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  1. I have a double-headed 1960s penny. It's been examined by a couple of dealers who could find no obvious signs of tampering.

    One offered me around £70 for it (this was about 4 years ago).

    It'd be worth getting a dealer to look at it to see if there are obvious signs of it being an artificial creation.

    If it's a genuine mint error then there are people who collect such things and it'd be worth a few quid


  2. Hi Bob

    This is catalogued as

    Freeman 30 or Gouby BP 1861 L

    Gouby estimates, R8 - 11-50 in existence

    Freeman R18, 6-15 in existence

    John Jerrams (in 2003) notes 12 in existence with the best known being nEF and list a price of 1200 GBP

    To be honest, if this coin really is EF then it's likely to be the best example extant and therefore catalogue prices are meaningless.

    A fine specimen sold for £1000 in a private sale around a year ago.

    Hope this helps.


  3. As far as I'm aware this is not a variety that's listed anywhere.

    Overstrikes are pretty common in the early bun pennies and unless it's one letter/digit over a DIFFERENT letter/digit they do not usually attract any significant premiums or attract any great collector attention.

    There's one for sale here

    http://www.onlinecoins.co.uk/viewcoin.php?...4&keepsession=1

    but it's seriously overpriced IMHO.

    A very nice find anyway :)


  4. I think there is actually an easy way to spot the Modified Effigy Penny which works for even very worn coins

    Look at the colon between GRA and BRITT

    on the normal coin it's midway between A and B

    on the modified effigy it's right next to the A

    Hello custard1966,

    yep, I´ll give you that one, you are quite right but ask the average collector to pick out the 1926 Modified from two photos and I think the results would be suprising.

    Hi Gary,

    You're absolutely right. I'm pretty sure I picked up that tip from somewhere - perhaps Michael Gouby's site, though it's not there at present.

    It's intriguing that the most obvious difference doesn't seem to have been spotted by any of the major authors.


  5. I have an 1841 penny with the 4 over an 8

    This was listed in Bramah's book - which I've not seen - but it's not listed by anyone else.

    I only have a scanner so I don't know if I could get a good image of it.

    I'm not sure whether overdates where the numerals are the same are significant. These are very common and John Jerrams doesn't regard them as indicating significant rarity or value.


  6. We are getting into the realms of exponential expansion here. A slight variation in the position of the last digit is just individual die variations

    I agree with Chris on this one, if it can clearly be seen then it should be mentioned. After all the 1926 Modified penny is very hard to tell on circulated coins, unless one knows exactly what to look for. The best indicator is the initials BM and these are not too easy to see on circulated coins. As we know the 1926 modified penny commands high prices and only because it has very minor changes in the design, almost undetectable to the naked eye.

    I think there is actually an easy way to spot the Modified Effigy Penny which works for even very worn coins

    Look at the colon between GRA and BRITT

    on the normal coin it's midway between A and B

    on the modified effigy it's right next to the A

    As Michael Gouby says on his website most date spacing variants are not of any special interest - especially when it's only one digit.


  7. What a nice surprise, WHSmith have just ordered 1000 pre publication! This is important, as it'll mean that they get them on their shelves in time for Christmas, which I'm hoping will be a time when lots of them are sold. They didn't manage it last year, mainly because I didn't realise they need so much notice.

    They're funny WHSmith, you email them, write to them, phone them and you never seem to get anywhere. And then, out of the blue, an email order for 2,200 books (1000 CCGB2006 + 600 Roman Silver and 600 Banknotes 2006). So the Roman and Banknotes will also be on shelves for Christmas.

    So far, that's 1700 CCGB2006 sold pre publication! Because I was new, I had 0 pre publication orders last year.

    Excellent news.

    I don't suppose you could persuade them to stop moving all the books around at least once a fortnight :)

    I can no longer find the Antiques/Collectables section

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