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Price of things in William III's reign?
Coinery replied to Descartes's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
So difficult with images, but my money says it's not good...I can't tell if that's haymarks or underlying base-metal pits! It is horribly tooled however. The hairlines beside the forehead don't even bother to follow what was a curl! Sorry, Dave, hope you didn't spend very much on it! What was making me itch was just above the 2nd V in GVLIELMVS , it looks to be flaking, thats when alarm bells started ringing Back on the phone, now, but I think it was the central reverse too that was 'uncomfortable'! See if you can stick it to the back of a speaker magnet! I know people will go mad about this, but I wouldn't be without my silver testing acid! I'm not recommending that this is done as a routine thing but, for those head-scratching challenges you occasionally come across, if you touch a tiny spot on the edge of a coin, especially one that you feel confident hasn't been plated, you'll get a positive reaction one way or the other in around 2 seconds! I alway do this next to a running tap and thoroughly rinse it the second I've got the information I'm after. There is absolutely no signs left afterwards! The great thing about the test is it only tests positive on high-grade silver, it doesn't change colour at all on silver alloys at .500. Whilst it may seem sacrilege, there have been coins in the past that I have enjoyed an awful lot more for applying that final scientific conclusion! -
Price of things in William III's reign?
Coinery replied to Descartes's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
So difficult with images, but my money says it's not good...I can't tell if that's haymarks or underlying base-metal pits! It is horribly tooled however. The hairlines beside the forehead don't even bother to follow what was a curl! Sorry, Dave, hope you didn't spend very much on it! -
Made my day AND made me smile, Debbie! You know my love of Elizabeth...my wife's name is Mandy, aaaaahh!
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Price of things in William III's reign?
Coinery replied to Descartes's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Hmmmm i don't want to sound suspicious, but is it genuine, something about it looks odd, the legend for instance. What is the weight, and have you a REV picture?Maybe its just me Looks fine to me! Pictures are poor, but the clincher for me is that milled edge (where you can view it)! I've got a couple of coins with a similar type of degeneration/corrosion, that I feel extremely happy are genuine. However, as Azda said, it's always worth checking the weight, I always do this as a matter of course! My own W3 sixpences run at 2.88g/3.00g, with one as heavy as 3.12g, so still relatively variable. Does anyone have any known W3 sixpence counterfeits they could post? Spookey, but just found this for sale on fleabay, quite a nice collectable, really...not a sixpence, but crown! I have one which is pourous on both sides, it did make alarm bells ring, weight is 29.5g give or take on my pish scales, dia is around the 40mm mark as it's not exactly round, see what you think What's the edge legend like? -
Price of things in William III's reign?
Coinery replied to Descartes's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Hmmmm i don't want to sound suspicious, but is it genuine, something about it looks odd, the legend for instance. What is the weight, and have you a REV picture?Maybe its just me Looks fine to me! Pictures are poor, but the clincher for me is that milled edge (where you can view it)! I've got a couple of coins with a similar type of degeneration/corrosion, that I feel extremely happy are genuine. However, as Azda said, it's always worth checking the weight, I always do this as a matter of course! My own W3 sixpences run at 2.88g/3.00g, with one as heavy as 3.12g, so still relatively variable. Does anyone have any known W3 sixpence counterfeits they could post? Spookey, but just found this for sale on fleabay, quite a nice collectable, really...not a sixpence, but crown! Unlike the sixpence, that crown does look a bit dodgy. It just "feels" wrong. As for the value of a 6d in 1696, you young whippersnappers really have no idea. I remember well. You could buy a three storey house, a 30 foot luxury barque, a night out at Drury Lane Theatre with the moll of your choice on your arm, a sedan chair home, and still have change out of a sixpence. Yoong people today, dornt knor they're born, du theay? Sorry, did try to edit it, it is a fake! -
Price of things in William III's reign?
Coinery replied to Descartes's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Sorry, should've mentioned it was a cast, base-metal, fake! Really spooky, having just asked if anyone had any images of W3 fakes, that I suddenly bump into one on The Bay! I'm going to have a very small pop at it myself! And interestingly, whilst I can edit this post, I cannot edit the other one to note that it is a fake! -
Price of things in William III's reign?
Coinery replied to Descartes's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Hmmmm i don't want to sound suspicious, but is it genuine, something about it looks odd, the legend for instance. What is the weight, and have you a REV picture?Maybe its just me Looks fine to me! Pictures are poor, but the clincher for me is that milled edge (where you can view it)! I've got a couple of coins with a similar type of degeneration/corrosion, that I feel extremely happy are genuine. However, as Azda said, it's always worth checking the weight, I always do this as a matter of course! My own W3 sixpences run at 2.88g/3.00g, with one as heavy as 3.12g, so still relatively variable. Does anyone have any known W3 sixpence counterfeits they could post? Spookey, but just found this for sale on fleabay, quite a nice collectable, really...not a sixpence, but crown! -
Price of things in William III's reign?
Coinery replied to Descartes's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Hmmmm i don't want to sound suspicious, but is it genuine, something about it looks odd, the legend for instance. What is the weight, and have you a REV picture?Maybe its just me Looks fine to me! Pictures are poor, but the clincher for me is that milled edge (where you can view it)! I've got a couple of coins with a similar type of degeneration/corrosion, that I feel extremely happy are genuine. However, as Azda said, it's always worth checking the weight, I always do this as a matter of course! My own W3 sixpences run at 2.88g/3.00g, with one as heavy as 3.12g, so still relatively variable. Does anyone have any known W3 sixpence counterfeits they could post? -
Hi, and welcome back to the forum! I'm curious about the recent use of video to view coins! Am I missing something here, is this more about generating hits/links between pages?
