The South African coins were struck at the Pretoria Mint though I assume a lot of the staff were British and had possibly worked at the Royal...
The only auctions wins I've regretted are coins that I didn't identify correctly. I've tried to forget those occassions.
Looks like these coins were struck in small numbers during the 1950s - how were they distributed? I assume they didn't circulate but were somehow...
I think what is now the Franklin Mint is not the same company that struck coins in the 1970s and 1980s. Certainly I think that the records from...
Well done. Getting pieces like this you really do have to look farther afield.
I'm not expert on Irish or South African coins but I thought that by the late 1920s at least, most proofs did have a mirror finish. If they don't...
You got me curious with the brass 1967 sovereign. Looking at https://www.lot-art.com/auction-lots/Sovereigns/323-sovereign-24.2.22-baldwin yes it...
I'm not sure what affects the popularity of coins - I remember five or ten years ago a coin dealer telling me that Russian coins had been popular...
The Demerara and Essequibo 1/4 guilder and British Guiana 1/4 guilder both weighed 1.91g which is around what the references say. They must be...
Very nice - any interesting die combinations?
Quite possibly - lots of change with the reverses in that era, which I've never really understood the purpose of.
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Hard to say - I thought the US mint has sold fully defaced dies in the past. A long time ago - the 1887S and 1902S double and quintuple sovereign...
I got my hands on a couple of quarter guilders recently - they appear the same as a threepence as a glance and are the same diameter. I will get...
Those are probably your best methods of testing the alloy - 50% silver coins and 92.5% silver coins are reasonably similar in weight and any...
Not sure - does the Royal Mint have maximum mintages of commemorative coins?
If it's in a slab then it's probably real? I know they're not infallible but this is a hard fake to pull off without leaving a sign.
Interesting - in Australia the smallest coin is currently the 5c piece but (when cash is used at least) no one ever rounds to the nearest 10 cents...
Given the number of commemoratives that get churned out these days that something slipped through the cracks but a Jersey commemorative is hardly...
Very intriguing - are these dies from the Franklin Mint?
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