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I also recently purchased this 1895 Victoria Half Crown.   Paul Bulgerin
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Wow!  |
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Yes Wow, that is a stunner! Looks full uncirculated to me!
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@ Princetane Check those shillings mate. the 1883 and it might be nothing as I am looking from blown up blurred images so I could be seeing Elvis anything is possible but it looks like the I in gratia is struck possibly over an A? the E in Reg looks struck over something A T or an I? the 1889 check the S in Pense from the blurry blow up it looks like its struck over an E?. I am 10% confident so if I am seeing things forgive me
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I also recently purchased this 1895 Victoria Half Crown. Outstanding!  |
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Nice shillings Princetane
great farthing
Amazing half crown nice and shiny (has a die crack running on the top of the reverse)
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Princetane, that "badly toned or harshly cleaned" shilling is my favorite as it presents on my screen. Nice group altogether! And Paul Bulgerin, the reverse on your '95 2/6d just hypnotizes me...gorgeous in every way! My contribution for today is no gem -- not even close -- but it is something that doesn't get out in public very often, a silver 1811 "Not Local" three shillings token. In their 2010 Galata "Token Book" (the unnumbered one), the Witherses write: "These tokens were sold to traders desperate for change, to be used by anyone who would accept them. All are anonymous." Aside from mortgage payments, it's hard to imagine transactions in which a 3/- denomination would have been useful as change in 1811, but that sort of impracticality may explain why it's so rarely encountered today. Dalton 2, Davis 2. (11.5g, 35 mm) 
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Zookeeperz, yes you are seeing things, just blurry photos, will do some better ones. Scans  Proof 37 and 70  1903, 19 and 30  1887s and 1889  1883 and 1900 Heads  Proofs, 87 and 89  Others Edited by Princetane
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My contribution for today is no gem -- not even close -- but it is something that doesn't get out in public very often, a silver 1811 "Not Local" three shillings token. Fantastic! |
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My latest purchase is another key coin.   This is a solid Fine to a bit better example, glad its filling an annoying gap! Just 1902 and 1904 needed for all my Edwards. Love the 3/- Private Token, I know you can get a few silver 6d and 1/- tokens of this era and even saw a Halfcrown one, but this must be incredibly rare. |
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Another upgrade coin arrived today - 1860 Halfpenny dies 1 and A (beaded borders both sides). Interesting die cracks on obverse:   |
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Another upgrade coin arrived today - 1860 Halfpenny dies 1 and A (beaded borders both sides). Interesting die cracks on obverse: Excellent! |
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Princetane wrote: Love the 3/- Private Token, I know you can get a few silver 6d and 1/- tokens of this era and even saw a Halfcrown one, but this must be incredibly rare. Thank you, sir! The 3/- Not Local token is indeed almost never encountered in the wild. However, on the scale used by Davis and Dalton, and now Withers, it's only in the second tier, or RR, which is merely "Very Rare." At the top of the charts is RRR, or "Extremely Rare." As for denominations, I just did a quick census through my PDF (thus searchable) Dalton catalog and found only ten halfcrowns, leaving aside a couple of trivial die varieties within those types. Of those, I've managed to accumulate six, shown below, in my collection. Oops...FIVE...the missing halfcrown is NGC-slabbed and therefore wouldn't really work with these on my scanner. (That one is Berkshire, Reading, Monck, D3.) Appearing below left-to-right and top-to-bottom are: Gloucester, Whalley, D4 Northumberland, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Robertson, D1 Warwickshire, Birmingham, Wright, D5 Yorkshire, Sheffield, Younge & Deakin, D38 Another, but Rx. All of these are quite hard to find, but only the Birmingham piece, center, falls into the Extremely Rare (RRR) category...it's one of only two I've ever seen. 
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