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Just joined the group. Hi My facebook page GRUNAL MONETA has a series of high resolution images of every sub-class of Edward I and II along with identification notes and extreme close ups of letters crowns etc https://www.facebook.com/Grunal-Moneta-654941368041899/photos/?ref=page_internal they are all found in the Albums section to get the full unfo just click on the photo

The biggest joke about this Elizabeth replica is that it's mostly called a sixpence! And I might be feeling a little bit unsympathetic tonight (OK, maybe a lot), but anyone that wants to buy an Elizabeth sixpence with that bust stamped upon what is a so-called sixpence coin, that looks like a plastic/pewter threepence, really needs to get their act together. make sure your first £30-£50 spent on Elizabethan Coinage is on BCW's Elizabethan Silver Coinage book. Once you own and read this book, the pewter coins we see everyday on eBay will trouble you no more! WARNING - if you buy this book, you'll be hooked...enjoy!

Get yerself a bit of quality: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VERY-RARE-LOW-TIDE-HALF-PENNY-OF-1902-EDWARD-II-/253212495962?hash=item3af4a4105a:g:b7kAAOSwDmBY4ktS

Well done for finding this Stu - this is so detrimental as these menaces are cropping up time and time again. Unfortunately since they are being sold as replicas the company selling them is doing 'nothing' wrong - certainly in the blinkered eyes of eBay, but they will provide a steady source for the conmen to sell.

I see the Royal Mint is doing a Christmas Sixpence are they worth going for to add to my sixpence collection, or to be avoided. I see they also did one in 2016 which was limited to 5000 and have sold out now. There is no mention of a limited amount for this year though. I may just get one just to see what there like in hand.

..and they're selling Charles II & William III Crowns in Fine for £395 and £325 as part of their 'Historic' range - it's starting to look like Coincraft.

Isn't that the excessively rare Tsunami high tide with halloween pumpkin essay mark?

I've got Bole 1 -5 here, but they haven't been listed yet. PM me if you have no joy.

Rob has covered the Ed VII silver question. Re the reference books there is nothing in particular for any of the milled series issues that is relevant only to one denomination. The general books that will help you are ESC (recently reworked by Maurice Bull), Davies (silver coinage since 1816 and supplied by Rob) and then any specific sixpence collection auction catalogues (most recent being the Alfred Bole collection).

Yet more rubbish from China... http://www.ebay.com/itm/UK-1797-George-III-Cartwheel-Two-Pence-Coins-/162713531231?hash=item25e27b735f:g:RT8AAOSwDmRZ456w

The number of coins minted is pretty much a function of the orders placed by the clearing banks, with the first year of a reign usually oversupplied as this is not so easy to anticipate. If the banks order £100K worth of 50p pieces, the RM will make them. There is no predetermined formula, just a case of good old supply and demand.

https://www.galata.co.uk/store.asp?storeAction=showDetail&stockID=6511&stockMasterCategoriesID=8 enjoy! It's a wonderful record of Elizabethan coins!

Brilliant! Great work following this through! Dave's extremely passionate about coins, a great contact! ?

Update: I emailed Dave at www.grunal.com asking is this was one of his coins and he sent a very helpful and informative reply. He has given me permission to repeat what he said here. "Hi, yes for that one for a re-enactment group about 12 years ago. My coins are all identified by the mintname TANVATS or moneyers name GRVNAL. Commissions for Reenactment societies are usually customised with the groups name in place of the mint signature. For example a die set produced for the Woodville Household has the reverse legend VILLA WOODVILLE. It is very important for new collectors to invest in numerous books on coins such as Spinks Coinage of England, JJ North English Hammered Coinage and the Galata Guides all of which give the readings for the official mints. Any thing not to be found in these books should be regarded as suspect". I then asked what the reverse text said and he replied: "The Reverse reads COMP. OF CHIVALRY (re-enactment group) probably struck in pewter feel free to forward my responses". Which was good to know since trying to decipher it had been driving me nuts! A really nice guy who went out of his way to answer my questions and even offered advice on resources that would be helpful when identifying hammered coins, including info on Galata guides and BNJ and Spinks Numismatic Circular journals etc. I hope this information might help others.

I,ve bookmarked it anyway for future reference. Maundy coins and everything in there!

A very interesting can of worms, Mick. It introduces the idea of the condition rarity - coins that are common in low grade, but disproportionately scarce in high grades. The best insight, over and above my own findings (which, after all this time, are not inconsiderable), I've found is the book "the Standard Catalogue of English Milled Coinage", written by Cope and Rayner, published 1975, in which they give relative rarity ratings for coins in a range of grades. Rob Pearce sold me my copy, he may have some more, but it's an excellent reference...

Ouch! Don't like that one bit....Well, I'll look the other way as others get happy.

Its nice, people like to collect these.

An 1867 die 2 shilling where someone has engraved an elephant on the relief.