Nordle11

One of the nicest coins in my collection I bought from a chap in France who says that, at the time (in 1909) his grandad went to the bank and changed up for various denominations, then wrapped a few mint examples in silk(?) pouches and tucked them away. The penny I bought from him was one of those hidden away since that day, and it's a true stunner. I guess even coins in collections are prone being moved around, touched, breathed on etc..

Well spotted and removed John. This seller also has a habit of listing slabbed CGS coins that have been rejected, however without noting the rejection and cutting the top of the slab off in the picture so you cannot see the 'rejected' note. The only giveaway is being able to see a small part of the sticker, which on rejected slabs are yellow I believe.

The seller is one of those pain-in-the-arse people who just jump from excuse to problem, always better to steer well clear from people like this.

I remember buying a 1929 off you but at the time I had 4 of them I think and I couldn't remember which I think I even asked if you knew which was yours lol.

Seconded

Shhh, don't tell Henry that, he really seems to want this thread gone.

Hehe, indeed he should If you're doing any specific searches relating to coins, usually a link or two will pop up that come to the forum. For example, 'Gouby X' brings up the forum as the top link.

Perhaps Rob's lovely link is being indexed by Google a lot higher than Henry wanted

A little update for you gents - it seems this thread is causing some issues for our friend Henry and he's made a report asking for it to be taken down... I can't see any violations of the forum rules though...

Indeed! I have one that I was convinced was proof, although speaking to others here the general consensus is that it's just a very nice early strike. The colours and the sheen on it are what made me look twice. Just to add that this picture doesn't capture the 'sheen' in the slightest, but it's there.

Very nice, some of those aren't exactly ten a penny (pun intended) either. I didn't know you're collecting proofs though, that a beast in itself! Seldom seen and expensive as hell, that's why I steer clear but fair play to the proof collectors out there.. To be honest I'm terrible at identifying proofs, another reason for me to steer clear lol.

Another tick on the list! Nice coin how many 1861 varieties have you got now?

fair play though, he does explain it haha

I don't think I could do it properly just counting, I had a blown up picture and was counting them off in chunks of 10, marking where each group was. Then count the groups. I'd definitely lose count otherwise lol.

For some reason it merged your thread title with Michael's post result is the same though, I guess.

Think you're being wise there My priorities cascade, depending on what's available; - Date run (An example of each year) - Varieties on individual years (purposeful design changes) - Errors (brockages/broadstrikes etc) - Widely recognised varieties (dot flaws/overstrikes - accidental design changes) - Lesser known varieties (like the 1862 'VIGTORIA' - accidental design changes) I think I've counted all the teeth on a penny only twice, that's about my limit

Ain't that the truth lol. Then along comes Terry/Richard/Prax with a new variety of 1862 which we then need to add to the seemingly perpetual list

Very easy to get caught up in the bun head pennies! I have my own word doc with info/pics I find throughout the years, from 1900 to 1967 is about 40 pages long, 1860 to 1862 is about 50...

What's it worth now, do ya reckon?

lol fair play. Be more specific Paul

Old head

Just to note - while errors do do relatively well in LCA, the errors you're looking at are more along the lines of brockages/broadstrikes/double struck errors, they're all a little bit more exotic than these, which are just caused by part of the die breaking off during minting.

Cheers Pete

Oh I know the postage price to Spain well, don't worry but I would assume the postage costs too of course so shouldn't matter. A good buy for £22, you'll get your money back and a little bit more. I take it you're going to consign them as a lot (all 4 together)? If you do, I can assure you you'll lose money compared to selling them individually. You're welcome to consider my offer above of £20 for just one, you're almost recouping all your costs back in one sale then

Looks like it's a love token, could have just been Kate making a carry piece or something.