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Your welcome. My gut reaction was June. It definitely looks like a four letter month i think. Try looking at it with a jewellers loupe or magnifying glass.

If you go on google and type "Gunmoney and the Limerick mint pdf" You'll find a pdf by Gerard Rice. Its a good document for identifying which mint the coins where minted at which should be possible if you figure the month on your shilling . There was two mints one in Limerick & the other in Dublin.

I've a few gunmoney pieces. A half crown , shilling & sixpence. Paid £40 for the half crown early this year & £44 for the shilling quite a few year's ago. The sixpence is holed. Great story behind the creation of this token coinage. The first letter on yours declan looks like a J. June or July ?

Hopefully they can look into whose behind the Andorra Scams. There using multiple accounts claiming to have numerous US numistimatics memberships & are claiming there based in the US though items are reported to be dispatched from Spain. The fake Norman rubbish there trying to flog looks like its been bashed about and put on a buffer to give the false impression of circulation wear , which is a slight change on there anglo saxon rubbish they have flogged in the past. The weights on the coins are way over so thats a dead giveaway but its all part of the illusion. It gives inexperienced buyers a false sense of professionalism if there not savvy about real coin weights.

It does. Ebay won't do anything. I report stuff as and when i find it but one man i am. I do it because i realise i was once naive myself when i started out. I got stiffed with a few bits of low value junk myself in the day. It wasn't pleasant. Don't like thinking about other people experiencing that feeling.

Getting cheesed off with the Andorra rubbish. Its getting more dangerous by the day. Check this out and the other lots. Its now supposedly norman coins. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262993176344

I was thinking that also. It has a similar look of a Hadrian Britannia issue coin. There quite rare though. Also i think they where struck only in bronze. As colin says it could be reproduction.

Thats a well known WRL. My daughter has it with the triangle siege piece in the same folder. The Wrl stamps at the 3 oclock position on hers the same place it is on that roughly. If you look down below the irish harp shield at about the 6 oclock position in that ebay one you can see the stamp plus as clive said its too soapy & shiny.

I pointed out the other day to a seller trying to start an auction at £49.99 for a Elizabeth I shilling that it was a replica and marked WRL. His response was "Oh yeah so it is thanks for telling me" That was at 10am. Anyway it was still listed at 4pm as being a heavy silver Elizabethian 1500s coin so i msged him back telling him to change the listing or pull it as I'd told him it was a replica and he'd acknowledged it was. Got no response so i msged him again telling him i was going to post his item on the coin forums i use with a screengrab of my dialogue with him showing people that he was a crook trying to sell a replica coin as a genuine one to unsuspecting members of the public. 10 minutes later it was listed as a WRL coin although he still expects bidding to start at £49.99. From now on i am taking this approach with people as reporting it to Ebay does bugger all.

I know lol. His credentials are as phoney as his coins. He's got multiple accounts. Its the same rubbish coming from the same region of spain. Apart from the negative feedback I'd hazard a guess the rest is fake feedback.

The Andorra lots are back. Sells anglo saxon fakes. Nearly always found in the ruins of an old house etc. Look at some of the other items he's selling. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262964240259

Hello & welcome.

Poor quality as well those. I've noticed an awful lot of dodgy looking anglo saxon coins coming from spain. Andorra region. I personally would not purchase any Anglo saxon Silver pennys off ebay now.

The contemporary fakes are usually easy to spot nowadays but back in the day when they where new and shiny you could of got caught out quite easily in a dimly lit tavern. This is a brass shilling i own. At one stage it would of been silver washed.

Looks as if its been gold gilt at one stage. Most likely a fake yes and not a very good one. Counterfeiting was rife in those days. Bung it on ebay if your not interested in keeping it , there's a market for contemporary Georgian counterfeits.

It has the look of a scottish coin especially the reverse. My first reaction was a short cross type of William the Lion. Be worth taking that to your local finds liason officer for an opinion. Its an oddity I'll say that. Be interesting to see if anyone else can shed any light on it.

Yes thats normal. If its George I the kings bust or image is right facing usually and George II will be left then George III is right. I say usually as counterfeits ( Evasion pieces) do not always follow those rules. If you look on google at image's of coins by those monarchs you should in theory be able to recognise the type of coin and who it belongs too. Work's for me and I've dug up some really smooth featureless coins before that I've been able to attribute. Regards Stuart.

Seen a few of these on ebay with initials etched into them. Usually sell for around £85 mark. Last one that i saw had MW etched into it. Don't try to clean it. It looks great. A really nice coin. ?

Henry VI Groat Annulet Issue c.1422-1427 Calais Mint Incurved pierced cross mintmark.

Thanks I have a Rosette Mascle one also. Quite like groats and half groats of this monarch , there's a lot of them about in good conditions.

Nice coin.?? I love groats of this monarch.

My one if it helps.

High sorry to hear this. I don't slab my coins so don't use any grading services but I do occasionally converse with french people. I use google translate to write my message's then copy and paste the translation into an email. You could try using that then fire an email off to them in French. Hope this helps. Stu.

Lol. I've seen people like this before on G+ asking 50k for a Victorian rupee. I used to get them sending me msgs and harassing me to buy coins you could pick up at car boot sales for a few quid asking for ludicrous amounts of money. Always with a WhatsApp number. Irritating to say the least.