YeOldeCollector

Hi there,

Sadly, they both look like modern reproductions based ont he images. The top is meant to be an Edward I penny of London, with the bottom a John shortcross penny of London. They both have the 'soapy' texture common with base metal reproductions, and the bottom one has the typical 'trefoil' countermark used to mark them as replicas.

Historic Coinage's summer list is now out with a whole range of hammered and milled silver coins available: http://www.historiccoinage.com/newadditions.php 

Some Anglo-Gallic, Naples and US Morgan Dollars.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/historiccoinage/m.html 

Very much enjoying these!

I've found this useful when dealing with Arabic coins: http://worldcoingallery.com/Inst-ID/Arabic.htm

From recollection, not all Umayyad coins are dated, though.

Please do reach out to me if I can be of any assistance whatsoever and I hope you enjoy browsing the latest list.

Hope you had a fantastic day, Art!!

I suspect it's something done as a school experiment or similar. I see dozens of these each year where people use zinc sulphate to alter the colour of the coins.

Here's an example: http://www.instructables.com/id/Turn-Copper-Pennies-into-Silver-and-Gold-Chemistr/

Happy birthday!!

Great to have you back, Art, and fantastic to see new additions making their way to you.

Nice acquisitions for your collection Clive, the one without a loop, though it is not at either end of the date range, is struck from different dies and is unsigned?

 

The wreaths on the reverses are very different.

 

I wonder what the story is about the change & then the change back?

I wonder if it's a cheaper version as it's a relay race, and so there would multiple recipients of 1st just as there would be of 2nd. It's still boxed in its original box so I assume it's still F. Phillips of Aldershot who seemed to do many school & army sports medals in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Is the 2nd one brass or is it gilt?

I'm guessing brass, but it does look much better in hand.

More old school memorabilia arrived this week. These came up as a job lot.

For any hammered aficionados out there, I've just released my Spring List. Plenty of Saxon rarities: http://historiccoinage.com/newadditions.php?id=4

This is what is known as a pattern issue, it was essentially a trial piece used to test a design - this cannot have been legal tender due to the mismatch between the date and when George III was king.

You can see similar examples here: http://www.londoncoins.co.uk/?page=Pastresults&searchterm=Florin+George+Iii+Pattern+Trial&category=9&searchtype=1

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Happy birthday! Hope you had a great day!

In my honest opinion, it looks to have been worked long after minting to give this appearance.

Speaking of money. Anyone looking at a nice coin or note for Christmas?

I use Dropbox for storing research materials so if I'm travelling to museums then I can still access all of my data - Google Drive has been a lifesaver for my spreadsheets, too.

Which country was this found in? Looks like a metal detecting find of a button or stud mount.

Definitely not English. Looks to be a Scandinavian issue in imitative style of Aethelred II's English Longcross type.

This is an English issue:

Have a look at Brita Malmer's work as that will have it in if it's an official issue and not a Baltic/Scandinavian contemporary forgery/imitation.

I don't doubt that people will pay a great deal for them but I suspect that they will soon be taken down from eBay, the same way that IS flags have been.

If I was offered the chance I would not purchase them as it would be profiting a group that is actively committing some of the most barbaric acts we've ever witnessed.

It might just be me but the coin above looks a little odd - the lettering, the edges and the purple hues make me question its authenticity. I'm no expert on Portuguese coinage, though. What is its precise weight in grams?

However, I've read about this counterstamp before and have found the link which will give you plenty to read about: http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?topic=5727.0