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Which one would you like? Postage only...

I can't afford one YET but it is on my coin radar. My eldest daughter visited yesterday and I flippantly told her to help herself to my change pot...she took the lot.Word will get out and my youngest will visit soon. Siege piece will have to wait..

Picked up a very nice F28 a few days ago - auction estimate a very silly £80 - needless to say other people bid me much higher !

New variety Edward I 1301-1310 Farthing for me (sellers pics). The slightly rarer Withers Type 28 (maybe 28c - will check ?apostrophe after REX when it’s delivered), North Class 10 [N1058], with Crown M (Blunt).

Maurice Bull's Charles I Half Crowns vols. 3, 4 & 5 covers that denomination. Morrieson's articles in the BNJ cover the various mints, Lyall's Chester in the SNC, Allen's W/SA in the BNJ, Hird's work on Newark, specialist denomination volumes will have the appropriate coins. Then there is private research.

I nearly started this one a while ago but decided I was seeing things. Anyway, without further ado ... Am I still seeing things please, and if so, what? ( I know what I think I see). A 1908 Penny Obverse for your pleasure.

What i mean Zoo is its in the book as 1893/2 not just the coin pictured all of them with the downward bit below , not sure if they are all really a 2. If the coin has more lustre or viewed through a glass you can see more clearly.

Neat capture - love that phrase "brutally honest state"

Yes it looks good to me but way overpriced again

Nope but I can see a possibility for a 1 the top right serif and there could well be a part of an upright in that bottom curve of the 3? Ahhh so that's what it looks like

That one is RT

Thanks guys, some semblance of sanity has been restored Very pleased as that was in a £10 lot along with a couple of viccies I was far more interested in!

Looks like an F164a ..1*+C .nice.

No your not seeing things ,what a fantastic find and HAT OFF. Whats the Reverse like ?.

Another superb farthing Stu! 🙂You've been having lots of luck with this Plantagenet series lately 👍

Hopefully back in 2007 I had a convincing argument for them change the rules. Body bagging rare varieties with no record taken is depriving the whole coin collecting fraternity of coins they would never know about. Imagine they did it to any of the super rare varieties we have. Just because it has something deemed not fit for grading purpose because of verdigris it doesn't stop it being a coin actually minted and actually being a variety. As long as the label says what is wrong with the coin it has a rightful place in coin databases. Short version my argument then was who are they to decide what is or what is not a variety. They are there to give the coin an MOT that is all. Collectors decide what they will collect not TPG's . ultra Rare coins in any condition will be purchased by collectors . I had loads returned with some minute spot on an UNC coin with nothing to say what it was. Just ungraded in a plastic wallet. Not their place to designate what a variety is only to confirm or dismiss it being what is being sent in for.

yes but not much in that grade

been trudging round the same field since xmas, had a feeling summit special might be hiding after finding part of a Saxon horse horse bridle bit, just cannot seem to get my hammy count beyond Henry II, anyway they come in all shapes and sizes and i still cannot identify a mint or moneyer lol at least it has a face , happy days

Something's gone wrong (for me) in the Copper Tokens thread, so I will post this newbie here, seeing as it's a penny ... 1796 Birmingham copper penny token by Thomas Wyon

Its nothing to do with the pictures or the listing really I just dont like people selling coins for a grand in an auction and then telling lies to not sell it. I also dont like people who arrange to meet you and sell you something for cash and tell lies again. I also dont like people selling Fakes that have been in there collection forty years but were only made twelve months before. I also dont like someone who sells at shows and knows the values trying to catch someone out by asking £500 more for a coin of not much value. Basiclly i just dont like the seller and people who tell lies

Sorry about that - finger trouble! - somehow I managed to lose the image of the obverse - I'll try again... Frank

Picked this up at Heritage on Thursday.