Accumulator Posted March 30, 2011 Posted March 30, 2011 okay......this one is the mutz nutz....http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mint-Error-Rare-2-Pound-Coin-/220761943097?pt=UK_Coins_BritishDecimal_RL&hash=item33666fec39"Mint error" Quote
Peckris Posted March 30, 2011 Posted March 30, 2011 okay......this one is the mutz nutz....http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mint-Error-Rare-2-Pound-Coin-/220761943097?pt=UK_Coins_BritishDecimal_RL&hash=item33666fec39"Mint error" Quote
ski Posted March 30, 2011 Posted March 30, 2011 im patiently waiting for 5 listings of the very rare mint error middles!!!!!!!!!!! Quote
ski Posted March 30, 2011 Posted March 30, 2011 wow accumulator.......thats clearly a dot points to a green background variety Quote
Accumulator Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 Not a laugh at all....Please, please tell me this poor sandpapered penny isn't the Gouby X that I'm looking for! Even for 99p I think I'd rather keep an empty slot in my coin tray! :( Quote
DaveG38 Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 (edited) Not a laugh at all....Please, please tell me this poor sandpapered penny isn't the Gouby X that I'm looking for! Even for 99p I think I'd rather keep an empty slot in my coin tray! :( As far as I can judge, you are quite correct. That sad and sorry specimen is indeed the Gouby X or hollow neck type. In that condition for wear, worth £30 -£40 based on recent sales. As it is, well £0.99 looks about right if you can live with it. Edited April 4, 2011 by DaveG38 Quote
SionGilbey Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 Not a laugh at all....Please, please tell me this poor sandpapered penny isn't the Gouby X that I'm looking for! Even for 99p I think I'd rather keep an empty slot in my coin tray! :( WHY do people worldwide insist on ruining coins for no good reason... Quote
Peckris Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 Not a laugh at all....Please, please tell me this poor sandpapered penny isn't the Gouby X that I'm looking for! Even for 99p I think I'd rather keep an empty slot in my coin tray! :( As far as I can judge, you are quite correct. That sad and sorry specimen is indeed the Gouby X or hollow neck type. In that condition for wear, worth £30 -£40 based on recent sales. As it is, well £0.99 looks about right if you can live with it.The hollow neck is no longer the infallible predictor we worked out (see long thread in the Varieties sub-forum) : i.e. ALL Gouby X's have a hollow neck, but not all hollow necks are GX's. The I in BRITT is the only cast-iron guarantee. Quote
Accumulator Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 (edited) Not a laugh at all....Please, please tell me this poor sandpapered penny isn't the Gouby X that I'm looking for! Even for 99p I think I'd rather keep an empty slot in my coin tray! :( As far as I can judge, you are quite correct. That sad and sorry specimen is indeed the Gouby X or hollow neck type. In that condition for wear, worth £30 -£40 based on recent sales. As it is, well £0.99 looks about right if you can live with it.The hollow neck is no longer the infallible predictor we worked out (see long thread in the Varieties sub-forum) : i.e. ALL Gouby X's have a hollow neck, but not all hollow necks are GX's. The I in BRITT is the only cast-iron guarantee.Very true about the 'hollow neck', but this penny clearly has the I of BRITT to a tooth unfortunately. What a waste! I've bid 99p just to say I've got one. Edited April 4, 2011 by Accumulator Quote
SionGilbey Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 Not a laugh at all....Please, please tell me this poor sandpapered penny isn't the Gouby X that I'm looking for! Even for 99p I think I'd rather keep an empty slot in my coin tray! :( As far as I can judge, you are quite correct. That sad and sorry specimen is indeed the Gouby X or hollow neck type. In that condition for wear, worth £30 -£40 based on recent sales. As it is, well £0.99 looks about right if you can live with it.The hollow neck is no longer the infallible predictor we worked out (see long thread in the Varieties sub-forum) : i.e. ALL Gouby X's have a hollow neck, but not all hollow necks are GX's. The I in BRITT is the only cast-iron guarantee.Is it I to the gap? I can't quite remember the CM study... Quote
Accumulator Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 Is it I to the gap? I can't quite remember the CM study...You're looking for I of BRITT pointing to a tooth, not a gap. Quote
Gary Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 Not a laugh at all....Please, please tell me this poor sandpapered penny isn't the Gouby X that I'm looking for! Even for 99p I think I'd rather keep an empty slot in my coin tray! :( As far as I can judge, you are quite correct. That sad and sorry specimen is indeed the Gouby X or hollow neck type. In that condition for wear, worth £30 -£40 based on recent sales. As it is, well £0.99 looks about right if you can live with it.looked at that one myself and came to the same conclusion, Gouby X Quote
Gary D Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 Not a laugh at all....Please, please tell me this poor sandpapered penny isn't the Gouby X that I'm looking for! Even for 99p I think I'd rather keep an empty slot in my coin tray! :( As far as I can judge, you are quite correct. That sad and sorry specimen is indeed the Gouby X or hollow neck type. In that condition for wear, worth £30 -£40 based on recent sales. As it is, well £0.99 looks about right if you can live with it.looked at that one myself and came to the same conclusion, Gouby X Who's going to be brave enought to ask him a question..... like do you know you have just ruined a rare coin that would have been worth £30-40.Still recon my shilling is the best though Quote
