Coinery

Glad it’s gone to a good home at least! Well done…I did wonder! ☺️

How much coin would, say, Elizabeth Tudor have given out as Maundy coinage, and how much of that coinage would’ve actually been handled by, or been in direct possession of, the queen? How would the ceremony have worked/happened? Would it have been mixed denominations, or just pennies? I’ve recently learned that pennies were given out as Maundy, would there be others? Many thanks in advance!

Felt extremely stupid to have missed this ex Shuttlewood, eglantine penny, after my alarm failed to go off (I’m between nightshifts at the moment). Hammered at £260 - how cheap was that for such a great example!

Another glitch! I couldn’t edit the above post just seconds later (I wanted to remove ‘anyway’)…it said the post cannot be edited as it’s either been deleted or is too old! 😩

I’ll be interested to see what this fetches, as I think it’s aesthetically awful, but is apparently NGC AU58. I bought one of Chris Comber’s Anchor Shillings, which is at least a grade less, but I prefer mine to the NGC graded piece by a golden mile!

Anyway, it sold for £860, I thought the Americans might push it into the stratosphere…still prefer mine at £298

Possibly, but there’s something other than contrast about this coin for me. My main bother is balance, the flat spots fall awkwardly for me, and the area at the obverse 3 o’clock is either crushed or corroded, which is also way too much for me. It’s a rare coin I guess, but…

Correct 👍

What are these worth, now? I’ll be bidding.

100% agree with you. Eye appeal on a technically lower graded coin, outranks a higher graded “road accident” on just about every occasion IMHO

Having said that, try and buy a nice Elizabeth Halfgroat…VERY difficult

I think so…it’ll be interesting to see what the slab actually represents in this particular example. We have an essentially scarce to, more likely, rare shilling (around 10-20 across auctions and eBay in the last 10 years [including the dross], so maybe 30+ available around, maybe a few more?), sitting as a “top pop,” but likely on account of the infrequency an anchor shilling is slabbed by NGC…it could even be the only one? Will bidders potentially gather in expectation of it being the finest known? I hope not!

The link! https://ebay.us/m/otVMw2

Pot hook N and star on breast a clear class London 9b

Or Charles I, you’ll have to take a closer look at the legends under a good light 👍

A Stuart copper farthing!

Yes, the Short Cross is Henry III class 7 and the moneyer is indeed TERRI of London. The long cross is class 3 and Canterbury (O\| CANT)

Don’t forget your scales, they’re a cheap and very worthy item too! You could always check out Rob’s website to see if he has any on there, he sells most things? 👍 https://rpcoins.co.uk/

No, I’m talking about this link as being your SECOND Elizabeth threefarthings! You were saying you only had ONE, I was merely pointing out that you have TWO!

You have 2 threefarthings

It’s dated 1578 over 1575 as mentioned earlier in the post.

No yours is a threefarthings, much smaller than a threehalfpence. If you look at the halfpenny and consider whether you could squeeze three of them into the coin pictured alongside it, that should help you understand the scale of things.

Apologies, an evening out with friends! The most important detail in this are the busts, the threehalfpence was only ever issued with one bust (3G the bust you shared off the numis site). Size isn’t always the best tool for identifying these tiny coins, as the flans can spread with some considerable variance, depending on how heavily they’re struck. You need to buy yourself a set of scales because, in the absence of knowing the bust types, they’ll quickly give the game away on grounds of weight alone.

Just realised the original post says 1 1/2 pence (threehalfpence), so not spot-on after all!

You are spot on with the threefarthings…it is, however, a reverse die that’s believed to be 8 over 5, so an overdate. The halfpenny is 100% genuine and is, in my opinion, the best coin you’ve shared on this forum so far…I’d give you £100 right now for that coin (which means you could probably get £130 if you sat on it). Nice coin!