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Have you got Mrs Smith's Phone number Rob I want to buy her set

They are still going for over £100 and the BU £175 on some bloody mind boggling.

Here's my other one again really nice strikes and that stunning luster looks like almost frost and if you were to touch it your finger would stick

2009 BU set (yes I know before you say it ) But Kew is Kew so the one in the set must also be rare right? errrm in a word not even close lol. I have spent hours trying to put right the myth that all things Kew are rare. Pleading with folk not to waste their money on inflated prices because of fake news. Granted the circulation issue will be scarcer now as most are in the nation's draw at home But 20-30 years down the line when they surface what will they be worth? I would almost guarantee nowhere near what they are now. Anything Kew outside of the circulation issue isn't rare or even scarce compared to it's other 50 pence counterparts as in BU sets, Silver Proofs and Piedfort proofs but the prices for these coins gain momentum along side the circulation issues. Time will bear out that all this buying of non rare sets and proofs will be a bad investment. Purely because there are so many still out there and will be for a long long time. I bought the scouts silver proof piedfort 50 pence for £35 the 2nd lowest mintage of the 50 p piedforts only the bugle blow 50p is scarcer and that has a high value. Why? Again fake news for a coin nobody liked. yet look at the difference in the prices of the Kew selling x5 that price. Logic goes out the window lol.

You know I am toying with the idea of buying the year set for £100 and knocking it back out. Think there will still be some mileage in it still ?

Not seen any on the 1966's the amount I have looked at there can't be many of them about?

Here is a link for you hammered folk or detectorists. Very good comprehensive info on monarchs and Mintmarks. Hope it is of some use http://www.psdetecting.com/Mintmarks-CharlesI-&-CharlesII.html Full site is here http://www.psdetecting.com/Paul-Shields-Metal-Detecting-Website.shtml

I am still searching. I have some bank tubes all as struck to sift through yet. We might find the blighter yet

Oh just in case anyones interested. Sold the 1837 sixpence B/RRITANNIAR error £300. That will get the grand daughter some gifts for xmas

Could always contact him say you was a work missed the auction ask him to send you a buy it now sale job done. No more trade secrets that's a xmas presi lmao

unsold prob the 0 sales put bidders off

The other 1 is charles I shilling tower mint I believe 1639-40 . I am sure i'll be corrected if I am wrong Although if those are sixpences below it might be a half crown or were shillings massive in 1639?

USA VF $450 for charles 1673 Merk

Sorry smoke missed this post. See pic above in original post the colons I just picked The F: D: for simplicity left hand picture the colons are circular in formation whilst the colons on the second picture are oval in their formation or design. Both pictures were taken by myself from 2 coins from 1967 bank rolls at the same time one after the other all the distances are exactly the same

Yes its called the R over Almost a B in BRITT

Notice alibababa coin they use a C for a G lols

Really he only had to look at the B in Britt and see how long the bottom serif is the upward curve would start much later nearly where the right leg of the R starts to curve?

Corrupt coin counterfeiting society?

Surely this is bonkers Who are CCCS? I thought CGS were strict on grading but this outfit tops the lot lol F-12 I think not https://www.ebay.com/itm/UK-Great-Britain-1862-Half-Penny-England/321968111252

I was always of the understanding that cameo proofs were those which had polished fields but the subjects remained un touched to give that effect of a cameo look. Frosted cameo is another thing entirely .I believe a special coating is a applied to give that finish. In contrast to Proof-like which both the subject and the field are struck on highly polished dies. I have 2 coins with one side with blazing mirror fields and the reverse just normal. A 1953 canadian dollar and a 1940 rupee. Impossible to picture post cannot get the mirror effect to show How I want it. Very frustrating. So are the normal answers "probably just an early strike" errm no the obverse and reverse are chalk and cheese. I am certain they are struck from proof dies weather by accident or otherwise. Natural lustre is completely different to a mirrored finish. One looks like your looking at a reflection of a hazy sun shining on the coin giving it that cartwheel effect when spinning the coin. Mirror is like looking through a pool of water it reflects everything even my ugly mug when tying to photograph it lol

Here is my original one from pic above and my other 1 both pics I took today 1 after the other. like against like kind of bolsters that argument. as one is more prooflike cameo than the other

You would know the difference immediately as the V.I.P proof is Frosted and the mirror surface is almost black like looking into an abyss. LCA VIP V my sad offering normal one

Not my pics Jerry its from a coin I saw and blew it up but it didn't have the desired effect. Might be better with just original pic but then again you still might not see it

It just looks really chunky rather than defined the jewels should be diamond shaped not dots unless its the result of silver dipping?

was it a before the watershed message ?