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Great additions, PaddyB!  Errers and Varietys.
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My last Christmas present to myself this year arrived today from the USA. 1739 GB Crown and 1734 Sixpence:   |
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My last Christmas present to myself this year arrived today from the USA. Fantastic pair! |
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This token Halfpenny isn't the best-looking one for sure, but it's in my set of Peter Kempson Coventry Gates and Buildings tokens. This one is a duplicate that I carry around to hopefully wear off the stuff on the reverse (acetone and Verdi-care had no effect at all) and smooth down the obverse scratches. It's neat to have a pocket piece I can just pull out and show off to someone rather than try to explain what I collect.   "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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Very nice! |
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Nice acquisitions, PaddyB, and westcoin. Errers and Varietys.
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Good stuff, guys! Westcoin, your pocket piece reminds me of the one I used to carry around for years starting when I was about 12 years old. It was a beat-up Liverpool halfpenny Conder that had been given to me by a local dealer who wanted me to think about collecting coins as something bigger and more interesting than filling up my blue cardboard Whitman albums.
Proving, I guess, that his lessons "took," here's one of my better poorhouse pennies from Sheffield.Sheffield, Yorkshire, 1d 1812. Withers 983, Davis 125, "as struck, or nearly so."
"If everything seems to be under control, you're just not going fast enough."
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Nice acquisition, daltonista. Errers and Varietys.
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Excellent! |
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That "Poorhouse Penny" is very neato Daltonista!
"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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Nothing to report auction prices for what we call toot coins continue to amaze me £40 and £50 for 1960's pennies From across the pond. Just popping in to wish you guys and your families a very happy new year and a prosperous 2025   |
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A happy new year to you and yours as well!  |
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 Happy New Year to all!
And to celebrate, here's another one of my seldom seen Regency Period silver tokens, an 1811 shilling of Peterborough in Northamptonshire, now Cambridgeshire. This specimen is particularly distinctive -- and unusually rare -- because it's "silver gilt;" that is, it has a gold wash on top of silver. (Not sure, but maybe "gold plated" would be the modern terminology?)
This token, Dalton 6, is a variant of the plain silver circulation strike and was likely produced as a specimen or keepsake for its issuers, the Peterborough Bank, which was founded in 1808 and operated by Martin Cole and his several partners.  The token's dominant feature is the Early Gothic Peterborough Cathedral, which was completed in 1538 and still wears the ceilings that were installed in 1193. Its proper name is the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, St. Paul and St. Andrew, and it thrives to this day, a stunning architectural presence indeed.
"If everything seems to be under control, you're just not going fast enough."
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Very cool coin and background, daltonista! Errers and Varietys.
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Beautiful token, daltonista!  |
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