Coinery

I was too, until our little fall-out over postage! Her/his loss as, as I said in a previous thread, I had bought and bid-up many, many, coins of their's that would have sold for considerably less otherwise! I was worth £1000's to them, even as a non-winning bidder! I must have spent a K or two with them as well! I still don't think it's right to try and charge SD rates for two items you bought at Signed-For rates! Send them individually to me if you want, not charge me extra for putting them in the same envelope and saying they are now over the £46 bracket! Still gets to me

I bought 40 of the buggers and sold 1 to Declan. What is a Groom 1 and 2.I have a few others kicking about(about 40) and need to check these.My grandfather gave me a load of 1946 & 49 3d's from change.As a 10 year old lad I decided to corner the market.I got to about 40 before realising every single one minted was stashed in collectors hands so they weren't rare. worth about £5. I remember a few years back when the 1959S shilling suddenly went from less than £20 in BU to £75! I wondered if that was a misprint - anyone know if the 2012 Spink has brought it back down to realistic levels? The Scottish variant is now £90 UNC

I'm definitely on the fence when it comes to slabs! I've got around a dozen, and have only broke out about 4 ever. I like handling coins, and preparing my OWN tickets for them, with information I want on them, and could never imagine slabbing hammered silver or gold. However, that all said, I do hate the vulnerability of a mint-lustred valuable copper and, to all intents and purposes, would end up locking it away for its own protection anyway. So I do sometimes wonder about the freedom gained from ham-fistedly grabbing your favourite mint coppers for a good look on a regular basis! Another negative for the slabbers, and something that always plays on my mind, is how long will that magnificent lustre hold out in the slab? Were the experts as considerate with their handling as they might have been? How many people properly degrease their coins before sending them for slabbing? I always wonder about how many acidic fingerprints are locked away with a slabbed coin? If the greater argument is about protecting/handling the coins, then you could always buy empty slab cases? A quick search finds them in the US at around $2 a throw! Strangely, I can enjoy aspects of both slabbed AND raw coins, guess I'm just weird!

anybody bought one? Not yet, but if i do i'll send it to PCGS for grading XXX unclean, with fine details!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ENGLAND-Elizabeth-I-scarce-hammer-struck-1569-silver-6-Pence-VG-/190755987580?pt=US_World_Coins&hash=item2c69f1607c Threepence, surely?

I've only just got that!

I've just received the best news this evening from Chris Comber of BCW fame! I have the kind permission of the three gentlemen to 'use and quote BCW in my [your] published resource.' How fantastic an endorsement is that? I'm totally made up about it! They have also recently submitted updates to Galata in preparation for the 2nd edition of their book, and continue to seek out new discoveries and welcome any new findings. So, one small step for...

Proving something is not authentic is almost as diffficult as proving it is genuine, so the TPGs are not really staking much with that guarentee. Let's face it - you wouldn't have bought the coin in the first place if you thought it was fake! Excellent point! I never EVER managed to convince the owner of the Mary groat that it was not genuine! Every fact I offered, he countered...only Spink's top man, or Tony Robinson live on TV, would have convinced him otherwise!

How did this project work out DaveG38? Both published! To avoid bias, and I couldn't find them for sale on Chris's site, just type 'David Groom Coin' into google and you'll find them!

Can anyone help me in my understanding of this penny? I feel loathed to ID it without understanding the crown. Is it a broken crown punch? Repaired crown on die? Or...? It looks to me as if there is some symetry and intention re the two outer fleurs, so I'm leaning towards a die-repaired-crown, type 10 (maybe)? It's giving me a headache, that's for sure. I'm at a bit of a loss to be honest!

You're a hard man, Mr Peter, a hard man!

Also, so people can't actually see what you've been selling AFTER the auction's finished! If you had a nice little idea, say polished coins for 110th birthdays, other potential listers, who might want to poach your idea, can't see how successful you are in selling them. If they spotted you'd sold 20 in one week, they might just think 'Blimey, I'll give that a go myself!' A case in point: about 10 year's ago, I started making driftwood crucifixes for a bit of fun. I was genuinely shocked by their popularity and eBay auction success, making between early twenties to thirty quid a throw! I didn't have the market for long! I've done it myself on eBay, seen a good idea, and then trawled the seller's feedback for the stats!

Not sure about the Tom Sellick moustache though!

Not a clue unless it's a deformed bell. That was my first guess, but very odd to say the least! I thought is could be a modern copy, but it's not known by Everson? So, it turns out to be a Maltravers (Type 2) Bell 'Counterfeit' farthing, which is confirmed as another die of CMBe-Be002 (die 2) on Ivan Butterworth's website http://www.hammered-farthings.com (see bottom image for comparisons) - thank-you very much to him for all his help and assistance in this matter.

That's pretty shit, Dave, I'd be furious at ANY auction house that tried to pass that onto a distant-buying client! I agree not every detail can be described, but glaring issues, that they know would make it undesirable, like a bloody great hole through the middle etc, should be noted in bold! Best of luck with turning them over!

Looks like one for TomGoodHeart. And there was me thinking I was about to break TWO predecimal records in one hit...the 0 reply post, and the longest conversation ever held with oneself in the Mary Fake! You've blown it now, peterkin

Just an update! The 'die-match' coin has arrived, it tests positive for high-grade silver, so it'll not be an easy matter of just condeming an entire die type. However, ahead of my little die-study of the Mary pomegranate groats, there is evidence enough to suggest caution when buying a coin of this die match.

Has anyone ever heard of or seen a fake Mary Groat? Could I please have your considered opinions please! The seller says he found this Metal Detecting, and has been a dealer for 30 years with his own shop, and apparently has great experience in this field, and has also shown this to a 'top dealer'. He's invited me to take it to Spinks or DNW to authenticate. It has all the complex Mary buckles, but is lighter than it should be at 1.64g. It is your typical hammered thin, making me rationalize it is neither a cast nor electrotype, though I'm open to all thoughts good or bad. I personally am uncomfortable with it, what do you think of the general quality of the design?

Has anyone seen, can link me to, or know anything about, the modern 'POSUI reverse' fakes mentioned in North? Obviously a very different animal to what we are currently looking at here, but would be good to get one up here anyway!

Many happy returns, John!

When you say 'blundered,' do you mean stolen? Was this really a common thing, given that the dies would still be capable of producing 'legal' tender right up to the recoinage in W3? I'm also just wondering about the production of dies, using a currency coin. I'm guessing that devices on a newly created fake die would be, if anything, exact or larger? Whereas a stolen set of dies (maybe even a 100 year's old by then) could potentially have corroded (and the rust would've swollen) and create devices that are frailer and smaller in appearance? Any thoughts? And just for the record, the reverse dies are also a perfect match!

I'm trying to find room 2 on The Saleroom, does anyone have a link? I can find room 1 on there easy enough, but the hammered from room 2?????

£220 + comm. on the groat. I THOUGHT I'd won 5! Just checked and it's 4! I thought the bid was mine! So, if I repeatedly clicked the bid button at the time of the auction, just to make sure it was mine (which I thought it was), would it up my own bid, or does it just ignore it? The first 2 lots on saturday that I won, never put any of the red writing up to say I was bidding/winning etc, but fortunately I was. Not sure what happened to the 1 in 3 from today?

5 but nothing for me, where were the quality C1 farthings and E1 coins? I had a little go at the Mary Groat and some of the E7 pieces, but that just wasn't happening.

Postage is listed on the invoice. Brilliant, thanks Nick!