So spank me... I just bought my second-ever NNC-holdered coin from centsles.

lordmarcovan

The first one I bought (with no illusions) was a pretty nice Trade dollar. No regrets.

This time it's a cheap $20-something purchase.

I regularly donate coins as promotional giveaway prizes to David Crowther's History of England podcast. We just gave away a hammered silver Edward I penny and a medieval book mount.

So it was time to buy the next giveaway, and it had to be something that said "British history". What better than a coin with archaeological provenance, pedigreed to a known hoard from Roman Britain?

Say what you like about centsles and NNC, but for the money (maybe about the same as the coin would've cost without the plastic and the historical pedigree), I thought this was a neat pickup, and it will make some giveaway winner happy later on. Though the "MS62" (sic) grade seems ridiculously optimistic, and the font on the reverse label looks really cheesy, I give 'em full marks for having someone attribute this and put the hoard details on the label, including the date and place it was found. That makes it pretty cool in my book. And nobody but diehard numismatic geeks would object to the plastic, anyway. The original expert's handwritten coin envelope (maybe from 1967?) also comes with the purchase.

This is one time I'm actually happy for a piece of NNC plastic, and I won't be instantly cracking it out like I did the Trade dollar I had. It should make some noncollector's day when he or she wins the drawing.

winky

Looks old.

derryb

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Looks over graded.

rhedden

Looks like a lot of value for $20! Strong detail, very little corrosion, great history. I'd bust that coin out of the slab and cut the label down, keeping only the ID and the provenance. Slab grade is doing no good at all, and it's just a distraction on an otherwise really nice coin.

shorecoll

I'm glad it comes with the original note, I have zero confidence that they have anyone that would know for sure it was real. Of course, $20 is no big loss either way.

TwoSides2aCoin

he couldn't have sold to a nicer fellow. Now drop your britches , mister.

Walkerfan

I bought a key date NNC Washington from him that was nice for the grade. I didn't lose anything, when I sold it.

davewesen

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<< <i>Looks old. >>


Looks over graded. >>



I don't see any wear or rub

TopographicOceans

I like it

lasvegasteddy

so spank me

Christos

I bought something from him and returned it per his terms because it was cleaned. He stated it was not before purchase and now I am blocked from further business with him lol.

Zoins

The NNC pedigree for "The 1967 Rockbourne, Hampshire, Hoard" is a nice touch.

Here's the Wikipedia page which discusses the hoard of 7717 bronze coins.

Zoins

double post.

SkyMan

Fun stuff!

ricko

Very interesting find LordM......Cheers, RickO

asheland

desslok

Centsles recently had on eBay a nice run of foreign error coins, all in NGC slabs. Well, almost all of them; there was one in NNC slab:



I wondered why only this particular coin was in an NNC holder while a set of very similar coins were in NGC holders. Looking through the NGC slabs, I noticed they all had consecutive numbers, as if they were all part of the same submission. However, there was a gap, where one number in the middle of the run was missing. I punched the missing number into the NGC website and sure enough, that coin was NGC slabbed as well. But where the NNC slab label said straight-grade MS-65, the NGC label reads "UNC Details, Scratches".

My guess is that the coin was originally submitted in the same batch as all the others, but whereas most coins straight-graded, it got a details slab. So the solution was to crack out, encapsulate in NNC holder, with no mention of the problem.



Here's a link to the original eBay auction:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/381324848638?orig_cvip=true

And here's the NGC page:
http://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/index.aspx?CertNumber=4215729-006