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http://www.moneymuseum.com/moneymuseum/coins/periods/coin.jsp;jsessionid=F7B28B053064A66E590D2A677226136D?i=0&aid=8&gid=21&cid=106&pi=0&ps=10

The first note in the link in my previous post(I searched for paper fold error) was this one http://www.londoncoins.co.uk/?page=Pastresults&auc=135&searchlot=400&searchtype=2 English Banknotes : Auction 135 : Lot 400 Date Sold Category Lot Description Sale Price 04/12/2011 Auction 135 English Banknotes Lot 400 ERROR ten shillings Hollom B295 issued 1961 series 91D 808326 with extra paper folded out at right side causing diagonal white strip, comes with normal note for comparison, Fine More banknotes like this £20 Yours is an older style note of course.

Hi Matt try this http://www.londoncoins.co.uk/?page=Pastresults&searchterm=error&category=1&searchtype=1 I don't have time to check it now but it might be of some help to you. Good luck, it is a very nice note!

Welcome, I have been on a dig in St. Mary's Garden, York, England and my collection of exonumia includes some 19th century tokens so we have some interests in common

Obv: Metternich bare headed right K.L. below bust(Konrad Lange) Rev: KRAFT IM RECHT("Strength in Right") around CLEMENS W. LOTH. FURST V. METTERNICH 1843 Bronze 22.5mm Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (full name German: Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Fürst von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, anglicised as Clement Wenceslas Lothar von Metternich-Winneburg-Beilstein; 15 May 1773 – 11 June 1859) was a politician and statesman of Rhenish extraction and one of the most important diplomats of his era, as Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1809-1848), he helped form the alliance against Napoleon and restored Austria as a leading European power, hosted the Congress of Vienna in 1814-1815. ,The liberal revolutions of 1848 forced his resignation.

BHM#1857 Brass 25mm RRR. by? Obv: HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY VICTORIA * Rev: CROWNED JUNE 28 1838/ ASCENDED THE BRITISH THRONE JUNE 20 1837 Must be one of the ugliest medals, if not the ugliest, of the young Victoria. If it was not listed as RRR. I might not have brought it. The only thing of note is that it was struck with slightly offset dies.

Extremely rare 1814 jeton. Obv; FRIED. WILH: III KOEN: V. PREUSEN. LL below bust Rev: HEIL DEM SIEGER. around a triumphal arch (Hail to the Victor) Exe: IETTON Brass 24mm

I am not sure if you meant; 1. Why, do you think, the engraving is so drastically different? Meaning why do I think that it is drastically different because you do not understand why I think that. Because it is not just a minor variation(like a missing stop, doubling of a letter, etc) or a reworked die, but a totally new engraved die. 2 Why do you think the engraving is so drastically different? Meaning that you agree that it is drastically different and would like to know why. Perhaps Kettle gave the satirical print to 2 engravers and asked them both to produce dies, preferred the one more commonly seen so used that but when that die became worn switched to the other die for the final few made, hence there being so few examples. I did not mention it but the reverses also have slightly spacing for the inscriptions. Or maybe, the old die needed replacing, instead of just slavishly copying it he tried something new. I guess we will never know but it is puzzles like this that keep exonumia so interesting, thanks for the question TDP

Well done Bill. I have taken new pictures of it, it is silvered(RR.) & is in great condition as well as being an unlisted variant, must be RRRR. The devil's horns are longer as well. I first spotted the extra ground behind the ass' last leg & Napoleon's foot farther away from the ass' leg. Decided that whatever it was going to be mine but got it pretty cheap, not till it arrived I realized how great a condition it was in, as the seller's pictures did not do it justice. Glad that you spotted it...after I had bought though, not before. One to compare it too.

Cute but I have never heard a hedgehog called a hedgedog before is that colloquial or slang? In England they were sometimes referred to as Hedgepigs, going as far back as Shakespearean times. But like the animal depicted it is so cute.........easier to hold though.

Well spotted ccg, it is not C3 though.....the differences are much more drastic than that.

It sure does Bill, there is quite a variation in all the metals & their colors but there is one among the 12 that is engraved quite different to the rest of them. So sorry but please try again. Since I located all the pictures and posted them with mine 2 more have appeared on-line which are still the normal version. So I know that the variant I have must be extremely rare. I am surprised that it has not been noticed years ago, but here is the chance to spot it now.

