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In other words, roll the swab between fingers/thumb, don't wipe or rub. Use the technique in this video

Dansco 7070 is pretty much the standard. They have been back in print, so a lot more reasonable than a few years ago, but yes, still expensive. Are you against importing from the US? I'd think some eBay sellers are willing to ship there. Whitman made similar albums (not the cheap folder types), but I'm not sure they are made anymore. Littleton may have a ripoff of the Dansco, but I don't know if they do international post. You could probably get one of us in the US to relay it, but I imagine, if you're willing to ship from US, lots of sellers are willing. Found an old Whitman basic type set. Pretty sure they don't print it currently, but this is (I'm assuming) what you'd be looking for. I do not see any on eBay presently. When they pop up, some people do price gouging. https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m20076526228?sv=0

Have you heard of using gun bore cleaner? Not sure how accessible that is over there. I know it is part of the process used by a guy over here, for cleaning copper, bronze. But the rest he keeps pretty secret.

I had an empty row at the bottom of the last page of my shillings, after the 1970 proof coins. So I decided it would be fun to put together some similar sized and valued coins (in terms of buying power then) from earlier in the 20th century. Plus the 5 pence proof from 1990 is in silver as well because that was the last year they were made the same size as the classic shilling and the shilling was finally being demonitized 20 years after decimal day. The other coins are: 1930 US Standing Liberty Quarter 1917 French 1 Franc 1930 Irish 1 Shilling 1917 Italian 1 Lira 1909 Imperial Germany 1 Mark It’s an interesting comparison of economies that the franc, mark & lira are all a single unit of their basic currency, the US is one fourth of a dollar and the shilling was one twentieth of a pound sterling. Though their economy was weaker, Ireland at that time pegged the Punt to the Pound. The US was far stronger than all of mainland Europe but the UK ruled over all until WWI shattered everyone but the US.

Sometimes wipes only show up in certain angles. A friend recently got a German piece from Künker in which pics and description say nothing of cleaning, but he shared a video where it's clear. Hairlines over both the fields and devices. He's pretty unhappy about it, obviously. It's the sort of thing that lead to TPGs becoming so popular here in the US. That and whizzing being so popular here for a time. Künker is a really big AH, with hammers averaging more than 2.5x of estimates.

Welcome @SJo! That looks like post mint damage (PMD) to me. Someone messing around in a workshop.

Hi. And welcome to the forum. What would be the year and die pairing for this? Bob.

Hi, I have a 1937 Penny with a marked edge and not flat, and am wondering what this is. Apologies for my obvious lack of correct terminology.

Thanks, I cant draw the same lines because the coin is slightly rotated in the image, I'm quite sure the A is located the same as PW1967 and Gary's. So all three of these coins are quite consistant in the placement of the A. Also on all three coins the A stands quite alot. The coin in question (my one) the proposed A is quite weak and located roughly a few mm to the right. Until I receive my coin and take macro photos Im leaning towards it's not a die letter A on my coin. I wonder who has the other examples with the A to the right of the LH.

@PWA 1967 The coin on left here is the one you have.

Its the same one that sold at LCA a few years ago and can see a large picture of the reverse on there website.

Thank you, would it be be possible please to upload an image of the complete reverse. Thanks.

The problem with all lower grades is that it is subject to the degree of dishing to the flan. The dies always seem to have a more dished reverse (probably by design to see the date (as opposed to the monarch which is easily discernible from the profile. The less dishing, the more even the wear. Whatever, Fine for me too on the obverse, the reverse inevitably better - say good Fine or nVF.

I tried to line it up squarely

Thank you ! if you upload an image please which is perfectly square on to the coin I will draw the same to see.

i don't have a good camera, but here's another with A to the right of the LH. I don't know how it matches your varieties

Although I do not collect them, I have found the British colonial coinage fascinating over the years. Here are a couple that I still have the pics for:

It's fun seeing some of the different colonial & dependency coins out there. I'm at work so these images are from Numista rather than my collection, but I've been really enjoying discovering things like this silver six pence from 1942 Fiji: Or this coin commemorating the Battle of Jersey from 1981 I want to get the New Brunswick and Newfoundland coinage too - the Newfoundland Victorian coins have a marvellous effigy on them: I don't have any of them yet, but seeing this online reminds me why I want to!

for me its a real eye opener ..... the earliest one I have is 1822 George IIII, 1/16th Dollar, West Indies. .892 silver, It made me realise that a lot of these have been rejected by others because for not being British coins and so written off as being foreign...... I have over the years found in the Hoard Box a couple of William IIII, 1835, 1/4 Rupee, East India Company, .917 Silver & 1836 1/2 Guilder, Guiana, .8166 Silver (Minted for only one year and classed as being quite rare) the rest I have found to be Victorian, Edward VII, George V, from all over, Canada, India, Mauritius, China, Ceylon, Cyprus, Australia, East Africa & West Africa...... beginning to put these in date order in a sleeve....

I can only find two images of confirmed die letter A right of the lighthouse coins. I made this image to show the location of the A in respect to the date numerals and legends. The coin on the left is the London coins example, middle is the the coin in question and the coin on the right is Gary's. You can see on my coin the middle of the three the central line of the "A" does not disect the top part of the F of half like the London coins example and Gary's. I have read that the die letter C to the left of the Lighthouse there exist atleast 3 types, with slighly different location and or size, I think the A to the left of lighthouse also has slight variations in the few that are known. Other than this difference everything else appears to line up quite closely between the 3 coins.

I will do thanks ! After closer inspection it looks like the shape has the similar curved base.

Show us clearer pics when it arrives. Definitely worth a punt at that price. Jerry