Rob

Seeing as people seem to like them, here's a Henry VIII sovereign penny struck by Thomas Wolsey

It has been done in the US as I understand when something was graded anywhere between 67 and 69 after 5(?) attempts

I concur. There was little there that said 'buy me'. The 1673 5 guineas was probably the best of the milled, but that went to 135K. After that, lot 439 was nice and 512 looked to be a bit better than the EF grade assigned, but there was a lot of indifferent pieces.

Not only the name, but possibly more important was the fact that the material had been off the market for over half a century. There can be very few collectors who were actively collecting at the top end in both 1945 and 2015, so all of this was a refreshing change from the material that goes round on a regular cyclical basis. An 'old' collection almost invariably does well. Look at Chesser, 18 months ago, or the William Boyd sale at Baldwins in 2005. Also the Neville-Rolfe sale went well. The gold patterns at Plymouth in 2008 got the market talking, though the venue probably restricted the final outcome.

It was the relentless procession of coins making 10K that ran the total up. When the first one hit 8K(10K with juice) we said it was going to be an expensive day, as a Calais noble of Ed.3 is a common coin with a regular price tag at around half that. The top 5 lots made 765K hammer.

2.6m. Wow

£15K all in for the silver cartwheel twopence. Even the unloved silver halfpenny is selling for twice what I was paying 6 or 7 years ago

I'd assumed that was you. There are some mind boggling numbers here. Very important not to get caught up in the feeding frenzy.

It's a pretty outstanding day for emphasising the value of a decent provenance. As I intimated a couple weeks ago, the ryal I bought cost me roughly the hammer price of lot 290, that for a coin which is at least half a grade higher and not creased. All in all, I'm quite happy to have no liquidity today. Nicholas. There is another one in comparable grade, with a similar level of defects at different points to this one.

I cannot tell a lie.............................. it wasn't me.

1832

Rush of blood? Should that not be gush of blood? You should be bled dry at that level. Good provenance though. I think it goes back to Trattle.

Wax. It's illustrated in the Murdoch catalogue, lot 237.

Exeter 1644 shilling

William I PAXS penny GODESBRAND ON BA(TH)

Oxford 1643 K28 halfcrown, ex REady, Hamilton-Smith, Ryan and Brooker.

Oxford 1644 C4 halfcrown.

Cnut Viking penny S991, Patriarchal cross/EBRAICE CIVITAS

Briot hammered halfcrown

Thanks. I found a blacklist box to fill in the email address, but will have to wait for tomorrow to see if it works.

Greetings all. How do you go about blocking an ip address? Along with a host of other people based on the cc list, I have a problem with a t**t from India who is desperately trying to sell me Indian coins to the value of 2 billion pounds, for which I only have to pay him £80K. When it gets to my inbox I remove it using the spam tab, but it doesn't seem to block it the next time, so need another method. It comes with lots of megabytes of images - every day. And I'm getting p'd off.

Another day it would be different. I just wish I could take consistent pictures. Trying to find a happy balance of flash, natural light, shading the flash to stop glare, and all the other settings on the camera is a nightmare.It looks very natural, and the rose-tone looks about spot on if you ask me? Quality image! You don't want to know how many images I had to take to get a good one.

No flash usually means they are too dark and tinged with some colour other than how it looks in hand. Sometimes it gives ok results just using the room lighting, but suspect the camera is playing up at this point.

Another day it would be different. I just wish I could take consistent pictures. Trying to find a happy balance of flash, natural light, shading the flash to stop glare, and all the other settings on the camera is a nightmare.

Cnut, quatrefoil type from Crewkerne.