It is just a few months shy of 200 years since these were struck and apparently the variant that I have found has never been recorded before. Hence why I thought I would post the composite picture to give others the chance to spot it from amongst the normal versions. Whilst doing some research on Henry & Thomas Kettle I discovered that they were descended from a French Huguenot family which left France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes(1685) the head of the family was Henri Quitel. The surname Quitel later became anglicized to Kettle. This then is a direct link to the medals I collect from the period of the French Wars of Religion(mid to late 16th C.) to my collecting the medals of the Kettles, those descendants of the Huguenot émigré Henri Quitel, produced in England 200+ years later. I also came across the metallic content of one these medals, it was # 3 in a large group that was being analyzed. 3. Kettle = Obv. Napoleon seated backwards on a ass being led by walking horned devil who pulls a halter around Napoleon's neck: INSEPERABLE.FRIENDS - in ex: TO.ELBA Rev. around top: WE.CONQUER.TO.SET.FREE field: EMP./OF.RUSSIA/K.OF.PRUSSIA/MARQUIS/WELLINGTON/PRINCE/SCHWARTZEN- /BERG bottom: MARCH.31.1814 Weight Cu Zn Sn Pb Ag Ni As Sb Fe 3. Kettle 1814 4.40 93.9 4.7 0.29 0.40 0.08 - 0.44 - 0.14 3.Silvered surface 0.39 0.46 Weights are cited in grammes. Standard chemical symbols are used for metals: Cu = copper: Z = zinc: Sn = tin: Pb = lead: Ag = silver: Ni = nickel: As = arsenic: Sb = antimony: Fe = iron.

Thomas Kettle in 1814 issued a small medal which was to become a classic, one which every collector of Napoleonic or Kettle pieces wants to have in their collection. So even though the brass & copper versions are listed as N. for normal rarity, with only the silvered listed as RR. for very rare, they are much in demand & therefore command a premium, especially ones in good condition. That said I have been after one for a long time, well I finally have one..........Your challenge, if you so desire, is to try is to pick the one I purchased from the following 12 pictured using the column letter A,B or C & the row # 1,2,3 or 4 and give a reason why you picked that one. Here, as an enticement to give it a go, is where Thomas' inspiration for the medal came from(courtesy of the Bodleian Library) These, pictured below, were all the decent examples I could find on the web, including mine.

Perhaps they sold them individually as well.

Hi Dru, Glad that it was just the wall & door frame that was hit and not you! Superb design, photographs & minting. Have fun with the new press. Pat PS Thanks again for the gift.

"STERLING SILVER CROWN: Cape Heritage Collection : Dutch East India Company (V.O.C.) One Duit of 1745 Thirty-five years ago, in 1978, the Africana Commemorative Mint issued the Cape Heritage set commemorating the coins that circulated in South Africa in the very early years of our country" " Proof Coin weighs 37.3 grams and is 45.0 mm in diameter. It is struck in Sterling Silver (92.5% pure silver) and coated in gold" http://www.goldbull.co.za/catalog/cape-coin-heritage-1600-1834-p-102.html "Each of the thirty Sterling Silver coins weighs 37.3 grams and is 45.0 mm in diameter (much larger and heavier than a Silver Crown or Full Kruger Rand). This converts to over one kilogram of pure silver for the collection. The coins were minted in brilliant proof quality"

By the process of linking the reverse of a "BY TRAMPLING ON LIBERTY" token, which is signed Kettle(Thomas) on the William IV obverse(Fauver, Trampling 10), to the same "BY TRAMPLING ON LIBERTY" reverse die used with an unsigned Victoria obverse(same as mine) " HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA +"(Fauver, Trampling 13) this unlisted token can now be attributed to Thomas Kettle of Birmingham.

With the 1877 Indian Head cent, the most important diagnostic feature appears on the reverse. On a genuine coin, the bottom right of the N in ONE and the top left of the N in CENT should be much weaker than the rest of the denomination. http://www.pcgs.com/News/Altering-One-Of-Americas-Favorite-Coins-The-1877-Indian-Head

Ditto

Could not agree more about your advice re pricing & shopping around. http://www.krausebooks.com/standard-us-tokens-download You can download it for $48, which might suit some collectors better than lugging the book about, or for $2 dollars more you can get it plus the addendum http://www.krausebooks.com/standard-catalog-us-tokens-4th-addendum-download-duo "Standard Catalog of United States Tokens, 4th Ed. Author Russ Rulau covers United States tokens of 1700 – 1900 including Hard Times, U.S. Merchant, Patriotic Civil War, United States Trade, Civil War Store Cards, Civil War Cardboard Scrip, and Tokens of the Gay Nineties to name a few. With each listing you get: Rarity ranking Date issued Metal composition Size Pricing in four grades of condition Historic details of the token or the images on the token Add this resource to your library of downloadable references and you'll be better for it."

