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    Sounds reasonable :)

     

    A die trial piece would normally be a one-off piece. There may be several done by the artist as the design elements are added to the design (ex: bust, background, lettering). In this case, with a mintage of 30, the die trials were purposely made for collectors - as was the rest of the mintage of the completed coin.

     

    I think you got it for a fair price, and the only thing that really matters is that you like it.

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    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=200332662679

     

    here is the listing for it :) he has other design but i missed out on a few i wanted. i am going to do a little more research myself. but i got it for the design and looks :)

     

    I believe that this would be a "die trial" for one of the relatively recent fantasy crowns that have come out of England. I have seen the seller offer other fantasy crowns over the last year or so. It may be listed in the Krause Unusual Coins book at some point.

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    Nice medal and tokens Dooly! :applause:

     

    I've bought from Simon Monks before, he's a well known Conder token dealer.

     

     

    I went to the Northwest Coin Club show today, a very well attended show with quite a few dealers set up. Allan Davisson is a member of the club and this is the only show he sets up at anymore. He had a nice collection of Conder tokens that he had just purchased. Most were Spence tokens ex. Cokayne, all UNC, most were Red or R/B. I could only afford to buy one of them - a Middlesex Spence D&H 691, a quite rare edge variety of this Spence token.

    The picture does not begin to show the lustre.

     

    MiddlesexSpenceDH691.jpg

    Post your most recent acquisition: World

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    Looks nice enough

     

    MS64 :) well thats good ! so its not a pattern (what is it) ?

     

    Calling it a pattern is probably appropriate, but it is also cataloged as a Conder token from Ayrshire - D&H #7.

     

    The diesinker was John Milton, who was an engraver at the Royal mint under the chief engraver Pingo. He also had a side business as an evgraver of tokens. This piece was ordered by Col. Willam Fullarton and is documented as a trial for a shilling in copper. The obverse is the head of Adam Smith and the reverse is a female in mourning (Scotia?) with military trophies.

     

    There should be a rather larger die flaw on the reverse - starting at about 11, and running through the top center of the design.

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    The following token/medal arrived today - my latest winning from eBay. Catalogued in British Historical Medals as BHM 295 and as a Conder token by Dalton and Hamer as Middlesex National Series D&H 177. The medal was released in Silver, Copper, Gilt Copper and White Medal.

     

    The following are the sellers pics:

    MiddlesexNationalDH177Obv.jpgMiddlesexNationalDH177Rev.jpg

     

    I figured that I had an good shot at the token being silver with white metal being the other choice.

     

    This is what I received. My attempt at photography:

    MiddlesexNationalDH177Gilt.jpg

     

    I was quite pleasently surprised to receive a gilt copper token! All for $9.50!