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Is the die axis correct on your piece, Terry ? Because it wasn't when the dies clashed !

I'm not sure. I think it's a lion. Or possibly a lamb..

I hadn't noticed before but Interestingly the ghostly outline of Victoria's face can be seen on the right side of the coin.

Just thought it would be fun to have some Christmas jokes. I will start it off😏 What did Adam say the day before Christmas? "It's Christmas, Eve!" What did Mrs. Claus say to Santa Claus when she looked up in the sky? Looks like rain, dear! What did Cinderella say when her photos didn’t arrive on time? One day my prints will come

The day before graduation, our student accommodation was furnished with brand new signs saying Housing Units 1-28 and Housing Units 29-64. Unfortunately for the uni the letters were peelable. Come half ten that evening directions had been provided for 2 nuns 69ing in 8, sh*t housing and shi**ing nuns amongst other things. Every resident was fined a pound from their £10 deposit after the signs had been hastily removed.

I the background of the above pic, you can see our old very missed Passat. I worked out the anagram of 'Passat Tdi' - nearly caused a few accidents..... Any more cars you can do something similar to?

What a good question, I hadn't thought to look . It has about a 15deg rotation anticlockwise , that would account for the position of the stick on the left and her face on the right being so far off the normally position of die clash marks.

Plus it's got "photobucket" scrawled across often meaningful parts of the photo.

It is interesting, a clogged die as Terry says, not of great extra value but I would keep one in my collection if I found one. Jerry

I have one of this type [pic. below], its the same as yours a 3+d F13 but it must have been made before yours as part of the flag is still visible as a short horizontal line , yours has had more time for the die to clog up and the flag to almost disappear completely . it also has the stick like line running down from Britanniars hand, caused I think by a die clash . I've seen quite a few of these, and I wouldn't think them to be highly sought after and of any great value.

Not a great pic - but finally am able to post. My questions are Has anyone had one like this before? would it be considered a variety?

Indeed. Although of course, we don't know exactly what happened on the day. It could have fallen on the floor and he picked it up and put it in his pocket intending to throw it in with the melt, forgot about it. Then decided to keep it for posterity. Maybe later gave it to a young relative as an example of a silver threepence. Of course, in 1945, he'd have had no idea of its future worth. I bet it will fetch many orders of magnitude more than £4k this time.

https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/7956/

The human race is unbelievably arrogant, granting ourselves "human rights" that even overrule the basic rules of society sometimes and deciding that other "lesser" species on the evolutionary scale are worthy of preservation for the purposes of entertainment or sustenance.

It's wrong in just about every way possible. Beautiful - not. Nice color for the year - I prefer the green ones they made in 1964. Collectible coin - not. Desirable - not. The way they are supposed to look - not. Never met a toned coin collector - presumably means tanned? Why does he studiously avoid the warning on the label and make statements to the contrary? Only true bits are every collector loves beautiful coins, and to some extent, loves rare coins.

From letters to the editor in the FT a few days ago.