Stuntman

I'm no expert, but Colin Cooke has one for sale at the moment which looks broadly similar in grade to yours, for £550. Theirs is graded 'About EF'. I think the reverse of yours is perhaps less sharp than the Colin Cooke coin and the obverse broadly similar. My first thought on your nice, honest, evenly toned coin was it would cost about £500 from a dealer http://colincooke.com/coin_pages/victcopperissue.html

I'm a relative novice but I think these are fairly key dates for shillings,, florins and halfcrowns: 1905 - for shilling, florin and halfcrown 1841 halfcrown 1850 and 1854 shilling 1854 florin but very rare. 1862 and 1863 also pretty rare 1892 and 1932 florin Wreath crowns from 1928-1936 are all pretty rare but 1934 is the key date If you go a little further back to William IV and George IV: 1837 halfcrown 1828 and 1829 for halfcrowns 1827 shilling

Might be worth a lot of money to a threepence error collector (if such a person exists). That 1966 nickel brass penny in the Copthorne collection went for what I reckon was an enormous sum, recently, but the pool of penny collectors is likely to be much bigger! http://colincooke.com/collections/copthorneelizabethii.html

Seems a bit harsh. I read through the thread on cointalk and I thought that the poster in question was merely expressing concern over the coin's genuineness and actually giving you some decent advice. I'm really pleased for you that NGC have confirmed the coin as being genuine and if you're happy, that should be the end of it from your point of view. But the poster in question's follow-up points about what has or hasn't been provided as evidence (etc) are well made too, in my opinion. I get why you prefer to have graded coins for the peace of mind it gives you. Enjoy cherishing them!

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In your posistion Pete, I think I would look to collect another denomination whilst waiting patiently for any further penny acquisitions. I'd choose one which I thought had plenty of visual appeal to me. Given you have some very high quality bronze (and copper too??), I would choose a silver denomination for a bit of variety. Florins and (particularly) Halfcrowns would provide you with plenty of interest I would think. I'd love to have nice examples of each type of halfcrown from 1817 to 1967, especially with some of the scarce/rare years thrown in. A similar size to your pennies as well

Definitely! Very nice.

^^^ Great spot. I would agree!

Inspiring a passion for coins in the next generation, well done Sir.

I think lots of serious collectors would love to own a specimen like that. The obverse in particular is lovely. In deciding whether to keep it, I suppose it depends how much emotional or sentimental attachment you have to it, Adam? For example, if I wasn't particularly interested in stamps (I'm not) and someone left me some rare stamps, I wouldn't hesitate to sell them (and probably spend some or all of the proceeds on something I did want, like a sculpture or a painting, to remind me of the valuable original item). Good luck with your decision. You have something very special.

That's fab, I'd been wondering what had happened about this coin. Really pleased for you!

I think this one is natural. I like it anyway.

What's the forum consensus on the toning on this. Does everything look natural?

Another 1837 halfpenny with smaller 7 over larger 7 that arrived yesterday via one of the forum member dealers. I'm pleased with it, a nice coin with nice tone in decent grade. It looks like 837 over 837 to me?

I have to say that I think Rob has a point. Once it's pointed out that the legend letters (and also the HONI SOIT / Y PENSE legends) look marginally thicker, I would be inclined to agree. Is that sufficiently decisive for the coin definitely to be a copy? I have no idea.

Nice double florin (he said confidently). Arabic 1 in 1887 which I believe is the slightly more common of the two varieties, the other one having a Roman I. Regarding verdigris etc, do a quick search using the forum's search function at the top right. I just typed in verdigris cleaning bronze, which brought up six threads. If you read through some of those, I'm sure you'll get some good advice. Some members here really know their stuff and have a lot of experience of this. I hope you're pleased with your purchases so far. I like the silver ones... . Your Jubilee Head and Veiled Head halfcrowns look nicer than mine! EDIT - I've just seen you've added double florin to your previous post, which makes my first sentence slightly redundant! I'd give it AEF at least.

I'd give both of those halfcrowns at least EF even being harsh. Some might say GEF or even better. Nice coins I think. On the farthing - again detail-wise it's about EF in my opinion, although I believe that farthings resist wear a lot better than pennies and halfpennies do, so the grading of these might be relatively harsher (I'm no expert). Eye appeal isn't so good in my opinion with the toning spots and the verdigris. While grading is to an extent subjective, the opinions of Rob and Paulus carry more weight than mine in this area, that's for sure

Show us the other side, the George V obverse is often quite poorly struck on these. The coin may well have little wear but be quite poorly struck, if that makes sense. As to price - a fiver?

That's lovely. Although mine was graded NEF rather than gEF. What would you give mine? I'd give it VF, reverse better.

I wouldn't get too hung up on wanting genuinely uncirculated coins though. Something that's had a bit of life but still looks in decent age-appropriate nick has a lot to recommend it. Trouble is, finding these kind of VF to EF coins with nice eye appeal is often pretty hard too!

Exhibit A (my photos). Graded NEF by the selling dealer and cost me £110 plus postage. See the edge knock at 6 o'clock on the obverse.

I have to say I agree with Dave's estimate on the price and nearly said in my previous post that about £90 would be fair enough buying price (I looked at the listing and kind-of-guessed that you'd already dived in... ). But hey - you like the coin (as do I), it's an 1899, you've learned something, and sometimes you don't mind paying a premium for the convenience of enjoying it sooner. I've been guilty of this in the past, most notably with a Godless Florin that I bought from a dealer about 18 months ago. I can now see that it was overgraded, overpriced, and economical with the truth in its description (the coin has an edge knock that I didn't spot from the picture and wasn't mentioned in the description). There's a much nicer one currently for sale on a different dealer's website at the moment for £20 less than I paid for mine. You live and learn. I haven't bought from this dealer again...

Looks pretty good, nothing obviously amiss to me.

I finally got a Magna Carta £2 in my change today. I like the design and the coin isn't too bad, either. Really pleased!

I think that 1899 crown was definitely overpriced. Quite nice, but not worth that kind of cash IMO.