Coinery

Ironic that a post titled ‘quiet’ has become the busiest post on the forum right now! 🤷‍♂️

Nice one, Paddy, well done with that lot! 👏👏

Rather than an exposure to cash, it was the affordable access to a tangible history for me, that’s how I came to coins. I agree though, it is disappointingly quiet on here nowadays.

Great stuff…any identifiable hammered coin at £5 is always going to be a win. This one is very identifiable, it’s a Threehalfpence. The Greek Cross is only known on this denomination with dates 1578/5 and 1579, so not that difficult to say which yours is, it’s clearly the overdate, showing a definite 5 in the mix. This is BCW CR-1C:a, S2574 - a nice piece to have at £5 definitely. Edit: If you have some scales it will likely weigh a smidge over 0.5g (maybe as much as 0.6g) with the missing piece and wear taken into account.

£5 😲 That’s phenomenally good…can we see?

I noticed this around 2 years ago, the upward climb of the better Edward’s. Every auction nowadays they seem to fetch a little more. I went at this one as an upgrade, thinking £250 inc. premiums would get me close? The sum of £412 truly staggered me if I’m honest! It’s a nice coin, of course, but rather annoying that I’ve missed the boat by a couple of years, much as I ultimately have done with Elizabeth.

What IS the privy mark?

Blimey, Pete…considering the number of eyes that fall upon the eBay pennies, you certainly manage to winkle out your fair share of the gems!

It’s of course 1678 and not 73 - I think the Maundy money was first of the press, so generally the better pieces but, in practice, I believe there to be little/no difference as far as collectors of Maundy are concerned - they still of course aim for the very best pieces. I was looking at some completed items on eBay, a lot of them were holed.

Well please can someone get in there and screenshot everything for a file at least? I don’t collect halfpennies myself but can appreciate the tragedy should it fall foul.

@Rob saw this and thought of you!

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.

You’re having a good root around the forum…as educational as any book on coins for sure!

A respectable example it’s true, but a significant ‘grade’ below the OP coin, though £400+ was an eye-watering sum.

I was thinking to replace this one, but clearly not this time around!

How much for its heritage, a coin from the Knaresborough Priory hoard of 1805?

I wonder how strong the correlation is between literature, identifiable collectibility, and subsequent auction prices/popularity? There’s a clear connection here in the Blunt web resource and the Galata guide, bringing the numismatically interesting sub-classes of the type to the common man, which ultimately pricks the collection mentality of the coin collector. Doesn’t change the fact I’m once again behind the times!

Yes, I believe they claimed the other two ‘benefits’ existed long before we ever had to pay for them!

Well, it’s here…eBay’s new buyers’ premium, but wrapped up as Buyer Protection, now applied to all private sales! HOWEVER, what used to be the old 10% commission, is now 22% by my maths! Plus they keep hold of the sellers share of the pie for quite a long while, now!

Will put an eventual end to those selling items between £5-£10 then I guess? Thanks for highlighting

Thanks, Paddy, no worries Nice sixpence, and on the money with your classification.

I’m beginning to take an interest in James I coinage…are there any core texts outside of the BNJ, North, ‘Spink’ etc.? I was disappointingly underbidder on this eBay shilling recently, thinking £350 was a strong enough snipe

I just open the album to see if I have one or not?

Just out of interest, is it a single known example?