British coin Friday, let's see them!

AZLARRY · June 11, 2009 1:17PM

Received this 1/2 Crown from our very own Doogy. Doug bought it raw, but it was slabbed by NGC as a MS64.

(As usual images by Mark Goodman)

wybrit · June 11, 2009 1:38PM

Newp:

InforaPenny · June 11, 2009 2:20PM

Here is my favorite planchet flaw coin (1875-H British penny), and first post on this forum. Hope file attachment works (both under 50K).

rwyarmch · June 11, 2009 2:54PM

wybrit · June 11, 2009 9:10PM

Inforapenny, welcome to the forum! Here are your pictures without having to click the links:

Very interesting flaw!

ajaan · June 11, 2009 9:23PM

JCMhouston · June 11, 2009 10:06PM

rwyarmch, love that Tamworth Castle medal.

rwyarmch · June 12, 2009 1:16AM

Thanks, JCM! Tokens with castles (and ruins of castles) were a highlight of the recent Baldwin's sale.

gummibear · June 12, 2009 4:16AM

Geo III & Charlotte wedding medal

1799 proof 64

Richard

canadacolornut · June 14, 2009 2:26AM

A little late with this, realize it's a "modern" coin by forum standards

and the photography is less than great.

Still...

I wanted to share it because I cherry picked it out of a tray full-15 or 20 beautifully toned Victoria 3ds-about
25 years ago at a World Coin show in Chicatgo about 25 years ago. It originally came back from PCGS
as an MS 66 but it pulled MS 67 on the re-submit--one of the very few I've had much luck with.

AZLARRY · June 14, 2009 3:32AM

That is one beautiful 3 pence, thanks for sharing.

canadacolornut · June 14, 2009 8:48AM

Thanks Larry...

wybrit · June 19, 2009 12:10PM

Another newp:

MacCrimmon · June 19, 2009 12:22PM

Nice '64!

MacCrimmon · June 19, 2009 12:26PM

A farthing for a crust o' bread, sir?

rwyarmch · June 19, 2009 12:49PM

AZLARRY · June 20, 2009 2:25AM

Nice farthing Mac, what's the grade?

coinkat · June 20, 2009 2:27AM

nice one wybrit- I would like to have a 1d that looked like that

MacCrimmon · June 20, 2009 8:43AM

<< <i>Nice farthing Mac, what's the grade? >>

What is a grade?

Thanks. It's presently raw, or bare nekkid. I think it should grade MS65BN (really bluish-brown) in CA, and maybe 66BN on Florida's Sun Coast.

FilthyBroke · June 25, 2009 3:29AM

I finally have something to add to this thread, but it's not Friday yet.

At first I thought the mark along the top might be post mint damage, but looked up other examples and found the same die crack.

canadacolornut · June 25, 2009 5:29AM

I always enjoy my little window on the candy store.

Great coins, folks......

AZLARRY · June 25, 2009 8:02AM

1822 George IV Farthing PCGS MS66. Check out some of the lettering on the obverse.

rwyarmch · June 26, 2009 2:22AM

1760 Bust of George III.

wybrit · June 26, 2009 4:00AM

By no means is this a gem but it fills a long open hole. ESC rates it R2.

farthing · June 26, 2009 2:22PM

My latest - arrived today enclosed in a NGC 58 BN suit. The token has more red around the devices and lettering than my 2.5 megapixel camera can ever show.

Middlesex Hall's advertising penny - D&H #26 It features Sir Jeffery Dunstan, mayor of Garrat - a knock-kneed dwarf and an interesting character to read about on the web. Thomas Hall was a taxidermist and curiosity dealer who operated his shop at 10 City Road near Finsbury Square.

bonkrood · June 27, 2009 3:38AM

Edited to add: For anyone not familiar with the George III Maundy Set 1800 here's the same coins scanned with a dime.

