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My 1879 narrow date penny from the recent DNW auction has arrived. I'd estimate at GEF with some residual lustre. Really pleased, as this particular variety is extremely difficult to get in high grade, but not too scarce in grades up to VF. Bit like the 1864.

Hello everyone! This is my first post on www.predecimal.com. I look forward to participating in your forum and getting to know all of you. Born in the U.S.A., I lived in England during the period 1966-1970. That's when I became fascinated by British coins. Back then I'd occasionally find well-worn Victoria pennies in circulation. The first time I found one of those, it was so worn that the lettering was almost completely gone. I had to ask my father who that was on the obverse side. It didn't take me long to figure out that I could learn the history of the monarchy just by going through my pocket change. I don't know much about grading British coins but I'm hoping to learn more through this forum.

Despite the proclamation I don't see it as a coin. I can't spend it in my local shop. To me, it's just a round shiny thing.

I have, like many people a tub full of junk foreign coins of no value. I plan on giving them to a charity but what does the charity do with them?

Both crackers them Paddy. Love em!

Of course we like tickets, because they contain useful info. The new one is obviously Ray's, but the other is difficult to place. This coin was bought at the Lockett sale by Spink who listed it in the Circular for Dec 1955 item RCL72, VF, £5/15/-, so the 60/- price on the ticket would imply that it was close to that date if it post-dates Lockett, or alternatively it could be the price Lockett paid. I don't know when he acquired it. I initially thought that the C/67 fraction meant it was a Seaby ticket, implying it was bought at Christies in 1967. If so it would have to be one of the two sales for that year where I am missing the catalogue - 9th May and 10th Oct. Whatever, it is not a Lockett ticket. A cursory glance for items 7832 and 4570 drew a blank. Not much help really. A key to dating this will be the Brooke reference Br.13, as it constrains the period.

As requested by Rob, this ticket from my new Henry II Penny. Apparently this is a "Ray Inder" ticket.

En francais il applait Guillaume le batard.

The other one was this Henry II Northampton Penny as an upgrade:

Well both my major purchases at DNW were hammered. Edward the Elder Penny to fill that gap in my sequence of Wessex monarchs:

Yes, and the second was so unpopular that he was probably murdered. The third was an imported Dutchman and the fourth was "Silly Billy". Anyway, at the present rate our next king will probably be "Vladimir I".

Oxfam sends all of theirs to their head office where it gets sorted and sold online - normally they ask too much for what they're trying to sell imho. e.g https://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/stamps-and-coins/coins-and-banknotes/british-coin-collection-hd_101331173

Astounded how quickly my DNW auction win from the Hiram Brown collection, has arrived. Only paid yesterday. I also noticed that the invoice was posted in my account within 3 hours of the win, and the procedure to pay online could not have been more user friendly . That's a welcome departure from previously, when even several days afterwards, all you would see was the previous invoice, and you had to ring them to pay. Well done DNW. I actually managed to do something online without it being overly time consuming, complex and annoying. Kudos to them.

nice matte proof one up for sale at sovereign rarities next week, some big old gouges on the obverse, who do they get on a proof coin

I am with Jon on this one and think he describes it well.......A round shiny thing 🙂

I think it is a coin, because it was mentioned is such in the following Royal Proclamation... https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/2538345 The other gold coin mentioned in the Proclamation, the £25 Shakespeare coin is listed in Spink vol2 4th edition, on page 95 as item O1. So perhaps was just missed by the Spink catalogue last time. However I may have missed the £25 Peter Rabbit in Spink, as I find searching the listing not easy! I wish all coins with the same face value and metal were grouped together in a single list by date rather than having them split in sections for commemorative's, Britannia's etc.

The Japanese like their gold, as do a few other nations such as Switzerland, Germany, India etc. They should be treated just like any other issue - each to their own. This is presumably a manifestation of the link up between Sovereign Rarities and the Royal Mint as promoted in recent literature.

I wouldn't be surprised either if there were a handful - say comparable to the numbers of the smaller denominations, but the large number so attributed leads me to play devil's advocate. Having said that, I stand by my comments about Mrs N only having a 1934. As the go to cash cow for the large London dealers over a period of 25 years, I am surprised that she only had the 1934, as you would have expected the large houses to come up with more in such a lengthy period if they existed in appreciable numbers. After all, she did manage nearly a complete set of all the smaller coins.

Isn't that Chewbacca after a big night out?

Proof they exist - this one charges $12 a pic or $8 for a selfie - well hes got to live somehow hasn't he?