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Sylvester's new coin!

SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭
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After waiting a month or so to save up, i've finally pay off what i owed and the coin arrived today!

Another sixpence enters the fold...

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And i am a very proud man!!! image

Comments

  • pythonpython Posts: 1,158
    Very cool. Great looking example and very difficult to find.
  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Very beautiful!!!!
    Shep
    image
  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭
    It's the most expensive coin i've ever bought so far, cost me a whopping £525 ($950).

    It is not an easy coin to find, but the other two are going to be more difficult to source, the 1693 with an upside down 3 and the dreaded 1694!
  • trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    image I said, "Whoa no, William and Mary won't do, now"
    Well, I did not think the girl could be so cruel
    And I'm never going back to my old school

    I like William and Mary (specially the 5 Guinea with elephant mint mark). image
    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭
    I only wish i could afford a 5 guinea piece!
  • trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    Same here. Beautiful coin you have there. image
    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • izzy452izzy452 Posts: 929 ✭
    Nice ,very nice.imageimage


    Walt
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Once of these days I too will venture back towards the 1600s & 1700s but for now ....


    Nice coin.
    Bill

    image

    09/07/2006
  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭


    << <i>Once of these days I too will venture back towards the 1600s & 1700s but for now ....


    Nice coin. >>



    Cheers!

    Admittedly i've been focusing even further back than the 17th and 18th centuries lately. I've been getting a few examples of coins from the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.
  • a2labmoma2labmom Posts: 1,623
    Beautiful coin! image
    currently owned by 5 Labradors

    Blaze - Yellow male b 3/17/93
    Onyx - Black male b 3/7/99
    Duchess - Yellow female mix b 3/12/02 rescued 9/18/02
    Rifle - Yellow male mix b 12/1/02 rescued 8/8/03
    Diamond - Black female b 5/3/05 adopted 8/3/05

    First Cam-slam - 9/21/04

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  • MSD61MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭
    Outstanding!!!image
    Omnicoin
  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,967 ✭✭✭
    That is a fabulous example.
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    Excellent tanner there, lad.



    << <i>but the other two are going to be more difficult to source, the 1693 with an upside down 3 and the dreaded 1694! >>



    Good luck here too in your search. image
  • GDJMSPGDJMSP Posts: 799 ✭
    Finally came home did it image Another great addition Sylvester - keep up the good work image
    knowledge ........ share it
  • LloydLloyd Posts: 887 ✭
    These are really hard coins in any meaningful grade. They must have worn the main design from the coin with relatively brief circulation times.

    One came up at a DNW sale about 6 months ago - and it was choice unc with original lustre - a real beauty. Went for almost £2k if I remember rightly. Estimate was around £750.

    The 1694 is a nightmare - probably rarer than the inv. 3.

    Good coin.

    L
    Ebay Auctions
  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭
    That photo made my heart leap! Great coin!
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