Nordle11

Indeed, there have been a couple of messages I have seen that I don't think were intended for the wider public. Perhaps it may be prudent to add a small note near the message box to say it will be viewable by all? (If that's possible)

Check the above Richard

Is it because of the area around the lighthouse? Otherwise I can't see what they can, maybe it's obvious under magnification?

Thanks for the info!

Here you go Pete

Oh, if we could all take pictures like BRG just stunning!

Is the CAM part the same as the CAC service?

I would agree looking at the rest of the field, there are other gouges present across the reverse.

I don't think he does, Benas.

Anytime. Palafrugell is really nice but I don't know of any shops around there. We stay in Aigua Xelida during the summer and Palafrugell is the closest place with actual supermarkets and markets, so we go quite frequently, but I haven't seen anything coin related (yet). By all means give me a shout if you come down into Barcelona, I'd be more than happy to take you to the handful of shops I know, saves you spending hours trying to find them!

There's a couple in Palamós but if it's a bit of a journey it might not be worth it because I don't think they're very big shops. You might be done after just a few hours. There's 5 or 6 medium to large sized shops here in Barcelona (that I know of so more than likely more), including a few that stock literally thousands of books, but as I mentioned a lot of them focus on mainly Spanish coins. As you know there is also the sunday market in Placa Reial, and you can easily spend half the day looking around there, it's great. Whether you find much is a different story, but there's enough to keep your interest piqued. The main problem is that Spain has a terrible online presence, so most shops you either have to find from books or just from walking around and keeping your eye out. It's almost impossible to find information online.

That's what I thought, perhaps if the indent was the same shape as a planchet I could understand. I think that's why he suggested being struck through an double off centre strike. Laminations I knew of, but I'd never heard of a cold shut! Cheers Mr. T

A little help needed with an error if anyone knows - this coin has been slabbed by NGC as a 'double indent' error, but any errors like this I've seen normally have an indent in the shape of the coin itself. Not just that but the pinched part in the middle is also confusing, I'm not sure why it would be raised. Any ideas if the attribution is correct and/or how this would have happened? Thanks in advance. Matt

More or less, I think it's when the thing that is over the coin is another planchet instead of a random piece of metal/cloth or something. I was speaking to Mr. Diamond at CONECA who thinks that it is a single indent but from a coin with 2 off center strikes (causing the raised part in the middle), he says he's seen a few in his time. What's a cold shut? I've not heard of that before, is it just another name for a lamination flaw?

Flicking through the forum I noticed this thread and didn't actually see this one come up on new content! Sorry Will you be in one area or able to travel around? There are quite a few around here, mainly Spanish stuff but there is a lot of hammered goods about if you want to spend the time to go through their wares.. They're also crazy for euros here so depends what you're into Matt

Not a judgement of character at all Flash, sorry if it came across that way. She was actually really nice to speak to and had great communication (like I said she refunded the postage both ways), I purely mean in terms of the coins as I do believe a lot are cleaned which was confirmed when I received them. I have no quarms about the self-slabbing either, any discernable collector should know that PCCB is not a grading company and only offer the empty tombs for personal slabbing.

Great idea. I suspect you're right about the head count, perhaps bringing the website up to date has broadened the likelihood of getting a hit from a web crawler.

There is no members search option on the phone version. I don't know if any of this is helping but I'm just posting whatever I notice.

Yeah it's not definitive because the photos only let you zoom so far before becoming distorted, it does seem like a really strange place for damage to occur and so neatly done as well. I've checked probably 30 or 40 more since you mentioned it but I can't find anything similar. There are a couple of coins with die cracks around the same place but they always lead directly to the rim and over the lighthouse. Your guess is as good as mine

Good spot! This penny has everything going on, die clash to the neck, die clash by the hair ribbon, die crack from the rim to the N in PENNY, die cracks running through PENNY itself and the strange marks that you've spotted too. It's hard to tell just from the pictures but it doesn't look like a clash because it looks incuse and the other die clashes are all in relief, and as you say it doesn't match up to anything from the obverse. Any guesses?

put down the whiskey you got for xmas Pete, that's enough of that

I took a punt on some coins from her, all of them had been cleaned and so inevitably returned, she did refund me in full including postage both ways but I think giving her a wide berth is wise.

That did make me chuckle

I think total tonnage is right, and it could literally just be the wont of human nature to fulfill something, putting 40 or 99 on it's own doesn't give you the sense of reaching a milestone, whereas putting 40/40 or 99/99 is definitely more satisfying.

I did see a mention to this in the description but I don't have this book and couldn't read up on it. The BNJ entry from Dyer was a good read, although there is much speculation and starts with some different theories as to how they came about. I'm definitely inclined to agree with your assertion Rob, it's not plausible that the numbers matched in terms of tonnage for all bronze and then just the pennies or half pennies. Perhaps the numbered bronzes of those 2 years are something different altogether and the practise of scratching a fraction continued in a similar fashion albeit for a different reason. Does anyone with a copy of Gouby's book on this know if he mentions a difference between the 1860-61 bronzes with scratches and the bronzes from the other years?