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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robp, post: 4569311, member: 96746&quot;]1644 Exeter shilling</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1131419[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>J G Murdoch 237, Sotheby 8/6/1903 bt.Ready £1/2/-</p><p>Dr E Burstal 463 part, Glendining 16/5/1968</p><p>R Smith (Lord Smith of Marlow) collection bt Spink 1969</p><p>SNC 11/1970 no.12773</p><p>J G Brooker collection dispersed by Spink 1980 onwards</p><p>Spink 63 lot 352, 28/3/1988, (illustrated as 353)</p><p>Glendining 30/4/1999 lot 240</p><p>A Morris, bt Lloyd Bennett 9/99 </p><p><br /></p><p>Another Murdoch coin, this one plated in the catalogue. The wax deposits on the reverse are from the impression taken for illustrating the coin in this sale. I know that PCGS (and probably others) were offering a service to remove these &#039;unsightly&#039; deposits, with before and after images to demonstrate. I would implore anyone thinking of going down this route not to do so as it effectively removes historical evidence. The presence of wax tells you that it has either been illustrated in a sale catalogue, or sometimes an impression was taken by a museum to make a record of the dies used. As the wax is sometimes seen in the plates, this helps to confirm (and on occasion, dispel) a provenance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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