Shilling Assistance Requested

Ricke

Ok, I've been looking into this one and I'm still a little stumped.


1867 Shilling, Die #18

Sorry for the bad scan - it makes this coin look much worse than it is in hand.

Anyway, Krause Mishler lists two varieties of this date - high relief and low relief. Since I don't know what that means, except the low relief looks to carry a significant premium, I checked spink. Spink lists that the 3906A has a coin die axis, and 3906 has a medal die axis. This coin has a coin type die alignment.

Can anyone help me out here?

wybrit

There are four die combinations for 1867.

Obverse 4 (high relief): "I" of "VICT" points to a bead.
Obverse 5 (lower relief): "I" of "VICT" points between beads.

It looks like you have Obverse 4.

As for the reverses:

Reverse A - gap between L's in "SHILLING" quite noticeable.
Reverse B - gap between L's in "SHILLING" is closed.

It looks like you have Reverse B. This reverse for 1867 also has a dot between the ribbons as does yours.

Nice piece and scarcer than 4+A.

Source: Davies

By the way, the medal alignment information in Spink for 3905 is incorrect. That should also be coin alignment.

wybrit

Here is a 4+A example:

Ricke

wow, that was fast.

Thanks Wybrit! Excellent information.

I considered that the alignment listing was an error, but I didn't have another example to match it against.

robertpr

Heh, I thought you were looking for people to shill bid for you on your ebay auctions.

Madame

Victoria Got love her young portraits