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George V, 1932, NGC, MS65RB

I was totally incredulous the other day when my wife declared that she was the world's number one fan of the Monkees. But then I saw her face........................

Apparently everyone has been quarantined at John Lennon airport! Imagine all the people?

Spring.

More fool you for being a believer.

…………….but did you notice that my last 3 sentences have either begun with 'so' or 'well'?

Never noticed the crack to the right of the date, Ian.

On my own F73 7 over 7, the die crack is much worse (and her knee is still smoking !).

Well, on closer inspection there are actually two reverse die cracks at the rim, the one Mike noticed after the O of ONE, and an even more obvious one to the right of the date. Well spotted Mike!

Wouldn't it be great if it were a real story. There has never been an US Senator named Rudolf Schmidt though.

Rudolf Schmidt, the Senator for Arizona, was entertaining the Russian ambadassador over Christmas. After dinner Schmidt looked out of the window and saw sleet was falling. "Hey" he said to his guest, "It's snowing". The ambassador laughed out loud. "Is not snow, tovarich - is just rain!". It didn't often snow in Arizona so Schmidt stuck to his guns. "No, that's not rain - it's snow". The ambassador kept insisting it was only rain, and Schmidt got quite heated. At that point, Schmidt's wife tapped on his shoulder and whispered to him "Rudolf, the Red knows rain, dear".

Can you at least crop your images? I'm looking at 5% coin and 95% carpet and I can't make out any detail.

Or perhaps underwhelmed in anticipation. But if they do a good Job they could be a Revelation! On the other hand if the Judges say otherwise there could be Lamentations and an Exodus to the door. It’s the Numbers that matter. Amos-t telling point is that Peter Gabriel has declined to take part. Mark my words, they won’t be the Colossians they once were, Kings of the stage, superb Acts worthy of the Prog Rock Chronicles, that was the Genesis of the late sixties and first half of the seventies. Jeremiah

Is this the "smoking knee" variety? 🙂

I could conceivably do some stats on this, because I have images of all Victorian Copper Pennies listed on ebay for a 5 year period, and before the Large Rose and F/B were known about by hardly any collectors. Problem is that there's well over 3000 images to check through, breaking down first into ww and no ww and then lower levels. I was leaving 1858 to nearer the end of this project.

Here are the pictures of that 1874 Mike. It is an attractive coin, and the fields do look unusually smooth. The rims on both sides seem to be constantly around 0.8mm according to my microscope......which I think is probably normal. I believe that quite a few Heaton coins are considered to be specimens, struck from polished blanks to give a better strike to show off the detail. Any thoughts from other members on this coin please...…………….not sure I will keep it if considered just an F73, not an F74?