AZLARRY · June 28, 2009 8:57AM

rwyarmch I like the George III bust profile on your 1760 medal, who was the engraver?

farthing · June 28, 2009 10:57AM

According to the note under the medal the engraver was John Pingo. Both his father Thomas Pingo and brother Lewis Pingo were Assistant Engravers at the Royal Mint. All three were noted medallists.

rwyarmch · June 28, 2009 1:51PM

Brown lists "T. Pingo" for BHM 6 but there is detail in Eimer's work "The Pingo Family & Medal Making in
18th Century Britain" that points to John Pingo as the designer and recipient of the Royal Society of Arts
award for this medal. The Pingo's were a multi-generational family of engravers along the lines of the Wyons.

Here's another by Lewis Pingo with George a bit jowlier.

StubbyMcNumbthumbs · June 28, 2009 4:57PM

Bonkrood, that's cool - an 1800 Maundy set still in the original plastic packaging!

Here's an old OBW roll of 1773 Farthings I found...

he he .... just having a bit of fun. Sorry folks!

FilthyBroke · June 29, 2009 1:55AM

Just in

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wybrit · July 2, 2009 1:52PM

OK, it's Friday Atlantic time, so here are some newps I picked up:

Reveries · July 2, 2009 2:28PM

Some new posts of some Darkside material.

Reveries · July 2, 2009 2:31PM

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What grade do you think PCGS gave this Darkside coin? NFLD coins exhibit some really wonderful toning - specifically the reverse.

Reveries · July 2, 2009 2:36PM

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Now this coin was graded as a MS65 by PCGS. Brian Cornwall from ICCS fame suggested that it was a MS66 according to the Norweb report.

MacCrimmon · July 2, 2009 3:43PM

Nice 1/4d. bit there WyDosh.

.......and, where have I seen that tanner before?

Nice pair, now show us the rest of the rolls........please!!!

Nice G4 farthing AZL. That design is so medallic in it's relief.

Yarm, that last Pingo is unreal.

CCN, you seem to really like nice coloured coins. Good show.

Here's my favorite Victorian £2.

theboz11 · July 2, 2009 9:58PM

Oh My Mac, that is gorgeous

rwyarmch · July 2, 2009 11:45PM

Beautiful surfaces on that gold piece, Mac! Wire rim (or an artifact of the photography)?

Reveries · July 3, 2009 12:33AM

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I guess Canada is not close enough. Here is a 1878 Florin.

MacCrimmon · July 3, 2009 4:58AM

Florins are my favs, Reveries. Those Can. were very nice, though. That '72 Newfy might have been cleaned a bit much, but impossible to really tell circ. pieces by images. The 25c is definitely a standout, and the colours on the dollar look fine.....Canadacolornut will probably be attempting to extract all of those from you....beware!!!!!

Thanks. Artifact, ryarm. Mark shot it in the plastique. Shot below is the TrueView image (I forgot about it). This is the Terner II coin.

classport · July 3, 2009 6:13AM

Yep. I love 'em all. Kinda like Clinton's attitude about wimmen

If Rev is interested in selling the '39 maybe send me a message.

Thanks

canadacolornut · July 3, 2009 6:15AM

Sorry again, that was me.

I feel like Sybil sometimes, trying to post here

JCMhouston · July 3, 2009 7:53AM

Very nice pieces everyone, really liked the farthing Wybrit.

BS · July 3, 2009 9:46AM

Here's a few early sixpence.

Reveries · July 3, 2009 9:58AM

MacCrimmon: The gold Victoria piece is stunning. Florins have become my favorite coins to collect at this time.
William Wyon's design is perhaps the most beautiful portrait ever designed for a coin.

AZLARRY · July 3, 2009 10:14AM

Wybrit very nice farthing.

Mac that is one gorgeous piece of gold, for a big piece of gold it shows few marks.

Here is a farthing I won raw at the last goldberg sale. Just came back from NGC as MS64RB, I'm pleased.

JCMhouston · July 10, 2009 2:57AM

Very nice farthing AZ. Here are a couple of new florins I just got in (1935 and 1937), nothing special just needed them for my type set. I do like the dark golden brown toning on the Geo. V, though I know a lot of people don't.

rwyarmch · July 10, 2009 3:51AM

wybrit · July 10, 2009 9:04AM

Newp from last weekend's CO Springs show. It's one of the reddest early GVs I've seen:

wybrit · July 10, 2009 9:11AM

Not a newp but recently graded. Guess the grade (no cheating).

British coin Friday, let's see them!

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