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daltonista - Congrats on that Bank Token I know you've been searching for that date quite a long while now. That is a real beauty.
Your scanner is quite spectacular with its imaging. My last two scanners that I paid money for, were over $1500 each and I still use them, well one of them is an Epson Expression 1600 with a transparency cover and the other is an Artic 4000dpi dedicated film scanner. Both are from the Y2K era and yet still considered high-resolution both have firewire connections, so possibly not be useable much longer.
"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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Nice purchases, PaddyB, and daltonista!  Errers and Varietys.
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Nice examples! |
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Thanks, guys!
Westcoin, to further illustrate/digress, here's a shot I posted here back in April of my unslabbed 1815 version of this type:
And here are the two acorns to the left of the word "Bank" on the reverse as they appear on my 27" monitor -- reduced to 80% of the full-size output from my scanner, which I'd set at its maximum of 9600 x 9600 dpi.
The scan of the token's reverse (cropped) shows up in Windows Explorer as taking up 18.3mb of storage (13,220 pixels square!). Like I said, it renders my old Celestron microscope camera obsolete. Unfortunately, it will never do justice to toning and luster, but neither did the Celestron. I never wanted to be a photographer anyway...
Okay, sorry for hijacking the thread, everyone --- back to coins! 
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09/29/2024 4:22 pm
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Nice examples! |
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Nice additions, zookeeperz. Errers and Varietys.
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Very interesting! There also appears to be something going on just in front of the King's ear. I'm wondering if it's actually a fault in the die. The Mint had their work cut out in George V's reign cos of strikethrough but it doesn't look to me like it's related to that. The 1921 one also shows signs of something strange going on along the leading edge of His Maj's beard. I'm wondering if it's a badly recut die on that one. Certainly unexpected with the standards usually associated with TRM.
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Just a thought... It might be a good idea for Zookeeperz to get in touch with Dr Kevin Clancey, c/o The Royal Mint Museum, The Royal Mint, Llantrisant, Wales. If anybody knows about that anomaly it will be him, and if he doesn't, he'll know who does. |
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Again nothing special but I have wanted an example of a "sovereign" penny for a while and this one was cheap enough. Henry VII (1485-1509) Sovereign penny, S2238, minted in York under Archbishop Rotherham:  |
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Henry VII (1485-1509) Sovereign penny, S2238, minted in York under Archbishop Rotherham: Excellent! |
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Nice addition, PaddyB. Errers and Varietys.
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A nice auction pickup from last February, my (mostly) blast white silver shilling token of Gloucester issued in 1811 by James Whalley, a linen merchant and banker.Dalton 11, Davis 11, EF.
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Fantastic! |
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Nice additions paddyb and Daltonista!  I filled in a date in my Victorian copper farthing collection yesterday - 1859:  I also got an 1812 Bank of England Three Shilling token:  |
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Posted 09/28/2024 11:41 pm
and a 1919 Penny with the Crows-foot anomally from the bottom of the ear running down the outside of the jaw. I think it has been described as a die clash with the folds in the lower drapery on Britannia's gown being the culprit
