First Arrival!

[GateGateGo 8]

Popped home for lunch to find the first of my coins had arrived - oddly, it's the third one I ordered (thx, Royal Mail...) & one I took a bit of a punt on as the pics available were, well, frankly a bit shit.

I think my risk was justified for a tenner - what do you guys think?

1928 George V Half Crown:

 

[GateGateGo 8]

Oh, and the reverse looks better 'in the metal' than my dodgy, camera 'phone shots suggest. Nice lustre, too.

I'll try & get the DSLR / macro combo on it soon, in better light but this (novice opinion & possibly dead wrong!) looks n/aEF to me?

Frank

[GateGateGo 8]

Clearer pics.

[Stuntman 264]

I reckon you're about right on the grade.  Reverse looks slightly better than the obverse to me.  Nice coin for a tenner!

[GateGateGo 8]

Thanks, good to know I'm not wildly off beam!

Yes, the reverse is better than the obverse - if it wasn't for the scratchiness (which looks nowhere near so bold 'in the hand'), I'd have been inclined to give this a straight EF. 

Not at all displeased with this for an early score.

[PWA 1967 2,142]

Hope your not a Red if so ............VF.

[GateGateGo 8]

Nyet, comrade.

Oh, you mean football? Nah, Dude - athletics & motorsport are more my thing, although if pushed, I may admit an (irrational) fondness for 'Latics (Oldham, of course!) & Yeovil.

[PWA 1967 2,142]

Yeovil........................Washer 

[GateGateGo 8]

Don't judge me! 'Tis a family thing - not my fault I comes from bumpkin stock

[PWA 1967 2,142]

I am daft and from Manchester but ..........YEOVIL............cant take another post seriously .

You will be saying next your from Burnage and sing in the bath to oasis........

Only joking frank and welcome to the forum.

 

Pete.

[GateGateGo 8]

Hey, Pete - thanks for the welcome!

Ha, no - but my mate Dean was bullied by Liam at primary school, if that counts?

Strictly speaking, I'm Stopfordian but that's impossible to alliterate with 'Frank', innit??

 

[Stuntman 264]

1 hour ago, MancFrank said:

Nyet, comrade.

Oh, you mean football? Nah, Dude - athletics & motorsport are more my thing, although if pushed, I may admit an (irrational) fondness for 'Latics (Oldham, of course!) & Yeovil.

I used to run for Yeovil Olympiads Athletic Club in the 1980s 

[PWA 1967 2,142]

[Rob 3,152]

I was in Yeovil today to see a roof repaired on a property I own. (Mini tornado picked it up on New Year's Eve and didn't put it back where it found it)

Yeovil is clearly the centre of the universe.

[GateGateGo 8]

So it seems, Rob - damn fine town! Sorry to hear about the roof... Didn't know 'light blue' were flying outta Yeovilton, though!?

I'm afraid my active participation in anything athletic is a good thirty years or more behind me, Stuntman. All thanks to these bitches...