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Turkey
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Other side is much better than this side. paid 2,5 Quids to it from ebay. What grade do you think?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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molydeii- We will need to see the reverse of this coin as well in order to make a fair assessment, but I would grade the Britannia side as being G-6.
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Valued Member
United States
323 Posts |
I agree with the G-6. However, without the reverse, there is no way to finalize the grade since both sides are required for an accurate grade
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
60 Posts |
A UK Poor/Fair depending on the grader. I would grade it as Poor.
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Pillar of the Community
 Turkey
870 Posts |
UK Fair is equal to US G-6 I think.
Yes, that's fair grading, you're right.
They say "ask five dealers about teh condition of a coin and you'll get six different answers".
I love cartwheels though. I have a very very worn one too :)) It's amusing to read about them and see how many different uses they had. (like weights to put on dead people's eyes)
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New Member
United Kingdom
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Got to have more arm to get anything other than Fair, really
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3499 Posts |
molydeii- Yeah, the arm and other details of Britannia are pretty weak, but what is interesting is that the lettering of the legend seems a lot sharper than most that I have seen with the same amount of wear to Britannia.
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Pillar of the Community
Turkey
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Perhaps it was a weak strike on the middle, or was from a worn die. On hand really the legend seems sharp.
An interesting coin still it is, as declanwmagge suggested any grade better than this requires some good money for that coin.
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New Member
United Kingdom
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Molydeii "It's amusing to read about them and see how many different uses they had. (like weights to put on dead people's eyes)"
I don't know about weights, but I do know there was an old believe that you put coins on the dead persons eyelids to pay the " ferry men " to make sure that the dead person didn't have to roam the spirit world for eternity.
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Pillar of the Community
Turkey
870 Posts |
Dafydd Edwards, welcome to the forum!
Yes.. Cartwheel Penny has awesome uses...such as shop weights, clock weights even putting on the eyes of dead people to avoid them popping open before the funeral (I've red that in a book)..
It is one of the most awesome coins in British coinage history, I think.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
602 Posts |
That is sweet. Is that the really big one or the smaller of the two?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2605 Posts |
Yes, wolf, this is the smaller one, a penny. On the bigger one the central prong of the trident points directly at "N". This puny one is merely 36 mm across.
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United States
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hi, I just got a cartwheel penny as a gift, I don't collect coins as a hobby, bu I have quite a few laying around, I was wondering if anyone could give me a rough estimate on how much htis is worth (its a much darker brown, but my scanner over exposed it, and I dont know how to adjust the gamma setting) http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/...img003od.jpg |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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motsu, yours is a twopence, it is 41 mm across, right? Nice coin!
My British catalog gives the value in this condition of £25 - 60, and my American one says $17 - 70. Of course they are geared for different markets.
And welcome to CCF!
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