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That's very difficult. How long is a piece of string? You would probably need to look at the mintage of 10p's and 5p's between 1968 and 1980, compare that with the mintage of shillings and florins between 1947 and 1967, then do a 'finger in the air' estimate of 1) the withdrawal of older coins due to wear, i.e. the normal course of events and 2) the mass withdrawal of coins by collectors and nostalgics and speculators in the few years before 1971. My own very rough guess is that the number of pre-dec coins still in circulation would have been less than a quarter, and maybe considerably less.

The problem is manifold: Kavanaugh is up for the highest legal office in the land but has not demonstrated 'judicial temperament' which is essential in that role his own diaries testify against him, and forced him to lie about their meaning (terms like "barf" and "Devil's Triangle" were redefined by him) as this is not a criminal trial, but a job nomination, different standards apply 'hard evidence' is almost impossible to provide in a case like this - if the accusation is true, you can understand why Ford tried to mentally bury it why haven't any of Trump's other Supreme Court nominees come under attack in similar ways? It this was political, they would have been without doubt. I agree that it would be nigh on impossible to now bring criminal charges, but not to repudiate the nomination; let's not forget that Kavanaugh was a mere law clerk until promoted by Bush for political reasons (repaying favours? Not sure.) - further investigation may or may not be appropriate, the FBI seem to think not.

Sadly the pictures have gone to the Internet GRaveyard.

It's quite possible - the War resulted in some vastly reduced standards in die wear etc. Plus we shouldn't forget that because of inflation there was a vast increase in mintages, plus there was a shortage of manpower. The Mint had their hands more than full.

Later gilt will always come away showing an underlying normal dark copper colour. Or, where it's been 'painted on', the final effect is so obvious you can immediately tell it's not genuine.

In addition to what @Rob said, the pennies I'm talking about look exactly as if bits of metal are stuck in them like chips in a biscuit. Not streakiness, but discrete little gold-coloured flecks (probably brass) that are embedded into the content of the penny, not simply on the surface like streaky lustre.

Sadly I never scanned them - they're still in a Whitman folder somewhere. Sometime... This, however, is my 1926 penny which is exactly like your streaky example:

That looks more like 'streaky lustre' than the effect I'm talking about?

I don't think so! However, I can probably hazard a guess how it arose. You may have seen some 1920 and 1921 pennies with gold coloured flecks in them. It's actually brass and appears to have been caused by the Mint putting unused shell cases left over from the War into the mix. I actually own a couple of these, and while I can't confirm the truth of the cause, I can certainly verify that there are pennies out there with gold-coloured flecks in them. That could well be the origin of the myth about 1922 pennies.

pAS for me. I can't see any signs of wear at all. That was a great price for it!

Rob's "hot and cold" is relative. In one sense the decimal market has always been flat, for the simple reason that no dealer will ever come close to the over inflated prices that the Mint charges for new issues. To anyone contemplating collecting in that field I have one thing to say: "Buy only in the secondary market and never from the RM".

Not sure why you're unhappy with that first one? It's rather unlikely you'd upgrade that in a hurry.

No, I agree with you. The early 70s (the first 3 or 4 proof sets) you can make a case for - no pun intended. However, it would have been preferable if subsequent sets had been much more sporadic. Individual changing designs or new denominations - the 20p, £1, £2, 50p, etc - would have been introduced as single issues in various forms such as regular metal, silver, and piedfort for new denominations. The whole "several proofs each year" thing has just devalued the proof experience IMO.

I'm late to this thread - yes, it's Julia Domna; you can make out the MNA AUG to the right of her bust, and just discern the DO to the left. It's her portrait too. I found my first denarius on the spoil tip of an archaeological dig in 1974 - a Julia Domna in VF. Sadly I was a penurious student when I got back to Brum and sold it to a dealer for around £7, a small fortune back then.

"One is not amused. How about ewe?"

Any coins?

Anything in the museum would be valuable and / or rare. Everything else got melted down?

Randy California, I think? They lost that case, hope they didn't also lose a heap of legal costs.

Three tracks from possibly the most underrated band of all time: Rock, jazz, ballads - they had it all. Plus the litiginously failed original riff to Stairway To Heaven?

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Sensayuma? Not us...

Very fair. Tbh, if it was mine I wouldn't rush to sell it, but we're all different (thank goodness).

Certainly return proof coins that have been poorly handled, as these clearly have. It's nothing new however - you don't see fingerprints on 70s proofs, but sometimes you see very bad staining, a reaction with the coloured inlays. 1973 proof sets especially it seems, it's rare to find one where all the coins are perfect.

I would largely agree with copper. However, it wasn't out of the question, and I expect on rare occasions someone would pull a (grim) pre-1920 coin from their change. It never happened to me but not impossible. Do bear in mind that the only factor in such coins that went up in the 70s was their bullion value.