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Hope the person that broke it got an owie out of it for making it hard to discern what mint it in fact is. Seeing the obverse with the floreat B in Hyb, now I can appreciate the question regarding the mint.

Was Exeter spelt as Exoter then? I believe it is more likely Eboraci, or York myself.

Sorry, right now image uploads are not working whilst we haven't figured out quite what happened. Please attach the image to a PM, and I can put it on my host and post here.

The cheap stuff is available at hand, the good stuff resides with the bank.

Frankly I cannot understand having so much lying around the house, it is like begging for someone to relieve you of it.

The thing that gets me is the Geek at the PC repair place telling me it was DOA and was toast. I would make a bit of a stink about paying him to tell me that and then the PC being fixed by myself, but I know the owner and his wife pretty well and would rather not make a big deal further. Yesterday I finally got it back to it's original state with all my way out of date and non supported software that I am right partial to still loaded back on.

Edward VIII is a popular theme and Richard Lobel was one of the more prescient about issuing these pieces, with the front image though it doesn't look like the same portrait as is typical of the Coincraft pieces.

Do you have an image of the other side? I wonder if these could be Coincraft repros?

Sorry for the OT, but I keep thinking of Monty Python with "Bring out your dead" when I see this post.

That is quite alright you thread hijackers, but as long as we all like discussing our vehicular desires

Hopefully they are more chaste than some people in public.

Dang, I like it. Looks good ta me

I wonder that Posh Beckham is tiring of living of Davey boy's largesse?

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PM the picture to me, I will put it on my webhost and post it back here.

That is the main drawback of this hobby. Recently I have rekindled my interest in my model railroad. It is time consuming and not really costly after the initial investment. I have my coins in several safe deposit boxes in the bank, where some have remained sight unseen for many years at a time. It gets too hard to appreciate them when you can only look at them on the internet(my website) or bother with all the hassle of looking at them in the bank. It may prevail upon me to sell a lot of them at some point in the future. The nice thing about the model railroad is I do not have to worry nearly so much about the house being ransacked for it.

Kind of interesting how many collectors started at the hobby, then left it for some time and came back years later. Coins have been one hobby that have never come and gone for me, but many other hobbies are perpetually on the back burner, currently my model railroad is readying for reassembly within the confines of my basement, thence the Wabash Cannonball shall thunder across the 4' x 8 ' once more. My Soviet Russian Air Force has been in mothballs for some time too. Welcome aboard.

It just shouts the seller is a red flagger.

As tacky as it is, it at least has some style and class. I cannot say the same for some of the stuff on eBay lately, some is downright hideous: From the Cook Islands.

It kerplonked.

Actually tat is not the word that comes to mind, especially when you consider the God Save the Queen coin etc, it is more likely a four letter word which proper English grammar frowns upon the usage of.

Are the Turkish pieces bracteates?

Yep, and notice that private bidder detail of the auction. Obviously this seller saw the Syra and still sold it as an original. Of course it is practically impossible to discern how to report counterfeit coins to eBay.

I agree, it is a nice piece, and a wonderful person. However I wonder that the opportune to make a few quid out of her image still drives this as a collectable.

San Francisco mint $20 from 1874. I like the Liberty $20's slightly more than the St. Gauden's $20.