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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2934471, member: 10461&quot;]Hey, nice lookin&#039; out on the possible &quot;graffiti&quot; on the griffin in Coin B.&nbsp; My eye didn&#039;t pick up on that.&nbsp; That would certainly be a dealbreaker if it were true.&nbsp; But I think that&#039;s just some crosshatching to indicate &quot;feathers&quot; on the griffin&#039;s breast.&nbsp; (Like I mentioned, it <i>is</i> a rather crude rendering.)&nbsp; So just a part of the design, in other words.&nbsp; For comparison, here are some other examples from the same seller.&nbsp; (With whom I&#039;ve done business before.)&nbsp; They have some nice ones, but none of the rest appear to have the killer toning Coin B above has.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://img.ma-shops.com/brom/pic/141001014bz.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://img.ma-shops.com/brom/pic/141001013bz.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hmm... some of the others <i>do</i> have pretty nice toning, though.&nbsp; All of these in this latest post are <i>dated </i>examples - all 1621- note the &quot;Z1&quot; (21) on either side of the &quot;DS&quot; (for &quot;<i>doppelschilling&quot;</i>) on the reverse, which is lacking on the undated (ca 1620-25) coin in the poll.</p><p><br /></p><p>And they&#039;re a few bucks less, too.&nbsp; But despite it being an undated one, I still think the toning on Coin B in the poll is superior.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://img.ma-shops.com/brom/pic/141001006bz.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://img.ma-shops.com/brom/pic/141001005bz.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Y&#039;all reckon either of the two toned 1621 pieces here might be a better pick than the undated but killer-toned one in the poll?&nbsp; I do prefer <i>dated</i> coins in the early modern stuff, as I mentioned in my comments on the QE1 shilling/Coin A.</p><p><br /></p><p>But oh my, that toning on Coin B really speaks to me...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, there&#039;s no stronger vote of confidence than a statement like that from somebody who&#039;s willing to &quot;put his money where his mouth is&quot;.&nbsp; Your vote of <i>coin</i>fidence is a pretty strong validation, as I see it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=71642]@Stork[/USER]&#039;s comment of restrained approval is valid too, though.&nbsp; I probably <i>could</i> hold out for a better example, when I&#039;ve got more money:</p><p><br /></p><p>Then again, I just sold two nice love tokens, so it looks as though I&#039;ll be able to scoop up at least <i>two</i> of the coins in this poll... if not <i>all three</i>, should I sell something else soon!</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">(Then I&#039;ll be needing to speak to [USER=28531]@H8_modern[/USER] about a recently-posted coin of his that we&#039;ve discussed...)</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe I <i>will</i> grab the Elizabeth I sixpence, and if I should happen to upgrade to a nicer QE1 sixpence later, I could offer the one above to you at cost, [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER].&nbsp; <i>If</i>, hypothetically, you were still interested when and if that happened.&nbsp; Of course I intend to submit that one - and any and all of these I purchase - to PCGS, so if I do sell any of them later on down the road, they&#039;ll be slabbed.&nbsp; All my non-ancient stuff goes to PCGS, for reasons of personal preference that have to do with more than just grading.&nbsp; <font size="3">(Yes, I&#039;m a &quot;Kool-Aid drinker&quot;.)</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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