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I'm wondering if Will bit off a little more than he could chew with this thread? I wonder how he got on on the other forums he was approaching?
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What you need is a Scarborough siege coin with a Shakespeare sonnet engraved upon it! That should satisfy your need for the ultimate square 'ish' love token!
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Civil War Coinage....extraordinary.
Coinery replied to Danelaw's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Thanks Danelaw, the kind of additional information that gives an irregular-shaped disc of metal context and life, history in three dimensions! -
Civil War Coinage....extraordinary.
Coinery replied to Danelaw's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
The best reference is probably Nelson's, 'Obsidional Money of the Great Rebellion 1642-1649', published in about 1905, but reprinted in 1976. The ISBN for this is 0 903681 06 4. No they aren't unique. Many thanks, Rob, will look it out! Hope you had a profitable one in Brum! -
Civil War Coinage....extraordinary.
Coinery replied to Danelaw's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
A great and interesting read, thank-you, gentleman! It would make a fabulous collection, a seige collection, that is! Just out of interest, are the Newark punches a one-off? Has any investigation been carried out into the die numbers for each denomination, are they likely unique? -
One for the boys
Coinery replied to argentumandcoins's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Ahh yes I can see that now Yes, Colin, that's a cork, not ears...you led me astray there! -
someone already has http://www.ebid.net/ For £49.49 you can list and sell with no fees for a lifetime. Interesting for those online dealers and for the normal everyday user the fees are reasonable. Just registered and used the seller+ option costing 50 quid. You're allowed up to 5 stores with no insertions fees or FVFs for life, the only fee you'll have is if someone pays with Paypal now. F@@k ebay Let us know if you get a sale, Dave! If you can sell £500 on there, you'll have your money back!
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I passed over this one recently! I remember it so well, thinking if only I could have gone back in time and just grabbed the wrist of the perpetrator, and... However, it does mean the remaining ones are that little bit more scarce now U guess), I guess...?
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One for the boys
Coinery replied to argentumandcoins's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
:lol: I know, I know - we think of a size then double it Poppycock, ask any good fisherman, he'd tell you categorically that you are wrong there! I've told you a million times not to exaggerate. -
Civil War Coinage....extraordinary.
Coinery replied to Danelaw's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Would the extra price be anything to do with provenance, it's the coin featured in the Spink catalogue! I love it, and I guess if you wanted one, this would have to be the one! The Scarborough coinage must surely be an easy and worthwhile coin for the Chinese to get their hands on. Just wished I had 58k handy at the time for a safe bet such as this one! Not at all. How do you sell as genuine and to whom (your average ebay buyer aside), something that is known to only exist with one or two examples, the whereabouts of which are well documented. Things like that are virtually immune from Chinese interference. You also have the well documented provenance with illustrations going back 100 years. Again from the 1903 Murdoch sale catalogue, this coin. A sober point, and answers another gap in my understanding! However, it does raise another question? If this was the emergency coinage set up to pay the soldiers, a fair amount of it must of been hammered out, so what happened that we only have a couple of pieces left in existence, seems statisically confusing. Equally, on account of such rarity, 58K seems a very small price to pay for such a unique and historically famous piece! -
Normally I would agree with you choolie but crowns in VF and above kind of overstep my budget! I have most of the crowns post 1818 except the Proofs, 1847 Young Head, a few of the old heads and the only Wreath I have is the 1928. Just thought it would be nice to try and get a few earlier examples staying in budget of cause which this one did. Wow, you have a Gothic crown? Now any of those DEFINITELY oversteps my budget! If I ever win the lottery, Peckris, I declare here I will buy you one! And I you! (Hastily goes out and buys a lottery ticket...) Not that I would wish for you to get too excited, but I won my first ever tenner tonight - and this is since the lottery began! I think those odds in themselves are statistically interesting, given that on average I've been a regularly participator since the very beginning, more or less! None-the-less, an uncirculated FDC gothic crown is your's should fortune favour me!
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One for the boys
Coinery replied to argentumandcoins's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
:lol: I know, I know - we think of a size then double it Poppycock, ask any good fisherman, he'd tell you categorically that you are wrong there! -
One for the boys
Coinery replied to argentumandcoins's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
I'm sure I can see some ears! -
Civil War Coinage....extraordinary.
Coinery replied to Danelaw's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Would the extra price be anything to do with provenance, it's the coin featured in the Spink catalogue! I love it, and I guess if you wanted one, this would have to be the one! The Scarborough coinage must surely be an easy and worthwhile coin for the Chinese to get their hands on. Just wished I had 58k handy at the time for a safe bet such as this one! -
Normally I would agree with you choolie but crowns in VF and above kind of overstep my budget! I have most of the crowns post 1818 except the Proofs, 1847 Young Head, a few of the old heads and the only Wreath I have is the 1928. Just thought it would be nice to try and get a few earlier examples staying in budget of cause which this one did. Wow, you have a Gothic crown? Now any of those DEFINITELY oversteps my budget! If I ever win the lottery, Peckris, I declare here I will buy you one!
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Thing is, who is making these decisions and giving the orders ? Privacy is still possible by communicating face to face or by ordinary letters/notes, all offline. It's not difficult to sidestep any monitoring if you use a bit of nous. Ahhh, now, the big problem there is, the society has produced a machine that can no longer permit us residencies in the communities we were brought up in...and given that the same machine no longer grants us the privilege of moving at a snail's pace, we have to communicate by the fastest means, namely, the monitored technologies! It's no longer any good to write a letter to a friend saying you've just got a couple of day's off...you're back at work before he's read the letter (obviously a very insignificant example of the main point)!