Coinery

Sept 23rd was the date of my 50th...and fortunately I don't remember anything that occurred on that day! 50 just doesn't sit right with me! ?

Check out these guys! I've followed their blog for years, out of sheer amazement if nothing else. I know it's not coins, but they're doing alright, and I really like them. Have a look a the stats, and then just browse their site from their homepage...nothing fancy, but it works, and serves to demonstrate a point! https://pinchofyum.com/category/making-money-from-a-food-blog

Nothing wrong with any medium that aids to convey one's point, I 100% agree. However, I'd say your motives would be different if you uploaded a video? john used a number of terms in his video that made me feel he wasn't new to numismatics, and that made me wonder what on earth he thought someone who had some basic insight into coins would get from it?

Lots of people make lots of money from monitizing platforms like you-tube and others! Building a following in niche markets is extremely profitable when hits start reaching the 100's of thousand mark. This is precisely why we can google how-to's for anything nowadays, from changing a bulb in a 20 year old caravan fridge, to building a space rocket in 10,000 easy steps. The sites and how-to videos that are genuinely useful get a lot of traffic, and traffic is money! Vloggers are the new cash superstars!

Blogger! Fair play, but a blogger nonetheless. Wishing you well, John, but it's not for me! ?

@Paulus you've crashed John's thread!? You'll have a better chance with your own title? That eye-appealing coin will be making a deep hole in your pocket! ?

If you send me the best copies of the images you've got, Rob, I'll have a play for you!

You could use the cannonball diameter to scale the coins, maybe use the distances between the spur and the rump, maybe triangulate it with the cannonball too?

As the fake market takes a greater grip, the provenance could one day mean everything. For some of the big faked coins (the gothic crowns of Victoria and, say, the Northumberland Shillings, for example) if you have provenance that pre-dates the best of the copies, then you have gold. Don't throw tickets away, ever!

I think the interesting and stand out detail for me is the 'clover' shape that's around the location of the stirrup that you can see on both coins, though clearly it isn't intended to be part of the design on the ob C coin. When aligned with the cannonball it does fit well with the high rump of the horse in the second coin. Might be interesting to scale the two coins and draw in some of the key details of the first coin and lay it over the second? i'm guessing the weak cannonball shape on the second coin in not incuse?

That's excellent stuff, Rob, I really don't understand why more people aren't interested in hammered coins, when they are truly steeped in the magic of history in a way that the 'modern' era just doesn't pull off. looks like you've grabbed yourself a pearler, Des! I love finding the 'unread' symbol on the hammered section of this forum.

Great thread, we should at least get to see the coin now?

This slabbing thing still amazes me! Yes, weak strike, soft strike, clogged devices...yet, with even all that taken into consideration, there is still nothing about even the best of the remaining devices that could warrant the grade! 152705034251

It's certainly on the agenda, Rob. I do feel I'll more likely be travelling backwards from the Plantagenets, rather than forward.

Just wow! £450-550 estimate, and described as near Very Fine! Yes, a 1a, but a horrible coin, and no mention of the stress crease/cracks on the reverse from a previous bend! Argh! Can't upload image! Will try below!

Not sure what the best offer was?

I can only guess that the buyer desperately needed a 1c for the collection? there does seem to be a rise in the prices for quality Plantagenet coins? I might've joined the party too late. Back to G6 it is, then! ?

That gives it some perspective I guess? Still far too much money for ugly coins, 1a or not! It's looking like a worthy example is going to sail way over £1.5k according to these two previous examples?

Grrr, can't upload the cropped close-up! Nice coin though! Edit: I can now upload! ?

This 1c surprised me too!

Totally nuts! Can hardly believe it!

eBay is definitely a gamble, whatever perspective you take, so I think you have to view the experience in balance. For me that means overall I'm up on the good experiences and nice surprises, allowing me to feel less disgruntled at the negative aspects. I think you have to use it regularly for the 'balance' to happen, you can get very badly burned by the occasional dabble otherwise. i confess I don't use it so often nowadays, and have become shy as a consequence. I'm definitely tending more towards the idea of coin fairs when the money starts rolling in. When you know what you like, eBay can be a struggle.

I'm off the fence and concur with Rob...3g, and a fabulous Durham example at that! Got to question our superiors in the best interest of academic rigor I say!

I've been looking at the class myself this evening - didn't get home until 10pm so only a brief scan before bed. I'm personally tending towards 3cd myself, though 3g is the other variant I also was looking at. I think the crown is the more elegant 3cd though, but will sit on the 3cd/3G fence until I get a chance to look at it more closely tomorrow. the S favours 3g, but is also occasionally found on 3cd, so the jury's out for me at the moment!

Heather and Steve (think it's Steve?) sending you first dibs are they? ?? £180? I really do like it!