1697 Shilling - Double -Struck Brockage

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TerryT Pillar of the Community Canada 822 Posts	Posted 10/14/2018 02:06 am Back in 2001, ebay coins (in Canada) was almost totally populated with ordinary collectors (too many dealers now with many crazies asking up to 10x list price, get real !). A lot of coins with errors and varieties were not well known and you could find exotic stuff. The cameras didn't have a gazillion pixels (mine had 1.2mp) so the photos on ebay were mostly terrible or out of focus (why are some still so bad today ?). Most auctions showed only one side of the coin. I guess because of having 3 grandparents born in Gr.Britain around 1900, and seeing b/w movies in the 50's of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn), knights and such, I have an interest in some British things, such as coins and cars (had an XKE once but ....). I just bought up some old British coins, mainly to have one of each of the different monarchs (ain't gonna happen - some too expensive for casual collecting, sorry), but ended up with a bunch of interesting ones. Bought this one in 2001 for $7 Canadian. (26 mm., 5.70 grams) What a surprise when I flipped it over ....... (warning, your eyes may go buggy while looking at the photos) Edited by TerryT 10/14/2018 02:19 am Report this Post to the Staff

spru Bedrock of the Community United States 12477 Posts	Posted 10/14/2018 02:26 am I'm certainly interested, but with a coin like that, I don't even want to speculate. In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020 In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020 In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024 Report this Post to the Staff
NumisRob Bedrock of the Community United Kingdom 17980 Posts	Posted 10/14/2018 04:10 am Very interesting - and it seems to have spent a lot of time in circulation! 1697 was the year of the Great Re-Coinage, when all surviving hammered silver coins were withdrawn and replaced by new milled ones. I imagine the mints were working at full capacity and that the quality control was not as good as usual... My Trade List: https://goccf.com/t/194596 My Wants List: https://goccf.com/t/191710 Report this Post to the Staff
zookeeperz Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 695 Posts	Posted 10/16/2018 06:19 am Doesn't make sense to me. I can go with the reverse brockage if that was all it was as these do occur albeit very rare in their own right. My concern being how on earth can the brockage side be double struck on all letters where the obverse is only partially double struck noticeably on the BR? If the brockage side was double struck then surely the already doubled BR would appear as BRBRBRBR? Report this Post to the Staff
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