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  1. Just to start this thread off again heres a little lovely that I picked up at the last York fair (Friday)

    Have never seen one like this -its the smallest size and has a grained edge , hopefully someone might know a bit about it , its in lovely grade and I jumped at it for £12 , total bargain in this grade I am sure.

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  2. On 12/20/2023 at 5:34 PM, DrLarry said:

    thank you 

    for helping him out The issue seemed to be that the Grading company had limited capacity to work out a tooth from a bead .  But once the gospel is set in plastic iti s hard to speak other than their  written word...  the worst one I had was a beautiful 1837 penny which was slabbed in fact a half penny.....  you just can't get the staff....

     

    Merry Christmas all  

    Great excuse to break it out and let it free , pretty sure a penny is worth much more than a halfpenny anyway


  3. I have done banking for a shop and I assure you every day you have to bank every coin from the penny to the two pound coins if someone had come into my shop and asked me to sort out say all the bronze coins till 1992 and offered me no financial reward they would have been laughed out of the shop , its basically a pain.

    Of course it was pretty handy for myself when the undated 20ps and kews were circulating


  4. 1 hour ago, secret santa said:

    Seems logical - they get rid of all the shrapnel with out having to lug them to the bank themselves.

    Not really they would have plenty other coins beside pennies what about the shilling ,sixpence &threepence coins and halfpennies they would still have to sort the Victorian bun pennies  for Mr freeman and receive no monetary reward


  5. On 1/15/2024 at 6:26 AM, PWA 1967 said:

    I believe freeman had a deal with a local bus station in the sixties were he bought them all at face value , then went through them and took to the bank himself.

     

    Seems unlikely that the bus station would go to all that bother then sell them at zero profit --- come on would you do it????


  6. On 10/21/2023 at 3:23 PM, Varietalis said:

    1970 halfpenny D of DEI to a gap obverse 1970 halfpenny D of DEI to a gap reverse

    This £17.99 1970 set just arrived from ebay. Seller hadn't spotted that it contained the super scare halfpenny dies 3K (D of DEI to gap).

    Super scare halfpenny - should have found it on Halloween

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