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Here's my photos of the coin that arrived yesterday. These photos look more like the PCGS rather than the Spink photos, except that I'm unable to capture the reflective proof surfaces and some of the high definition of the proof strike in the obverse's hair, wreath, and ribbon details.

http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2016-11-16/monumental-hoard-of-civil-war-coins-unearthed-in-lincolnshire/ What a feeling it must be to find something like this.

This is right up my street. The content will be really important if it contains any Royalist York coins as it might help in the dating of the various issues. The local events in 1643 may also help tie down the time it was buried. http://bcw-project.org/military/english-civil-war/midlands-and-east/lincolnshire-1643 Looking forward to the report.

Nah, I meant the pair of identical, consecutive lot half crowns but your post got in the way.

Posting them's easy. It's taking good ones in the first place that I have difficulty with.

Ah, pictures, my Achilles heel. I've shown a few with Dave's help - maybe I can put up the 1893 Jub 6d in PCGS64 and quite (I like that word) proof-like. Will send it over this weekend if I can dig it out of SDB. 1926 Pattern Wood Peace Crown?

The one with the large hole is not a coin but a Rechenpfennig, originally used on counting frames like a European abacus until the Arabs kindly gave us the mathematical concept of zero. Later on they were used as card counters and were often based on real coins but yours is too far gone to recognise. It looks to be by Christof Lauer of Nuremberg so, early to mid C19th.

I THOUGHT I had found the 3rd 2000 variant that Dave was talking about but was wrong. I did however re look at the Rev A and found that it was actually the Rev b of 1992. 2000 All with Portcullis 2 Rev b – as 1992 penny 1 of date and P of PENNY are both to left of a border bead (113BB) Rev c – as 2001 penny the 1 of date and P of Penny both point to a border bead. (109 BB) This then makes more sense to renamed Rev B to Rev c for continuity. I will post Rev a, b and c showing the differences later. So the list should now read as follows: 1971-1984 – Second Portrait Obverse with all Type 1 Portcullis 1985-1990 – Third Portrait Obverse with all Type 1 Portcullis 1991 This date has the 2 reverse Portcullis types 1 & 2 but it is interesting to note that type 1 legend is the same as Rev a and the type 2 like Rev b of the 1992 penny. 1992 I found that there are 2 distinct reverse variants for this year Rev a – 1 of date and P of PENNY are both to right of a border bead (110BB) Rev b – 1 of date and P of PENNY are both to left of a border bead (113BB) 1993 - Has both reverse types of Portcullis but now differs in that Type 2 still pairs up with Rev b of the 1992 penny with 113 border beads; Type 1 now is placed with a legend which has only 109 border beads and were the 1 & P now both point directly to a border bead (as Rev c of the 2000 Penny). From the survey I also found one with the Portcullis link filled in this date. 1994 - As 1991 has both Portcullis types 1 & 2 were type 1 legend is the same as Rev a and the type 2 like Rev b of the 1992 penny. 1995-1999 – all have type 2 reverse with Rev b legend (1 of date and P of PENNY are both to left of a border bead). 1998 Obverse changes to Forth Portrait. 2000 – Again I found only 2 distinct variants for this year although I note that DaveG found 3 in his survey done back in 2013. However both variants only have the Type 2 Portcullis. Rev b – as 1992 penny 1 of date and P of PENNY are both to left of a border bead (113BB) Rev c– as 2001 penny the 1 of date and P of Penny both point to a border bead. (109 BB) 2001-2006 – all again have type 2 reverse but now with Rev c legend characteristics as the 2000 penny (1 of date and P of Penny both point to a border bead). 2007 – Has both reverse types of Portcullis both with Rev c. 2008 – Again has both reverse types of Portcullis with Rev c. HOPE THAT IS CLEARER........ Thanks all