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  1. oldcopper
    Yes, it's the act of assuming that "full original colour" means just that.
  2. oldcopper
    I wonder if everyone has found this, but when I type "Noonans" or "Noonan's" into Google all the results are for the (previously unknown to me) genetic disorder Noonan Syndrome. So I wonder how they are going to differentiate their website location from that? I don't think they've thought this through. They'll hardly want to, or even be able to, displace important medical information off the top of the search results.
  3. oldcopper
    Yes, of course, they are bronzed, mainly currency pieces. The reason he didn't list them is they're unofficial as well.
  4. oldcopper
    Perhaps he phrased it ambiguously but if he did think they were official surely he would have given them a Peck number.
  5. oldcopper
    OK not that one! Its PT twin, so these later bronzed coins are out there.
  6. oldcopper
    That might be the coin originally sold by Baldwins as a bronzed proof (sale no.52) where Roland Harris bought it for ~£600. I saw it then and it was obviously a currency piece, so why Baldwins said it was "undoubtedly a proof" I don't know. People presumably sussed this as it only made £190 at the Harris sale (LC 2009), with LC's description somewhat ambivalent about the proof designation.
  7. oldcopper
    There was an unofficially gilded 1841 in the Colin Adams sale of 2003. Peck is saying that these post Soho examples are all unofficially gilded so he isn't contradicting himself.
  8. oldcopper
    If you phone them up you can say "Hi Noonans".
  9. oldcopper
    pot?
  10. oldcopper
    Here's mine, bought DNW auction Sept 2008 - quite a steep price (£260 hammer), and good lustre on the obverse, but a dark reverse. https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/lot-archive/lot.php?lot_uid=158753 DNW's photography is somewhat flattering to the reverse!
  11. oldcopper
    As one dealer told me, this micro-incremental grading scale is just a way of making more money out of collectors. This here being a prime example.
  12. oldcopper
    I think the truth has definitely changed with this one in the last 4 months.
  13. oldcopper
    Yes, shame the blue toner has added >$10K to the price!
  14. oldcopper
    Put us all out of our misery:
  15. oldcopper
    Just spotted this at Atlas: anyone recognise it? (trick question, I do): a snip at $14,500 for the discerning collector PR65BN.
  16. oldcopper
    And could be the ANNA SLABBA INCOMPETENS legend variety.
  17. oldcopper
    Hope it's not one of those fake Godless that were doing the rounds not so long ago in "NEF" condition. The colour does seem suspiciously uniform!
  18. oldcopper
    Looked at Peck earlier and the of two obverses it could be, KH22 and KH23, Peck says the only difference is a flaw on the first G of GEORGIUS in KH23 - I can't seen it at all in Peck's plaster cast photograph of KH23! Perhaps other people can spot it. However, your photographs give better resolution I suspect, and I can't see any flaw on these either.
  19. oldcopper
    I've just checked and P.1242 is KH21 and has 3 dots instead of a K on the truncation. https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/lot-archive/lot.php?lot_uid=404661
  20. oldcopper
    I haven't got Peck to hand but from memory isn't P.1242 the copper proof with a sequence of dots instead of or next to the K? It's not the 1233-1235 series as it lacks the die flaw on the drapery (I can't see it), so is it the bronzed analogue (P.1244?) of the gilt P.1243. I take it it's got an engrailed edge. There may be other choices though but P.1244 is the common alternative to P.1234 I guess. From memory again I say quickly!
  21. oldcopper
    Thanks Rob - very interesting. Fascinating about the removal of the graffiti and possible plugging.
  22. oldcopper
    He's missing some biggies - Anne Vigo 5 guineas, Wm IV crown in gold. I think it's more a type set from the look of it. It looks like the Slaney Petition crown, not the better Glenister one. But on the whole, I might consider swapping my collection for his......
  23. oldcopper
    Yes, amazing! I recognise the 1853 proof set, with that distinctive die flawed halfpenny - ex Norweb and The New York Sale of several years ago. Surprised he hasn't given provenances, some of these pieces must have pretty spectacular ones.
  24. oldcopper
    It's just been withdrawn.
  25. oldcopper
    Well spotted!! It is that coin with all its plasticky quirks. Latest offer £1.18. Could go lower! That seller's page needs to go direct to DNW, this is what they say, memo to DNW: our store only sell for the copy coin, so please do not treat it as the original coin,I sell these replica coins just to make your collection more perfect.
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