DaveG38 Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 (edited) Not a laugh at all....Please, please tell me this poor sandpapered penny isn't the Gouby X that I'm looking for! Even for 99p I think I'd rather keep an empty slot in my coin tray! :( As far as I can judge, you are quite correct. That sad and sorry specimen is indeed the Gouby X or hollow neck type. In that condition for wear, worth £30 -£40 based on recent sales. As it is, well £0.99 looks about right if you can live with it.looked at that one myself and came to the same conclusion, Gouby X Who's going to be brave enought to ask him a question..... like do you know you have just ruined a rare coin that would have been worth £30-40.Still recon my shilling is the best thoughI can never get over what some people do to coins. In my early restarted collecting days (1995), I was ferreting through a tin of old coins in a local antique dealers only to find to my delight a pratically uncirculated cartwheel tuppence. No edge knocks, no problems, except some idiot had drilled a fuc*ing great hole right through it - aaaaagh!!! Edited April 5, 2011 by DaveG38 Quote
SionGilbey Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 Not a laugh at all....Please, please tell me this poor sandpapered penny isn't the Gouby X that I'm looking for! Even for 99p I think I'd rather keep an empty slot in my coin tray! :( As far as I can judge, you are quite correct. That sad and sorry specimen is indeed the Gouby X or hollow neck type. In that condition for wear, worth £30 -£40 based on recent sales. As it is, well £0.99 looks about right if you can live with it.looked at that one myself and came to the same conclusion, Gouby X Who's going to be brave enought to ask him a question..... like do you know you have just ruined a rare coin that would have been worth £30-40.Still recon my shilling is the best thoughI can never get over what some people do to coins. In my early restarted collecting days (1995), I was ferreting through a tin of old coins in a local antique dealers only to find to my delight a pratically uncirculated cartwheel tuppence. No edge knocks, no problems, except some idiot had drilled a fuc*ing great hole right through it - aaaaagh!!!Some lovely coins in bulk lots I've bought have had holes in... They went straight to scrap. However sometimes people will still buy them just to fill that gap in the coin tray. Quote
scott Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 i bought a bulk buy for a george IV halfpenny... it had a holed JH silver coin in.... it was an 1888 groat, thats a gap filler. cos those are scarce as. Quote
SionGilbey Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 i bought a bulk buy for a george IV halfpenny... it had a holed JH silver coin in.... it was an 1888 groat, thats a gap filler. cos those are scarce as. However some coins can be holed at the time quite well, and not too rare ones either, so are quite wearable as a lucky pendant. I've got a silver threepence...Probably either a love token, home made jewellery as silver was expensive for a working person back then or a jeweller/engraver's apprentice's practice piece being the smallest silver denomination. Quote
Gary Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 I can never get over what some people do to coins. In my early restarted collecting days (1995), I was ferreting through a tin of old coins in a local antique dealers only to find to my delight a pratically uncirculated cartwheel tuppence. No edge knocks, no problems, except some idiot had drilled a fuc*ing great hole right through it - aaaaagh!!!sorry Dave, had to chuckle at that one Quote
azda Posted April 6, 2011 Posted April 6, 2011 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Unique-94-Threepence-3d-1941-Error-no-1-s-LOOK-/260740425986?pt=UK_Coins_BritishMilled_RL&hash=item3cb5572902 Quote
Cerbera100 Posted April 6, 2011 Posted April 6, 2011 Thats been around the houses as well... certainly the second if not third seller I'm seen with that! Quote
argentumandcoins Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 A MINT 1892 Penny my friends.....http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VICTORIA-1892-ONE-PENNY-MINT-/230606558468?pt=UK_Coins_BritishMilled_RL&hash=item35b138d504 Quote
SionGilbey Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 A MINT 1892 Penny my friends.....http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VICTORIA-1892-ONE-PENNY-MINT-/230606558468?pt=UK_Coins_BritishMilled_RL&hash=item35b138d504Oh be fair that's only got a few bag marks... Quote
1949threepence Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 I can never get over what some people do to coins. In my early restarted collecting days (1995), I was ferreting through a tin of old coins in a local antique dealers only to find to my delight a pratically uncirculated cartwheel tuppence. No edge knocks, no problems, except some idiot had drilled a fuc*ing great hole right through it - aaaaagh!!!Why have so many coins from around that era, got bloody holes drilled through them ?There must be a reasonNot only that, why are there so many with initials & such like stamped on them ? Quote
declanwmagee Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 I can never get over what some people do to coins. In my early restarted collecting days (1995), I was ferreting through a tin of old coins in a local antique dealers only to find to my delight a pratically uncirculated cartwheel tuppence. No edge knocks, no problems, except some idiot had drilled a fuc*ing great hole right through it - aaaaagh!!!Why have so many coins from around that era, got bloody holes drilled through them ?There must be a reasonNot only that, why are there so many with initials & such like stamped on them ?Trench art maybe? Let's face it, you'd cling on to anything you thought might be lucky in Passchendaele. Quote
Peckris Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 I can never get over what some people do to coins. In my early restarted collecting days (1995), I was ferreting through a tin of old coins in a local antique dealers only to find to my delight a pratically uncirculated cartwheel tuppence. No edge knocks, no problems, except some idiot had drilled a fuc*ing great hole right through it - aaaaagh!!!Why have so many coins from around that era, got bloody holes drilled through them ?There must be a reasonNot only that, why are there so many with initials & such like stamped on them ?The ones with initials on are often love tokens. You can just imagine the Barry White of his day grunting "Of course I luuuuuurv ya girl - look I've inscribed a whole week's wages with our initials on." Quote
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