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In a moment of weakness I went into one of the antique shops here in Singapore to look through the trays of coins. I spent so long looking through them, with the nice old gent in the shop giving me an uniformed running commentary; I felt the need to let him rip me off a few dollars and bought 3 coins. I even gave the guy a chance to come clean; “these are copies, right?” to which he gave the astonished reply “no, all genuine” If any of you agree with him I’d be happy to sell these on to you:-)

I think I'd have to look at a couple in hand, to see for myself Pete. Good stuff though. It's great when a new variant comes to light.

I suspect that many people may be fooled into thinking that a slabbed "reject" wouldn't be faked.

Can anyone suggest what may be going on with the E of GEOR in this one?

There could be an underlying letter, although quite a few of the letters are doubled up.

I use a 2 point grading system - acceptable or not

A nice surprise earlier today, thought I'd do a quick check on the newly listed and this was the newest listing - £3.25 BIN with free postage to Spain, bonus!

Not the nicest looking penny but one i will always keep. Its the actual coin that was used to illustrate OBV 10 in the Michael freeman book "The victorian bronze penny ".

and another from VickySilver's collection...

A penny for your thoughts -- from VickySilver's collection...

I believe that the Freeman 2 Gold proof was sold to a Japanese collector. I believe the auction hammer was £6000, Auctioned by Spink, June 1987. I did hear that the coin was once in the Royal collection.

Sent this for grading CGS came back today as cgs 65 ....Made up as rare .W.W....so one to keep