Coinery

I'd be there every time if I actually lived in Croydon! There are certainly some bargains, especially if you stay until the end (I remember loads of people drifting off early on, after already filling their pockets), you just have to be there and trust your own judgement (take a loupe)!

But if you do go you feel as if you're at a village fair! Or primary school assembly, or amateur dramatic play...

Every single coin I bought there was at least 1/2 to a full grade over, you absolutely cannot distance-buy with Croydon!

Oh Crap! I was considering this the other day! Was considering taking the penny collection back to Edgar so the album would span a millennia although the price of some of the hammered pennies scares the hell out of me! Mm I wonder if could slip those under Mrs J's radar ! A thousand years of pennies! Now there's a thought! That would cover a few specialities!

The odd thing is, they actually sell some nice coins, they just need to do better by the consignors and get that website sorted out! Edit: actually, on second thought, they should leave it just as it is!

Told you you were in good company with pennies here! Edit: we just need to get you onto hammered now!

They really need to do something about that site, and Croydon Coins! £100,000 coin sold by them, and they can't keep an updated site.

Where it sits in the list for any given search, the outcome of good SEO.

Have a look here at Tony Claytons site http://www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk/pics/pen3.html There are good clear photos of the different obverses and reverses. Its a good site with a lot to read and a lot to see. The reason his SEO is staggering! I've never really liked the site, or found it that user friendly myself, but you've got to admire the ranking!

I'd say the obverse wasn't quite, but the reverse slightly better than...in balance about right I'd say! Looks possibly polished, though...on the pPod at least! Edit: In fairness I'd say buffed, rather than polished!

Free post, though!

Any tips on how to get rid of verdigris? Also does the crown look fine to you, as in not showing any signs of cleaning etc? (I worry too much) thanks for all the advice people My apologies as always, but I'm viewing your coin on the iPhone! I think it's a good example of the grade, and you may be able to tease away some of that verd with a cocktail stick (with spike stubbed) and some olive oil as a lube? The only other DIY approach would be sticking the whole thing in vinegar and work away at the green every 5-10-20 or so mins until you're satisfied it's either removed, or you begin to notice the general appearance of the entire coin is suffering, stop with whichever comes first! Whatever you do, don't add salt to the vinegar! I personally wouldn't recommend the vinegar approach for this coin, I'd go with the first option. What you can't remove, I'd keep stippled with a little olive oil for the next few years (not saturated, just a light wipe, and keep an eye on things), you might get it all eventually, leaving maybe a pit or two, depending on how advanced it is? You may be REALLY lucky! Good luck!

It is OK to use olive oil, but I don't think you'll see a significant difference if you left it in the stuff for another 200 years. I think what Rob very kindly fell short of, is cleaning may make it a little more pleasing on the eye, but it's not going to dramatically alter its value. As an example, you might have a George VI 1945 halfpenny with a lustrous surface, worth only a few £'s, but cleaning that would spoil it, and reduce its value by 90% probably? However, your coin already has its value set on account of its damaged surface, so cleaning it, if it was only to make it easier on the eye (And I think it's fine as it is, maybe a wash, possibly) would not significantly reduce the value of it. Just don't use a Brillo pad!

I don't think so. Just very elaborate lettering giving it an odd appearance. I'm going to have to remember to take a better look on the laptop tomorrow, it looks really N like on my phone screen! Bloody thing! Well, if you will use an eye phone when most people apply them to the mouth and ear, don't be too disappointed when Ls look like Ns and the world is square. As regards the blood, I suggest you check yourself rather than the phone. Regards Peregrine R Clyde-Brown you crack me up, Rob!

I don't think so. Just very elaborate lettering giving it an odd appearance. I'm going to have to remember to take a better look on the laptop tomorrow, it looks really N like on my phone screen! Bloody thing!

I dunno, Scott, it looks like the entire coin has been overlaid with itself, a kind of semi-transparent image over the same image, maybe a reflection or something? ALL the numerals look displaced by the same amount? I hope I'm wrong, and you've got yourself a goodun! EDIT: It looks like it's been taken through glass (you can see the photographer), maybe it's a double reflection? The bicep and helmet of Britannia all show the same kind of displacement?????????

In view of what you've said, the upright does seem far enough left to allow an F...also there does appear to be a small triangle that could represent the end serif of the top bar of an F, plus a faint crease where the lower crossbar might be? Maybe another block, as in the 1700 NO STOP after DEI?? This doesn't mean that it 'isn't' the IRA for FRA that's described in Spink's, of course, just that Spink's may not yet have resolved for themselves the issue of the genuine existence of the variety or not, or whether it is instead a block that produced a run of I for F looking coins! It's a great period, and great looking coins, especially the halfcrowns!

To be perfectly honest, I cannot see that this isn't the IRA for FRA, as understood to be by Spink, I'm only probing because I got caught out with the NO stop after DEI 1700 Shilling, which Spink's subsiquently agreed did not exist, based on the images I sent them (still in the 2013 cat. though).

On the face of it, it would be hard to say it's an F based on that image, would've been good to see the I of HIB for a quick comparison?

I don't know how I've managed to get 'Price: highest first' by default in Chrome, but I'm quite glad that I have. That and 'newly listed' are the options I use most. BTW Stuart your PM box is full. He obviously talks to much

Nice buy, you old scoundrel! Really blurry image on the pea-pod, but is that an L in London error?

It's a nice error find, but I don't think it would make anything over £25-£30 in that grade.

It's just a straight 68, probably a blocked die, though may have been a damaged punch. The missing Z is a known error, of which there are various misspellings of Elizabeth, for obverse BCW CN-2 How often? I wouldn't say hen's teeth, but certainly not common. The reverse looks to be CN-h7, which would make it an unrecorded pairing but, again, unrecorded pairings turn up quite regularly, and the punch details are not conclusive. Nice spot, though, and great to have BCW CN-2:h7 in your armoury!

Not me. It doesn't say 'organic'. Brings back memories of a house we bought as a repo. The owner had (apparently) a short haired dog (possibly Staffy) that the neighbours told us had had pups. They also told us she left them in all day. Had to clean everywhere, including taking up the floorboards, to get rid of the smell. So I think I'll pass, thanks. I really didn't think this was commonplace, my sister had to do exactly the same thing with the house she moved into around ten years ago. Every floorboard of an upstairs bedroom had to go, and the ceiling below replaced...unbelievable, I just don't get it!!!

Thanks Rob. Here is a histogram of the results. Neat work, Nick!