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Anyone interested? A figure of £40-50 has been mentioned, but I'll take the best offer by Saturday night. I also have a 1970 copy of Freeman I don't need.

I don't have Gouby and I haven't really got into these date width varieties, but I get from the above that mine is Ba?

.....actually, perhaps a bit narrower than Ba!!

For 'date width' collectors. Picked up quite a nice 1895 1mm penny, which looks to me to be something in between Gouby's Ba and Bb, with the centre base of the 5 neither directly over a gap (Ba) or directly over a tooth (Bb, wider).

There are hole drills without the centre drills - like these: A hole punch would leave different damage and would certainly have deformed the reverse.

Rather than an attempt at drilling, (the tip of the drill being pointed would remove material in the center first) Not around the edge. This looks like an attempt at using a hole punch.

Full House, Queens over Kings... 😎 Five generations of this coin from the Netherlands. 38 mm, 25 g .945 fine silver Willem II - 1848 Willem III - 1874 Wilhelmina - 1898 33 mm, 15 g .720 silver (the cost of 2 world wars) Julianna - 1959 But even that couldn't be sustained in the modern world... 29mm 10 g 100% Nickel which at least gives it a decent look and feel. This was the the last Rijksdaalders as the Euros came in. Beatrix - 2001 I still need an 1840 2 1/2 Gulden of Willem I to complete the set.

You only ever post links to coins you have for sale, which I don't mind now and again but because you have never actually participated in forum discussion and because I have no way of knowing if you are a genuine seller, I'm afraid I'm going to remove the link above and suspend your account for now.

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Someone has started drilling it with a hole drill and given up. Or maybe it was being used as a backstop when they were drilling something else.

Quite a selection of boat anchors between us. 🖖

Does anyone have any idea what’s happened to this 10p coin. Got it back from a local shop with some other change and has peaked my interest

Now I know how non-coin people feel when they see our conversations on varieties!

oh wow- I have a B40 and an R107T as well...

Thank you for the information.

Thank you very much for taking the time to explain the above and provide the images. Much appreciated !

Looking at the comparative pictures above, most of the differences (apart from the colours!) seem to come from the angle of the final 1 rather that its horizontal position. Completely different to what we see with 1896 pennies, for example.

Actually, Rob, it's a bit seasonal. Just before Christmas last year I did a bottle count in the house and it was 208. My record. I make up beer boxes for friends and clients, each tailored to thier tastes. Some Belgian, Orval etc, or Matilda from Goose Island, the only two beers that use that type of brettanomyces yeast as far as I know, Matilda being licensed from Orval, and a ton from Bewdley Brewery, Gower Gold, and a big pile from Orkney. I've never had a failure with Orkney's "Northern Light", it's universally liked, particularly in the summer, and I adore Puffin with cheese, Dark Island with powerful cheese, and I like to share a bottle of Dark Island Reserve which is Dark Island left in a whisky barrel for a year. 10%. Amazing amazing flavour. If you like good beer, you must order one. Very easy to get a delivery straight from the brewery. Also used for jump starting trucks.

When I drink too much of it the police put me in the AA cell. Double joke. You're welcome.

Thanks Pete. I will stick it down as Ab* .Now to dig out the sack of Pennies to find a normal Ab.

No they are the one not in Gouby he left out as similar to Ab. The one NOT in Gouby is the third one down on Terrys picture.

I'm confused with mine now . I had this down as an Ab , but it has a gap to the teeth .Is it a straightforward Ab ?

Hi Mike To answer your question I personally have only seen four of the Aa type . Below is a picture of the four types I have come across . Top is Ac with the 1 directly over the tooth [ I have seen about six of this type]. Next down is the normal common type Ab with the 1 slightly to the left of the tooth but the 1 its self is almost touching the tooth . Third down is very similar to Ab but the 1 is more to the left of tooth and importantly has a gap between it and the tooth { not listed by Gouby as its to similar to the common Ab type} bottom is Aa with the 1 directly over the gap between the teeth , all three of the rare types have that space between the 1 and the row of outer teeth, as Pete has already said

I think its the common one and yes they do look similar and why they are often confused. That i do know as bought a few that have gone straight in the bin.

It does look similar hard to say, I dont have the coin to hand. It cost me £1 so worth a punt.