How small is that then? it can't be smaller than the English Maundy penny... 11mm Ah i wonder if a 16th century hammered silver farthing could...
I totally agree with you, i find three grades of UNC suffice, no real need for 11 that's just trying to turn it into a science. What's more than...
I was exactly the same... i took to gold. I just hope for you he doesn't! :D
Actually AU is only a minor grade, cos really it just UNC with an A on the front. VG is probably the same but with a G.
I'm happy with; Fair, G, VG, F, VF, EF, AU, UNC, BU. Stick and A for almost and a G for good on the front of them where necessary if a coin...
I don't shell out anything to have them graded, cos i don't have them graded. Maybe this is where i have trouble seeing eye to eye with alot of...
I critiscise alot of things... i just enjoy complaining :D
To here collectors talk i thought they were very popular... it is nice to here they ain't though.
i'm glad i don't have to use those grades... i think i'd give up and stick to VF coins.
So no ones mentionned the Jefferson Nickel then?
Well well GD i smell another potential sixpence collector here... ;) Although i'd love to imagine what he'd make of a medieval hammered...
I wasn't trying to claim ownership of the website or anything...
Ah no, erm sorry for the confusion there, i thought i'd made it clear that i'd sold the coin and i was just providing a link to the dealer's...
I love $20 Liberty coins... they are my favourite US coins, closely followed by $10 indians... now i could hug those all day!
Well there is one in York sometime at the end of this month but i dunno if it's any good.
it's still for sale actually... see here; http://www.historyincoins.com/xxx-5-4-4-27.jpg
Just to put it into perspective, that queen Mary sovereign show earlier was sold for $12,000 (Some lucky person got that beauty). My Quarter...
Well i don't have any hammered sovereigns cos well i just can afford anything like that,bigger that a Morgan dollar and gold, i should wish!...
Yes it's a sovereign, not the usually 20 silling sovereign but a 'Fine Sovereign' of 30 shillings... and it's mightly fine indeed, but it's a 1553...
Quite a few i should think, most are above GoodVF as the coin never entered circulation... finding low grade ones that are more affordable is very...
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