Posted 06/12/2005 6:02 pm
They had tons of French hammered coins, i'd wanted one for a while. The Deniers were what i'd hoped for but most of the one's available were problemmatic.
Some had been cleaned a bit too much, some were too uncleaned and you couldn't see much. Others were off centre, some were weakly struck, some clipped, another chipped, one holed, another few ugly... and some had porous surfaces. Alot of the problems were due to the fact that several were not high grade silver but lower grade or base metals, which just don't last as well.
The rest were alright as it goes but none of them had that 'look', I like coins with strong strikes with a good deal of detail left. So this and another Gros jumped out at me. I must say it has a nice heavy feel to it and seems a bit thicker than the English equivalent the Groat.
Some had been cleaned a bit too much, some were too uncleaned and you couldn't see much. Others were off centre, some were weakly struck, some clipped, another chipped, one holed, another few ugly... and some had porous surfaces. Alot of the problems were due to the fact that several were not high grade silver but lower grade or base metals, which just don't last as well.
The rest were alright as it goes but none of them had that 'look', I like coins with strong strikes with a good deal of detail left. So this and another Gros jumped out at me. I must say it has a nice heavy feel to it and seems a bit thicker than the English equivalent the Groat.
