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12 hours ago, John Conduitt said:

Series QIID Secondary Series Sceatta, 710-760East Anglia. Silver, 1.00g. Quadruped left, looking forward, angular foreleg and trefoil tail raised, pellet filled field. Sea bird or eagle left, feet splayed, trampling linear serpent, wedge-shaped tail, forked wing raised, cross pommée before, pellets in field (SCBI 69, 636 this coin; S 809). Ex Tony Abramson; LR Stack.

That is a coin I'd easily drop moon money on it because of the creatures.

James III was born in 1688 and passed away in 1766.

This medal commemorates the birth of Charles III, Prince of Wales in 1720.

Really?  Charles III was born in 1720 and passed away in 1788.  He had a far more legitimate claim to the crown, religious objections excepted.

He lead the Jacobite rebellion in 1745 and was defeated by Stinking Billy Cumberland at the Battle of Culloden in 1745.

She had an amazing sense of humour, here is another:

No nation or people in the recent history of the world have been so blessed to have been led by such a remarkable leader.  Rest in Peace Queen Elizabeth.

One of those rare occasions when I stray out of classical era coinage, because of the theme.

A 1659 Penny token issued by the City of Cork in Ireland, 17th century tokens from Ireland are much more challenging than tokens from England, but still much more available than tokens from Scotland.

5 minutes ago, DonnaML said:

The lots for the upcoming auction can be viewed on Spink's website.

Indeed, much better documentation than the miserable cable news article.

And banks did exist thence, but trust didn't and shouldn't.  I've studied well the banking history of Great Britain, given that I collect banknotes also - and failures, fraud etc were common and well, still are.

I have my bank account and she has hers, I pay some bills, she pays others.  We've had that arrangement for 10-12 years now.  Never any bickers about dosh.  

Years ago I owned both a Waterford and a Dublin penny, Cork being so far off the radar it was never considered.  But along with a lot of the English hammered I sold them off to fund other projects and there are still a few I miss.

And the Noonans sale, well they got me on banknotes so no coins for the now.

From the article:

"The jar was turned over to Homeland Security Investigations, which would examine it further, CBP said."

And then it will end up forever in a government vault somewhere - in good company with the Ark of the Covenant.

This is one of two examples of scarab that I own, this one with blue faience and rather blundered legends seems to have been created much later than the steatite scarabs.  I also own a steatite example but currently cannot locate the image of it and will have to re-image.  The steatite example originated with a large dispersal of lesser antiquities from the British Museum in the 1970s and 1980s.  This faience example I believe I picked up at a coin show - and frankly I am not satisfied beyond a doubt that it is even ancient.

@JeandAcre Allegedly the Reginalds Tower was also where the mint was housed.  Unfortunately whence I am in that part of the world in a few weeks Waterford is not in our plans, mostly Galway Glendalough etc in our short time in the south and a lot more in the North of Ireland.

Regarding images - at one time I scanned images of everything, but moves back and forth, war etc I ended up deleting some of my files by accident and am slowly organising others 

Scotland Four Merks 1681 or 56/-

This particular piece is a 4 Merk, or for some reason when it was issued in 1681, this coin was referred to as a Dollar, even though that latter was never used in common vernacular. This coin is from the second coinage and is S-5618, or SC24M-075 in Coincraft. This particular piece is quite rare in nicer grades. The value of this coin was raised to 56/- from the old 4 Merk standard of 53/4 by proclamation in 1681.

Who could have guessed that George V was psychic:

"After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months."

Speaking of his son, the future Edward VIII.

Whilst Queen Elizabeth has been replaced by other figures on all other denominations, she remains on the $20.

1 hour ago, John Conduitt said:

Nice looking coin. It's one of the annoyances with certification that the descriptions are lacking, but it seems it can be used to your advantage.

I guess it could irritate if I was a knowing submitter and the grading company left off important aspects like scarce mints.  My other lucky purchase was from CNG and I have purchased British from them for years - I would have expected they would have caught the mint detail with the Ayr mint.  Good for me though, only about a dozen or so reported examples of the Scots penny and I own a couple of them.

I don't have any of the 1935 series unfortunately, have several of the earlier Dominion notes and the 1937 BoC in high grade.  My favourite is the Princess Patricia on the Dominion of Canada $1

49 minutes ago, Steve said:

Topcat7 => congrats on snagging that cool OP-coin

 

Ummm, I don't have any coins of Horny Eddie, but I do have this sweet $5 Bank-note from 1935 ... 

=> here is the "Future King Edward VIII" ... poor horny bastard

And it is the scarcer French variety.  The same 1935 series also had then Princess Elizabeth on the $20 - she was only 9 years old - so she has been on money for 87 years!

One of the benefits of searching USA auction sites etc is that often they are selling certified coinage without much of a description - earlier in the year I bid on and won an Alexander III(1249-1286) penny with a 28 point in the stars reverse that was not described as such by the firm auctioning it.

The description on this one was very minimalist - just a common Irish penny issued during the reign of Edward I without any mention of where it was minted.  I know medieval British well enough to read the legends - Waterford mint!  Most Irish pennies were minted in Dublin, and Waterford is much less common.  Pennies struck in Ireland were different so that they would stay in Ireland which is why there is a triangle around the portrait of Edward I.

Edward VIII broke with a tradition that went back to Henry VIII(1485-1509) by having his portrait facing to the left whereas George V's portrait also faced to the left.  In essence the portrait had to face the opposite of the previous monarch.  The new coins in Britain would only be released in the following year, ie 1937 but Edward VIII had abdicated in December 1936.  The British possessions such as West Africa, and Fiji etc were not bound by tradition or having to prepare portraits etc - just legends on the coin without a portrait.  Curiously Kutch was an Indian Princely State that also issued coinage in the name of Edward VIII but in their language.

Love the depiction of the She-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus