Coinery

You’re not using the brands with added moisturisers for cleaning nails are you?

I really don’t think submersion is necessary. On anything but proof coins, a gentle ‘mop’ over the surface with a saturated Q-tip will do! Sacrilege I know, but it works, and even on the finest fields, reflected under natural AND artificial light, you’ll perceive no difference…dig out your 1967 pennies and see for yourself. The one thing I would say, however, and I shared it on here a long time ago…never re-dip your bud into the acetone, otherwise, by the end of the bottle, you’ll be layering more junk onto the coin than you’re taking off!

That’s a pretty stand-out date alignment…is it possible, like with hammered, to find a better example? I realise die-cracks are one way, of course, but are the ‘modern’ series too plentiful of dies for numeral displacements to work?

I think most people naturally assume it to be a personal opinion when shared across one’s own personal social media account? I personally, never for a second, believed Gary’s Twitter feed represented the views of the BBC! And re the final point in your sentence, isn’t this what our political leaders do all the time?

The first one is a pewter replica of an Elizabeth I threepence, worth around £1 unfortunately.

I can’t speak for this particular coin, but I did something very similar just recently when listing an Elizabeth Lis penny on eBay. I couldn’t decide which way to bat with it (buy it now with best offer, or auction) and ended up going with auction, thinking it would find its price! It sat at .99p for a week, with people watching and then leaving…I guess thinking that it wasn’t genuine, I don’t know? Anyway, point is, it sold for £82 and, when it did, I had three emails offering me more, with one person saying £200, which is more or less what I thought I’d get for it. Really difficult to know what to do when using psychology to sell on eBay…sometimes it works to good effect, on other occasions it bombs! I’m not calling this coin at all, but sometimes the genuine articles do turn up with a .99p start! Maybe not this one, though????

Whoever they are, Rodney, they’ll be millionaires in next to no time with an inventory like that!

I hear what you say, Nick, except it’s so obvious to everyone that the bbc is conditioned right to its very core, and something that, like everything else, will never ever be cured/solved. I live with it, but occasionally take exception to things like this! There could come a day when David Attenborough’s take on climate change may not suit ‘impartiality,’ and perhaps that time will bring an end to our viewing of those bygone days?

Doesn’t impartially then become a towed line that no longer represent free speech? Of course if you’re a BBC children’s presenter you might reasonably be expected not to talk of child molestation, whereas a BBC news presenter could. This very much smells of ‘do as you’re told’ within the role, which then suggests as a children’s presenter you might live in fear of being quoted as admitting you enjoy having sex with your wife?

Just ordered 100g of sulphur flowers, so we’ll see? In the meantime does anyone have any ‘before and after’ examples of silver treated in this way?

Fantastic! Many thanks for this…a definite correlation with heat, then! Perfect!

Wow, temperature, that’s interesting. I always had it in my mind a damper atmosphere would work better…I guess that’s from thinking of other metals oxidising more in those conditions? Really appreciate your comments, very interesting! 👍

Wow, two proper Lis pennies, that’s some collection you have there! Sadly no date, that would’ve been phenomenal. The region of the date is unfortunately too poor (I’ve only the pictures my wife has sent me from the mother-in-law’s at the moment), but I managed to die-match it to this one.

Not my worst deal on eBay by far! I managed to match the obverse die to another better example, though, to be fair, the reverse is pretty obvious anyway! One of a pair of coins for £25 Not a keeper, of course, but should offset something else in the wallet I hope?

I believe this to be nothing more than a small gouge. The flan stress marks, which still exist beneath it, reassure me there’d be no rationale for using a file in that particular location. Just a personal opinion, though I personally find your earlier picture a better one for looking at this issue.

Can someone explain to me what Peck Marked means in the context of this coin? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325519516938?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=ypzAYDyQRze&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=qduwzHkQTWC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Best little fireside story I’ve read in quite some time, that…they should be selling the story, NOT the coins, pure entertainment

I personally don’t see the marks you speak of as being tooling. Equally I don’t, based on the images provided, feel the ‘issue’ is anything other than flan and strike anomalies? Hopefully, if you get lucky enough to find some further provenance, you may either get this confirmed or denied?

Thanks, Rob…I appreciate that!

And all the while everyone was missing the fact this was a unique IENNY

That is just bonkers, ‘certified a genuine not genuine copy!’ Unbelievable!

Try a screenshot of the images on your phone and crop them, that normally reduces the size enough for me. Also just upload a single image at a time, you can always add the second image in a reply to yourself! no H is not uncommon, and many denominations are without dates! I look forward to seeing your pictures

Looking at the highlights I’d say it’s not only the same coin, but even the same photo used for both examples!

Absolutely, yes, I can see that For the record, though, ‘usual’ was my lazy way of referring to the other Gs on the coin. A phenomenal find, no doubt about it!

A very interesting and plausible explanation. I’m sure there’s much more to the story, however, given the straight sides of the tail of the ‘usual’ G and the very different curved sides in the tail of the G in Victoria. Only ten known surviving examples? You must be absolutely delighted…what an acquisition for a penny collector! Well done, Sir!