prophet800

4 minutes ago, silverdocket said:

 To rich for me but cheers.

No worries 

7 hours ago, silverdocket said:

Oh do tell......  Sharing is caring 

I have an NGC PF70 for sale with original box and COA at £125 plus post if interested 😉😉

On 28/05/2018 at 13:41, PansPurse said:

Oh that is an absolute beauty ??

Nice little double stamp as well ?

To smooth and shiny

How do you know if it’s been polished? Fine hairlines I’m guessing

A 1902 Matt proof short set. Took advantage of the x6 nectar points weekend but forgot to go through topcashback [emoji21][emoji21][emoji21][emoji21]

51 minutes ago, swAgger said:

So you have the Dragon anyway? Well done! You may as well keep up the series. It's the cost of getting the dragon now which is stopping me catching up on these.

Yes I managed to get one and numi got it graded for me. A PF70 which was a bonus.

9 minutes ago, 999magnum said:

What do the phoenix and dragon look like?

I don't have a pic of the phoenix 

6 minutes ago, swAgger said:

It's still a fine looking piece. But i know what you mean, i think the Phoenix and the Dragon were better done. The Phoenix is my personal favourite. Wish i had gone for this series at the time, now. Oh well.

One thing confuses me. Why did they feel the need to write "unicorn" underneath, on this one? The others simply left it with the Chinese writing which was nice.

I thought the same, It kind of takes the look off it with English. I was going to get the Phoenix but I don't  now.

Unsure about this one.  

Picked these up (Tuvalu Ancient Chinese Mythical Creatures):

More Bronze...need to restrain myself

More Bronze...need to restrain myself

More Bronze...need to restrain myself

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What sort of money was this on ebay? if not a rude question. Plenty of detail, looks nice.

An eBay 1883 London mint half sov.

My returns from the Royal Mint , but no refund cheque for postage

My returns from the Royal Mint , but no refund cheque for postage

Not known as far as I'm aware other than NGC have slabbed a small number. I remember seeing one at Baldwins but they were probably just selling the slab.

Yours is typical. They are often 2 - 4 letters and usually shifted by the same degree in the same direction. I always thought they were produced during striking and find it difficult to believe the engraver could over-stamp all the letters exactly to the same degree. Why would they do it?

I therefore remain to be convinced the RIA/RIA is a genuine variety, maybe I'm wrong.

Perhaps Steve Hill could be contacted for an opinion?

I thought it was a common thing.

Not convincing. You see lots of doubling of letters in various places and to various degress. Often wondered what caused it, doubt it's double stamping.