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| 1598 Thaler Brunswick Wolfenbuttel
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samoth
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18 Posts |
 Posted 01/14/2023 6:18 pm
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The attribution is Davenport 9091 (Dav-9091).
I'd grade it aVF, but I'm not familiar with the specific type. It'd probably grade VF in a US slab. It has nice color & smooth surfaces, but there's a dark spot at K-12 on the reverse edge near the rim I'd want to see closer to make sure it's not ex-mount.
I don't know about valuation, but you can use the attribution to run comps from recent auction PRs. I see nice, mid-grade, problem-free talers around this age start around $400 for common issues and increase with rarity. |
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| What Will NGC Slab For Airview Holders?
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samoth
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United States
18 Posts |
Posted 12/16/2022 5:17 pm
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Any way to get one of those capsules and practice with something similar to your coin just to see if it will work without accidently damaging the coin itself?
Oh, yeah. I have a few low-value hammered culls with which I can experiment.
I'm curious to see how these will work -- I've never used or seen anything like them before. (But I typically don't acquire fragile, damaged, or dug coins, either.) |
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| What Will NGC Slab For Airview Holders?
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samoth
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United States
18 Posts |
Posted 12/15/2022 9:09 pm
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Lighthouse now has capsules for you - they have two transparent plastic sheets. Nothing touches the coin but those.
Ooooh... I've never heard of those before. Definitely worth a shot! It looks similar to the new NGC holder and the type/substrate I was hoping to find.
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I am wondering though if it would work on a thin coin? I am assuming that samoths' coin is thin?
Yes, it's a thin 12th c. English hammered penny. It's not perfectly flat, either. |
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| What Will NGC Slab For Airview Holders?
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samoth
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United States
18 Posts |
Posted 12/15/2022 6:35 pm
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You could holder it yourself with a plastic capsule like an Air-Tite or an aftermarket slab?
Any wiggle room, horizontal or vertical, has the potential for pieces to break off -- it was shipped in an AT capsule and still lost a small piece from the edge during shipment :(
I started this thread because, from what little I can see on their site, NGC's AirView slab appears to provide a very tight fit and would prevent any movement.
I've never seen any of these AirView slabs, but I thought some of you "slab guys" might be familiar with it. |
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| What Will NGC Slab For Airview Holders?
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samoth
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United States
18 Posts |
Posted 12/14/2022 7:44 pm
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some food for thought - it was preserved from medieval times till now without a slab.
It's from a hoard coin that was in the ground until 1980. It has already broken in half and had to be glued together. There are a couple small edge pieces that have already fallen off, one during transit to me. (Such is the case of most of these Matilda hoard pennies.)
I'm not exaggerating when I use the word "fragile" here, unfortunately. |
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| What Will NGC Slab For Airview Holders?
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samoth
New Member
United States
18 Posts |
Posted 12/14/2022 7:18 pm
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I have a medieval hoard coin that's quite fragile. It was also broken in half & "expertly repaired by museum" (i.e., the halves were glued together).
I'm not a slab guy, but I'd like to get this one holdered just for protection & preservation.
The response from NGC was 'maybe, but we'd have to see it.' (Note the coin was previously bodybagged with 'too fragile to holder' by a previous owner.)
Does anyone have any experience with these new slab types? Or, for that matter, any other ways to protect fragile-but-important coins for future generations? |
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| An Impressive Provenance!
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samoth
New Member
United States
18 Posts |
Posted 12/06/2022 6:18 pm
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I love researching provenances.
I acquired a few items some years back that were ex-Prince of Ligne, which had me purchasing auction cats from the '70s to see if they were plated (they weren't; they were in group lots). Ditto with something from Schulman traced to the '50s.
It's interesting to see how coins that weren't thought of very highly or sold in group lots decades ago are now stand-alone lots... or even featured lots with paragraphs of text about their history.
It's unfortunate that only AVs, crowns, & medals tended to get plated in the past; it makes it hard to trace back stuff that's really interesting -- and sometimes, we come to find, extremely rare.
Maybe some of our coins will be linked to our names a couple hundred years from now! :) |
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| Hammered Coin. ID Help Please.
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samoth
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United States
18 Posts |
Posted 10/25/2022 8:10 pm
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That type was used from Edward I through Henry VII. It's hard to nail down without legends or MMs.
It looks like a quatrefoil in the center of the reverse, which I think would mostly (completely?) eliminate the early Edwarian types and push it to Henry IV & later.
Someone who specializes in these might be able to identify it by the style of the crown. There's a series of small books by Chris Wren covering these issues in pretty good detail. |
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