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Bedrock of the Community
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Very nice, Bacchus!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice example, Bacchus2.
My American Silver Eagle collection http://goccf.com/t/448125My random silver coin collection http://goccf.com/t/449270My MS-70 silver coin collection https://goccf.com/t/490829My dragon silver coin collection https://goccf.com/t/490859My silver Libertad collection https://goccf.com/t/491087 |
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Some great pieces have been posted here since I last dropped by! The Wreath Crown is one of my 20th-century favorites...nice one, Rob!
Continuing my auction prep, I came across a half dozen Evasions I'd entirely forgotten about, and here's one of the scarcer ones in that group. Remember, everything about these was spurious or misleading so they couldn't "technically" be considered counterfeits. As with Canada's blacksmith tokens, the condition of this piece is typical for the whole category of evasion tokens or imitation regal coppers.
This halfpenny-sized -- but way underweight -- copper bears the imaginary likeness of Charles Fox, MP, on the obverse, paired with the North Wales crowned harp reverse. It's dated 1761, which was probably about four decades earlier than the year it was struck. Interestingly, the real Charles Fox, MP, turned 12 years old in 1761. Atkins 32
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice addition, daltonista!  Errers and Varietys.
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I like that Charles Fox "ha'penny". And that Wreath Crown's lovely. I've got one, 1933, one of the more common ones.
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Another John add and quite a scarce mint. + WILLELM ON LE - Williem of Kings Lynn As I added this coin to my website page showing my medieval coins I thought it would be useful to me to create a couple of pages helping me to identify the class (and therefore ruler) short cross pennies fall into. There are a few fantastic websites out there going into the detail of class differences but this one is more of an overview to get started with the narrowing down process. It actually started off with a bit of a project looking to see if I could trace individual moneyers moving around between mints - but that then morphed into a couple of pages that would help with the identification process. This one shows the spread of mints, moneyers and class https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...0_class.htmlwhere you can cross reference mint and moneyer to see what class it might be. There is a pull down list to make the table smaller as it is quite large. This one allows filtering by name - to see what mint or class that might be if the other details are difficult to make out. https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...moneyer.htmlSame data just organised differently. Anyway - it was fun to do - and the new addition is below.  |
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Nice examples! |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Great addition, Bacchus2.
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Just when you thought things were getting boring...
Someone offloaded 3 old round pounds in our church's refreshments donation box yesterday so I swapped them out for 3 new ones, thinking I'll wait till I've got ten and cash them at my bank. And guess what... after all these years... one was a fake!
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In fact, now I look closely, two of them!  Will send pics! |
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What are those # numbers?
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice examples, Spyro.
My American Silver Eagle collection http://goccf.com/t/448125My random silver coin collection http://goccf.com/t/449270My MS-70 silver coin collection https://goccf.com/t/490829My dragon silver coin collection https://goccf.com/t/490859My silver Libertad collection https://goccf.com/t/491087 |
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And guess what... after all these years... one was a fake! ... In fact, now I look closely, two of them! ... Here are the pics Yikes!  |
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