Sovsaver

Thanks for the offer, I will hold out for a aEF to EF though. I've seen plenty in that grade around.

Omg, I can't believe it's taken 3 days! I set it up. To be honest I'd even take a sixpence for her, oh I hope she doesn't get an account any time soon.🫣

Then I found another one slightly lower price, better detail but patchy toning on the obverse, reverse looks very nice to my eye, even as good as EF. I'm not sure about that patchy toning, hard to say if it was cleaned then an attempt to artificially tone it, for my inexperienced eye anyway. I do like the detail though.

Well, for both of us really. We are going to slowly work on a collection of silver coins. We have considered maundy and shillings so far. Both of us are complete novices as far a silver coins go so of course at this stage we are looking at various coin dealer websites and gasping with delight at the unc examples but rejecting the eye watering prices. Then I spotted this one, 1787 shilling with hearts. I don't have an up to date price guide, but used an online source. I believe the coin below to be getting on for aEF, reverse seems to have nice detail but the strike on the obverse seems a little weak maybe, or it's just down to contrast, not sure about that. What do you folks think about this one?