic Circular of 1986 (before anyone knew that it was a pattern obverse with 122 beads) regarding the Max Brehm/M Gouby/A Scott coin. The article doesn't refer to it as a proof - it was Michael that described it as a matt proof. Richard
  12. secret santa
    Does anyone know who bought that Andy Scott mule ? They might not realise that they now own the only other known 1953 penny with pattern C* obverse (I own and discovered the first)
  13. secret santa
    Sorry, they were catalogued as F129 Proofs - my mistake. BUT, Gouby erroneously describes F129 as obverse R +reverse r (Freeman 12+N) on page VP19 whereas Freeman describes F129 as S+r (13+N). The coins in the Roland Harris sale (lots 767 & 768) are both clearly obverse S (Freeman 13) so they could be F129 but that might be why Gouby thought that they were F128 (S+r).
  14. secret santa
    Right, I believe that Michael is saying on page RH3 that Lots 767 and 768 (both listed in the catalogue as F130 proofs) are, in his opinion, actually both F128 currency coins, defined on page VP19 as BP1889C. Lot 769 is catalogued as F127 (BP1889A) and Lot 770 is catalogued as F128 (BP1889C).
  15. secret santa
    Sorry, £920 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  16. secret santa
    That one sold for £327 at LCA in March 2009 - and now they want at least £690 for it !!!!
  17. secret santa
    From above "Gouby disagrees that two of his three 1889 proofs, were in fact proofs - not sure whether 129's or not, as Gouby has his own unique method of classification, and no Freeman equivalent is given on those pages. " Gouby always shows the Freeman number if appropriate in his books - page VP19 of his Victorian Penny book lists both BP1889P/F127A (specimen) and BP1889R/F129 (proof).
  18. secret santa
    £60K plus commission
  19. secret santa
    Chris beat me to it - but it is a very useful book !
  20. secret santa
    Buy the excellent Collectors' Coins - Decimal Issues of the UK, available from this forum/website.
  21. secret santa
    Great pictures, Ian. Thanks for your hard work. Richard
  22. secret santa
    So, the top coins is a proof ? The second one a currency coin ? The third one the specimen. What is the 4th one (1879) ? I guess I'll need to see a specimen in hand next to a proof to fully understand the difference. Photos just don't do it.
  23. secret santa
    So, which is which, Rob ?
  24. secret santa
    I'm sure that some coins that I've seen claiming to be specimen strikes are no more than early sharp strikes. I'm comfortable recognising proofs but not specimens.
  25. secret santa
    I don't trust "specimen" strikes...........
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