Coinery

Jerry I hate you! I’ve trawled the eBay rubbish for years, and recently added Penny-checks to my list, and definitely never even saw that one, I would’ve remembered the double-strike obverse. A nice Christmas present, I salute you Sir, and look forward to my own addition to this post! That’s got to be the clearest acorn/eglantine reverse MM you’ll see…buy a lottery ticket for Saturday!

Many thanks, TG, appreciate it I already have some photo corners, now, though…just need to wait for my leather folder on the 25th and then I can show you my little OCdea.

I’ve been waiting for this Compliments of the season to you. Plus a warm and hearty season’s greeting to each and every one of you on here!

Similar, just a little less yoghurty! Hopefully the image of photo corners will explain it better, you can obviously buy clear ones too? As kids we used to do something similar with stamps, except they were tiny grease-proof-paper-like corners, very fiddly. Basically, they’re little corner pockets that allow you to fix something to a page without damaging the thing itself.

Strange that I couldn’t find them, whereas I found photo-corners a-plenty! The photo ones are perfect for the job, as would’ve been the stamp corners, I’m sure, had I been able to locate them 😊 Compliments of the season to you!

Of course! I’m not thinking laterally at the moment! Thanks very much

If you’d been on here 7 years ago there would’ve been four or five knowledgeable people all over your post…there’s probably only one or, if you’re extremely lucky, two people who could even contribute today! Good luck, it’s a decent post!

I’ve got a leather 12-card- flips-per-page folder coming from Santa, that takes the attached pages with white interleaves. I have this idea of fixing paper envelopes on the white card interleaves behind the coin to hold things like dealer tickets, etc., but also so I can print out, in a new modern style, all the relevant info. on my own new adhesive ticket that’s cut to fit the front flip of the coin envelope (as drawn in blue), but where are the stamp corners we all had as kids?

I no longer have the material to pin these things down, but if anyone collects in this area they’ll recognise it in an instant, there’s enough to go on, especially with that crude open crown. I’ll be interested to see what pops up, but the general feel of the bust makes it Richard all over to me? I could easily be two monarchs out, though, quite easily, maybe three!

Withdrawn from the sale!

Just to say that the eBay, ex Comber, shilling has just gone over £200, which is more than I want to pay for a pitted and holed coin, Lis or not, especially when there are other lots upcoming! I’m personally happy that it’s the shilling from which the other coins were cast, if that’s an element that gives it a nice pirate value, and some added numismatic interest? I didn’t share it here at the time, but I later noticed plenty of red wax in the reverse legend, further adding, along with its weight and general sharpness, to its likely authenticity. Good luck if this interests anybody!

I don’t want to derail the thread here too much, but thanks for that, some good approaches…it would be impossible otherwise!

Quick question re this point. I ask because I’m compiling a catalogue of the Elizabeth I anchor shillings, and would ultimately want to put it out there! What do you do re gathering photos from the net, as it’s sometimes near impossible to track the source or get permission from the original photographer?

It’s superb irony, after just reading City have more than 100 alleged breaches of the same rules, that are still awaiting verdicts! There’ll be some squeaky shorts out there this winter, that’s for sure!

Spink’s description: “…lightly toned on a curiously light planchet, a pleasing very fine.”

This isn’t to say the spink coin is fake, it could again be the donor coin, though it too looks suspicious? The coin I had was fake, underweight, edge-seamed, and taken back by W&W at the time. There are green deposits on the Spink coin which could be copper deposits OR wax? I’m going to look over my browser history again, because I stumbled across an unusually high number of coins with same wax/copper deposits! Now, I just wonder??

No, not the same item, but identical flaws, double-strike, etc. etc.

Upcoming Spink sale!

Old counterfeit shilling of mine!

Superb, many thanks again, and great re the updated document I think you’d be right about the supply scenario…I believe Tim’s name comes up as provenance, presumably on the back of SH’s ticket?

Ahh, just bumped into a little issue with the attached document…it isn’t all of the entrants that have dates! Any thoughts on where Owen sits in the timeframe?

Thanks, Rob. I guess it doesn’t add very much to the coin, historically speaking, but it does at least say the coin’s been through a couple of hands who really should know better, if it’s a copy?

Many thanks, TG, much appreciated.

In connection with another post, what would you say the provenance and timescale of this one is? And, unless it was lost, Chris C. hadn’t prepared a ticket himself?

With just the one possibility that this could indeed be the original from which the others are cast?