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Nice buns from Colin Cooke, Part I

wybritwybrit Posts: 6,972 ✭✭✭
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1888 Farthing, BU Full Lustre.

My photography fails to capture the brilliance and the lustre of this piece. It is outstanding.

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Part II will be posted later. G'night all.
Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.

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  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,972 ✭✭✭
    Here is a weak attempt to bring out the almost prooflike qualities. Why can't they make coins like this anymore??

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  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,430 ✭✭✭✭✭
    terrific coin Wybrit

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  • Silvereagle82Silvereagle82 Posts: 1,219 ✭✭✭
    Beautiful coin !!!
  • coinpicturescoinpictures Posts: 5,345 ✭✭✭
    Looks like a blazer!

    Finding these in full red BU isn't as easy as one would think, even the common dates.

    Here's one I picked up on Ebay a few months back. 1881 H. It's in an NGC holder, MS65 RD.

    I like the obverse on yours better though. image

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  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭
    Wybrit, nice coin from the year Jack the Ripper was "in business."
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  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭✭
    I thought that everybody was complaining that they won nothing from that sale. Lots of fake crying emoticons back then! image


    Nice pick up, now show us those bronzed proof patterns. image


    cp, that's a very nice one too, and nice photography through the slab!
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  • BSBS Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭
    Congrats, It looks like a nice one.image
  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    Man, that is gorgeous !!! image
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  • 7Jaguars7Jaguars Posts: 7,577 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, very nice indeed. I was happy with the several copper large module farthings which generally ALL appeared nicer than the photos in the catalog. Not to say that Neil did not do a fine job with it as he did, and is to be commended especially because of circumstances.
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  • bosoxbosox Posts: 1,565 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Beautiful coin, Tom. Here is a cousin from the same year. You are right, the people in Wales don't make them like they used to on Tower Hill.

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  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,972 ✭✭✭
    I'm having a devil of a time capturing lustre. If I move the zoom away, it shows the lustre but is a crummy picture worthy only of the typical ebay auction:



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    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,972 ✭✭✭
    I thought that everybody was complaining that they won nothing from that sale. Lots of fake crying emoticons back then!

    Guilty as charged.

    I was very surprised to be informed I won one of the coins. It was so quiet that I assumed I was the underbidder (that coin will be shown later).

    The coin in this thread was a post-auction purchase.
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I thought that everybody was complaining that they won nothing from that sale. Lots of fake crying emoticons back then!

    Guilty as charged.

    I was very surprised to be informed I won one of the coins. It was so quiet that I assumed I was the underbidder (that coin will be shown later).

    The coin in this thread was a post-auction purchase. >>




    Yeah, you snake!! You bought that '69, eh?

    Send that 1888 to me and I'll image it for free. image

    I'll post the image so you'll have another shot to remember it by........imageimage
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    "Why can't they make coins like this anymore??"

    It's not that they can't, it's that they choose not to.
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭
    I dunno i always though Machin Head Elizabeth II pennies had something nice about them, the obverse at any rate, the reverse was lacklustre (and still is) to say the least, the obverse is good though.

    Some nice buns you got their anyhow, i did think of getting a few myself, but in the end i didn't bother, finances being what they are lately.
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