Coinery

And the penny (sorry about the images...just a quick photo from a book).

BCW cite Challis in their book, saying that the Anchor coinage was light. Taking a look at the anchor penny I've just bought, would suggest that the pennies were clearly struck on much smaller flans! Here's a size comparison (different busts, of course) of a threefarthing (0.48g) and the Anchor penny (0.50g): Also, below is the same bust as seen on the anchor penny, but here on a threefarthing (rose behind bust) AND a different Privy Mark penny in the next post! I think the inner circle is clearly smaller on the anchor penny when compared to the other penny? It looks to me that the inner circle is far more threefarthing-like, suggesting that the 1599/1600 punters were only getting threefarthing's worth for their penny?

Brilliant, thanks, gents!

I'm guessing I must have knocked something by accident, as I'm now receiving numerous emails of postings on the forum! Any ideas how to switch those type of alerts off, I can't see a way?

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My last girlfriend was Ed Sheeran's aunt, the girlfriend before worked for the bbc and got me on the inner circle of casualty (where you'll see me as a frequent extra in the original series) and the Sunderland Football Club, where I spent every home-match for 2 seasons in the player's lounge (ordered a beer, standing alongside David Beckham...I was served first! ), Terry Pratchet was a customer...and also performed on the Sunderland Empire stage as the lead in a play, and also sang a Beatles song at the Casualty wrap party with Ian Kelsey et al. Etc. etc.Now look at me! PS recovered a couple of famous people in my nursing days...of note was wiping the bottom of a famous European horse-riding lady - that bottom was good, despite it all!

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Totally agree! Whatever the rarity level, it's an iconic Halfcrown in the collectability stakes!

I think even The Cure themselves would say they'd never of made it but for Peely!

Wow. That's something that us lesser mortals can only dream about.Needless to say it's the pride of his entire HC collection! He bought the complete set from an elderly family friend who was bequeathed them (along with other significant HC's) by a family member/collector who'd pulled them at the year of their issue!Fabulous story, and quite an asset, to say the least! I must press him for some images????

I know somebody who has an uncirculated set of E7 halfcrowns (with the history to go with it)! By all accounts has ALL the HC's from early-milled to-date!

I think weak strike, as opposed to 'regional' wear, as the beading, relative to the shield quarters, is still rather good. Whilst my C1 fine-work knowledge is lacking, I have to agree, in light of them being presentation pieces, that a quality strike would've been very important, which your's isn't...at least not to fine work standards? I suppose the question could always be asked 'how many pieces were struck to achieve 1 quality piece?' Also, what happened to the surplus? Were they circulated or melted?

How much, Garrett?

Welcome JPK, what detector do you use?

I've been asking at the post office for unopened bags of decimals! No luck, yet, though haven't tried the bank! Question: how far back would banks or PO's carry unopened dates? Also, outside of these sources, where else would you look? I'm gathering up what I can, for my own pleasure, and also to stimulate the interest of my son, who thinks shiny is best!

OK, I'm thinking fend for yourself on this topic, unless Peter turns up with the 'kids' which, in light of the recent awards, he is more than welcome to do so? Even without the kids you'd be a pleasant and welcome arrival, Peter, once we're organised! I guess we could always trial Declan first, being as he's only got a farthing's worth of petrol to spend to get here! If he sat on his chainsaw and fired it up, we'd be within walking distance of picking up the pieces!

It's OK, you can bring them!

Sounds perfect to me, as I've been really desperate for a restoration project on a decent motorbike? My last significant motorbiking period was on a GPZ 750, which had little left of the foot pegs by the time I'd finished with it...quite a feat on a poor long-wheelbase design! Apart from the white-line bottom shuffle I loved it!Will you be bringing your daughters? The wife asked!

I'd quite like to acquire the decimals, though I never thought I'd hear myself say it! I guess it's a cheap and, dare I say it, fun way to involve the boy (as well as myself) AND, don't forget, a way to tap into the coin collecting hobby that all you old buggers experienced when first starting your collections, albeit your experience was a tad more varied and exciting than today's collector might experience from change? Edit: I guess this has to be read in the context of my 'whole' experience of accumulation! In boyhood I collected pike plugs and football stickers. In my late 20's, when I realised a genuine E1 6d was cheaper than a museum copy, things significantly changed... I always had a love of 'old ways' and simple living; poaching, fishing, etc. so, history in-hand, has always bit me hard in the arse! Everything grabbed me, a pottery shard/sherd, a beam from an Elizabethan house, which can be planked for a refectory table, a musket ball suspended from a piece of 1700 deer fencing, a 2" diameter piece of 18th century ship rope as the frame for a mirror...everything, but happy daze indeed! Double edit: added even before I read Peck was an old git, which I'm sure he is? You can move nearer to us Peck if you want, my wife'll dust your new home and polish your coins for you!

A very odd thing has just happened! I put a snipe in on a coin that was set to finish at 17.00 and signed in at 16.50 to find it in my 'ended items' list at the £4.50 it had been sat at for a day or so! Bugger I thought, the item had been ended early due to low bidding, bugger, bugger! Anyway, I signed in to my sniping software which was still counting down on it! So, back to eBay, sign-out, sign-in, refresh...still in ended items! Point is! Don't cancel your snipes in this instance, as I so very nearly did, because I won that coin for £11.50, even though it was still sat in ended items at £4.50! eBay's such a pain in the arse! Got a nice 1860 farthing, though!

Better late than never, Geoff! The images are through very poor-quality coin flips, the windows are speckled and slightly opaque which, unfortunately, the camera focused upon instead of the coin. There are a couple of verd spots on the edge which needs dealing with, otherwise a GVF for me. Any opinions from the hammered or farthing gents? The fields are excellent on this one, I should take it out and photograph it properly really! You get the idea though!

And that reminds me of the Brummy fisherman who caught a 'whale' and threw it back because it had no spokes in it!Tommy Cooper! Once, while in a large Birmingham shopping mall, whose name escapes me, we asked, with my wife's Essex accent, for directions to a toy store and ended up at The Tie Shop. great!The Bull Ring I think it is?

No, 29 out...F501 for me at £11.50 A good buy if the lacquer comes off with acetone? 121241413171