Gary D

That's the rare full moon varity

Do you want the shallow ear variety or the more common one. 1915 is not a hard year to find, there's plenty of high grade examples out there. How about this one

Who in their right mind will pay a premium for some Mickey Mouse TPG to tell them what they have.? There's currenly a thread on another forum in the US where they are dicussing some common to us coins (GV pennies) that they are struggling to get in high number slabs and are paying four times the raw price because they do not consider it safe to buy raw.

I take the Davies value and divide it by the common value to get a multiplication factor. For the 1923 mule it is 4.3. So that gives me £17.20, £34.40, £150.50 and £322.50. Which reminds me I must get my spare VF-GVF on ebay.

Would you buy this? Link

Hi Penguin, welcome to the forum! With reference to your original question, I never upload pics here, rather I link to my Photobucket pics, you can do the same with all similar online photo sites, many of which are free I believe ... Do you specialise in any particular area? And sorry to be ignorant but what or who was HB?? Thankyou Paulus,no specialist area it used to be gin and tonic!HB is a grade of pencil when i started school if you had one you were classed as rich!I have afair few british coins that need a proper appraisal lots of pennys so i try and concentrate on mistakes flaws of which i have a fair few.I also have amixture of euro coins my oldest being a 1877 dos centavo peru coin no gold but plenty of silver.My oldest penny 1899 wide date haven,t checked with mr freeman on the details but its one of the widest 9,s i,ve seen!I will endevour to get some photo,s posted don,t expect wonders with my coins but you decide!Look forward to hearing your area cheers mate! Where on earth did you go to school? I remember HB as the bog standard grade they handed out! If they were B or BB etc, they smudged like crazy and were really only for artists; if they were H or HH etc, they didn't smudge at all but got progressively fainter to see though they would sharpen to a very fine point (I think they were for mathematicians). H stood for 'Hard', while B stood for 'Soft'. No, I never understood that either... B = 'black', as I recall for my O level in TD (technical drawing). We drew feint construction lines in 6H and then drew the finished lines over them in 3H (chisel point). We were told by our TD teacher that HB pencils were for writing (he would throw them out the window if anyone had the temerity to use them for drawing - the pencil not the pupil, that is!) and B pencils were for 'girls'. Very sexist back in the 70s, I know. I'm just quoting. So he was saying "Girls prefer blacks"? Very non-PC in the Noughties The noughties, so last decade, Aren't we in the tennies now? I have heard it said that once you've had black there's no going back. Can't imagine what that means

Is this a bad picture or is the surface of this 1934 crown a bit rough. 1934 crown

Is it confirmed that there are chinese copies now. I have only seen a couple of obvious cast copies so far.

I guess with this provenance one has to presume fake until proven innocent! It may just be the angle of the photograph but, if you look at the reverse beads at 2 O'Clock and 12 O'clock, there appears to be quite a significant variation in gap between them and the rim? The photo looks straight-on enough that I wouldn't expect it to be quite so much of an illusion? Who knows? And you can have a chioce of dates

You worry about the Chinese minting funny money, they couldn't hold a candle to this current government.

Special delivery plus a little bit for packaging. £10 in the odd hundred or thousand or two won't break the bank. I won a lot at the Baldwins auction last week via the Saleroom. What happens now? Do I get an invoice though the post or by email etc.?

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Although we didn't go decimal until 1971, the new coins were produced from 1968 onwards. It is unlikely there is anything special about the coin. Sound like its had an acid dip.

I only need the penny so I'll give him £30 for it

LOL me too. I think the majority of us here fall into the 'middle' category, and are the ones who apparently need to worry most, unless we love our coins so much that loss of value is of no concern. Well I picked up the lot I was after. 1919 Maundy set £130+juice. Would have likely cost me about £180-210 on ebay. I thought that might have been you. My max was....£130 Well at least I thought I won it. No mention in My Saleroom

LOL me too. I think the majority of us here fall into the 'middle' category, and are the ones who apparently need to worry most, unless we love our coins so much that loss of value is of no concern. Well I picked up the lot I was after. 1919 Maundy set £130+juice. Would have likely cost me about £180-210 on ebay.

