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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;OldFlyByNightUK, post: 2996590, member: 93083&quot;]Hi, We are currently listing an old British coin, and are now unsure whether we should ...</p><p><br /></p><p>We read a very long thread (actually just me, Gill had “better” things to do) about a US coin listed on eBay UK, that someone thought suspicious, and that caused a real storm of 10 pages of comments &amp; ‘helpful’ thoughts. The situation being complicated, by the seller being communicative, but from what I understood, not enough … An extra photo or two would have (maybe) resolved some questions.&nbsp; And the weight, may have sorted another question, etc.&nbsp; Please excuse the aside: But, why don’t sellers include the weight as standard?</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s a 1707, Queen Anne Half Crown.&nbsp; It weighs (by our primary scales) 14.59 grams, and Slater kitchen scales 15g , is approximately 33mm diameter, and an average 1.5 mm thick.&nbsp; There are lots of edge markings and text, most of which is decipherable, including ‘sexto’.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because of our experience with the ‘seated liberty’ and ‘peace’ dollars (another thread), we bought some N52 nyodimium magnets ... and one slowly slides down this coin when slanted at 45 degrees, so it seems to be silver.&nbsp; (It’s a nice satisfying test to do, thanks Juris)</p><p><br /></p><p>To be as complete as I can think of, there is no real provenance, only that it was owned by someone who travelled around the world, mostly during WWII plus a few years after, and collected coins &amp; notes and other stuff that interested him, but that didn&#039;t cost too much. He continued collecting up until about 1990. Unfortunately his memory is ‘shot to pieces’ now, and he can’t remember whether he bought it in a coin shop, a souk, or won it playing cards …</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, there are things that maybe look wrong, such as the gap at the top of the R in GRATIA, and the seriph? missing off the top of the I, and other text quality things ...</p><p><br /></p><p>But, we&#039;ve also looked at a ‘top’ London coin dealer who sold one 5th Dec 2016 which looks very similar. And, there’s another being sold (I am starting with the premise that it is legitimate) that has other text bits missing, inferring that this sort of error was not uncommon back in the day.</p><p><br /></p><p>So we are throwing ourselves on your collective opinion(s). </p><p><br /></p><p>We’ve done the same thing on Coinquest, which seems to have a much limited group of vociferous contributors to see what they have to say.&nbsp; Coinquest have referred to CoinTalk as a proven source of experienced &amp; respected opinion, which convinced us to join your forum. Is there another site that you feel it would be worth asking for their 3rd opinion on this coin? </p><p><br /></p><p>I hope we can contribute in a positive way one day, to repay this forums help to us.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks in advance for your thoughts.</p><p><br /></p><p>Alan &amp; Gill</p><p><br /></p><p>PS.&nbsp; I had problems adding large photos last time but I’ll try again, if not in the initial post, immediately afterwards, which I can delete and try again, if I do it wrong, again![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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