Leaderboard

Mine is a fabulous limited edition, personally designed by Fred Pistrucci, direct descendant of legendary Bernie Pistrucci - supplied in a platinum case for the first 5 orders received. Down payment of only £999 followed by 11 monthly payments of £799 and the deeds to your property.

@jaggy This from Dalton & Hamer: The arms of Glasgow are very ancient, and are attributed to St. Kentigern, who is said to have founded a small religious establishment on the banks of a tributary of the Clyde, where the City now stands, and that he hung a bell upon a tree near by, to call the worshippers. Now as to the “fish” and the “ring”: This refers to a certain queen who, tradition states, carried on an intrigue with a soldier, and gave to him a ring which she had received from the king. This ring was afterwards taken from the soldier while he slept, and, by the king was thrown into the Clyde, who later demanded its production by the queen; she, in her difficulty consulted the Saint, who had a newly caught fish brought, in which was found the ring, and thereby the king’s suspicions were allayed. But there appears a bird perched on a branch of the tree, to which no reference is made in the foregoing note. Another version is given in a manuscript note by the late Rev. W. R. Hay, M.A., vicar of Rochdale : ” The arms of Glasgow are—a tree in full leaf, a bird at the top of it, a bell hanging from the tree, and a salmon with a ring in its mouth. The story: A man promised marriage to a servant cook, and after having bought the wedding ring, refused to marry her. On her upbraiding him, he threw the ring over the bridge into the Clyde, and promised that if she found and brought it to him he would marry her. Some time after, in gutting a salmon for dinner, she found the ring in it ; on which she claimed the promise, and her lover married her. ” The tree is the woman ready to be married ; the bird at the top, her lover who would not come down ; the bell, that which should have rang for their marriage; and the salmon, that which swallowed the ring.” The following lines are current in Scotland on the subject:— ” Here’s a tree that never grew, Here’s a bird that never flew, Here’s a bell that never rung, And here’s a drunken salmon.” The salmon is described as “drunken” because it appears as floating on its back, this being the position of a dead fish in water.

So I bought this Token at Heritage last night. Graded MS64 RB, it is a Lanarkshire copper 1/2 Penny Token dated 1795. But the real reason I bought it is because it is from Glasgow with the Glasgow coat of arms on it and that is where I grew up and where, in many respects, I still think of as home. The photo is from Heritage.

in fact mine was the finest graded ever by a TPG so I polished it up for ebay...gonna be rich . My coins are bitches your coins are whitches.

Some truly wonderful new tokens and coins posted in this thread. I've been a bit "sparse" as of late, but I do check in from time to time. One particular note: @Paulus your photography is superb! Best, Brandon

I tend to use the comparison scale at the back of London Coin Auction catalogues which equates Fine as Sheldon 30 and GF as Sheldon 40. I find it overall a reasonable comparison, markflorida quotes it above. But then I frequently disagree, though usually to a fairly minor extent, with third party assigned grades and of course the coin not the slab takes priority. I have total empathy with Robs acceptability criteria. Only last week I removed a NGC MS 65 Victorian penny from its slab to remove a tiny (and thankfully superficial) fleck of active verdigris, you have to be so watchful even of a slabbed collection. I much prefer capsules. Jerry

Thankfully, description says 'may not ship to UK'.

No I don't, but thanks anyway - I don't want any 'battered' coins regardless of the rarity!

Dear me. What is this place coming to...

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

I haven't read a newspaper since they stopped wrapping my fish n chips with one.

Well, the sports results would be correct