Hard Times

both very nice!!

Pidcock's Farthing

There kinds of concentric lines have been on coins/dies for 100s of years. Whatever process made them, this should be taken into account. Here are two Conder tokens where you can see the concentric lines that were transferred onto the planchet from the dies during striking. This is well before drills were around but certainly they had lathes back then? Pretty common to see them on Conders.

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On the reverse they are shown here in the field below 'RIDGWAY' and continue in both directions concentration around the center point.

You can see the concentric lines pretty well on both sides on this one:

Thanks for the informative post Cyber! Happy New Year to all Conderphiles!

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Nice GS!!!!!!

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New BQ, just arrived.

 

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Beautiful coin! Now the question is, what am I missing? That looks better than VF35 to my eyes.

Seeing in hand I simply cannot see why this is not a 40 or 45. It has the wear of a higher grade, no major hits, and cartwheel luster when rotating under the light. It is at CAC right now, so if it does not bean then it is clear I missing something.

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New BQ, just arrived.

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No but I will ask Gary Groll about this at FUN when I see him. That is a great question, so the Watt refinements to steam engines for coin presses were not ready in 1789? Or was it only Soho that had them?

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I agree, thanks Cyber.

I like factory/foundry scenes on Conders, here is one below. Bought in 2012 and finally got it imaged.

From Wikipedia:

John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson (1728–14 July 1808) was an English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods during the Industrial Revolution. He was the inventor of a precision boring machine that could bore cast iron cylinders, such as those used in steam engines of James Watt. His boring machine has been called the first machine tool. He also developed a blowing device for blast furnaces that allowed higher temperatures, increasing their efficiency.

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Recent auction pickup.

 

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NGC was wrong for not having given this coin a star designation IMHO. It's gorgeous!

Thanks! This is a case of where the auction images were totally lousy, the coin looked dark grey with a hint of something else around the rims. I had some in hand advice from others, but I was floored when I opened up the shipment because it far exceeded what I expected. If the auction house would have had my images for it, it may have gone even higher. I don't get why that auction house does not try to make more effort for its images except on a few lots, for which the images are usually too juiced to make sense of. Oh well......

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hangman, hangman.......

Recent auction pickup.

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Nice Godiva's Brandon and Stephanie! Brandon, mine is not designated RB. Noticed the slight rub at the high points on mine, really a 58, but market grading is what it is. Brandon I think I remember when you picked yours up at FUN, rich color for sure, excellent strike.

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Thanks physics! And I got it in one of the weekly HA auctions, not one of their big show auctions.......

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Just got word that this newp got the bean:

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just got off ebay:

Interesting, I have 6 in MS66, representing slightly more than 5% of my collection. No 67's tho, no 68.........

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Nice newps folks. I have been looking for a decent DH7 Carmarthen forever..... Here is a recent acquisition.

Just acquired.

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Nice one Yarm.

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I was at the Smithsonian last Friday while in D.C. and although the collection there is impressive there are far more pieces

presented here in this thread on a continual basis that quite frankly, blows away

the majority of that on display that I saw (save a couple like the territorials and the 1933).

 

Always an impressive line up to view here.

 

 

 

No doubt about that Bill.

 

True, but they are in the process of expanding the coin display by a factor of more than 10-fold in a new expanded room on the west side of the museum. Once the new display is ready, it will be more than just a few rarities that are priceless that are on display presently. On another note, did you go to the National Gallery of Art? They had 2 new van Gogh acquisitions when I was there in November. Yeowza!

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Very nice. I always liked this design with the Lion in the cave

 

 

I agree, I have never seen that design before but I love it. Brandon's imaging of an amazing example is also impressive. Wow!

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Danye - gorgeous 54!

Clackamas, that is one frosty quarter, wow! MS66? (And of course, Go Blazers!)

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