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whats the story with the coin anyways? it a known reproduction/someone has rubbed off the WRL? I managed to save this one from unknowing customers a while ago(now i am restricted buying things for a few months though ) i feel a responsibility to do things like this as the missus bought a liz shilling WRL for me last Christmas she apparently paid £100+ for. this one was "This is not a fake coin - I don't sell fake coins. This is a silver hammered coin of charles I. If you want to withdraw from the sell then thats ok - but please don't suggest that I sell fake items - look at feedback and you will see that I sell alot of genuine hammered coins." and when i told the seller to get out the electron microscope to spot the R on the reverse "Wow - I can't believe that - I am so sorry. I bought this from Birmingham Coin Fair and had it assessed and a card written up by someone who has a collection of Hammered coins and none of us noticed this on the coin until you have just bought it to my attention."

Having a fairly unique and relatively easily identifiable(hammered mainly) how does one go about searching the provenance of the coin? does this necessarily require the last hundred years of catalogues or is there an easier method? thanks

Very much depends on what you want! Yes, Brooker is a good overview of a collection assembled over many years by an enthusiast! 1300 coins is it(?) pretty much all illustrated (B&W) with provenances and weights and short appendices on the pyx (which yields the dates the various privy marks were used) and provenances (which I have then used to track down auction catalogues of interest!) Tower and provincial/obsidional issues are all covered. Only proviso is that Brooker was keen on things like legend variations so collected some poorer examples just because they were different and he liked some rarities which are therefore over-represented and make you think they were commoner than they actually are! Then there are specialised publications on various denominations. The BNJ published several for example by Grant Francis on the various Tower mint issues which largely established the classifications. Michael Sharp's paper on Tower mint shillings (which also touched on those issued at Aberystwyth) is the basis for the numbering system used by many shilling collectors. All available online: http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ.shtml Halfcrowns are covered by Bull's series(!) of books which go into great detail. As does Roy Osborne's 1984 paper (BNJ again) on Tower coin varieties. More readable is Beasley's Coins and Medals of the English Civil War. Finally (probably not actually!) George Boon wrote a book on the Aberystwyth silver mines which touches on the coinage. Amongst other things! Not sure about gold as it's not an area I've looked at. Again I'd start with the BNJ maybe? And of course I'm always happy to help. I've learnt as much, if not more, from talking to other collectors as from books. . Nice one thanks(from the sidelines here as not my topic ) was going to buy the journals the other day but i am so cheap i waited to see if i could get them cheaper than a fiver, guess £0 is less than a fiver

i have a USA forwarding address if you want it that bad azda

these the guys that wrote the legendary books?

aww my bad too keen to upload didnt look at the particulars

1 2 3 4 5 1 stop ebay shop for fake Chinese knock offs?

i bought it from ebay don't know if that would really count as a proper provenance though?

nice one quite a feat im impressed not to pry too much but what coins were you able to track that far back?

how many auctions did the poor thing go in since then?

thanks for all the help with this tracked it back to 2003 and to Dr James Davidson. How would i go about looking for it before then? is that where a hoard of catalogues comes in handy? In persoal experience how far back is it possible to track an item just using online resources? Also sorry for all the questions but whats the furthest back you guys/gals have personally tracked a coin?

that's crazy thanks! thought i had checked Spink for this obviously not as thorough as i thought found the price for the DNW one but what's the possibility of getting a PDF of the catalogue? how far back did DNW offer PDF catalogues? thanks for the help didn't think i would get any results

and the second is my Scottish Unite(which i got off the flea bay and dont really know where to start looking for it) Its a pretty uniquely shaped and easily identifiable hammered so should techically be able to find it? also is there any online resources available to go through shipwreck recoveries? ive looked at the detecting and http://www.wrecksite.eu/ but they dont seem to tell you what they found on the ships that are recovered(even the paid service doesnt seem to have it) are there catalogues for this too? thanks for any help

thanks for the help I am looking for 2 different coins, the First one i know to be an H.M.S Association(1707) wreck coin and can possibly have a sale date of at the earliest July 14th,1969 (Sotheby & Co.) link to catalogue i found for sale This was really the one that got me thinking about provenance searching as it would be the easiest to look for the history of(its been in the sea for ~250 years before that i am certain of )

Just picking your brains if you don't mind Basically i have a complete set of proof sets from 1971 to 2010 as well as a complete set of £5 coins from 1990 to 2013(from my humble beginnings of coin collecting so forgive me ) and was wondering what the best way to sell them would be. i have thought about putting them as auction on ebay but the prices seem to vary so much and using an auction house for this seems to be even worse than ebay. wondering if anyone has any experience with this sort of thing and what would be the best way about going about this was? sell them as a lot on ebay (Buy it Now separating the £5 and proof sets) or individually? thanks for any help with this, been clogging up my house for 2 years now

thanks for your help have thought about breaking them up but nowhere near got that much time to do all that work think ill just sell individual sets the £5 coins unfortunately are all loose in capsules so reducing their value a bit. thanks for your help again

depends what language your garage speaks

this a poor attempt at a william or am i just under appreciating its brilliance?

1930 halfcrown also is worth a look at

200 mills is another one i am a big fan of

what are peoples opinions on these? personally since being on ebay i have never heard so many variations of the term "gold plated" to try to deceive people

any pics of the coins that are going to be sold?

1kg gold bullion bars seem to be the favorite scam listings in the last few days

So it finally happened after 4 years of ebaying. Been worried about it for a while and luckily has never happened to me for over 500 items i have purchased over ebay but today i received a package that was empty(was meant to contain 2 sovereigns). i tend to buy dubious items from ebay(hoping for profit and to buy more coins) and have in the past bought many items that turned out to be scams but the seller did not go to the effort of sending an empty envelope special delivery. i have got quite a defense here where i felt the package to begin with Firstly it felt way too light (i have had many sovereigns before and this felt nowhere near heavy enough) so the weight on the receipt(i weighed the envelope and note inside and it weighed(12g rounded up, would need to be double+some if it had 2 sovereigns in it) will be inaccurate to what it is meant to be and will match up with the empty envelope that i measured. Secondly because i felt a bit suspicious about the package(no weight at all inside it) i recorded myself opening the package to find nothing inside. What i am wondering from anyone that reads this is has anyone experienced this before and what sort of tips do you have for the best way to get my refund on this? Thanks for any help

http://www.ngccoin.co.uk they have sites in zurich and munich i am thinking of sending some over as soon as this ebay mess is sorted out