Renaissance France. a 1780 restrike from original dies bronze Medal, originally issued in 1568, attributed to Guillaume Martin (active from before 1558-?1590) of Charles IX of France (1550-1560-1574). Obverse : Laureate and cuirassed bust right, 'CAROLVS IX D G FRAN REX, Reverse : Fame blowing trumpet, 'SVA CIRCVIT ORBE FAMA'. reverse attributed to G Martin. 35mm bronze (BMC [Jones] Vol I, 88). Tresor.18.3, Med.fran.(1892).31 Mine is stretched to 37mm, with obverse edge convexed & reverse edge concaved and doubling(if not trebling) of the edge decorations, planchet uneven, not in collar, overheated planchet? obviously done to eke a few more medals from the badly cracked die. The die-crack & the stretched uneven planchet make it rather special to me, else I would not have bought it. Compare with this one from the Michael Hall Collection, it has the same die crack, it is the right diameter 35 and has no stretched edge, or doubling.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/U-S-Mint-Abraham-Lincoln-1871-Emancipation-Proclamation-Bronze-Medal-/251264543777 U.S. Mint Abraham Lincoln 1871 Emancipation Proclamation Bronze Medal Up for your consideration is a bronze medal issued by the U.S. Mint to commerate President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The medal is stored in a Plexiglass holder which can be removed. This medal is a restrike of the original from 1871. Sold for $14.97. So a genuine Mint restrike unfortunately.

EDIT: Skip this post and go to the next one. http://www.ebay.com/itm/1871-U-S-Mint-Abraham-Lincoln-Emancipation-Proclamation-Medal-/321126435878? Starting bid: US $21.97 [ 0 bid ] did not sell, BARBER under the bust looks indistinct on the one on Ebay as does the one you have posted. I have found 3 that were auctioned but they have a very dark patina, I do not no if this medal is a restrike but that would really affect the value if it was a later Mint restrike. Here are the 3 that I found. http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=427&lotIdNo=97043 Category: All Auction Archive Items > U.S. Mint Medals Lot 81073 Abraham Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation Medal MS63 NGC.... 2007 September Long Beach, CA Tokens & Medals Signature Auction #427 81073 went for $805.00 http://stacksbowers.com/auctions/AuctionLot.aspx?LotID=280604 The November 2011 Baltimore Auction Stack's Bowers Final Bid: $489* http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/11672438_1871-medal-lincolns-emancipation-proclamation Gorgeous 1871 Abraham Lincoln “Emancipation” Medal Commemorating Lincoln’s “Emancipation Proclamation” 1871-Dated. Abraham Lincoln Emancipation Medal. Officially Struck at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia in Bronzed Copper. Engraved by Charles Barber. Julian CM-16. King 232. Very Choice Mint State. 45mm. (1.75”) in diameter. One of only 45 struck in Copper. This wonderful Lincoln Medal, officially Commemorating the “Emancipation Proclamation,” made at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia is by the famous engraver, Charles Barber, who is named upon the obverse, and also by the U. S. Mint Director, James Pollock, upon its reverse. The inscription surrounding the central Lincoln portrait reads: “Abraham Lincoln President of the United States.” The reverse inscription lists his dates in office, along with, “Emancipation Proclaimed Jan. 1, 1863” below. The actual issue date, 1871, appears at the bottom of the reverse. We previously offered an example in our EAHA Auction of June 9, 2001, Lot 451, graded Unc., which sold for $632 over a decade ago! This current medal is much nicer in quality. It is a beautiful, dark chestnut brown medal with a high relief profile of Lincoln. The reverse has a few faint obverse hairline scratches, otherwise a fully Gem medal, which is certain to appeal to collectors in several collecting categories. I would be very wary of it.

Good luck, hope you get a good price, at least we will see what it goes for. Feel free to use any of the info I have posted here.