Coinery
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You’d think they’d know better than this? You could be eating your lunch, whilst talking on your phone at a train station, and STILL spot this one in a shop window across the other side of the rail track with one eye closed!
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Stuff to Make Us Laugh
Coinery replied to Madness's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
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Amazing the difference two photos can make! The first looks like it’s just popped off the die, the second, like it’s been on the bottom of the ocean a few hundred years!
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I was simply looking at various dies for the double crown and came across these two that were difficult to reconcile. I initially assumed them to be different coins of the same die…I think it a tricky call, photography versus analysis, for me at least. Interestingly the chronology is all wrong at London Coins, which counts against me to be fair!
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The stop before IACOBVS? Try expanding the SAS at the bottom of the coin?
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These two coins are meant to be exactly the same coin, photographed at different times. Of course photography can vary, but this one looks comparatively mushy…what do you think?
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I laughed more at the 68p postage
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Fabulous little halfpennies you have there! It was always my understanding that they were cut from sheet with shears but, on reflection, that seems incredibly labour intensive, and I can’t remember how, or where, I came to that conclusion. I’ve just had a read through BCW and they make no mention of it.
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You should, before they become unaffordable…they’ve absolutely sky-rocketed in the last 10 years.
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Not the best macro shots from my phone, but a doable portrait…for me at least
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Brilliant! A relief to find them with different dies. Many thanks for that…that really is a cracking little 6d of yours! Would take some beating, even with a common mark!
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Nice little win of a superb sixpence. Weak portrait but, to be fair, exaggerated in these auction images…actually much better in-hand…will try and post another image soon. I did try to look out the images of your 1573 @Rob because it worried me a little bit to find another little-worn acorn coin, but I couldn’t find them to compare the dies.
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No, they were actually washers
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Just to clarify, I wasn’t proposing it was the force of one coin falling against the other. I do know we did some strange things with coins as kids, with just a couple of things springing to mind, such as opening modelling paint tins, making cross-pistol mechanisms from old penny pieces and, maybe relevant to this situation, we used to squeeze chunky washers edge-to-edge in a vice until they’d finally fly off like a game of buckaroo!
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An interesting and clear overmark on eBay, but really surprised to see it sell for £464 I don’t think I missed anything?
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Also, that the thicker side-bar of the ‘A’ corresponds (namely right on the raised and left on the incuse), makes for a far more likely clash of edges post production.
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Definitely looks incuse…I’d wager someone has hammered the edge of one coin against the other at some point, or some similar mechanical crushing of coins at the mint.
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LCA catalogue now online
Coinery replied to Sword's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Wow, with just on exception, the half crown, all the Elizabeth hammered is eBay fodder! -
Beautiful reverse too!
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Well look what I’ve just had the very good fortune to spot for sale and procure…thank you once again Mr Tout!
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You could be on to something here 🤣🤣
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You could even argue in this case that cabinet friction can actually lift the value and eye-appeal of certain coins, where the design is nicely and artistically picked out by contact with a surface…where the tone has been partially removed to highlight the detail like a well-executed brass rubbing.
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I’ve always held it to mean the minimal removal of tone from the highest points of the design, spoiling what might otherwise be an immaculately toned coin. Nothing that you could call wear, but definitely a less pleasing coin on account of it.
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Penny Acquisition of the week
Coinery replied to Paulus's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Have always admired these big coppers…lovely coin!
