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- From jlorenzo@ob.ilww.com Tue Apr 06 08:21:11 2004
Return-Path: <jlorenzo@ob.ilww.com> X-Sender: jlorenzo@ob.ilww.com X-Apparently-To: colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 56391 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2004 15:21:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m12.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Apr 2004 15:21:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n30.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.87) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Apr 2004 15:21:05 -0000 Received: from [66.218.67.142] by n30.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 06 Apr 2004 15:18:54 -0000 Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 15:18:54 -0000 To: colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <c4uhou+r0na@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <048f01c41be0$c05fbae0$f2fea8c0@DIANEJ33YVI95P> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 7865 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 66.218.66.87 From: "John Lorenzo" <jlorenzo@ob.ilww.com> X-Originating-IP: 65.164.33.2 Subject: [Colonial Numismatics] Re: What is this?? X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=74013914 X-Yahoo-Profile: njcopperjohn
Unfortunately - I am Taylor-less as I donated my copy to WSR awhile back. The reverse shield on this specimen is similar to one other Blacksmith style Irish penny in my collection. As Weston has suggested the six known Blacksmith Penny's as with the Baker $5,000 specimen example were probably products of English manufacturer based on my research of provenance tracking of previous owners. The only inference to Blacksmith here is the extreme crudeness of the specimen and the haphazard placement of Oppenheim of the Baker coin to the Blacksmith family in 1987 of the first recorded/viewed penny size specimen. Of the six currently known specimens I have owned three and I sold one to Anton and have personally viewed the three other known specimens. The remaining three are the 1987 Baker-LI Collection coin, the ANS specimen and a duplicate to the Baker coin which was found by a Canadian dealer which is a duplacate of the Baker coin based on plate comparisons of obverse/reverse dies which I viewed at an ANA in Philly a couple of years back. Of the three all were of an English provenance or cherried in England by Paul Bosco and Jimmy King. My point is the craftmanship and Irish shield design on the sole Irish Blacksmith-Style penny still in my collection is VERY similar to this specimen and based on the seller's inference in inches this specimen approximates out at around 35 mm (penny size planchet). Since a regal English penny measures 34 mm from this period based on a quick check this is probably the seventh recorded specimen ... assuming Fuld & Tayman have not recorded any further types in the Bank of Canada Montreal collection. Yeah ... we blew it ... a lousy $500-600 on this penny "blacksmith."
HMMMMMMM....
Down try to downplay it Weston ... it will not work with me. SUPER COIN!!! Just keep dreaming on your triple struck UNC Irish ... as you just did a few moments ago!
--- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, Ray Williams <njraywms@o...> wrote: > Isn't that about halfpenny size? > Ray > ----- Original Message ----- > From: mario > To: colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:10 AM > Subject: Re: [Colonial Numismatics] Re: What is this?? > > > HI JOHN; > I BELIEVE IT WAS ROUGHLY 29mm,.... > MARIO > ----- Original Message ----- > From: John Lorenzo > To: colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 7:36 AM > Subject: [Colonial Numismatics] Re: What is this?? > > > Mario - What was the size in mm of the Blacksmith Penny in Taylor???? > > --- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, "mario" <mariobyrge@c...> > wrote: > > RAY; > > YES, SWEDEN TRADED IN BARS. SOME TOWNS IN IRELAND ADAPTED > A "BARTER" IN TOKEN,.......SLAP TOKENS IS ONE OF THE MEANS. HOWEVER, > THIS COIN IS NOT A SLAP TOKEN,..........IT MORE THAN LIKELY WAS > A "LOCAL" TOKEN AND NOT HONORED IN TRADE THROUGHOUT ALL OF IRELAND. > ALSO DURING THIS TIME PERIOD, IRELAND WAS DIVIDED IN POLITICAL > CONTROL. I WOULD GUESS THAT THIS TOKEN OR COIN,..EVER HOW YOU WANT TO > LOOK AT IT, WAS SPARCELY PRODUCED WITHIN A LOCAL AREA,........MOST > LIKELY IN NORTHERN IRELAND,......... > > MARIO > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Ray Williams > > To: colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 8:29 PM > > Subject: Re: [Colonial Numismatics] Re: What is this?? > > > > > > I was not aware of any copper coinage that traded in commerce by > weight. (Except those hugh Sweedish bars) > > Ray > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: mario > > To: colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 7:28 PM > > Subject: Re: [Colonial Numismatics] Re: What is this?? > > > > > > I PLACED A BID ON THAT CONTEMPORARY COUNTERFEIT,.......IT > APPEARS THAT THE LEGEND MAYBE "RUNIC" INWHICH IT WOULD BE IRISH. I > REFERENCED THAT COIN AGAINST "IRISH SLAP TOKENS" AND CAME UP WITH > NOTHING IN THAT DESIGN STAGE AT ALL. TO ME, IT APPEARS TO BE > A "BARTER" TOKEN THAT WOULD CARRY THE VALUE BY THE WEIGHT OF THE > COPPER,......OFTEN, THEY WERE ISSUED DURING A DEPRESSION OR ECONOMIC > CALAPSE. > > I AGREE WITH CLEM, THAT PRICE IS A BARGAIN. WHEN I PLACED MY > BID,......I THOUGHT THE VIEWERS WOULD NOT RECOGNIZE WHAT IT IS,..SO I > THOUGHT,..........OH WELL,..............ONLY IF WE CAN PREDICT! > > MARIO > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Byron Weston > > To: colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 4:04 PM > > Subject: [Colonial Numismatics] Re: What is this?? > > > > > > --- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, "John M. Kleeberg" > > <jmkleeberg@y...> wrote: > > > --- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, Steve Frank > > > <taxi_steve929@y...> wrote: > > > could it have bought more if noticed by more people?? Or > did the > > two > > > high bidders just go real high and the winner got stuck??? > anyone > > > know??? Thanks. Steve > > > > > > I don't know about the price, but it may not be totally > crazy. I > > > know very little about these things, other than that: they > are > > > Irish, they are rare, they circulated in Ireland in the > early > > > nineteenth century, they are penny size (as opposed to most > > > counterfeits, which are halfpenny size), they are made to > look > > > crude, there is an example of one in the American > Numismatic > > Society > > > collection (but I can't find it on the database at the > moment), and > > > there is some article that mentions them in the British > Numismatic > > > Journal, but I don't know the exact reference. I believe > the > > > younger group (Vicken, John K. or Eric C.) know more about > this > > than > > > I do - it was from one of them that I learned about the BNJ > article. > > > > > > It's like those crude Irish counterfeit shillings - all I > can do > > > about those is to say, "Ah, a slap token," in a knowing > voice, but > > > that's about the extent of my knowledge. > > > > > > John M. Kleeberg > > > > An obvious imitation of the 1805-6 Irish designs, John, but > it could > > have been made in either Ireland or Britain, likely Britain > though. > > Just an opinion. > > Byron > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > ---------- > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/colonial-coins/ > > > > b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > colonial-coins-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > > > c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of > Service. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- > Yahoo! Groups Links > > a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/colonial-coins/ > > b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > colonial-coins-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
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