robp2 ✭✭✭✭

Buy yourself a few books, read up a little and you can find out who engraved your favourite designs, then build a collection from there. Much more appealing than being told what to collect by a busin… (View Post)

Can't compete with that! Three Civil War coins struck at York in 1642-3. A halfcrown, shilling and sixpence respectively. Sorry, no threepence. (View Post)

I presume you mean the shilling? The fields on that are brilliant, but doesn't fully show because the flan is a bit wobbly. It's a recurring issue with hammered coins. They were cut out of … (View Post)

I've known quite a few people who have got to say 80% complete and then given up because they couldn't fill any gaps over a period of a year or two, even if there were 100 gaps to fill. I d… (View Post)

Three no-brainer pattern/proof halfpennies for any collector of Soho patterns, all likely the only examples available to collectors. An early Soho bronzed copper obverse uniface (Peck 1231). Possibly… (View Post)