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Curiously my coin above, with good eye appeal, and low wear, grades points lower than many coins you see for sale, it is as though the dark colour was a put off or the grader was cut off the night before.

Were Chloe and Victoria coin collectors?

Frankly it would be like a British slabbing outfit entombing and attributing American coinages based on what they perceived the varieties were etc. But any slabbing operation can get something wrong: This is one of three coins I own that is still currently entombed. It is also my most dear coin in terms of value, so I am hesitant to liberate it. But the label is wrong in most opinions... Care to guess what?

Looks good

All I will weigh in on this, is that the image is small. If I were going to sell such a thing, and hopefully if the seller looks at this, I would have much larger images. Selling point for the coin, for those in the know, is that it is in an original green PCGS holder, these date from the days when PCGS was much stricter at grading coins than they are these days, so coins in the older green label holders are a bit more desired here. My advise to the buyer - keep in the original holder, it is a bit more desirable.

His other coin is graded "fine" Should be graded "smoothe"

Cannot imagine spending £400 for a coin with such a lousy small image. At least it is in a first generation PCGS holder, so it is more likely to be accurately graded. Watch what you say, then eBay can suspend you if they believe you were interferring

Post mint

How often are older messages pruned, ie deleted? Just noticed that our messages only go back as far as late this summer.

The only thing troubling to me is the fact that this coin has been very harshly cleaned at some point and artificially retoned.

So far with the image size being rather diminutive I notice nothing out of the ordinary for such a piece, so it looks good, and if you paid €35 all the better.

See if I list anything in £ for now on. I have before when I wanted to gather £ for my UK purchases, and actually had buyers in the USA pay me in £

I have a lot of cut quarters and halves, I bought a small hoard of them several years ago as a study group. Curiously most of the coins were Edward I(1272-1307) era, but there were several Scottish coins from William I(1165-1214) a couple of Irish, and one quite possibly Danish piece. As a group they are interesting because they show a cross section of what was circulating at the time, and that not only English pieces were circulating in England then. Here is an image of the Scottish pieces from the reign of William I(1165-1214), many of these were probably struck posthumously during the reign of his successor, Alexander II(1214-1249) and quite possibly they may have been struck as late as very early in the reign of Alexander III(1249-1286) My best find in the lot was a cut quarter of Henry I(1100-1135) On your piece I would suggest that Geordie582 is on the mark with it being a Henry III(1216-1272) piece, albeit and quite interestingly Irish of course.

The surface of the reverse is most suspect in my opin.

I recognise lots of the French coins, from all my visites a la France!

Devolution was a big issue beginning in the 1960's - the rise of the Troubles in Northern Ireland may have provided a catalyst, but in Scotland there has been a long seething resentment against the Act of Union more than being a part of Great Britain. I do not believe the SNP really makes a serious attempt at independence or even greater autonomy. Politics in Scotland are such that nearly £1 Billion was blown on the new Parliament building, whilst nothing was done for Scotland's infrastructure. Some in Scotland believe the North Sea oil revenues should only benefit Scotland and not Britain. Sadly whilst I wish it were the opposite, in fact it was the Scots that lost money in the Darien scheme and bankrupted the Scottish nation in the early 18th century that sought out English monies to succor their losses which brought about the Act of Union. Modern day Scots may blame the English, but in fact it was Scots that sought out revenue from London that brought Scotland into the Union. Caught up in all the discussion of joining the € currency is the fact that Scotland and Northern Ireland have unique forms of currency issue, that being that a Central Government operated institution does not print and circulate monies, but that they are created and circulated by public institutions. How that would work in the € band is still not sorted out all these years hence.

The 1953 Pennies were only made for collectors, they were very difficult to find in change as a result, though I can tell you that I have found one in a bag of pennies. Neat set, thanks for sharing.

Now I will have visions of Wuthering Heights and hidden treasures

I have to wonder where that Victorian(1837-1901) coin has been to have been corroded that heavily, usually soils strong in nitrates and other fertilizers will do this to coins. So it is safe to say this is probably a garden coin

CP approves, I just nuke the spammers

Actually the Star with six points, commonly known as the Star of David has also appeared on Islamic coins, the late 19th and early 20th century Moroccan coins have had it, it has also appeared on US Silver Dollars and has no significance other than is just a six pointed star. In fact until the WWII and the Holocaust and subsequent foundation of Israel in 1948, outside of Judaism not many people would have referred to it as a Star of David, because they would not have known that it had significance to that faith.

I am in the midst of planning several changes with my current website to update it to W3C standards, so easier navigation and thumbnail images are planned. But I am also thinking of just selling the stuff I want to get rid of directly off of my site, and not through eBay anymore. My last selling experience earlier this month resulted in all being sold, at a loss due to low bids, paypal and eBay fees etc. I just really do not care for buying or selling on eBay like I used to. There are many things, primarily pricier items that I would like to buy on eBay but don't because there are lousy sellers, or someone sees your bidding on stuff and knows what you have etc. A few people and perhaps more on the way are feeling a bit ambivalent about eBay lately, in essence it is becoming a victim of the fools whom abused it for selling and buying-fraud purposes. Whilst I do not anticipate a precipitous fall from popularity within a period of time, I do wonder that it's time in the sun has wained.

eBay has become a victim of the fools that abused it, so much so that policies regarding auction listings are arcane. I hate listing stuff for sale on there anymore, it is just such a total and complete pain in the bum - nothing like the venue it was 10 years ago.

Judging by dealers still selling bags of 5,000 pennies etc, I bet that quite a few of them survived in one fashion or another. The 1943 zinc plated steel cent in the USA was not necessitated so much by a copper shortage, but has been suggested was more a publicity stunt to get people to convince people that the country was really in dire need of metal scrap for the war effort. Notice that the bronze cents returned in 1944-1946, albeit with allegedly recycled shell casings from the war. The real short material all over the world was rubber, which then came primarily from Malaysia and Indonesia both occupied by Japan.

Idiot that cleaned it oughtta get sent to Iraq to serve his country.