Harp was current from 21st June 1632 to 11th July 1633, not 1633-4. C-R beside the shield will be C(arolvs) R(ex), not Charles Reign. Welsh...
Graffiti or not, it was still deemed worthy of illustrating in an early 20th century catalogue - there's wax in a window on the tower base...
Dealers' lists are just as important as auctions. Dealers buy at auction and on occasion will sell a named collection. They also help to...
Collecting current catalogues is an integral part of building a library. What I'm saying is that once you go back more than a few years, the...
Anyone considering building a library, I recommend buying someone else's if possible. One or two thousand spent on a decent library should soon...
I think the crown above the X is the same punch as that on the reverse of the Briot 1st milled double-crown. The relative sizes and profiles of...
Is there any evidence to date this 1644? I'm sceptical. I'm querying it because the bust and crown style would be more suited to Briot's first...
Edward III Pre-Treaty halfgroat series D of London, mm. broken Cross 1 [ATTACH]
Edward III Pre-Treaty groat series C of London, mm. Cross 1 [ATTACH]
John class Vb/Va mule penny of Winchester. IOHAN ON WINC [ATTACH]
I have no idea if there are more collectors in Europe collectively than the US. I do think however there are more 'investors' in the US because of...
I think there's a danger here of trying to apply rational argument in order to make a one size fits all explanation. As an outsider I see...
You can never have enough catalogues as an added provenance never harmed a coin's value. I have a library of just over 5000 sales going back to...
This may be the case, but it has to be said that an inadvertent diversion into coins is a better (unintentional) investment than a holiday. The...
The world is your oyster. The beauty of numismatics is that you can collect what you like and there is no right or wrong. The key is collecting...
The first thing to point out is that if you think you will need to sell quickly, then you really shouldn't be spending a lot of money on coins. I...
There's a huge market outside the US, both in numbers and breadth of material. It might seem like the US is all conquering in collectability, but...
As am I
I blame the multiple increases on predominantly US buyers that are driving this due to their obsession with label numbers. The thing that...
The arguments are laid out on pages 10 &11 in Peck. It's based on Snelling's conjecture that they were for a token or pledge in copper. The weight...
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