JohnConduitt

Thank you, Curtis P.S. I would love to join the forum myself and communicate directly with all of you, but my account registration has not received an approval. Perhaps someone here could put in a good word for me to the admins. As I’ll not be able to thank you all directly for your replies, please know that I am reading them and I appreciate them. Many thanks to John for assisting me with asking this question.

Excellent suggestion and great researching that reference. Unfortunately it is not the correct type. The coin in question is the Poseidon / Ship tetradrachm. See below for the coin in question.

Thank you for your responses. I have a reply, but I'm now getting a "403 Forbidden" error, hence the madness below 😁

Hi - I have a question from an experienced collector who is 'awaiting approval' to join but would like to hear from the very knowledgeable collectors of British coins here. I hope you can help! Thank you very much ……………………………………. Hello all, I have come to an impasse while researching the below ticket and I am hoping that someone here can help. I am fairly sure that this is a Spink ticket. The coin that goes with the ticket came from the collection of George Muller, who was Director of Ancient Coins at Spink from the 50s to the 80s. However, I think the ticket predates Muller. The reverse says “SPK 1941” so I think the coin may have sold in one of the notoriously hard to find numismatic circulars from the 40s. I think the ticket may be in the handwriting of Leonard Forrer who ran Spink’s ancient department before Muller. I was only able to find one instance of a Forrer ticket for comparison though so that is a tentative attribution. I have seen other Spink tickets from the 40s that include numbers (such as 17/6 for example) that may be related to the “T 11/3” written on the back. I don’t understand what this may signify, however. Can anyone here help add any information to my search? Is this a Spink ticket? Can it be assigned to a collector or a sale? Is this in the hand of Leonard Forrer? Does anyone know how to decode any of the abbreviations, writing or markings? Thanks to all in advance for the help.

OK great, thank you very much, I'll have a look. Yes I suppose while £1,000 for a George I copper halfpenny sounds a lot, you'd be better off forging a James II tin farthing for £3,500!

Is the weight (or indeed flan diameter) of any importance with early copper coins? I'm specifically thinking about Charles II and George I, but any copper of that era. With silver, if the weight varies even by 0.1g I believe you're meant to hear alarm bells, but a 1675 Charles II farthing seems to be able to be anywhere between 5 and 6.5g, while a 1717 George I dump halfpenny can be two whole grams different to another on a flan ranging from 25 to 28mm. Are there standard weights and tolerances? Does this make it impossible to distinguish a good forgery from the not-brilliantly-struck originals? Thank you

How do you get eBay to do anything about it? Reporting them doesn't seem to make any difference (not that there's an option to report 'fakes'). I know Offa's coins sometimes look a bit simple but this is ridiculous: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Anglo-Saxon-Hammered-Silver-Mercia-Offa-Silver-Coin-757-796-AD/124144247833 Presumably meant to be: But currently 40 times cheaper.