Only £3325 *cough, cough*, sadly reserved now.


Still maybe in a decade another will turn up, and it will be mine!


Gotta get a Matilda one day, i fulfilled all my other coin dreams and ambitions from childhood; i got my Æthelstan, i got my Stephen, i've had some medieval gold, i've had some sovereigns, this however is the one last challenge i've yet to accomplish. After that that's it... finito.

Don't collect 'em, but that's just the sort of coin that leads me into temptation. Too often, I bend to the temptation and wish someone had beat me to it. I love everyone I've managed tto snag however. It will come in time if it is meant to be (and you've already constructed the excuse if it doesn't happen!. Neat coin.

Not my cup of tea
and looks mighty easy for a forger or am I wrong ?

What does "rings well" mean?

Looks like a great coin. Hope you find one that fits your needs soon. Meanwhile, keep smiling and having fun. School start yet?

I've never seen one of those before. I'd be tempted, too, IF I had the money.

The age old practice of coin dropping, it's practiced alot with hammered coins to ensure they are silver, as the name suggests you raise it about 7" off of a hard surface and drop, if it rings it's silver.


As for forgeries, dunno, i'd be tempted to say yes they'd be easy, but it could easily be harder to forge a coin like that in all honesty, the problem is you have to make the thing actually look 900 years old! And you'd have to be fairly accurate and know which moneyers were at which mints and when. Of course a forger could argue that it's "unrecorded variety", but i'm sure somewhere there's surviving written sources of the period, probably pipe rolls, that could help root out a forgery.

It's a tough one to answer, also Matildine coins generally recieve a fair bit of attention due to their rarity and thus they'd be well checked, over and over, and over again by a squad of dealers probably every time they get sold, most (like this one) came from auction houses and have been bought by dealers, with an auction house certificate (a genuine one at least) you can be 98% sure it's genuine.

Nope not quite yet, my job contract expires at the end of this month, which gives me just under two months to have a lazy summer (to catch up for the last two summer's that i worked through), and then in September i'll be a student again. Archaeology here we come!

Don't university students have 3 months summer vacation ?

Theoretically, but i've been working full time through the last two.

We even have a saying about that in Dutch: pay with sounding coin. It originates from the time that most of our coinage was silver. Coins (in this case forgeries) from other metals sound different or not at all as you all know.

It never crossed my mind the saying ment true silver
I allways thought coin as opposed to paper money
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