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  9. Posted

    16 hours ago, jelida said:

    He clearly took the halfpennies and farthings too as within five years of his initial work he was ready to publish the authoritative bronze volume.

    A shame he didn't publish the raw numbers for the lower denominations.

    6 hours ago, SilverAge3 said:

    Surely this was a long project. He may have even stated how long, but I can't recall.

    I'm sure I read he got interested in the 1940s when he was in primary school (I think). I don't remember where I saw that though.

  11. Posted

    On 1/7/2024 at 9:50 PM, Ukstu said:

    I just got a Usb DVD drive off amazon for my daughter for college £13 a few months ago.

    If you make a Googlemail account you get an online drive with it. Think its 15gb. I have a folder on that for PDF , ebooks etc. I just file it all in that. I will probably back it up at some point to a tangible source I own. 

    Still keep your own copy - last year something went awry and Google was incorrectly classifying people's personal files as pirated content.

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  15. Posted

    On 12/10/2023 at 12:56 AM, Paddy said:

    It insists on sending out separate invoices for each lot sold,
    The process for requesting combined invoices is complex and requires manual intervention by AUCTIONET, not the auction house,
    The postage costs are set very high, and by default are charged separately for each lot, with minimal discount for combined postage when achieved

    Sounds like how ebay works these days...

  19. Posted

    On 10/3/2023 at 10:49 AM, Bronze & Copper Collector said:

    1862 A to LEFT of Lighthouse - Nearer to Rim

    Poor quality, difficult to see, but I believe the rocks are there.

     

    1862 A to LEFT of Lighthouse - Nearer to Rim.jpg

    Do you have the coin in hand to check? I haven't been able to find a lot of die letter A examples but it looks like the coins with A near or touching the linear circle have faint/no rocks while the coins with the A touching the lighthouse definitely have rocks.

  23. Posted

    And a little bit of an update to this - I haven't done a in-depth study of the G with rock/G with no rock from 1861 to 1873, but I have had a brief look.

    From 1863 to 1873, the pictures I have at hand all seem to show a rock (though a bit faint at times).

    More interestingly, the 1862 with A to left of lighthouse has no rocks while the 1862 with A to right of lighthouse has a rock, at least from the handful of images I've looked at (https://www.baldwin.co.uk/product/victoria-1837-1901-halfpenny-1862-die-letter-a-rrr/, https://www.londoncoins.co.uk/?page=Pastresults&auc=124&searchlot=555&searchtype=2, https://www.londoncoins.co.uk/?page=Pastresults&auc=162&searchlot=2355&searchtype=2).

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  24. Posted

    I don't really track US coins but yeah probably the high mintage would be part of it.

    I'd assume that collectors are very much divided (like here) into classic (1960s or earlier) and modern (alphabet sets/state quarters) and maybe these sets fall in between.

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