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Have a look at this darling...

MSD61MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭
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Farthing
Farthing02

Something I'm bidding on until I get an answer back from the seller about the offer I made to them.
Omnicoin

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  • satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720 ✭
    I hope I look that good when I'm 243 years old!imageimageimage
    Roy


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  • tlhoytlhoy Posts: 2,204
    That's a cool 1 in the date. Do all the 1's look like that from 1700's?
    Glenn
  • ccrdragonccrdragon Posts: 2,697 ✭
    I'm afraid that I will be worm-food long before I get that old...

    However, it is a VERY nice lookin' coin! image
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,570 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>That's a cool 1 in the date. Do all the 1's look like that from 1700's? >>



    Glenn, they often did use a "J" for a "1" in the early and mid-18th century. I had a 1714 guinea once that really looked like it said "J7J4"!

    Very nice.

    But the darling that really caught my attention was the MSD61 icon.
    I see the name "boiler" in the URL, so I am assuming that's the 1805 PR64 CAM
    gilt proof penny that Boiler78 bought recently, from NEN, I believe?

    He PM'ed me a pic, back when he was contemplating the sale:

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    That really blows my old gilt icon (my humble raw PR61 halfpenny) away.

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  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Nice Farthing, MSD. I have a suspicion that it's been cleaned. Or it may just be the lighting.

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  • spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
    Here's some different one's on a 1718 1/2d.
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,570 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks original to me, though I see what you mean about the lighting. (Of course, I'm not the best at spotting cleaned coins, unless they are pretty blatant. I suppose that's my numismatic Achilles' heel.)

    Not that I would care if that had been cleaned- it wouldn't make much difference to me, as long as the cleaning wasn't abrasive or too harsh.

    Looks like a nice coin, whatever the case.

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  • MSD61MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭
    Same here, I don't mind a cleaned coin as long as one didn't brillo the coin to death. But I tend to agree with you 1jester. I am looking at the high points and the lettering and seeing a lot of trapped junk in there. But if you look at the field of the coin it is very clean. Looking at the obverse between the E and X of REX it looks wiped same as with the reverse around the spine of the harp and around the crown. Some of the higher points look quite clean as well. But, unless one has the coin up close....it could be the lighting.
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    Omnicoin
  • MSD61MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭
    Sorry Glen.... lordmarcovan beat me to the answer to your questionimage By the way lordmarcovan I love your vest and bonnet (hat)image
    Omnicoin
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