YeOldeCollector

Here are a few more of my recent purchases.

^ 1806 EF+/aUNC Farthing of George III, Soho mint. ^

Edward I Farthing, London Mint, Circa 1280. See size compared with a pre-Decimal penny. Measures about 1cm in diameter.

Clive.

Hang on, 25,340 views and it's not even 24 hours later...

Anyway, two of my new purchases arrived today.

Commonwealth Penny, I above shields. Spink Ref. 3222. (Oliver Cromwell's time.)

Edward I Penny of Canterbury, Spink Ref. 1419.

Clive.

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23,338 views!!! Thanks guys... Wow... Sounds a lot to be honest.

Clive.

Here's two of my recent purchases.

Elizabeth I 1562 Threepence, really bought if for it's portrait as it is very good for the issue. What intrigues me is that it looks like the 2 is over a 1. I would grade a strong VF for issue. Spink 2565. You'd struggle to find a better condition 1562 overdate threepence.

Edward III Halfgroat, Pre-treaty series F. M.M Crown and a very nice reverse. Spink 1577.

Kindest Regards,

Clive.

http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/history.html

They have/had black, red and purple carrots too...

I'll just stick with my pointy, green hatted, orange friends!

http://www.simmonsgallery.co.uk/2001site/LCF/lcf.html

There was about 50 dealers yesterday, check out the site above.

Clive.

The Edward I Pennies date to about 1280 and the Cnut dates to around 1020.

Clive.

As struck Ed, class 3d.

As struck Ed, class 3g with some weak spots and unusually thick cross.

Ed I penny of Dublin, nice toning.

My favourite purchase: an as struck Cnut Quatrefoil, Leofsige on Cambridge.

Here are most of today's purchases, all from the London Coin Fair.

As struck Edward I penny, with Eddie having one eye... Class 9b of London, arguably better than Spink plate.

Edward I penny, class 10c.

Ed I penny of Bristol, class 9b.

Ed I Penny of Durham, class 2b.

As struck, with flat spot, Ed I class 3c.

Clive.

Don't tell me that! Remember I'm seriously considering finding some when I next get to a coin show/shop!

I have a few spares on my site if you want ?

Cheers Bill, they are lovely coins that's why I collect them!

But you're right, they are getting more and more expensive

Clive.

Cnut Shortcross penny, circa 1037.

Clive.

Here's a few of my New Purchases.

First up, an Edward I Londoniensis Farthing. Relatively scarce in this condition. Spink Ref 1443. Circa 1290.

A virtually as-struck penny of Edward II, Bury St Edmunds. Spink Ref 1465. Circa 1317.

Thirdly, an Elizabeth I Sixpence that I bought for the great detail on the portrait. Not my usual era but I couldn't resist!

Elizabeth I Sixpence, 3rd+4th Issues, Intermediate bust with a showing ear with a Castle mintmark. Spink Ref 2562.

Henry VI Penny of York with Mullets by Crown. Spink Ref 1868. Circa 1440.

An Edward The Confessor, Facing Bust/Small Cross type, Arncetel on York mint. Circa 1050.

A lovely, aEF in my opinion, 1887 Crown with lovely toning that the photo doesn't entirely show, steel blue and brick red.

A very nice Edward III Groat, Pre-Treaty series G. I like the portrait! Circa 1345.

Enjoy!

Clive.

Very nice notes but why the holes?

Nice Jamaicans, keep up the good work!

Clive.

Thanks Art, you CPers only get to see my new purchases, my actual collection is much more extensive. The Maundy Set was something that I just picked up, I loved the look of it and knew that Queen Anne was relatively scarce to obtain and so bought it. Paid slightly more than I would have liked to but this is 18th Century art is it not?

Clive.

I live in the county of Surrey, but Historic Surrey sounds better!

I've never been too keen on Roman coins, British hammered however...

I've eventually gotten around to taking some better pics of my Maundy Set. Here goes...

One of the rarest Queen Anne maundy sets, 1710 in superb condition.

Also got one of my lovely errors: (Henry III Penny, circa. 1250.)

The 'true' reverse is meant to read WAL/TER/ONC/ANT yet it has the ER on the end resulting in CANTER.

So Walter minted this coin at Canterbury to start off with and then a day or two later Ion came along and thought it was a blank. He than accidentally struck over Walter's coin, Ion's legend would read ION/ON/CAN/TER and so the CAN/TER ends up overlapping part of the obverse legend yet Walter's original legend is on the reverse.

Cheers,

Clive.

Best of luck with your search, I'll see if I can find someone to help you.

PM me your email address and I'll let you know if I find a genuine sovereign expert here in the UK for you.

Clive.

You'd be best off asking these specialists in Gold Sovereigns, http://www.goldsovereigns.co.uk/

Good luck!

Clive.

It's not always expensive, I mean that Henry VIII half-groat only cost me about $80. But it was a bargain to be had on the bay.

Oh, Clive. You're really whetting my appetite for medieval and hammered coins!

Is that a good thing?

They are really nice, hammered coins is one of, if not my greatest passion!

Cheers Art, they cost a pretty penny too!

- Clive.

Received a nice Henry VIII Half-groat in the post today. It is of the Posthumous coinage, CIVI TAS CAN TOR, Canterbury mint, Spink Ref. 2415. Portrait is quite good and its silver content is excellent considering these were often debased before release.

- Clive.

Am I still allowed to post British coins, perhaps if I was to include a Scottish one...