blakeyboy

I feel that the 1935 is an easy find in BU- it's odd they only toned a few. As for the 'one side only' conundrum- If you were a Mint employee, and had to apply hypo to a bin full of pennies, how would you go about it? You would have an astonishingly heavy bin of shiny pennies to deal with- maybe it was applied to a pile at a time? Two pennies could be closely face-to face and end up being a cross between Obi-Wan and Darth- one of them completely on the Dark Side. Mind you, if two coins were face to face, but one was to one side, there would be the gap between them for the hypo to penetrate the facing sides, whereas when perfectly lined up, the edges would create a seal.....and three in a stack would leave one with both sides shiny....

How about her?

How difficult would it be for any existing website to start an auction section? So long as a lot of people are seeing it, surely anyone could sell items, say, at the highest bids received by a certain time and day, and that would work?.....why do we all let the vultures get their way and take as much cash as possible, often almost fraudulently? Is it inevitable when the number of lots goes over a certain size, because of staffing levels etc? Having your own auction site that only ever sells say 100 items in a month would not be too difficult, so long as you have views...

If you hit the '0' with a blunt small chisel with an oblique blow, it would cut the circle and 'pile up' some of the bronze, giving that look of the bar of a 'G'....and lo and behold, through the gap in the 'G', there is a shallow groove, looking to be a depression below the level of the field. The thinning of the 'O' above the 'bar' of the 'G' looks like the effect of localised corrosion. Maybe...:)

Alfnail, I'm so impressed with at table of figures- that's how to actually find out what to look out for! That's a lot of work condensed down. Nice one.

Maybe he uses a metal detector on every envelope that fall onto his mat....

Yes, that F77 is hardly ever seen...underpriced as well. I think mine are both about VF ish - cheap, but unlikely finds over the years.

Sounds like the 1903 open 3......

Had Ionofanes years ago-bonkers . Must come tp Darkest Herefordshire with a bottle of something good when the balloon finally goes up, and talk old gear.

I your TA10 tube aluminised or not? - there is some confusion as regards yes or no, between Pye and Marconi models....

Agreed. Very true, about the 1864's as well, Martin. But I will add the 'look out for the forgotten VF area' again. Ooh- rarity estimates for different grades???? My kind of book!

Yep! (....and when it crosses the Meridian it's summertime in Azerbaijan, and Formica Day in the Solomon Islands. Lucky them. )

Really??? I'm amazed......mind you, that means were are now a shilling...... See what I did there?

I have a feeling there are way more than 25 extant, since I've just had a look, and I've got 8....:) ( Unless everybody is happy to believe there are only 25, so I'll get a few more, be then able to control the world price, and I can then charge what I like for them and then I'll be rich, I tell you, RICH!!!!........ ....at this point the nice nurse calms me down and gives me my Horlicks .....)

Or, of course, not list them, but send the list to a trusted member who can collate the lot....

I think good ones are undervalued. Another interesting thing is trying to find a nice VF example...you see a few in fine or worse, and a few in GEF or better. The middle ground is not really represented...why..? Is it because those are all in less valuable/less well funded collections, that, like mine, popped up cheap once, and won't likely be replaced with a better one, and appear on the market? Rare in high grade, certainly, but seemingly very rare in the middling grades, if you judge a population by what appears at auction, which is, by it's very nature, a skewed resource.... Maybe one day we could all list our collection, with just F number and honest grading, and after collation, a more accurate (maybe graphical) picture of what is actually extant will appear? I know that the inherent 'Collection Bias' that reflects TODAYS selection, rather than an historic one, will be present, but it will hopefully be more of a curve rather than a curve with a dip in the middle? It would be very very interesting....:)

I look for them several times a week on Fleabay - I've done this for years now- I hardly ever see one, even in worn condition. It doesn't suffer from the 'Collection Bias' that has flooded the world with worn 1912.1918/1919 'Heaton pennies, ( maybe 1875H too) or BU 1901's (because that was the shiny one in the pocket of the person the day they heard Victoria had died) etc etc.. It's not spotted by non- numismatists over the years. F79 is the No1 penny for me that seems to have it's rarity rating way out..... Finding a really good 'un without paying over the odds for a selected one at an auction is proving impossible. Mine is a nice GVF bought when someone didn't know what it was and put a BIN of £15.....that'll do....

I know very little about copper pennies, in fact, what I do know about them could be written in 48-point type on Donald Trump's brain, but you've all managed to make this a damn good read. Thanks Guys, and well done!

Clearing my folk's house. In the lounge, a pile of small electrical items by the chairs, all in a 4-gang. I went to unplug the 4 plugs, and the 4-gang fell to bits. Complete bio-degradation. Cheap Chinese crap. Got away with it - I'd switched off the wall socket . The plug is just holding together too. A child could crush it to powder. Could have killed so easily, or started a fire. Check yours!!!!

I did try and phone them this morning but they were understaffed....

It is very very interesting to me how many need to exist before a variety like a 'missing sea' commands a premium. The psychology of it is fascinating. I'm waiting for some more 1880 missing sea type to turn up, so my seemingly only child example might accrue value...:) Mind you, I don't think the guy or gal who finds an 1863 penny with a '1' beneath the date will be in the same position.... Maybe the feeling that it may well exist is like those scientists who could see a hole in the periodic table, and tried to discover an element that fitted.... ( 'A tale of seven elements' by Eric R. Scerri is well worth a read if you like this sort of stuff. )

Nice- how many extant?

Donald! Duck!

I'll alert the Media.