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Wasn’t aware of these - thanks for sharing.

It is not unusual.

Does any one have a copy of British Copper Tokens. 1811-1820 by Paul Withers and is willing to send me a copy of pages 239-244? I will deeply appreciate any assistance in this matter

I meant to update this thread advising that I have it now. Thank you

Does anyone have the Glendining & Co. Catalogue of The Important Sale of Tokens Formed by Francis Cokayne. 1st Portion. London, 17-18 July 1946 auction catalog or the 2nd portion? I am trying to find a certain trial strike silver medal . thank you

Found it, now looking for the 2nd portion. Thanks

If anyone has any information on the F.S. Cockayne Collection or Cockayne himself, I would deeply appreciate any information that you may have. I have been searching and so far haven’t found anything.

I kept coming up with butterflies as well. Although I enjoy them - tokens is my main pursuit. Thank you for looking.

Wonderful - thank you very much!!!

Same here, I have a few of them.

Rank and add your opinion of the 1871 - present St. George and Dragon design on the Sovereign reverse (except for 2005 &2012) 2005 design 2012 design Expected results; 1871 design 2012 design 2005 design - which is disliked immensely

So far the results are as expected: 6 for the Pistrucci design (1871 example) 1 for the 2005 design With most placing the 2012 between the 1871 and 2005

Interesting - I didn't think anyone would like the 2005. I just picked one up cheap.

I know many of you do not like TPG's, plastic tombs and all, but which TPG do you believe does the better job grading British coins? Neither - should not be an answer. Which TPG does the worst job grading? The Aussie's seem to prefer PCGS. This question also applies to the colonial (Imperial) mints in Australia, Canada, South Africa and India.

This is the fifth 1879 sovereign I've seen for sale within the past year. R4?

Anyone attend the St. James auction for the George Collection (5&6 March)? Wondering what the 1920 S Sovereign went for. I guess all of the losing bidders had plenty of money for the later lots.

The lowest bids allowed were 80% of the estimate which was probably the starting bid. I've been waiting fr them to post the realized prices - but they haven't yet.

0 for 2 - missed out on both bids.

How quickly will they post the realized prices? Seems like they should be posted soon.

Anyone win anything at the Downies 316? There are a lot of unsold items. I placed a couple of bids, but guess there were hidden reserves since both did not sell. I sent two enquiries - but so far no response.

I received an explanation of why my two bids did not win from Downies. Both explanations were reasonable. One the owner submitted a late reserve which I was under and the other was a minimum percentage situation. I'll give them another go.

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I experienced similar with the Noble 104 auction. For the Downies - I put in a reasonable bid, but the estimate was rather high on the 1872 M Sovereign. I had a moderately strong bid on the 1876 M Sovereign, but no luck. Many sovereigns did not sell - the reserves must have been high. It would be nice if they mentioned that a reserve was in effect.

I have a 1880/70 overrate Sovereign (London) that is not listed in the Spink's Coins of England as a known variety and was not in either the Quartermaster or Bentley collections. I believe that it may be the Marsh #91A, but Marsh does not describe the variety fully - so I cannot be sure if it is the 91A or not. I also talked to someone recently that advised he has almost 20 varieties of the 1880/70. He was selling one on Ebay - so I take his statement with a grain of salt. Spinks lists three varieties. The Bentley collection had a varity that was also not listed in Spinks for the 1880/70. The Bentley sovereign would normally be listed as variety A in Spinks - but they do not include variety A for the 1880/70. My variety has the buried W.W. on the narrow truncation on the obverse, a long tail and no B.P. on the reverse. If you have any information on this variety or have other not listed 1880/70 varieties - I'd appreciate your sharing it.

Some very nice sovereigns. Looks like I'll be visiting the bank for a loan.