Coinery

There's nothing rare about a 1988 pound! The burger in a Big Mac is probably rarer. Enjoy Just to clarify, as I know where our Peck is coming from...a beef cell being next to the cell it grew up with is, indeed, a very rare thing, in ANY commercial burger! You'd better get used to it folks, your average 'meat' in a commercial burger is obtained by jet-blasting the wasted bones (after the expensive stuff has been taken off) with water (remembering that 'meat' is nothing other than an animal cell, no matter WHAT cell) so, this includes tendons, sinues, etc, left on the bones, which then has to be dehydrated to 'normal' muscle water-content and seasoned until it's a handsome quarter pounder for you guys! Pork for sausages includes the lot, i'm afraid, ears, gums, cheeks, tails, hoofs, tendons, spinal cords, delicious, it's all there slopping about in a huge vat ready for dehydration. I worked in an outlet once where the lamb meat sold for our famous 5-pint doners, consisted of breast of lamb as follows: Lamb ribs and cartilage were boned out and minced 4-5 times until they were a frothy pink purée. Onto this was added the remaining meat that was minced once. The 'blend' was mixed by hand, and then 'blended' again with a final mince! Lovely! Even bone cells are mince! This is not why I'm a vegetarian, I miss the flavour of meat very much!

That's a very impressive work, it's quite amazing! I'm not sure whether it's your photography lighting, or great skill on the part of the engraver, but that looks like some great moonlight! Yes, I was thinking of Mongo only the other day! And still no news on Gollum?

let us know how you get on with the coke!

Just don't type the word 'used' when you are browsing Ms Klass's smalls, or we'll never see you again! AND your internet bill will double!

Does that give you the first new unread post in every TOPIC Colin? I've never used that button before. I tend to use the dark coloured folders and the "In" button to see new content, but a drawback is that that only works for the first topic in a forum - for all other new content in a forum it only gives you the latest post, even if there are a whole load you haven't read. Yes, that button gives you EVERYTHING! I must start using it then! After all, I've only been here for 3 and a half years Ah, there's a snag. If I look in several times a day, it still shows me the new content since yesterday, not since my last visit. There's another button that says something like 'mark as read!' I'm not on the PC right now. I always click that when I've read the new content. When I next visit I just click view new content!

Does that give you the first new unread post in every TOPIC Colin? I've never used that button before. I tend to use the dark coloured folders and the "In" button to see new content, but a drawback is that that only works for the first topic in a forum - for all other new content in a forum it only gives you the latest post, even if there are a whole load you haven't read. Yes, that button gives you EVERYTHING!

Ah, but is yours slabbed? There's a whole can of worms right there, Gary! At the end of the day we're coin collectors, not platic collectors. A slab doesn't make a £1 coin any more than a £1 coin in a slab! I've only got one slab - it's a 1928 silver 3d, which I'd grade at VF+. PCGS MS64! So, instantly, there goes any incentive I might have to crack it out, as raw, it'll still only be a VF+. When the time comes to sell it, the best I'll be able to say, to cover myself and preempt the inevitable disappointment from the buyer: "slab says MS64 but please make sure you're happy with the grade of the coin, rather than the grade on the label". So I become as guilty as London Coins, and so the slippery slope begins... A little while back on an American forum it was being discussed that it was quite acceptable to pay $400 for a high grade slabbed 1934 penny. The idea of buying the same coin raw for a quarter of that was completely abhorrent to them. Perhaps we should devise a new TPG system that doesn't involve encasing coins in perspex tombs. Any ideas? As long as there are high-quality image databases, and numeric certificate/logbooks accompanying the coin, there's no reason why it shouldn't be equally as attractive as the current TPG monopoly...IMO

CGS quote £35 on their website for this coin. That seems an awful lot of money for an Elizabeth II coin that can't even be spent in a pub!

Better than TV, hilarious!

Class! Well done Gary, and welcome to the forum!

Leave it and move on Stuart Therein lies the problem, you see, I am in possession of it!

