Elizabeth I Sixpence

[dave-lowe]

This Elizabeth I Sixpence reads "IVORE", and it appears that someone has tried to insert the missing T. It certainly looks like there is the base of a T, and a trace of the top stroke.

The coin has a rather blotchy tone, but it is the larger flan variety. We know that errors on hammered coins aren't regarded as important, but they are still very interesting.

[Coinery]

Hi Dave,

I'd say that was just a striking error, you can see a level of rotation at the 9 O'clock leaf, and the inner beads in the same quarter!

[azda]

You mean blatant errors such as this but unrecorded?

[Coinery]

You mean blatant errors such as this but unrecorded?

I'd love to one day extend the work by BCW to include legend errors and, as I've mentioned before, perhaps even a die-study!

You just can't have a job at the same time, unfortunately! Wouldn't that be a great way to while away a life?

[Nicholas]

You mean blatant errors such as this but unrecorded?

[Nicholas]

Inverted A for a V, love it..

[azda]

Not quite aure, but does the V in POSVI also look like an A?

[azda]

Also an A for V in IVTORE

[Coinery]

Someone definitely mislaid/mistook or broke the V punch! This is one of the earliest of the beaded Lis reverses, it would be interesting to see whether it was a one off die, or whether others were made?

That's where a die-study would be an amazing thing to have access to!

[azda]

Finding enough 2b shillings might be the problem though

[Coinery]

Finding enough 2b shillings might be the problem though

Just a bit of one, though the reverse may have been paired up with other obverses? I'm away from my books until tomorrow! Edited October 26, 2014 by Coinery

[Coinery]

This is always worth a read when you can't get to hard-copy books, though!

http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1988_BNJ_58_9.pdf

[Michael-Roo]

This is always worth a read when you can't get to hard-copy books, though!

http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1988_BNJ_58_9.pdf

Excellent. That's my evening sorted then.

[Rob]

I have a spare vol.58 if anyone wants one.

[Peter]

This is always worth a read when you can't get to hard-copy books, though!

http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1988_BNJ_58_9.pdf

I must resist.

Getting a decent portrait on an E1 is hard enough.

[Coinery]

I have a spare vol.58 if anyone wants one.

I'm going to my dad's tomorrow. If I haven't got a copy there, I'll have it!

[sound]

Peter,

This one's a shilling. Think the bust is good for a Liz1

Mark

[azda]

It is, but the REV is a little double struck

[sound]

So it is but not much. More that made up for on the obverse.

[Coinery]

Peter,

This one's a shilling. Think the bust is good for a Liz1

Mark

That's also a very nice bust, are they your images, Mark?

[DaveG38]

Peter,

This one's a shilling. Think the bust is good for a Liz1

Mark

That's also a very nice bust, are they your images, Mark?

I once knew a girl named Liz and she had a really nice bust!!!

[Coinery]

Well that's that, Dave G, we've lost this thread now!

Peter?

It's funny, I once dated a girl called Victoria, she also had an attractive bun bust!

[sound]

Yes they are my pictures. Almost frightened to comment, not sure where it will go. Should it be called a portrait?

Mark

[Coinery]

Yes they are my pictures. Almost frightened to comment, not sure where it will go. Should it be called a portrait?

Mark

Can I have a copy of the obverse image to cut out and add to my collection/future-website of e1 busts?

[sound]

Yes they are my pictures. Almost frightened to comment, not sure where it will go. Should it be called a portrait?

Mark

Can I have a copy of the obverse image to cut out and add to my collection/future-website of e1 busts?

Yes of course. I will get it off to you.

Mark