Peckris 2

That's amazing for a tenner. The seller obviously didn't know...

There's so much hair detail on that I thought it was Obverse 2 until I looked closer!

Nice, but another grossly overworked obverse die!

It was actually the 1968 pack not 1971!!

I think you're confusing currency and commemorative coins. With the former there is no secrecy - the published figures before 1953 are for coins minted in a given year whatever date was on them (I believe 1953 was the year it changed, Mike?). As for dealers, their interest is to preserve the status quo not stir things up. With commems, the situation is reversed. The RM uses perceived scarcity to sell its issues so sometimes it pays to conceal the actual figures.

Possible, though it could equally be the cut out for the obverse, which I seem to remember Whitmans always had?

The following questions arise: 1. If buried under a church's foundation stone for most of its life, why is it now in such bashed and battered condition? 2. If stolen in 1970, why was it put into a common or garden Whitman folder instead of being sold to a private collector? 3. Why is the cardboard recess for it in such poor condition compared to the other coins? 4. Why does it bear a startling resemblance to the replica 1933s produced a few years ago? 5. Why does the damage look like it's been done deliberately? 6. How come such a poor speller has no problems with PROFESSIONAL and NUMISMATIST?

Yes. If it was 1m it would be a scarcity on the level of the 1925 halfcrown. It IS scarce - rare in top grades - and definitely worth collecting. It has always been a 'key date'.

I wouldn't give any kind of verdict on the lower penny. The whole date has been marmalised - look at the 1, the 8, even the 6. They are all to some extent distorted and damaged.

"Only" verdigris - what about that bloody great scratch on the 2d?

Ah, the collapse of the £. Yes, that WILL cause tears.

Difficult to say about the pointing, but I can see at a glance that it's the earlier reverse, 1911-1913.

Is that CrossRail excavating a tunnel? Ah no, it's Winston turning rapidly in his grave.

I was joking, but glad you got the reference.

That's the penny presented to Michael Caine in 1964.

£2 isn't bad at all, for a 'no waves' variety.

Pleasure to the buyer may be followed at some unspecified point by huge disappointment when what they thought was also an investment produces a big loss. So I would suggest that "rip off" is wrong.

Interesting - the example shown on the RM website appears to be Heritage LOT #31238.

Erm.. you do know that Fred Scuttle IS Benny Hill don't you?

I'd trust Fred Scuttle more though.

Give me the choice of one coin from your collection, and I promise not to relay this to Mrs Mike.

How on earth did no-one online spot that?

There father who just dyed and didn't no anything about coins but I found them in are atic. I'm tolled their very rare by an ex spurt who I consull constul arksed about them.

He obviously wanted expert advice on how to get 0 bids on all his items!