Nordle11

Here you go Pete.. A spanker of a coin might I add

Could be many things, probably a doubled error, of which there are many! Have a look here for a little more info on doubling.

1) Hard to tell, looks like a large date by the spacing of the last 9 but the 9 itself looks different from a large date numeral. Maybe someone who has this variety can help further.. 2) I collect coins with die cracks, but seperate from anything else. For instance if this was a coin to fill a gap by year or bust or whatever, I'd want one without a die crack. I'd be collecting it as a "coin with a die crack", if that makes sense? 3) A nice coin in a nice grade, that's what I'll go with

Is this a genuine 'no h' penny? Link

Apparently between £18 - 80 (Source) but always take any price guide with a pinch of salt. I think he gets his figures from Coin News, if that helps..

For Fine or NF coins, just keep an eye on ebay and one will surface soon enough

You don't need to get more replies, it's on the right, at the bottom of where you're typing (picture attached)

Are you just spamming? This is a 7 year old thread you've dug up and you've posted that link twice, that I've seen. I'm worried to click your links to see if they're real

Love those lego bricks, that's pretty cool.

They look ok nordle only thing is you will have to keep the cushion for as long as you keep collecting. Nice site and some nice pennies. Yeah, I realised that after taking about half of the pictures haha. I have that microscope now too, which is amazing by the way, and figured I could get some really detailed shots with it and find myself another background in the process. And thanks Pete, many to upgrade and a few gaps left to fill, but I've only been at it a couple of years. I have to remind myself that when looking at, say, Steve's site (Accumulator)

I use a orange/brown cushion haha

Agreed, definitely the right pic.

Haha I've got 50 £1 coins if anyone wants them for £60?

Leading on from another topic, I'm interested to know what you prioritise when buying a coin. For instance my criteria, in order, would be; 1. Eye appeal (although this might encompass some of the below) 2. Lustre 3. Grade 4. Rarity 5. Crispness of the strike 6. Price Feel free to add any criteria that I haven't as this is surely geared toward collecting pennies. I'm sure you silver collectors and hammered collectors have very different lists!

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Haha, hear, hear to that!

'Open to offers' haha

eBay really doesn't take much notice if anything, if they get their cut then they don't care.

Haha of course, although there's more important things to me hence it being 5th on my list..

I was going for the former, being a penny guy I work from Freeman's scale of rarity usually. I guess number 3 would pick up the latter however.

You'd hope that anyone paying upwards of say £50 for a coin is someone that has prior knowledge of their interest and at least an idea of how to grade something. Even if I'm umming and arring about what to bid I just look up previous auctions and compare pictures. I rarely look at what anyone assigns a coin, especially as even the people on here that I consider experts all give slightly different grades when someone posts a picture. It's way way too subjective a topic for anyone to be right. I buy what I like the look of and compare it to previous prices online, and I've only been stung a couple of times (IMO)

well spotted!

Yeah, this "finest known" caper is actually just the finest known to CGS, not necessarily the finest known in actuality. I actually have one or two coins which are superior to their "finest known". In truth, CGS are misrepresenting the true facts by not adding a rider to their claim, making it clear that it's just their population they are referring to. They (TPGs) all do that, because as we all know, the only business with the superior knowledge is their own.I also have some finest knowns, having no problem identifying which of the three or four examples in my possession is the best one. Acknowledging the presence of other potentially better examples isn't a good selling point. Statistics, damn lies and statistics. Not to mention the point that Pete quite rightly brought up about them reassigning a grade and price just because they're now selling the coin. But as we all know, TPG companies are certainly a 'Marmite' topic.

No problem, unfortunately I don't know of a better way without compromising the quality of the image.. I did find, however, that when doing it at home it took an age but whenever I uploaded pictures while at work they went straight on no problem, so might be an bandwidth issue. My images are all JPEG too and aren't more than 6mb.

What sort of collection are you going for HT? It's sounds like a sporadic list! Just types of coins you like?