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Another one of those pesky pontefract pieces. He's even sold a fake Newark for £500. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-Pontefract-shilling-besieged-coin-hammered-silver-metal-detecting-find-1648/352394285588

I took my drone up to Wiswell moor yesterday. You could see the smoke off the Winter hill fire on the horizon. I've got friends in Southport who said the smoke was visible there yesterday along the coastline but i suspect thats incorrect as i heard some sand dunes had been lit by a disposable BBQ in Ainsdale.

Maybe. He has a lot of transactions with Field_walker. I'll keep my eye out for it again as it may well brazenly reappear. I saw one she was selling go for over £300 if it was that one they may well be eager to recuperate their losses after realising its fake. I think the original source for them is Dorchesters.com. i presume the manufacturer sprays them with something to make them look toned or aged.

Try and get it looked at. I could well be wrong but either way it's still a very interesting and intriguing find regardless of age. Some FLO will identify by email so no need to send it in.

The patina is not right for a mesolithic piece. It could be a Thames pick that's been retouched as they call it. I think possibly someone else found it in the late Neo or early Bronze age and reworked it. Heres mine , you can see what I mean about tranchet flakes. The front edge and 2 side flakes where caused by one strike to the upper highlighted area. Pieces made during the mesolithic were not as well worked as yours. I would take it along to your FLO. It could be useful in proving how long the area has been occupied.

Which is a similar attitude to field_walker when she's been challenged with her interesting token metal detecting find listings. I think she's sold about 3 of those this year. He's obviously been stupid enough to buy her patter and bought one.

You know as well as i do a coin like that that would have a direct line of provenance. They don't just turn up , if they did they would be put before an FLO somewhere and recorded. The reason i said it's cast is precisely as stated it's got casting bubbles all over it which have been made even clearer by cleaning it. It also looks the same as one's that have been identified as known copies even down to the sooty look which has now been removed from it. He's even left feedback with a known seller of them field_walker. There not even good copies lol , souvenir shop ones!

Cool. Perhaps people were just following on with the old style or shape. I have a partial broken thames pick but the flake patterns are nowhere as advanced as that. Mine are just singlular strikes creating large one piece flakes. I'd let your FLO look at that.

Cast siege piece. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-Pontefract-besieged-coin-Charles-1st-shilling-1648-lozenge-shaped/192578139513

Nice find. Beautiful workmanship on it. Definitely a skilled knapper. I thought it was a thames pick when i first saw it but the workmanships too advanced for the mesolithic period.

Another dodgy siege piece. Relisted due to timewaster. I sincerely hope someone did it on purpose. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-Newark-Charles-1-siege-coin-1646-half-crown-silver-hammered-spinks-3140A/352388763463

Very very wrong. Ace-antiques nuff said. Rotten to the core them.

Shop with confidence. I love Collectors corner. Good bargains.

Ugg. Definitely moody that. Terrible replica if you can call it that.

It will definitely be from the volume of images that have been posted on to here. I used to be a computer technician. It's similar to a DOS attack. It slows everything down like wading though treacle.

It will be the images of the half crowns. I can remember someone flooding a forum i used years ago with huge imax images of earth. It shut it down completely.

Gas mark 2 or 148 C.

Thanks Frank. Great Job! 👍

This looks a wrongun. Seems mushy looking on the obverse and mintmarks not a known mintmark. It looks like RI which i assume is an abbreviation for replica. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hammered-Henry-V11-Silver-Groat-triple-band-crown-regular-issue/183230067257

That's the whole point. It was called Evasion coinage. If it looked exactly like a real coin of George III and you were caught with it then it was off the gallows or for transportation to Australia or the colonies. So the counterfeiters started making these coins/ tokens that had differences on them to the original coins to get round the laws and cheat the hangman or transportation. http://www.thecoppercorner.com/history/evasions_hist.html

I don't drink much anyway. I've got problems with my stomach that limit what i can drink. Think it was the drink that screwed it up hammering it in my wilder days.

I didn't get far but i had a lovely surprise BBQ thrown for my birthday yesterday. Wish we could have more weather like this weekend it's been amazing.

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.

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.

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