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Coinery
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Take it easy out there, Mr S. Time for a wee nip of something to help you sleep!
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Lovely tribute, Peter, you're a great man! Stay safe out there, m'friend! I for one would love to see some pictures of Mrs Peter on this thread. You can never have too much of a good thing on a coin forum!
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Oh, fuck, Peter, so, SO, sorry to hear that, m'friend! So very sorry! Fucking, 'ell, mate...so thinking of you right now! Aw, mate!
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Hi Jason, We don't have a large community of Roman collectors on here, and I do know at least one of them to be inactive at the moment. Hopefully someone will come along with some information for you? Didn't want you to feel ignored!
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With specific regard to the distinction between UNC and a/UNC, you'd really have to say that UNC is UNC, but a/UNC is better than GEF but not quite going the full 9 yards to UNC
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Civil War Coinage....extraordinary.
Coinery replied to Danelaw's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
That's rather cognitively advanced Mr P, I'm backing that horse! -
What's the misprint on your 2014?
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Maybe Pepsi?
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New Queen's Effigy Coins
Coinery replied to DaveG38's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
No 5p for me yet but a million 2014s! Maybe 2015 5ps will be the rare ones, in view of the 2014 glut? -
New Queen's Effigy Coins
Coinery replied to DaveG38's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Aren't all the 2015 coins bearing the new effigy, I'm definitely missing out if both effigies are on the 2015 coins? I haven't actually checked the busts, but have been salting away any and all new 2015 coins in collectable condition, as I did for 2014 and 2013! A fractionally more sensible loose change "pot" akin to the one everybody else has stored in a bells whiskey bottles! -
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I was taking a closer look at the Withers' farthing varieties for Edward II and noticed that Type 30l, described in the book as 'shoulder lines to bust depicted' or possibly 'scribe lines' that are as 'prominent as the letters...and look as if they are intentional,' was in fact nothing other than the devices of a reverse die, so presumably just a re-hammered farthing? Anyone? Pictures taken from the book 'Farthings and Halfpennies Edward I and II' by Paul and Bente R Withers.
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Here's an example on a halfpenny, where you can see the flukes of the anchor (and of course the eyelet within the Cepher) to the right of the Cepher. If it wasn't for the extreme positioning of the anchor PM, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Portcullis was a double-strike, which it's not.
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Not a pirate at all...extremely relevant! I totally agree with your rationale on this. If it was an overstruck coin, there would be more evidence of the underlying coin showing in other areas IMO. I truly hope to find a 2nd example of TYPE 30l, as this is a particularly extreme example. This would set your proposals in stone for good.
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To clarify! A second example would conclusively prove a poorly ground down stock! The absence of any other example would suggest it was another coin re-entered into the dies!
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Didn't think it was, but, for some reason, I'm not buying a reverse die struck underneath. Do we know of any better images of such a phenomenon? Deja vous for me here, and what a terribly written post of mine! It's all up in the air, but a second example would prove Rob's proposal, and no other would suggest mine?Nothing boring in the Plantagenet series!
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Unrecorded Edward II Farthing (EDWADVS REX A)
Coinery replied to Coinery's topic in British Hammered
Many thanks for your extremely generous effort on this! The top coin is a known variety, and the second is the same variety as mine! I'll look at it on the PC tomorrow, but it looks to be most definitely a different die? Brilliant stuff, Mr Knipe! Are you going to share your contact with me? -
Not quite so pretty I confess, but my first unrecorded farthing of Edward II, which I'm hoping Withers will add to an addenda and/or future publication update? Die-sinker error EDWADVS REX A Withers does catalogue an EDWADVS REX AN under Type 30k bis, but that's as close as we get - DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT bis MEANS PLEASE? Of some charm is the on-die repair to the broken-topped E in Edwadvs.
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Could never be ghosting though, Clive, as the devices are all as per normal strike!
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West Country Boy!
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Die-cracks don't bother me at all, I see them as part of the numismatic journey of the dies, and are seldom detracting/disfiguring. A lot of varieties are spotted by, and identified from, die-flaws...where would we be without them?
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1699 Halfpenny error?
Coinery replied to speedbird's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
No worries Stu, looking forward to hearing from you. I have newly discovered Nightmares In Wax photos to share too! Superb, will be back at ya shortly! You should share it all on here, by the way, everyone would love it! -
1699 Halfpenny error?
Coinery replied to speedbird's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Haven't forgot you MR, just a little preoccupied at the moment, but I'll get there! -
Unrecorded Edward II Farthing (EDWADVS REX A)
Coinery replied to Coinery's topic in British Hammered
Just a quick update...I've just heard back from Bente Withers, and they'd like photos to include this farthing in their next publication as a new variety! Whoo hoo, I'm loving these Plantagenets! Means I'll have to buy a new copy when it comes out!
