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You can get a paper filtered mask that fits over your nose and mouth, that stops your condensation from getting on the coins. In addition get some cotton gloves for handling the coins. These should be available in a home improvement store. For imaging the coins - Since they are proofs and valuable as such, do NOT scan them. I don't place anything too good on the scanner, but rather play with the new digital camera until I get the image just right. That way you save yourself placing coins on glass(safe by itself, unfortunately not with finger oils, dust, glass cleansing agents etc) With a bit of practice with a decent 4.0+ MP camera, you can take amazing shots of coins. You will achieve much more satisfactory results with a camera over a scanner any day. The only reason I still use the scanner often is that it is less time consuming, and for most of my images I can give a bit on the quality. I only started photographing my coins after some of them looked terrible when scanned, especially darker bronzes, I have some ancients from Syracuse Sicily that absolutely refuse to be scanned, but I can image them with the camera. The second coin, second AE from Sicily on this page is scanned, all the rest are imaged with a 4.1 MP camera(now replaced by a 6.0 MP) Notice the difference in the images?

Or that Hank the VIIIth debased the currency so, that he was referred to as "Old Coppernose" because his coins looked so coppery

I gather my lovelies on the basis of their artistic and historical merit, not on whether they will be saleable in the future. I view slabbing as an admission of lack of suitably intelligent outlook in the pursuit of one's interests, namely hobbies. I have about 3 slabbed coins, but I didn't buy them for the slab, but for the coin.

Well it gets very muddied, some companies are products are traded higher, since they are perceived to be stricter graders. PCGS, especially the older green labels, and NGC are usually highest priced. Others do not trade at high prices, and some of my local dealers actually downgrade these coins on their own, and price accordingly downward from the stated grade on the holder.

Interesting comparison of different grading companies grading the same coin Borrowed from a USA discussion site. This is the same coin graded by five different companies, the owner had it "conserved" for the last submission which is why it looks a bit different. But notice the grades are all over the map. Go figure.

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