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I bought this from a friend a while back, who is a collector, but not of pennies. I guess its about GF which for this rare type seems to be exceptional . In all the years I've been collecting the only better one I've seen is Garys [Bronze & Copper on here]. its strange that this type seems prone to wearing badly in the centre of the Kings head.

Having looked at a dozen or so for the first time, the likely number of calls I will be receiving in the future doesn't bear thinking about. All those different ONE POUND and 2016 potential errors, i.e. one to twelve parts of either side's miniature legend being blocked or indistinct. Off-centre strikes. Coins dated 2016 that weren't issued until 2017. Warts and all the other die flaws that will occur naturally. Position of the milling relative to the design. I think I am going off-grid until the situation stabilises.

After reading all the above posts, I'm surprised to find out out that I actually have a loose 2009 dated 50p athletics coin which I was given in my change a couple of years ago. I never realised how scarce this coin is and I am even more surprised at finding one in my change. It looks like it's been in circulation for quite a while as it has a few scratches and chips on it but definitely one to keep in my collection. I also have a Blue Peter 2009 coin that I bought on eBay for just a few pounds in 2012, but now I see they are selling for £80 plus!

I was wondering about that. It could be that supplies of the new coin are done on an area by area basis, with all production going for distribution in one area. If you can get 6 figures from a die pair, then it may be necessary to see several runs before the averages work out to be 50:50. Are these edges put on in advance or at the time of striking? For what it's worth, I have 1 smooth right to 11 smooth left.

IACOBVS REX (JAMES KING)

Just checked mine again. None have the reeding to the left, but one has the reeding mostly to the right, but with 3 lines into the left hand side. This is paired with the reverse that has almost all of the thistle leaf in the brass ring and the legend touching the inner ring. i.e. appears to be struck slighly off centre.

My pic of the Sandwich token, the best of the three

Not sure if this has been noted. At the bottom of the coin around the edge. Below the hologram section the reeding is standardly to the right and with smooth to the left. I have checked about 70 coins up to now and have only found 1 that has reeding to the left. I know with the previous decimal coinage edge variation has been unimportant, but if this is the standard ratio then I would assume this would make a difference. Just an observation.

Quite common to see the later reverses wear - for example the 1895 YH farthing rarely turns up with a decent reverse, I suspect the reverse die got overused as the OH was about to be issued.

Isn't that a contradiction in terms?