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Ukstu

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  1. Ukstu

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    You'd be surprised at how many antiquities are fake. It's worse than coins. I often see stone age stuff that's fresh with fake patina , the bronze age stuffs the same. You really need to be on the ball nowadays if your buying stuff on eBay, there's just as many crooks as geniune sellers.
  2. Ukstu

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    He's extremely well known for peddling fakes. Mike Vosper has a few bandits listed on his home page as a warning , ace antiques is one of them. If you email details of rogue sellers to mike he will add more to his website.
  3. Ukstu

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    It even had a little R stamped in the upper left quadrant. Bet a few hundred people reported it.
  4. Ukstu

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Real-AETHELRED-II-978-1016-Saxon-silver-coin-longcross-very-good-condition/153011605487
  5. Ukstu

    Recent Hammered Acquisitions

    Thanks. Its one of those dodgy Danbury mint coins with the Coa. I loathe them but it was cheap so i bought it. Not sure what the deposits were it was like a green crust that broke off in bits. Didn't seem like verdigris. Wonder if it was part of the Brussels hoard perhaps.
  6. Ukstu

    Recent Hammered Acquisitions

    Picked this up cheap as it had heavy green deposits on the R in Henric and N in On. Managed with distilled water and toothpick to flake it off. Henry III Long cross penny Class 5c2. c.1253 -1256 Ad Ricard at London mint.
  7. Ukstu

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    I've been melting better than that for jewellery projects.
  8. Ukstu

    Mints and Moneyers

    Good prices. I paid £40 for the pair about 10 years ago. Snap em up!
  9. Ukstu

    Mints and Moneyers

    Try here if you don't mind a pre owned copy. https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/english-hammered-coinage/author/north-j-j/used/
  10. Ukstu

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    Good stuff. Always nice to see one get pulled. Not coin related but still fraud. This guy thinks he's the new billy and charley (but he's crap at it) 😃 I've been watching him for months now knocking out terrible supposed ancient artifacts. Looks like he's making them in tin/ pewter. Feel free to report his "finds" https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/skali00/m.html?item=183184663032
  11. Who ever it was wasn't very good at spotting a fake. I've just glanced at they're previous posts. 3 coins they posted were fake. I really do not believe that coin was hoarded away in a tin. Perhaps they felt the old tin story would give it some false provenance but for what reason i don't know.
  12. I think a lot of the 1 time or guest posters who come on here out of the blue asking for advice on a coins authenticity or value with an eBay link are the actual sellers trying to draw attention to their lots. This guy was probably trying to do a similar thing and possibly pass it off to somebody on here. I just hope nobody fell for it.
  13. Ukstu

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    Really bad looking thing. Hideous! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/King-Charles-1st-silver-hammered-Three-Pence-Coin-Very-Rare-Collectable/173267725529
  14. If he did i hope nobody from here bought it after pming him..🤤 That's one bad egg to have in the nest.
  15. Ukstu

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Collectable-King-Henry-VI-Groat-1422-30-Mint-Mark-Pierced-Cross-Calais/123066706331 Another of those heart shape marked replica coins. Slight variation as its on the right on this one.
  16. Congratulations. Good find! I take the occasional gamble myself on mixed lots but I've not had much luck. I usually come worse off. It's good to hear a success story. One in a million that. Treasure it. Stu.
  17. I love crayons but i couldn't eat a whole one 😆
  18. Why does the toning not match on both pictures? Seems odd. It's as if they were taken by different camera's. If it's true he's very very lucky !
  19. Ukstu

    Plantagenet Coins

    Great news Stu. Well done. Keep us posted on the book , i am always on the lookout for quality books about Plantagenet coinage.
  20. Ukstu

    Help deciphering a mint - Tealby Penny

    Both Canterbury Long cross pennies. Ones by Robert the others Nichole. Both are later ones with sceptre. Try here for more information. They have a rough price list on there. http://www.henry3.com
  21. Ukstu

    Recent Hammered Acquisitions

    It does look new yes i agree. I couldn't say if it was fake though from the image. I suppose if it was in circulation not long before it got lost it could be like that. I think they were the accepted equivalent of a groat when whole so the half would be half groat.
  22. Ukstu

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    Nice work frank ! What made me think she was lying is that she said it was bent and her BF straightened it. There is no sign it was ever creased plus pewter tends to break when creased. Thats what made me think it was a crook , not sure why that was included in the description.
  23. Ukstu

    Recent Hammered Acquisitions

    The groat is Henry VII ( Canterbury mint ) the cut halfs a double patard of charles the bold.
  24. Ukstu

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    Has been told by people it's fake but isn't convinced! The spiels hilarious. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HAMMERED-ELIZABETH-1-SILVER-SIXPENCE-FROM-THE-YEAR-1562-TUDOR-MINT-MARK-PHEON/253532308810
  25. Ukstu

    Recent Hammered Acquisitions

    http://www.henry3.com/norwich---3a-to-3ab.html Pretty certain it's the second coin down on the list. OR ligated , pellet in the Z.
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