IanB

If we are talking about ebay tactics. I work out my upper limit that I would pay for something. I do this by checking price from whatever price guide I have to hand, I have also started looking at auction and dealers sites. I then make the bid normally a few hours ahead of the end time, then I turn off eBay and wait for the email to tell me if I have one or lost. This may not work for everyone and I really cannot be bothered with snip bidding. I have tried watching the bidding but all that does is make me make impulse bid higher than I should. I seem to get around 70% of the coins I bid on and the ones I don't get I am not worried about as there will be another one along at some point.

There is a 1946 Threepence on Mark Rasmussen's site. Ref 28/528 http://www.rascoins.com/stock.cfm?from=261&heading=&do=colour&colour=Copper&mainheading=&collectionname=&

Do you have a before and after of the obverse?

I think if they were trying to deface the King's face they would have done a better job on it rather than a few scratches.

Very nice, what was it graded at?

Hi Zakkil, Hello and welcome. As Nordle has said grab the books and put some pictures on. All the best Ian

Come on Pete, I have to know what BOBO is? Is it Rang Tang but worse?

They are cheap, so I store everything in them. The good the bad and the Rang Tang

Yes indeed.

Pleased to say I am having no problems whatsoever. Strange how its only affecting some and not others.

The bottom obverse but the top reverse for me. The detail in the reverse looks sharper, horse who I believe was called Bayard, the dragon (don't know his name) all look crisper.

They don't seem to be showing for me

Difficult for me to tell, but if I had to choose I would go for the bottom one. No edge knocks and fewer marks on the fields. The obverse looks better than the reverse. But as for grade, no idea on this type of coin.

The florin has, but not the halfcrown.

Not an open 3, when it is compared with known examples.

Quadrums is the way IMO

If it's the same size then put the two together so we can see the comparison. Are you really a genius?

“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.” j

In the larger picture it looks like the error is incuse or stamped into the coin. In the close up,it looks raised. Which is it? Are there any signs on the reverse or is it just on the obverse?

I think I have said this before about this coin "It is a beauty" and for me sums up what coin collecting is about. Wish I had it.

I think the photos in the first posting shows the difference really well. B = thin = single C = wide = double

I was looking at my 1940's the other day, I mistakenly thought that I had a double exergue, so bought a single to compliment it. However when I compared the two it turns out my original was a single also. Rather than calling them single or double, would it not be easier to call them thin and wide exergue? As to me they both look double and it's the width that gives it away.

I would disagree with "best for the bin" The coin has been around since 1899 and had a life. Leave it alone. Nice photos btw.

Hi Iain from another Ian, just spelt differently. Welcome to the forum.

Hallmarks run from Jan 1st and are changed to the next letter on the following Jan 1st. Sleepy was correct in saying 1934, the letter K would have been in use from the 1st Jan 1934 through to 1st Jan 1935. As these medals were to commerate the silver jubilee in 1935 they would have had to have been assayed in 1934 to carry that mark.