Thank-you both! I agree it's either a good fake or genuine. I'm worried for all Mary groats, as this coin is light, waxy, and doesn't test positive for silver! It has to have been hammered, I think but, the metal, it shouts fake!

Is there any possibility of Edward's base issue flans creeping into the Mary coinage? This coin also doesn't test positive for high-grade silver. Having said that, the test I use isn't sensitive enough to pick-up .500, and I also don't know where the test becomes positive above .500.

Well there we are, that's unanimous then! Thanks Peck! Oh, no! I went back and re-checked a coin I won from him...I hadn't even got round to taking it out of the flip. It was even photographed IN the flip, so looked better in the image than what I now have in hand. Yes, brasso'd most definitely! I've no excuses for being so blasé about it, only that I can collect up to 20+ coins a time from my postal address, this one onviously slipped below the radar! So, apologies if my initial statement was misleading! Last purchase for me!

I've sold him BIN coins before, but haven't seen them since...least not that I've recognised them if they've been recycled?

I've bought 2 of these LT's in the past on eBay auction, and was very pleased with the purchase price on both occasions. If this helps, I have sold one before on BIN & BO and was also very pleased with the outcome! It really all hinges on the quality of the images you can get onto eBay! Get links in the description to photobucket if you have to, just get the viewer an easy way to see a quality image! Don't do that 'I can send pictures' thing, that should be in Paulus's Room 101! So, not auction IMO, a 30-day BIN or BIN & BO IMHO. Everyone has very different views on this, to each his/her own! I see were you are coming from. I had also considered an auction with a highish reserve, then if under but close take the highest bidder. I do have interest in this coin but I've no idea what it's worth? Perhaps any dealer types could pm me their thoughts. I personally always run a mile when I see reserve not met on listings. I'd go bin & BO for this one! There aren't generally that many going through eBay, so you will get some interest for certain.

Peck my old friend, you are the devil's own!

4 options All feedback feedback from buyers feedback from sellers feedback left for others. I would line up his buyers (and tom) Get a nice 10 lb cod and give their chops a nice slapping. before or after pin-boning?

COOL coins! You probably need to read around the forum a bit more!

What I meant by clarifying 'only known' die-pairing, is that I didn't want to be presumptuous about it because, whilst BCW present only one, it doesn't mean that there IS only one! In a very short time I've found a few pairings not recorded in their book. I'm thinking it's likely that there is just the one pairing, and even more likely that your's isn't anything other than the known type. On reflection, it could've been a little side-tracking to mention the third harp. In some instances the punches used to make up the die, can precede say, for example, the end of a privy mark, and this can be useful on occasions for more closely dating an undated coin. The punch of the third harp appears on 1601 and 1602 coins, the trefoil star AND the martlet.

I've bought 2 of these LT's in the past on eBay auction, and was very pleased with the purchase price on both occasions. If this helps, I have sold one before on BIN & BO and was also very pleased with the outcome! It really all hinges on the quality of the images you can get onto eBay! Get links in the description to photobucket if you have to, just get the viewer an easy way to see a quality image! Don't do that 'I can send pictures' thing, that should be in Paulus's Room 101! So, not auction IMO, a 30-day BIN or BIN & BO IMHO. Everyone has very different views on this, to each his/her own!

So, first and foremost, we have Michael Sharp and his well publicised work on the series. You also (tomgoodheart) mentioned Osborne in a different thread, where does he fit in? Also, are there any other key die/punch studies out there? I'm presuming that, unlike Elizabeth, even for each obverse type (say D2 for example) there are a number of different bust punches? If so, have they been identified anywhere, are there any records of numbers, is there a calculated guess if not? Also, carrying on from a previous thread, yes, I was reffering to the identification of the Harp [Privy Mark] (though I'm now interested in the Osborne link too). I know there's not a lot to go on, but I add them below.

15th May 1602 - 20th May 1603 But with the 3rd harp, again assuming you've got the only known die-pairing, you're looking at a 1602 shilling!