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  1. davidrj

    Selling Different Kinds Of 50Ps

    I pick out nice £2 & 50Ps from change, lots of gaps, not sad enough to have bought any though
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    Recent aquisitions

    I think Boulton's ambition was to produce coins for the new French regime, they were however broke, hence the confiscation of bells from churches &c for coinage The only Britts involved in minting the bell metal coins were the Alcock brothers who in 1769 had set up a button factory in buildings leased by the nuns of the Priory of Beaulieu in Riorges. Mintmark a D surmounted by two dots
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    Recent aquisitions

    "Déesse couronnant une ville, et traînée dans un char par deux licornes" I translate as a "Goddess crowning the City, while in a chariot pulled by two unicorns" I can understand the obverse reference to the Rebels, this is during the Wars of Religion, Paris would subsequently fall to the Hugenots; Henri III would die later retaking the City, But the significance of the unicorns defeats me Postage costs not to bad for me as bought 2 books at the same time
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    Recent aquisitions

    Trouble with the CGB site is so many nice coins in stock, you always end up buying something, couldn't resist this one for such a wacky design Jeton for the Municipal Administration of Paris 1583, brass 28mm
  5. David Groom in his variety book mentions a 1919 penny with a raised dot where the H would be - is this returned die with the H poorly obliterated? Anyone seen or have a picture of this variety?
  6. Did they? or did the RM provide Heatons & Kings Norton pre-punched dies? Sweeney's Numismatic History of the Birmingham Mint is silent on the subject. However pre-punched were issued by the RM for later colonial coins, this snippet is from "British Commonwealth Coins" by Remick Food for thought
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    Test

    Only here could we go off topic on a thread without one
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    Test

    y?
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    Recent aquisitions

    Re early European copper, an answer from Tibor on the PCGS Forum In 2007 Robert Levinson published his book on this topic and it advanced the known knowledge of this area of numismatics by light years. When a non- collector asks a collector about their coins they involve "what's the date" and/or "what's it worth". Since I am not of Bill Gates wealth I collect moderately priced coins in this area. At this point in time I am unable to post pics. To answer davidrj questions at this point in time there are three different known copper coins with dates before 1500. They are as follows: 1481 Brabant Lev.II-58 R (21-50 known per Levinson) 1489 Flanders Lev.II-120 R !494 Liege Lev.II-134 R-2 (11-20 known per Levinson)
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    Recent aquisitions

    It's all very spooky, I've started buying hammered
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    Recent aquisitions

    Another copper arrived today France - Feudal Liard of Henri de la Tour D'Auvergne, 1614, Racourt mint, 25.1mm, 4.34g
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    Recent aquisitions

    Nice start to your "Liberty" collection Richard! As the Americans would say "Welcome to the darkside"
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    Recent aquisitions

    Yes, true for a European dated copper - I wonder what the earliest is? Does anyone here have a copy of the book on early dated coins? Lots of copper amongst the ancient stuff, the Moslem world & India, but copper seems to go out of fashion in Europe, gold & silver for those that mattered, and billon for the hoi poloi Earliest "European" I can find are the Hungarian coins of Bella III 1176-96 - nice coins very Byzantine and sadly undated - they are commonly dug up in decent condition apparently (must have different soil to us), I think I want one for my "penny" collection
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    Exonumia - Modern Odds & Sods

    Thanks, new info for me, I have 2 1897 but haven't yet checked them for die differences, I only noticed the "Spink" & MB after I'd scanned them for the post above, they've been sitting in my oddments box for years
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    Exonumia - Modern Odds & Sods

    We don't appear to have a specific area for exonumia - so I thought I would start a thread here Tourist Pennies sold to kids in gift shops at museums etc The top two are honest straight forward souvenirs and are obviously from the same manufacturer ( does H refer to the Birmingham Mint??) Both are 30.2mm diameter, the 1987 Ironbridge weighs 8.96g, and Llechwedd 9.2g The other two are more interesting The 1901 appears to be an electrotype, seam clearly visible on the edge, 30.5mm , 6.33g The 1887 is copper washed white metal, 29.1mm, 4.6g and is marked "COPY" One wonders why? Old pennies are available by the bucketload for buttons, and the kids could take home a bit of real history
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    Interesting Article On Recent Coin Hoard

    Hopefully stuff ends up recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme
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    What Is It And What References?

    Works for me Link moderators have moved if from the general identification forum to the ancients forum
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    Recent aquisitions

    1577 for Royal issues i think. Earlier reigns have minors listed as both "Billon Blanc" and "Monnaies Noires" not got any of the latter so I'm unsure what the term means Earliest Feudal piece I could find is this one "L'église et le couvent de Saint-Bertin frappèrent une série de méreaux de 1524 à 1526 comprenant des méreaux de 12, 6, 3 et 2 deniers" SAINT-OMER - ÉGLISE ET COUVENT DE SAINT-BERTIN Méreau de 12 deniers
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    quite pleased with this for £5.60 inc postage France Double Tournois 1586 G (Poitiers) Henri III King of France & Poland Copper, Mintage 204,894, 21mm, 2.7g Good condition for the type, round flan & full legend
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    Exonumia - Modern Odds & Sods

    Still sorting my miscellaneous box - another "penny", brass 30.3mm, 6g Bath Society, No. 6, Pierrepont-Place, for the investigation and relief of occasional distress, encouragement of industry, and supression of vagrants, street-beggars, and impostors, instituted January 1805, under the sanction of the mayor and corporation of Bath, and the justices acting in Bath and its vicinity I'm assuming it's a token for a meal or a bed for the night. Can't find any reference to this coin on Google, so don't know whether the counterstamped S is contemporay or not
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    1863 Open 3 Revisited

    This washer went for £108
  22. This is a very complicated series, difficult to see from your photo, but it is possibly 7/5 A/R, the edge markings you describe are normal for this series, weights vary greatly Here's a 7/5 Coq/Corne lots of images here (nb click numbers in right hand column) and If you can handle some basic French go to the Amis Du Franc Click on "site Dupre" - hundreds of images submitted by members and if you register you have access to the expert system being used to try and identify all the different die varieties in use for the 1c, 5c, decime & 5 francs L'an 4 to L'an 12
  23. No, just these, no idea how many others are potentially out there
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