Gary D

Size- wise it's a Guinea, the shilling reverse doesn't have the crossed scepters. It look a bit crued to be a coin and would have a toothed boarder which your pictures don't show. Does it feel heavy for it's size which gold would do. Gary

Well, I'm still not convinced. B&M, Christies Rome. What's it doing on ebay 20th Centry Crowns are my favourite series in my collection also. The best I can do for 1935 is a Davies 1652. Gary

I don't know if this is an ebay laugh, someone been sold a pup or a scam. 1935 proof There's just so much wrong with this one. He starts off calling it a pattern (proof) the picture shows an incuse so it's not a pattern, the pattern has raised edge text. He then goes on to give it a Rayner number 337A rarity of R6 3-5 known, well R6 is 3-4 known. So it seems he's not really sure if it's a 377 at 5-10 or 377A at 3-4. He then goes on to talk about Edward VIII, ok no way of disputing this but the clincher is that the coin has the wrong reverse for either a 377 or 377A. It should be a 1+B and the coin shown is a normal 1+A. Wonder if by chance he's got hold of a specimen issue which are a bit proof-like. Gary

If anyone wants the 1906, 1907, 1909 and 1910 the first to pm me their address can have them as a free give away. The 1908 F164A worth over £600 I'm keeping myself. lol The pennies are going to Scott

If anyone wants the 1906, 1907, 1909 and 1910 the first to pm me their address can have them as a free give away. The 1908 F164A worth over £600 I'm keeping myself. lol

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Here's my next entry on this topic. A couple of weeks ago I won these on ebay. They were up for the normal 0.54 ausie cents but some numpty with a feedback of 20 decided to chuck $10 into the pot so I ended up paying nearly £6 including postage. When my camera has had a bit of a charge I post a picture of the results

I was going to say the 1983 2 new pence but as they were supposedly only put into sets I guess it doesn't really count.

It does look as though there is something there. It's in the wrong place for a 6 over 5. saying that, it's in the wrong place for any legitimate number. Verystrange. Gary

I've only got the three Davies Obverse in the currency pieces. There would be four Obverses in the proof range if you incluse the Obv3 square and chamferred rim. I only have the two Obv3 proofs, Obv1 and Obv2 are both speculartive. Gary

I have a copy of COIN 1989 year book published by coin monthly if it of any use. Gary

Thanks for that Peter. I had a look at CC's Oxford Collection results : £475 for a nBU example, not what I'd call "cheap"! Even the GVF went for £120 (I suspect it might fetch more than that now - there isn't a whole heap of difference between those two examples in the Oxford sale). Here's mine (thanks to this post I've now seen 5 times as many as I had in my life up to now!) : "If anyone can (botch your pictures with their terrible scanners), Canon can" £120 for a GVF, I paid £107 for my GEF at one of London Coins Dublin Auctions a couple of years ago.

I prefer to use the I of DIE to tell them apart as I find using the TT I need the coins in hand to tell the difference. The close T has the I to tooth and the wide T the I to gap. Here's mine.

I've got 1903 obv 1 and 2a, 1905 obv 1 and 2, 1906 obv 1 and 2a Gary

Goulby or Gouby? I only know Gouby. My mistake, yes it should by Gouby. Anyway to put you all out of you misery, if you look at the helmet where it meets the plume it looks like the damaged die metioned by Freeman and I think there was an artical about its dicovery in the papers many years ago. Of course it could just be the light. Oh yes! The 'helmet die flaw' stalk. I wonder how that relates in scarcity to the 1966 'extra wave' flaw? Just turned out to be a ding to the helmet ooo eer. At least the 0.54 assie cent 1911 1d turned out ok although it only made a disapointing £41 on ebay. There seems to be a trend here, I seem to pay much more on ebay than anyone else.

Goulby or Gouby? I only know Gouby. My mistake, yes it should by Gouby. Anyway to put you all out of you misery, if you look at the helmet where it meets the plume it looks like the damaged die metioned by Freeman and I think there was an artical about its dicovery in the papers many years ago. Of course it could just be the light.

Hopefully yes. I'll leave it a bit longer before I explain to see if anyone else picks it up or if it me just going mad.

That looks like a VERY interesting 1911. The rim looks thinner than you normally see on a Type A and the legend seems further from the teeth. In fact, those teeth look very small and well defined for that particular obverse. That's a good buy scott - a small date 1879 is not common, as you say. The 1911 turned out to be the Goulby Obv X, I've put it back on ebay and we'll see if it was worth it when it finishes Sunday evening, looking a bit cheap at the moment. Here's my next one, took a chance but not expecting much this time eBayISAPI.dll.htm

Neat -- where did you 'find' it? In my collection.... I don't have the others, although I might have pics of them.... I'll check Here's 3 out of 4. I was offered a 1952 but it was not a good one and bit expensive so I declined it. Here's the 1952 that I was offered for A$100. I declined because I think it would need to be better for that amount of money.

On several occassions I have received coins from the USA in a corrigated thing, searching for the proper desciption here. It's like a bit of sticky corrigated cardboard that stick when folded holding everything in place. Does anyone know what it is really called and can you get them in the UK Thanks Gary

This one realy did make me laugh A what!!!

Perhaps it's something you could add to your inventory Chris.

I don't know so much. Looks like quite a good forgery and I would expect it to realise a decent price. Bidder 2 4 & 7 are Shilling....smell the coffee Now at £102.00 Went for £240, a bit more than I expected but it did look a good one to Bidder 2, Still think it was shilling? I've got a load of coins on there at the moment if anyone wants to shill them up a bit

Looks to be a very good example, I was thinking of having a punt myself if it does go too far. It could make £100 which is not too outrageous for a very well done altered date.

When I was researching varieties for my book on 20th C Bronze, I too tried to find any identifiers for these types, but I am afraid that only Peck seemed to make reference to them in any detail. A couple of other points that may help. Firstly there is also a sharp/rounded pair for 1949 - not mentioned by Peck. Secondly, all the sharp corner types are reported to have a slightly thinner rim than the rounded ones. However, on worn specimens this may not be easy to spot. The only other differentiator is for the 1941 where there are two minor varieties of the sharp corner type, one where the inside corner is sharp and the other where it is rounded. The amount of rounding is quite severe so would take a large amount of wear to obliterate a sharp edge example.