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Peckris 2
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New Years Revolutions?
Peckris 2 replied to blakeyboy's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
He's not too impressed with you, I understand -
Penny Acquisition of the week
Peckris 2 replied to Paulus's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
LMAO. Who in their right minds would want to upgrade that?!!!! -
Found in the rain today on Felixstowe beach!!!!
Peckris 2 replied to blakeyboy's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
Prototype model of Concorde. But the stone proved too heavy to take off. -
It would have to be a black market? Those things are illegal!
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Prove it's a proof !!!
Peckris 2 replied to 1949threepence's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
I'd certainly take a chance on it for £80 - it's a very nice coin! -
There were hundreds of 000s of £1 forgeries around before they changed the design. I found a few but didn't bother to keep them.
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Prove it's a proof !!!
Peckris 2 replied to 1949threepence's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
For me, that 1859 is a clear proof, even from just photos. The design and legends are unusually crisp and detailed, and there's something about the rim too. And the colour - though not proving anything - is distinctive. But I agree with you about some other coins, especially VIP proofs of the 20th Century. Some of the just look to me like currency strkes. -
Someone numerically dyslexic thought they'd got a 1933 for a bargain price?
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Pewter-and-black is a sure colour mixture for a repro / fake.
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The sharpness of the rim edge is often a good indicator. Also, Geo VI proofs usually have mirrored fields especially FDC examples like yours would be if a proof. However, it could just as easily be an early strike and thus have crisp details.
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Penny -1874-H Reverse I
Peckris 2 replied to coinkat's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
It's a very nice coin especially for the price, but I'd rate the grade lower : VF for the obverse, but not quite VF for the reverse. Pp 72 and 113 of the 'book'. (However, grading is partly a subjective thing). -
Stuff to Make Us Laugh
Peckris 2 replied to Madness's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
That was some race! I really thought Lewis had done it. My main surprise - given that Max went into the pits under safety car for some soft rubber - is that Mercedes didn't cover that and pit Lewis as well. Then it would have been an amazing final lap instead of the inevitable Verstappen overtake. -
The curious thing - if it's not kosher - is WHY anyone would create an unknown pattern with no provenance, for no reason at all, especially as it can be so easily doubted? Unless of course it was one person's pet project for domestic purposes only, but it then "got out".
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Halfpenny ID check
Peckris 2 replied to mrbadexample's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Presumably any coin that is Poor (by the UK grading) doesn't get a number, i.e. 1 is a not very good Fair but better than Poor? -
100% agree. I've a lot of time for Chards (anyone collecting in the late 60s on a schoolkid's budget will well remember their previous incarnation as R&L Coins).
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Halfpenny ID check
Peckris 2 replied to mrbadexample's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Interesting that he started from the bottom and worked up. It would have been a similar system but with different numbers, if instead of starting with Poor = 1, he'd started with Mint State = 100 (for the finest FDC example - an 'ordinary' Unc coin might have merited 90) and then so on down, reaching Poor = 2 for example, or 1.5 even. Which I believe is what the LCGS system instituted over here, at least for a while? -
Halfpenny ID check
Peckris 2 replied to mrbadexample's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Agreed. The UK and US have two different grading systems that overlap to some extent. Both use the terms VF and EF for example, though the American equivalents are approximately half a grade lower than the UK equivalent. That's just the way it is. I'd be fine with a US grade of AU being EF by UK standards - it would be logical and perfectly acceptable provided people knew the two systems weren't identical. But to use AU for a condition of 50...! -
PMD or something more?
Peckris 2 replied to mrbadexample's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Given the corresponding raised sections on the reverse, and the thickness of the coin, it must have been hit with some very serious force! -
Halfpenny ID check
Peckris 2 replied to mrbadexample's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
It's not that, at least not from my point of view. It was merely a comment on the degradation of the English language. I have no quibbles with it being graded 50 (which is shy of VF, I think?). It's just that no-one who has any respect for language could POSSIBLY say it was About Uncirculated!!! -
Halfpenny ID check
Peckris 2 replied to mrbadexample's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
How that can be described as AU in any sense of the word, is quite beyond me. (Not criticising the coin itself, you understand...) -
December 2021 LCA catalogue now posted
Peckris 2 replied to 1949threepence's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Is the 1937 currency crown scarcer than the proof? I didn't think it was. -
I'm not religious, but......
Peckris 2 replied to azda's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
Well, not exactly. It was a parish church until 1847 when the Diocese was formed in readiness for city status in 1853. Liverpool didn't become a city until 1880 and obviously decided to build an actual cathedral rather than designating a parish church as such. -
I'm not religious, but......
Peckris 2 replied to azda's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
And Manchester's cathedral is... ? -
you sure it's H ? Couldn't it be an upside down E ?
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I'm not religious, but......
Peckris 2 replied to azda's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
Every Xmas we went to the carol service there - many of the carols were medieval things, not your average usual stuff. That cathedral is MASSIVE ( <-- note correct use of word ) inside.
