Coinery

Do you think they might have slabbed that one as it flicked from the dies?

Well, bloody 'ell, a round C1 shilling with all its letters complete and in their singular form, IIFF YYOOU KKNOO\\W WWH/\AT II MEEE/\AI\N? Not something you see every day!

There you go, Cliff, what did I tell you!

That choked me up ChKy! thanks for finding that for us all! I'm going to look that book up!

I've been run over three times! Once as a small kid, when a car reversed over my leg. Second time I was talking to someone on the payment beside the A38, when an accident spilled off the carriageway onto the payment, breaking my femur and pelvis, amongst a pile of other internal bruising and bladder unhappiness. The third time I was unloading some weed killer from the back of a van that was parked at the side of a road. I was in a high-vis jacket, but the lady who was driving down the road, peering through a ten inch hole in her frosty window (the police description, not mine), didn't see me, or the van, and ploughed right into the back of it! I jumped up, but left one leg trailing (silly boy) and, hey presto, another broken bone in my leg! Some would call me unlucky! I think I'm very, VERY, lucky!

No offence at all! I was interested in the symbolism of peace returning, and the end of bloodshed, upon the battlefield, at least!

ChKy, I'd be interested in your take on it! Are there any celebrations in Germany that mark the joy of soldiers returning home, and families being reunited after such suffering on all sides?

I wonder if you are meaning the fat 8, thin 8 variety? Have you visited this yet: http://www.aboutfarthings.co.uk/Farthing%20-%201862.html If the variety small 8 over large 8 existed, I would've expected to find it on Colin's site? He'll probably be along to correct me shortly!

Hang on, someone else on here has just bought one of those?

That's actually quite a nice coin, what's your example of it, TG? I'm guessing you upgraded it?

No, it's alright, it's Ch..chuffin' great! It's true, I'm not a massive fan of the C1 shillings, but that's not a bad coin, it's actually hammered onto the flan, and the flan's nearly all there, and it's coin-shaped! There are better reigns out there, of course, George VI and Elizabeth II for instance? No, it's a nice coin, and I know the price will have been a good and fair one! Someone's gotta love 'em!

Hah, brilliant! I can't believe it, I was actually listening to Abbey Road when I scrolled up and spotted this!

I only meant to watch a few minutes of that documentary, and ended up watching it all!

With so few known, it's unlikely to be anything other than a single die-pairing, surely? Edit: and a single pair at that!

Whateva!

231553133627 it's certainly one way of explaining away the replica marks!

Mine works absolutely fine on the iFault!

Yep, £15 for up to 5 coins to HK! I queried value, and she breezed over me with '£15's the charge' And then I'm sure I heard her say under her breath 'now FO, will you, I'm trying to get some sleep here!'

You guys!

Fair enough!

TPGCs just ain't worth the conversation, as it always degenerates into the farce that slabbing is! Surely the type of buyer who is going to be buying a 1*+A is going to know for him/herself whether it is or not? Do you mind me asking your motive, Dave?

i think it's what the actual value of the coin is, which is ambiguous I know. They charge you according to the value of the coin, so buying a Una coin from an old dear for a tenner isn't going to wash with them. I agree, I found/find that part of the submission process a little odd...but then it would have to be, wouldn't it? It is a coin grading company, after all!