Garrett

And hopefully cleaned

Well I've just received my first slabbed coin. Not by design; I saw a nice 1927 wreath crown at a website at a fair price and it just happened to be slabbed in an NGC holder. I must admit I am not as put-off as I thought I would be about the slab. I was planning to extract the coin immediately but the holder seems to protect the coin well (I'm sure a 5 year old could fling it against a wall with no damage to the coin) with good visibility of the coin and the rims/edges. The holder itself is not unattractive. My only dilemma now is that i was planning to have my crowns in large adhesive flips lined up in a coin album page so will now have to rethink what I am going to do.... It's a nice coin the wreath crown, nice design both sides. cheers Garrett.

Looks like a nice coin to me. There's a couple of scratches on Eddie's neck, and looks like some small marks under the letters from 12-2 oclock on the obverse. But still, not a bad coin and I suspect you may have got a nice discount just because of the 'but' factor ('coin is in X condition but...') that will scare the speculators and investors. cheers Garrett.

Gorgeous. Simply gorgeous. Not you Bob. The coin.

Yes I think Peck may be correct. Welcome to the forum and what a great find !

From Wikipedia, For silver crowns, the grade of silver adhered to the long-standing standard (established in the 12th century by Henry II) – the Sterling Silver standard of 92.5% silver and 7.5% copper. This was a harder-wearing alloy, yet it was still a rather high grade of silver. It went some way towards discouraging the practice of "clipping", though this practice was further discouraged and largely eliminated with the introduction of the milled edge seen on coins today.

Very nice tokens BRG. But how come St George is always slaying a little dragon ?? ha ha

Yes nice coin !

Probably to draw attention to the fact that mints produce all sorts of crap as 'legal tender'. 'Coins' by a rather loose definition IMO

Well I am lucky my coins arrived before the weekend. Got an 1806 penny (the year my Middlesex G-G-G grandfather was born) , the farthing mentioned by Peter above (quite by accident, I made my bid list long after that post) , a beautiful Edward VI shilling that must be feeling unloved as it went only 60% of estimate , and a lovely sovereign. Broke again and glad none of my low bids at DNW went anywhere...... ha haha ha.

Noble sale 105 catalogue is up. www.noble.com.au cheers Garrett.

You can get some really nice gold sovereigns, from Vicky onwards, for not much above melt. They contain around 0.23 of an ounce of gold. In Australia they are going for around 400 which is around 200 pounds. I missed an EF George V in the Noble sale by someone who bid 320 + commission so that's around 380 AUD. Learn how to authenticate with a set of digital scales and you are set. cheers Garrett.

So how did we go ! I might have got four lots, but will wait on the invoice for confirmation, I see the dodgy looking Thumper was sold, but the "finest known" copper referred to above was passed in ... Cheers Garrett

well done Tom. congratulations !

Hi everyone I picked up a nice George V Florin at the coin fair on the weekend and have a question. I was trying to grade it (using the nice new illuminated loupe I also picked up) and noticed that the lions on the reverse showed (what I thought was) disproportionate wear. However looking at a few examples at the Nobles website it appears to be common. The pic below is from an aUnc Nobles auction piece (my cheapo camera has not arrived from eBay yet to photograph mine). Mine is not quite this nice but the lions look a bit the same. Closest to the garter star at the top is more worn, and the lion closest to the date at the bottom is more worn. Has anyone else noticed this in this reverse ? cheers Garrett.

I'd sell then look back fondly on my days as a boss coin dealer.

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Nice little coin !

good question. Hammered seems harder to grade. When I'm eyeing of a potential purchase I will scour archive areas sites like london coins, Heritage, nobles etc to find similar examples and see how they are graded. Having said that, these hammered pieces seem to go a little better if the monarch/s face is visible. cheers and nice coin ! Garrett.

Welcome Chris !

Exciting times indeed !

Yes that's what I thought too Azda.

Oh ok, you already know ! I know nothing about gold but I'm interested now and will have a bit of a look tonight and work out what you're talking about. Cheers

hhhmmmmm - looks like a rare date. Sellers first transaction is a rare sovereign. Proceed with caution

be worth at least 2 pounds Welcome !