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No mate. I just clicked on trade and found that link to the coin stock page.

Different coins. Just found their catalogue. Shocking. There isn't much they are not replicating. http://trade.ancestors.co.uk/products/timeline/coins

They are a pain in the arse at the moment. Starting to see more and more different types. Think this is the company making them. http://www.ancestors.co.uk/index.php

Fake. The little heart on the reverse left of the sheild shows its a replica. Fairly common one that we see a lot. Here's a few others from the same company in their packaging. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ANCESTORS-4-COIN-HAMMERED-NOVELTY-REPRODUCTIONS-in-sealed-packs/192335788555

Reported! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1562-Queen-Elizabeth-1st-hammered-coin/162714688912

I have two piedforts. The 1990 & 1994. Picked them up cheap a few years ago as investments.

Nice selection of historical coins. Well done! ?

The reverse legend is nonsense and the obverse legends incorrect from any Edward coins ive seen. It doesn't make sense , thats the major giveaway. Plus as you say its sharp and bright. You do see nonsensical legends on continental coins imitating english coins but you can see there aged and are contemporary to the period, this does not look old. When i first saw it on eBay with the sellers pictures i thought it looked plastic or pewter.

There's a few companies make them. Grunal is a guess. I am certain its a fantasy mix up. It does not meet the criteria of any Edward coins that I've ever seen.

No. He tends to put nonsensical legends on them. Sometimes Civitas Grunal but mainly just random letters.

Looking at it close up now I'd say its one of dave greenhalgh. (Moneta Grunal).

5th October.

Think i posted this in eBays worst offerings last week. I felt it was a replica.

Bring on the gimp ?

Nice coin. Nothing wrong with pecks. It tells a story. I keep meaning to buy one of these myself but get side tracked by other purchases. Definitely on my near future list though.

Disappointed ! ? https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/162695896234 I think i am going to have to buy one of these and list it on ebay as a fake with a million pound price mark so it stays there as a warning to others. Sick to the back teeth of seeing these go for hundreds of pounds. Its ridiculous

That is bad. I've got a few hq pieces i want slabbed myself but unsure as Nomortuus is on who to use. I ain't sending them overseas. Its bloody difficult having seen those images above.

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Henry-Silver-Hammered-Metal-Detecting-Find/292287951882 ? His feedbacks worse than his photography.

Ahhh. I forgotten. I thought it was auction. I might just slab a few of mine if there pulling in around that mark ?

Any ideas what it eventually sold for? I can't find it now.

That's probably an accurate description of what would happen unfortunately. I am sure there was a case in hackney years ago where a jar of gold coins was buried during the blitz. The family took a direct hit in the anderson shelter and all died. The coins where dug out of a rockery in 2007 and ended up being returned to the decendants of the family in Israel. But obviously that case involved an honest finder.Google the Hackney Hoard.

Probably handed down the trade to his son. It was fairly common then.

Night hawking someone's lawn ?. Seriously though they could of been from an ancient hoard. Years ago there wasn't much of a market for old coins and somebody may have ploughed them out and just bunged them in a jar. The suspense of not knowing would haunt me for the rest of my days. What if..... I got told a story years ago and given a map of where some rhodium or platinum bars were buried. This old guy told me had apparently stolen them out of second world war search lights he said and buried them at this location. Turned up shovel and detector in hand there was a motorway right over the top of it. ?

The future of collecting as we know it is coming to an end. I've only been buying hammered recently as it's the only thing i can be certain of in myself that it's real. I'd struggle to ID some of these new milled reproductions. I did hope one day that my young son would take up the hobby but I think now if this trend continues I'll sway him to save him losing out in the future. It's becoming a lottery.

Good idea. eBay's worst offerings occasionally runs off topic. If we use this thread to specifically show copies / replicas it's less likely to get lost in amongst other things.