British Mint:proof strike vs. unc strike

1907Quarter

beautiful coins. My unc Britannia has what seems to be proof devices set against unc fields-fabulous! What does the proof design of a similar coin have to offer? Proof on Proof?!

syraq

Can you be more specific? Even if you can't, wybrit will answer your question, he knows everything.


Merry Christmas .

newsman

Merry (Roman) Christmas, Dimitri.

syraq

Chuck,

Orthodox Christmas is on the 25th of December like Catholics. And Protestants. Easter, as a moving holiday, is another story. In fact, St George's day is on the 23rd of April (my father's nameday). If Easter Sunday is before that it's ok, otherwise, the festive nature f St George's day has to be postponed after the mourning for Jesus, hence, after the Resurrection.

newsman

<< <i>Chuck,

Orthodox Christmas is on the 25th of December like Catholics. And Protestants. Easter, as a moving holiday, is another story. In fact, St George's day is on the 23rd of April (my father's nameday). If Easter Sunday is before that it's ok, otherwise, the festive nature f St George's day has to be postponed after the mourning for Jesus, hence, after the Resurrection. >>



Oops! I was relying on the traditions of some of my Arab and Ukrainian Orthodox friends who celebrate Christmas on Jan. 6.

syraq

That's epiphany day Chuck. Some "paleo-imerologites" (=old-calendar-ists) celebrate it on the sixth, but they're a very tiny minority.

On Epiphany day, an official bank holiday, the priest of the village or town (most of them in Greece are next or close to the sea), throws a cross into the freeezing waters and a few brave young men jump into the sea. Whoever gets the cross from the bottom first, gets blessed and such. For those who believe in these things it should be a good thing, even as a Placebo effect, religion now ,I personally beieve it's an achievement to be able to compete for this cross alltogether.

XpipedreamR

I think you're probably talking about the "reverse proofs." Of course, now I can't find an example to post

wybrit

My unc Britannia has what seems to be proof devices set against unc fields-fabulous! What does the proof design of a similar coin have to offer? Proof on Proof?!

I sure don't know the answer to this one and I just divested myself of my Britannia coins to focus more on Victorian and early 20th century material.

Cosmicdebris is more of an expert in this area. He's been collecting them a lot longer than I.

sumnom

paleo-imerologites

Now there's a word.

Conder101

The Unc Britainnias have proof devices and frosted fields. Proof Britainnias have mirror fields and frostd devices.

cosmicdebris

Go HERE for images and info.

1907Quarter

Unc Britainnias have proof devices and frosted fields. Proof Britainnias have mirror fields and frostd devices.
that must be cool to look at side by side! thanks for the info!!

silvereaglecoins

The UNC and PROOF Britannias are often confused with each other. Here's a Recent Thread on this exact same topic.

cosmicdebris

John when are the '05 Britannias coming in?

silvereaglecoins

I expect to have the 2005 Silver Britannias available around the middle of January 2005.