Coinery

Many thanks for doing the spadework. Our daughter has just informed us that we have two extras for Christmas dinner who are doing the same on-call shifts as she is- one Omani muslim and an Indian vegetarian Double pigs in blankets all round. I've been told my next task is not to do a 'Duke of Edinburgh' Merry Christmas everyone. Hah, send them down to us, I'm making a warm-spiced nut roast, wrapped in plaited puff pastry, even as I write! I take it she's a health professional?

Decent coins and he always seems to get good prices for his listings. I wonder if I should get him to sell my stuff too!?! He certainly does, £51 for a £30-book C1 farthing too! That sixpence wasn't even that good either! He can certainly sell mine too! I always speak to someone called Heather when I've dealt with them???

Afraid not (it went for £51 in the end), but it is my mission to snaffle one that you would like it your collection!

Excellent b'rap!

Now a straight 1564 date without the 4/2 is a rarish thing, but I wasn't expecting over £200! It's not THAT good, surely? 370696830493

I did like the sharp beading on this one, is it your's?

I'd love to document all the Liz forgeries that turn up, alongside the lifetime Elizabeth Project I'm working through at the moment! Have you seen the thread 'Elizabeth Die Study'? That's where I'm at currently, but recently buying anything suspicious, almost in the hope of discovering a new counterfeit to document! I think seuk's got G3 covered, we need something similar going on for all the areas, and then centralize it all

There are so many fakes on the Pre-decimal website that it makes me wonder whether Chris is the 'M' behind it all! Are you watching that Maltravers farthing Stuart? Yes I was, the one with different mintmarks ob & rev (blencoe)? It's apparently a common Everson type 3, so I didn't want to go beyond the £28 I think it was the last time I looked!

Yes, take it easy Ski, and have a good one!

Here's a better image...it's good, isn't it!

Many thanks for the BNJ link and your kind offer! Life's mad just now, what with a nearly-5 on tow, but I'd very much like to link up with you after Christmas, and talk coins, is it just the milled coinage of Elizabeth you are collecting? This coin is definitely a forgery, it doesn't test positive for silver, the obverse is even more of a giveaway, though it could've milled/hammered-out alright and provided as convincing an obverse as is the reverse. Have you any forgeries of Elizabeth coins you've collected along the way, I'd be really interested? Cripes, this was meant to be brief...speak soon, and thanks again!

Sounds like a great holiday! Sun, song, and a bit of coin shopping, perfect! As for your coins, not my area at all, though I'm sure someone will come through good for you!

Unquestionably. He has put through a load of hammered forgeries this year. His current James 1st shilling looks suspect too, irrespective of the weight given. Why would he be marking any up as forgeries at all, if he was intentionally trying to deceive? I mean a W3 obverse with a wrong year on the reverse doesn't sound to me like someone intentionally trying to kid??? He would've been better off putting this one through as a 'genuine' coin rather than listing it as a forgery, which he did? He could be innocent...just wanted to put another angle on it! Of course, he could be as crooked as a Uri Geller fork!

Now that's intriguing, I've just bought two forgeries from this seller (listed as such), so what's going on there?

Speak for yourself! Indeed! I spent a lot less than that on my last coin ... What, THAT old washer?

That's a superb bit of advice, and even better link, I didn't even know about that! Will be a useful website and service for everyone here!

Def small claims it! If you don't get your money back, you can at least rest in the knowledge that, for a very small outlay, you've driven a painfull nail into their credit rating! That'll piss them off, one way or another, for a good many years! You could then always sell the debt on for £15 to a 'reputable' company and buy a couple of bottles of wine! Every sip of that you could think on the number of pain-in-the-arse letters that will get sent to his parents, employers, and posh new girlfriends house!

Slightly impaired thus? Scratch across the bust, as I recall!

Can't remember who you're with, without logging in, but just about everyone I know who have hotmail accounts have been infiltrated in this way! I've sent endless emails to my elderly relatives, and senior medical consultants, offering quick fixes for penile dysfunctions! All good fun!

I'll send an email to Heritage later, I'm sure I read somewhere that they'll get raw coins slabbed for their auctions, could be wrong? The coin would be going just one way, then, with just one lot of post, and no import taxes! This is what the experiment's all about, I guess, finding these things out by hard-won experience! I'm going to send a couple of trial hammereds to them, so I need to 'mail them anyway!

Could always make it a £120 stake, I'll cover 1949 until the new year, if that's agreeable?

Nice little Halfgroat, that!

I'm still in, 6 people would be about right i'd say, 100 quid each, we'd have to pick the right coin though, agree with the silver, so need to keep the eyes open for something that could grade in the MS bracket 64-67 in our humble opinions. Maybe some of the dealers has something we could play with? What's wrong with the Cooke coin? Could be interesting to see how that grades and sells with Heritage? Regardless, I'm in for a share of the fun, if someone wants to take the reigns! I have to confess though that understanding how a grading company arrives at a particular number is tiring to me, and of little interest to the coins I'm playing with, but I'm sure I'd learn a 100 quid's worth from it ;-)

BNJ vol. XXVI pt.III (1951) plate XXII no.13 Thanks, Rob! Haven't spoke in a while...Compliments of the season to you! Advert looks good, was there an extra premium for being in the first couple of turns?