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I am surprised that this happens in your area, it certainly doesn’t in mine (Wales, Hereford and Shropshire) for non-treasure items and for two fairly straightforward reasons; firstly, valuation (and it’s costs) is not a funded part of the FLO’s remit, and indeed could open him/her up to challenge -and secondly, for a non treasure item a museum ( or other State entity) has no right of acquisition and therefore advance valuations would be a pointless expense. Of course, should a finder wish to sell a non treasure find, then normally both parties will seek valuations informal or otherwise and hopefully reach an amicable settlement. I have recently undertaken to donate a Saxon coin that I purchased at auction (Noonans) as it is an important Herefordshire find to the Museum involving a £5k gift on my part , the purchase price was taken as the market value. That coin had been through the PAS and recorded by the EMC in 2022 without valuation - difficult anyway as a unique coin. Even for Treasure items, valuation comes late in the formal process and then only after a wish to acquire has been expressed. If Treasure is disclaimed and returned jointly to finder/ landowner, it is up to them to sort out their financial commitments to each other - hence the need for prior agreements. As I stated earlier, it does not appear that this coin, if indeed a find, ever entered the PAS process. Jerry

The PAS will not value a find, though ‘Treasure’ items are valued by the ‘Treasure Valuation Committee’ as part of the Treasure process, if found to be Treasure and a museum wishes to acquire. As a single find it would not qualify. But this coin does not appear to have been reported to the PAS, and I suspect that the landowner is unaware of its existence, if genuine. To my mind it is not an obvious fake, as most are, and indeed may be a die duplicate of the PAS one . Jerry

I have already had a nice reply from ‘Jenni’ thanking me for the info, and stating that she is pulling the coin to have it independently assessed, as she does not sell fakes. An innocent but expensive mistake I suspect sadly. Jerry

I have just messaged him, maybe others should do likewise. He seems an established EBay dealer, he is probably unaware. Jerry

Another Edward the Confessor penny of Gildepine at Canterbury, the latter given as CA. Jerry c.1065-1066AD) Spink 1184, BMC XV - Pyramids Type, +GILDEPINE ON CA - Moneyer Gildewine at Canterbury Mint. Good portrait and clear legends with a solid flan. (HHC5568) Anglo-Saxon Silver Coin

The BM mentions two coins of Gildepine , both of Canterbury, no pics though. But the mint name on yours may well begin with ‘C’. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG108550 Jerry

I wonder if the moneyer is Gildepine (Gildewine) who North lists at Leicester. I can’t see that in the mint name though. The reverse seems to read ‘GILDEPINE ON ‘ and then a letter or two that may be a gross abbreviation due to lack of space. I will try the EMC database. Jerry

Magnet? Sorry……… Jerry

My second edition Peck with dust jacket cost me £12 from a secondhand bookshop in Abergavenny in the early ‘80’s, when I was a junior doctor in the local hospital, and freshly married (same wife). It seemed expensive to me then, when I was buying lustrous Victorian pennies for a few pounds from Lloyd Bennett in the Tuesday market. The book is still in my bookcase, but I use a ‘reading copy’ without dj that I acquired somewhere since. Jerry

TopCarp on EBay is John Jerrams (of the Satin penny guides). The blue ink tickets are definitely Comber, I’ve just checked the tickets of some Lizzie shillings, and a number of Lizzie pennies from two separate Comber sales, they are all identical. Jerry

It looks a lot like a couple of Comber tickets from my collection. Jerry

Yes just a couple…wrong variety, wrong grade, wrong price and polished! But at least this time it’s not the wrong 1909 penny! I know someone here won’t be surprised to see this! Jerry

Bound to be an E over E, I think the photo shows the bottom limb of the lower ‘E’ as well. I won’t be bidding. Jerry

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Press the ‘verify NGC certification’ link above the photos, there are better pics on the NGC site. Jerry

Here it is. https://www.ebay.com/itm/185600607039?hash=item2b36a8833f%3Ag%3AZUYAAOSwai1jN0A5&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoNEB%2F5LF70F%2BeTCxgli5KvgUWQ4MjCaZTNRvfDOaQtRw1Qmibe1%2FU5nVMUTvakGAuM8KNU4wyKAtUlPABhrJXAuWTKZlmuxVb%2B9TMo5VbUUM3ySSxQnXJIZ%2BOEBnTCPjMaAjliRGHcq2UJBnXRr7N8YyDibPDoYQ8BD3sYbuvs%2BHxA4EMgzhO5w0CzVEKPXWrvsXWrXkuHhxXg34ep41YjE%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR-DT_L73YA&nma=true&si=t0VkoRnFBLlM%2BXaAvTAd9v6AAQI%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 I did see the ‘dcds’ coin, and it may be a VIGTORIA but I wasn’t entirely convinced, and as I have one I moved on. Jerry ’

You clearly bought it from Colin Cooke, but it is not the ‘Colin Cooke Collection’ coin, No 4 on Lee’s list on the envelope. Lee states it is probably coin 1 or 3 in the list, most likely 3, sold by Spink in 1966. The only thing you can really be sure of is the actual provenance Lee gives, to which you can add ‘ex Colin Cooke Coins’ and the date of purchase. I don’t think that you need to worry that you have mishandled it. A perfectly collectable coin, and rare though as usual there are more examples out there than the cataloguers are aware of. And welcome back to coin collecting, I started in my early teens, pretty much stopped in my late 20’s, and interest (fanaticism?) was re-kindled in my ‘50’s and persists undiminished. If you buy wisely, and grade should always be a major priority, a collection should be an enjoyment and an investment - but not your only one! Jerry

You see these tiny spurs on the halfpennies of subsequent reigns too. I wonder whether the blanks were cut out of a strip of silver by four blows of a curved chisel of a quarter of the desired circumference. This would give a reasonable uniformity of size and weight, and they are certainly too small to be cut with shears. Jerry

He seemed pretty well when I spoke to him yesterday, but bemoaning the fact that the police have recently closed their file on his robbery without any progress, and none of the stolen coins have surfaced. He seems to have a good selection of coins for sale. Jerry

Not me, though I was watching. An F24 I’m sure, and possibly missing leaf. The second ‘1’ of the date is in the right place. Jerry

About £1960, after commissions, taxes, insurance and postage, and I might end up with 5% import vat too though Australian purchases often sneak through for me. Jerry

Yup. Jerry

I agree they look different, though photos from an identical viewpoint - camera stand etc- would be helpful as photos can/do lie. However the relationships with border teeth do seem to differ. The second, more worn coin does appear to have the die flaw through the date, as Ian shows. Both are better than my pitiful current example. Jerry

Ah, but global warming affects the winter too! But you just can’t predict which way we will be affected- if the Gulf Stream changes course we could actually be colder. I think we have to be resigned to climate change whatever, and our kids more so. What the planet needs is a good plague, when in fact we all seem to want to live forever. Jerry

Look on the positive side, if this carries on our heating bills will be much lower…….. Jerry