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A keeper for my half crown collection

Arrived today nice 1862 6+G Penny and 1926 OE Sixpence

1844 Penny and a rather lovely stowaway 1946 Penny beautiful satin finish and a freebie what could be a better start to the day than that. Thanks very much Pete a true gent and the coins aint bad either Richard

I'd not run across one of these until today (the shop actually had acquired a pair of them, the one pictured below being by far in the better condition of the two). I find this issue rather amusing - tipping the scales at 57½ grams, its bulk seems rather at odds with its intended function as "small change".... I understand that these have been subject to counterfeiting. Does anybody see anything that might be a cause for concern in that regard? Actual hue of the coin is a nice, dark red brown - these photos were taken in a manner so as to best show extant detail.

I imagine many of these lumps destroyed many a pocket. I once won £50 of £1 coins from an arcade in Dawlish and apart from looking rude with a bulge in my pocket ruined a good pair of shorts.

I don't touch coins . It's au naturale

The cutlery is stainless steel, not all steels can be magnetised, austenitic stainless is non magnetic.

This collection wasnt sold to me. They belonged to my friends father. His father died recently and I was selling them for him. Some are marked copies but most are not. I do not know how to tell a copy from the real thing. Hunt51 May he forever rest in peace ...REV G father RIP

Well all bar 1 but strangely and directly because of your intervention the sole coin he has for sale mas marked copy on the envelope. (more like they all were until he was sussed) I reported him earlier as well. I think for any novice reading an inro that starts. "handed down,relative died,I am selling for a friend,I know nothing about coins" all of these are red lights alarms to run for the hills and all normally have between 20-90 feedback generated by the ring of scammers they are in. Whilst there may well be a genuine seller as a matter of security for yourself just ignore it and move on. If it sounds too good to be true it 99/100 times is.so.