Coinery

You were very lucky with that one, Peter...that's cheaply your's on account of my credit card expiry date expiring with auction sniper at a time I only had my phone with me, and not the opportunity to bid live!

Blimey, TPGC's!

Staggering quality, jaggy, I bow down! Wonderful coin!

I've never seen that before, how can eBay collect revenue for Customs and Excise, unbelievable! They've got their finger in every pie, you've got to take your hat off to them in some bitter way or other! I'm surprised Customs' haven't cottoned onto that before! Spoils it all! Postage fees, custom fees, Paypal fees, eBay fees...eBay's cut, now to likely include customs' collection charges, will soon equal that of the seller's!

Take it steady out there, chaps! Many happy returns!

Depends on your definition! Remember, I've never spent 4 figures yet on any single coin, though that (almost) tempts me to. Without the buyer's commission, that was only 3 figures Blimey, that's got to be way up there as a top buy? I'd always be able to find the money somewhere, if something that pretty came along within my field of interest! One extra shift per week for the wife, for a month...easy! She'd understand????

What I find unbelievable is that there must have been a bod somewhere who really thought that that Britannia fluesy (no idea quite how that should be spelled?) could really go out as a reverse! There would likely have been an unwanted baby boom, sticking such reverses into the pockets of gentlemen? Top of the range though, AC!

Yarp!

I think the Russian's have got you again, Chris!

Not bad, not bad at all! Copper is definitely king in my book!

Having a theatre/recovery background, I can clearly see how key-hole surgery would be appropriate in some cases? I guess this will no doubt be an offered service one day; a microscopic hole and cannula application of chemical therapy to any and all re-submitted coins affected by contaminants!

I so look forward to saving all my findings in that way, I have already lost substantial and personally important coin data from lack of time and organisation...I bow down, Peck!

I'm not sure if you've misunderstood my point VC, I'm not talking about oxidation in the common sense but, rather, how can it be determined that "verd" is stable just from looking at it?'Bubbling' starts somewhere, of course, but it has a beginning! How is it determined, as BRG has confidently done, that the process has ended? This is what I'm interested in! I don't believe the green spots are Verdigris at all. Thus, I don't believe they are active in that sense. True verdigris is a reaction of acetic acid with copper, and has a certain "bubbly" look to it as VS described. These few tiny green spots simply don't appear as such, and have no signs of continued reaction with the surface metal (e.g., the lustre is still visible microscopically underneath the translucent green spots). Oh, right, that makes sense, if you don't believe it to be verdigris! Claiming stable verdigris under magnification is altogether a different animal! It might just wipe off with a bit of acetone?

I'm not sure if you've misunderstood my point VC, I'm not talking about oxidation in the common sense but, rather, how can it be determined that "verd" is stable just from looking at it?'Bubbling' starts somewhere, of course, but it has a beginning! How is it determined, as BRG has confidently done, that the process has ended? This is what I'm interested in!

Just out of interest, how do you determine verd activity at magnification? Verdigris usually accumulates at the surface and can be seen "eating" into the coin's surface. These small green spots are translucent, and the coin's lustre can be seen beneath them. No signs of "active" acidic verd. It's the term "active" that most interests me! How do you determine that it's stable and not active?

Not really my area but, you're obviously serious, and that is a most welcome quality on here...welcome aboard, douna!

Just out of interest, how do you determine verd activity at magnification?

Ps the forum still isn't displaying correctly on safari, and I don't have edit buttons! Other safari accessed forums using the same software are working fine!

Ps the forum still isn't displaying correctly on safari, and I don't have edit buttons!

Got mine, but the 1840 two-prong might need updating already! What a price for a raggy coin that barely makes VF overall! £130

If you really want to dazzle your public, you could always add it's a "BCW Sixpence AC-2A:b1" Another point...I'd really try and lighten those images and maybe remove some of the blue? It makes it look very pewtery and polished!

S2563 That'll go quite well for you, the acorn is a rarer and popularly known PM! The mintmarks as documented in spinks goes 77-27, which means, if you go back to the mintmarks at the start of the Elizabeth bit, it'll be all the mintmarks between these two numbers, which includes 65b as you rightly say!

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!