Sorry if you take offence at that, as it wasn't intended. All I was saying is that a coin with a TPG label is another person's opinion, because...
Sure it's a matter of opinion(s) - there's no right or wrong way to collect because it's a hobby and each to their own. You collect other peoples'...
I wouldn't be. I've had 61s that were better than 65s and most of the MS whatevers I have seen were 'unc with wear' frequently going down to EF,...
The dies were made with a stock built up in advance. What you have there is a die originally with 159 as the date. Normally the last digit or last...
The only resource I have here is my library of past catalogues, but I would suggest that it is only likely to be illustrated in a catalogue from...
It was struck c.1020 in present day Sweden. English pennies were widely copied in Scandinavia as they were considered the 'gold standard' of...
Scandinavian imitation of an English Cnut Quatrefoil penny. Struck at Lund in Sweden. [ATTACH]
1966 pattern crown by Antony Foley struck on a thick flan, weight 37.64g. Again for the record, was formerly PCGS SP65 151623.65/13481549 [ATTACH]
Charles I Gp.3 crown with mm. triangle over anchor over tun on the obverse and triangle over anchor on the reverse. This is Cooper dies...
S.1876. Henry VI pinecone-mascle halfgroat. Mascle before LON & pinecone after DON. Pinecones on the obverse before and after DI and a mascle...
The Taylor restrikes of Soho pieces must be earlier because he died in 1885, but it is fair to say that with aluminium effectively a precious...
[ATTACH] And something a little more unusual. A lead splash of a pattern crown obverse. This was the first design struck following the Jubilee...
Private pattern crown in aluminium by J R Thomas after J Bonomi. Dated 1837 but struck in either 1887 or 1893. The designs are incuse and the...
William III 1695 crown. [ATTACH] Lima 1794 8R countermarked for circulation in Britain. [ATTACH]
Probus antoninianus with Sol Invicto reverse. [ATTACH]
A pattern uniface 1824 halfcrown struck in Barton's metal - a copper sheet with gold bonded to both sides leaving an edge with exposed copper...
1788 pattern halfpenny struck in brown-gilt copper. A gilding of gold with some copper content. Peck 966. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Gilt 1795 pattern halfpenny. Restrike by W J Taylor. [ATTACH]
This is the most recently acquired coin from her collection that I possess. An Edward IV light coinage halfpenny of Canterbury under Archbishop...
1644 Exeter shilling [ATTACH] J G Murdoch 237, Sotheby 8/6/1903 bt.Ready £1/2/- Dr E Burstal 463 part, Glendining 16/5/1968 R Smith (Lord Smith...
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