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Peckris 2

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  1. Peckris 2
    I've used olive oil before! It's just that the comments here have given me the heebie jeebies.
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    I have the original backing track (no vocals) to God Only Knows, and it demonstrates what a genius Brian Wilson is; it's almost classical. Not sure what he'd make of the nose flute version!
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    Hmm. I was going to soak a high grade 1868 penny with a small bit of 'green', but now I'm wondering if there is an alternative to olive oil? I was going to use medicinal olive oil (BP) but I don't know if that makes a difference?
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    Yes, I agree. The 1919H is by far the commonest of the 1918 and 1919 H and KN pennies in lower grades, but it's even harder than 1918KN in top grade. My own is EF+ without lustre for circulation wear, but there is practically no hair detail as the die used must have worn considerably, and the hair is the highest point. It's possible the Mint supplied some obverse dies to Heatons in 1918 and few or none in 1919, so there was considerable re-use.
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    Intriguing! I promise I won't be bored! However I don't doubt it's the same guy.
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    1895 silver or bronze?

    Peckris 2 replied to Doug's topic in Beginners area

    By the sound of the size (if that makes sense!), it could be a Maundy coin. Or a toy.
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    Interesting. It's exactly the same "Best Wishes" handwriting as on the letter he wrote to me in 2000, in which he signs himself "John".
  8. Peckris 2
    Very worrying. However, I guess there's no oxidation if the coin is kept fully submerged in the oil, then gently wiped free of all traces on removal?
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    That's about the same grade as the one I bought from Richard. Very nice. I suppose if it was 1919KN we'd have to treble or quadruple the price, but those are very much rarer.
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    Roman silver id

    Peckris 2 replied to craigy's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries

    Ah, I get it now. It nevertheless looks very much bigger than the one depicted. Maybe it's a variant, I'm sure I can make out the FON part of the legend, and possibly the M in front?
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    Roman silver id

    Peckris 2 replied to craigy's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries

    A double horned horse? As to the find, the 'horse' (if such it be) looks very much bigger than the goat shown on the Sears Fonteia piece. But it does look a promising possibility.
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    Roman silver id

    Peckris 2 replied to craigy's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries

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    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    Peckris 2 replied to kuhli's topic in Free for all

    Well, he succeeded in getting the coin noticed!
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    In UK you can buy Surgical Spirit, which I assume is meths without the dye?
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    True, but most cabinets (and all Nichols?) use inert woods like mahogany. As for the free flowing air, you may have a point there - the toning is nearly all on coins in the large cabinet, which I later found was a medals cabinet with comparatively deep trays and no individual recesses for coins.
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    Snap. For example, I have a 1938S shilling that was absolutely BU - now it has an uneven dirty black tarnish on parts of it despite storage in a cabinet. Pennies have lost a great deal of lustre. Strangely, coins in flips or albums don't seem to suffer. The upside is that my Unc 1838 shilling that was so glossy you might think it had been polished, is now toning back nicely. The other weird thing is that coins in my small Nichols cabinet (Mascle?) are largely unaffected.
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    No, believe me - it's not the alloy mix. However, it COULD be toning; I've seen pre-1920 silver tone to a whole range of colours - reds, oranges, blues, purples - and this could be toning due to its storage medium.
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    Me too. They're much more rare in high grade but because of the shallow portrait the reverses are usually fully struck up.
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    There are several minor varieties of 1921, Mike (noted in David Sealy's 1970 varieties guide in the Coins & Medals Annual). The pre-1920 obverse hadn't even been noted at that stage! It's quite possible you have two distinct reverses there.
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    Strange coin: Carolus IIII 8 Reales 1817?

    Peckris 2 replied to Tommy Yang's topic in Free for all

    Not so much a fake perhaps (the date error is too obvious) but possibly an "evasion", i.e. a coin minted with a deliberate wrong date for purposes of trade in certain regions?
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    Look out for the 1921 with the pre-1920 high relief - it's much scarcer than Spink's values indicate, especially in high grade.
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    Absolutely correct - this was the first debasement of silver in the milled era and there was extensive hoarding of pre-1920, which is why it so commonly turns up in average of VF or better. 50% coins weren't hoarded, but also they wore more quickly due to the shallower portrait with less well defined hair. This is why it's uniformly more difficult to find top grade halfcrowns, florins, shillings 1920 - 1926.
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    Yours, definitely.
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    Yes, I believe they did. I have some 1967 examples.
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