Indeed. I used to like it a bit better as I liked the dramatic "Romanizing" effect of Britannia on a ship prow. BUT, Eddie, well just too much of...
Mmm, a bit cleaned there and harshly so. This would be a coin right up my alley, and looks good as far as authenticity. Value? Well as a cleaned...
Who approve it? They do look like clowns. BTW, I quite agree with the sentiment above in that the "tribute" coins of E8 are abyssmal in quality -...
As a followup: the first unslabbed coin is the "VIP [sic]" Record proof, and the second is graded by PCGS as Proof66 Cameo, and is a sparkler in...
How is that not soft strike in areas of highest relief on the obverse? That having been said, at least in the UK this coin would be dinged for the...
Agreed to the obvious, for sure. But perhaps you ought to look at the error coin site hosted by Mike Byers to see what kind of money HE asks for...
Yes, the penny in 1982 should have been a bronze composition. It is struck on an original GB sixpence from 1953. Somewhere I have one struck on a...
Yes, we are on the lookout for these gold and other pieces (I posted on my 1983 IOM Viking proofs here before). No mintage listed in Krause (and...
I guess so, although there are probably some "ordinary" proofs with near equal details.....An ordinary can come with relatively deep strikes and...
At first a strange look, and then came to like it more and more. The silver versions are quite nice also, and quite a bit less expensive.
LOL, not sure just how the birds came to stand for the Nation states...
Yes, very nice there Sir. I have a couple of silvers I got cheap from the 1890s that I will try to post soon.
Aha, Lord M, you hit it on the head. If you look closely, and it is hard to see on this one, it is struck over a 1953 SIXPENCE! Kind of like a...
I ran across this coin about 18-20 years ago and like it all the more with the passage of time. It is an essai strike in gold of the silver crown....
This coin has a bit of a trick as it were, see if you can guess - hint: look closely [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I so agree; too bad we couldn't have kept a "Young Head" version of QE II for 60+ years....
This is a coin I have on and off wondered about for some years and is listed as essentially an "ordinary" NCLT crown in the IOM series. It is the...
Later coins were measured at 95.5% copper with some alloy. I don't know but would imagine that there would be similar copper percentage in this...
Absolutely ridiculous to put religious interests ahead and in charge of such a wonderful site. What if Israel were to do such with the Dome of the...
Yes, obviously I agree. I think the key is in the hair on the obverse with very few reverse differences.
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