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Latest, a Bath penny Conder token, D&H 4

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My latest Pidcock ½ pence, D&H457 which arrived this morning. Opinions on grade welcome, I'm thinking around a good very fine? 

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This was one of my purchases yesterday from my regular outings to the Malvern flea fair....

Antwerp coin/trade weight, 15x15mm weight of 3gm. I believe it dates from 1597 but I'm still checking up on that and the makers initials

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On 4/3/2019 at 2:29 PM, will1976 said:

My latest Pidcock ½ pence, D&H457 which arrived this morning. Opinions on grade welcome, I'm thinking around a good very fine? 

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pretty sure a EF Very nice 

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1 hour ago, copper123 said:

pretty sure a EF Very nice 

Respectfully .. too much wear for EF. GVF seems nearer the mark.

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11 hours ago, will1976 said:

This was one of my purchases yesterday from my regular outings to the Malvern flea fair....

Antwerp coin/trade weight, 15x15mm weight of 3gm. I believe it dates from 1597 but I'm still checking up on that and the makers initials

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There are so many of these who’s makers are unknown but I believe this is Hans Fonck 1577-1603.

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15 minutes ago, Diaconis said:

 

12 hours ago, will1976 said:

This was one of my purchases yesterday from my regular outings to the Malvern flea fair....

Antwerp coin/trade weight, 15x15mm weight of 3gm. I believe it dates from 1597 but I'm still checking up on that and the makers initials

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There are so many of these who’s makers are unknown but I believe this

 

It’s a weight for a Dutch 1 Real / Keizers-real / Konings-reaal - (1521 - 1598) - goud - 5,3gr. 

If you check the weight it should be 5.3gr??

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@Diaconis I will double check the weight once I get home tonight but I'm pretty certain it came in at 3 grams

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4 hours ago, will1976 said:

@Diaconis I will double check the weight once I get home tonight but I'm pretty certain it came in at 3 grams

The obverse denotes the coin to be weighed, the Gold 1 Real of std. wt 5.32 g. 

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Fonck made weights for English, Dutch, Portuguese, French coins, quite prolific.

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@Diaconis just re checked the weight and it comes in at 3gm exactly. I'm a little confused now as the picture you included in your last post is an exact match :wacko:

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25 minutes ago, will1976 said:

@Diaconis just re checked the weight and it comes in at 3gm exactly. I'm a little confused now as the picture you included in your last post is an exact match :wacko:

Will,

 

just sent you a PM

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My two latest Kempson half pence's from the Birmingham series, I'm particularly pleased with the new meeting one as it shows a lot more lustre in hand. Just 10 left to find now!

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21 minutes ago, will1976 said:

My two latest Kempson half pence's from the Birmingham series, I'm particularly pleased with the new meeting one as it shows a lot more lustre in hand. Just 10 left to find now!

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Gorgeous examples!

So you're one of the Birmingham Kempson buildings collectors I'm competing against!

Funnily enough I also have 10 left to collect:

150    ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S CHAPEL.
159    THE OLD MEETING DESTROY'D
167    MEETING PARADISE STRT
171    ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL.
180    GENERAL HOSPITAL
184    LIBRARY
186    BIRM WORKHOUSE
194    BLUE SCHOOL
202    THE NEW BRASS WORKS
205    NEW BREWERY
 

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16 minutes ago, Paulus said:

So you're one of the Birmingham Kempson buildings collectors I'm competing against!

Yes I'm afraid so and i need six of the ten you listed! The ones I need are:

167 Meeting Paradise strt

169 Jerusalem Temple

177 Barracks Erected

184 Birmingham Library

186 Birmingham Workhouse

191 Welch Cross

194 Blue School

202 New Brass Works

205 New Brewery

212 Soho Manufactory

I did have the opportunity to buy the Welch Cross example but it had a bad corrosion spot on the reverse so I declined it in the hope of finding a better example. Do any of yours have the Ottley reverse? I've not come across any so far

 

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16 minutes ago, will1976 said:

Yes I'm afraid so and i need six of the ten you listed! The ones I need are:

167 Meeting Paradise strt

169 Jerusalem Temple

177 Barracks Erected

184 Birmingham Library

186 Birmingham Workhouse

191 Welch Cross

194 Blue School

202 New Brass Works

205 New Brewery

212 Soho Manufactory

I did have the opportunity to buy the Welch Cross example but it had a bad corrosion spot on the reverse so I declined it in the hope of finding a better example. Do any of yours have the Ottley reverse? I've not come across any so far

 

No Ottley reverses, no, and I haven't come across one either! And I've only got one reverse 4 example:

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I don't have an example of reverse 4 yet but I'd like one as it has the 'twentyseven public buildings....' legend and it just seems to fit well with the others. 

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My purchase from Thursday's DNW sale, D+H177 in brass, which arrived this morning 

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Yes, just leaves 8 to go now. I'm thinking of starting on the Gloucester series next 

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I'm down to 9 after picking this up from The Druid last month

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