Unfortunately the thing most needed to be a BNTA member is most lacking, an entrance exam! I have seen quite a few BNTA members that know nothing about coins or coin grading but are members purely because they are in the old boys club. I suspect the BNTA are no different to any other trade organization who's interests rarely go beyond collecting their yearly subs.

Is it a bird or is it a plane, no sorry getting carried away there. Is it an 8 or is it a 9, Under a x7 glass it looks to be a 9 and was listed as such, but under higher magnification it look more like an 8. Over to the floor.

1919 or 1918 or 1919 over 8 silver 3d. There was one on ebay a few months ago and I was not £75 convinced. It then appeared in a CGS slab in a recent London Coins auction so CGS must have been convinced. Looking at it again in the slab my money was still on a damaged 18. This one then turned up on ebay, UNC if is wasn't for the drilled in to it according to the seller. I thought it worth a couple of dollars to have a closer look.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/230851407246;jsessionid=95EE3002326CC123EC61EED1247566A3?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_sacat%3D0%26_nkw%3D230851407246%26_rdc%3D1 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/230853992857?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_nkw%3D230853992857%26_rdc%3D1 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/230851424836?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_nkw%3D230851424836%26_rdc%3D1 The third one down has raised some issues in my mind. Also on ebay at the moment is this which is the second Henry V groat in as many days. H5 groats are quite rare with the S1762B variety quoted booking at £2500 in VF. I suspect either someone is very lucky, or skullduggery has occurred. I'm just trying to get up to speed on H4 & H5 groats but the curve is a bit steep at the moment. They aren't the same things as one has a lis on the breast and one doesn't, but I note in Potter's write up on these things that contemporary copies existed, probably produced on the continent. For the record, he also noted knowing of only half a dozen coins of some types, so it is unlikely we are looking at your everyday find. That's one of the risks of shill bidding, sometimes you win it yourself

Correct on both counts I suspect.

Well, the detail is crisp enough for a proof, but the rim is often the clincher, and it's hard to tell with yours. I have an 1862 that is similar - great detail, and the reverse is prooflike in certain lights, slight mirroring. The overall colour is dark, like yours. For me, the jury's out, but the likeliest verdict is that either they are early strikes, or struck from proof dies which often got used up for currency strikes. The dark colour? That's the weird part - without the great detail, you'd say that is what often happens to bronze over time. With the crispness... I really don't know. What I do know is, proofs are very rare, so the odds are against it. If I have neck-ache tomorrow, I'll know who to blame Pies! Doesn't your imaging software have a 'rotate' function? Certainly looks like an early strike from the level of detail and crispness of the reverse. It's harder to judge the obverse as the leaves aren't too clear in the photograph. As Peck says, proofs are rare and, in this condition, it would be hard to find anyone who would support a 'proof' verdict. For comparison I have taken close-ups of my two coins. Although the coin on the right is UNC with full lustre, it lacks the smoothness and true consistent depth of detail that the proof (on the left) displays. The overall effect is almost 'plastic' in its smoothness, compared to the rougher and slightly broken surface of the currency strike. Hope this helps. Yes, that really helps. Somehow though, I think the difference lies not in the detail but in the finish, which is why I guess most of the bun proofs are bronzed or similar. Too me the currency piece looks a better strike. The proof is weak in several places like the shield and helmet.

Mmm worth £1600 so I'll sell it for a grand. Bargain.

What worries me about the 1934 crown, for a minage of 932 there seem an awful lot of them around. Now now Gary.The Chinese are getting good.NGC will slab them for you. Now, now, Peter, what's wrong with NGC? What we should all do is gather together a series of our best fakes (don't even have to be that good [grab all your brass G3 tokens, they'll do]) and submit them for slabbing! Once we've got more than a few done, we should then go to the biggest media shop window for numismatics and reduce their business to a status that's appropriate to their knowledge base! I think the whole slabbing business is looking a bit sick at the moment, what with fake slabs and miss attributions. There was I think an NGC slab on ebay a couple of weeks ago, a 1905 silver 3d graded as MS with a Maundy 3d inside. Should have been Proof like or at least Maundy. MS is just wrong unless is was the elusive "to be confirmed" currency 3d with the Maundy obverse. I must admit I was tempted just in case until it went for over £50.

What worries me about the 1934 crown, for a minage of 932 there seem an awful lot of them around.