Rob

It was the inverted centre bit of the M in conjunction with the top right serifs that did it for me. I can't see how they came to any other conclusion.

Could be the same as me too :ph34r:

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed in the next sale that W&W seem to be getting considerably better at matching one or more of the words: poor, good, fair, fine, almost, near, very, extremely, uncirculated, FDC with the apparent grades of the coins displayed in the catalogue and on the website? Change of cataloguer? Maybe somebody pointed out to them that they were all at sea? If this is matched by a willingness to take on board errors and issue saleroom notices, then it might be necessary to revise views on their activities.

The description of 'when you are purchasing from me, you are buying a piece of history' is amusing. Yes, 21st century history.

That's because like any other business/organisation/individual they all know best to the exclusion of others. Religion, politics, TPGs, the Dundee fruitcake.... all are specialists in their own way and so everyone else is wrong. Progress will have been made when any of these organisations acknowledge that the competition has a good point or argument and that they are wrong - it ain't going to happen.

So all these internet programs are different then? But it must be something other than the above list because I am using Firefox.

Sure it isn't a weathered cast copy?

With a little bit of trickery it's easy to override any "Right Click Disabled" coding. Here's the images for you. Thanks. A clue how to overcome this problem would be useful as it would free me from relying on someone else.

This is the coin that disappeared. How do you copy or save the image on these listings? Right clicking doesn't give copy as an option and I need these images for my records. Thanks.

Oh the joys of those 'must have' faults.

I know we are looking at George II here, but think that the similar work done by Jackson-Kent during much of the 1950s and early 60s researching the coinage of William III could give reasonable parallels. One of the conclusions drawn was that you could infer nothing from the number of harp strings as you typically get a small distribution around the mean number found. They are unlikely to be chronological indicators because you don't get an even distribution amongst 12 varieties if monthly, though could conceivably be quarterly. The grounds for thinking they could be used for die identification is a bit suspect IMO, given their tendency to fill relatively easily on the die? e.g. my 1697B halfcrown has half a harp string, though clearly must have started with more than a partial string. In the hammered period there were situations which demanded die identification (or at least engraver id) because any control over them was remote because they may have been a one moneyer mint for example, or in the case of the Civil War, the engraver followed the troops around. These people also struck the coins. Here we are talking about a number of workers employed at the Tower to produce dies. They would have no control over the number of coins struck using those dies, so this begs the question as to why it would be necessary to identify the die and not the person making the coins. Obviously this isn't conclusive, but it dosn't quite add up to my mind.

No better than VF because you are starting to lose the eye definition

To be honest with you I didn't pick up on the marks, I was really struggling with the grotty silver bit that was proximal to it! Definitely one for sunglasses but, hey, what a price, around 8 X the price of the regular dates! Makes you wonder what a pretty VF would fetch? Less than it should probably because most buyers would get a twitchy bottom. The prices at the bottom end are probably inflated relatively because they are in short supply whatever the condition - hence a lot of dosh for not a lot of eye appeal or quality. But at least are affordable for the masses.

Not surprised. Anchor in E1 is one of those marks you automatically buy when they come along. The grotty one above has a muled round and pointed anchor marks too, which is probably why it got where it did.

Maybe they're rare in Ludlow.

Whilst there are no prices, Snelling (1769) produced a list of the Nurnberg jettons, so they have been documented for quite some time.

I miss the go to page feature used on the previous software. Then, I could return to a ballpark page number for something I was searching for and easily find it. Much easier than searching given the minimum letter count is 4. Lis is difficult to find amongst other things.

You mean they like naughty bits and innuendo too. Well done.

I was looking at it before being rudely interrupted by a pop-up. I immediately left the page. If something is interesting, let them read it. You don't look at websites to be bombarded with marketing/questionnaires crap. Given the ease with which information is spread by the internet, I am unlikely to learn anything significant that is only available via this website. After all, it appeared to be a compilation of news from other sites.

Out of interest, which two? My favourite two are "In The Land Of Grey and Pink" and "If I Could Do It All Over Again I'd Do It Over You" (they had some really naughty titles!) Caravan had some very naughty bits. Always good to see them though on the university circuit.

I won't be there. I have a garage being delivered tomorrow.

You should append 'Acceptable to Geoff' to the bottom of the list.

I threw a 1812 1/6d bank token out of the collection 6 months ago as it was good EF and I wanted an unc. The buyer put it into Goldbergs sale last night where it made $875 hammer graded as MS66. I have a selection of MS71s

Some are British, some not. For example, CNG bid strongly at London sales and then the material crosses the pond, but others are private individuals. Then you have dealers with commission bids which are obviously for private purchases so there is no clear cut way of identifying the eventual recipients.