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And I like this one best. 50km northeast of Budapest https://www.escape.com.au/news/funny-road-signs-from-around-the-world/news-story/a79c5b5e7637dd5bc3ddad63ace2823e

Some amusing road signs from The Sun:

I think its Garys on here Jon as seen it before and seem to remember it was his 🙂

Very nice, this is my only example

Unless they were collected (eg: the H's KN's and ME's of this world) absolutely. The vast majority would have been totally unaware, for example, of many varietal types of Edward VII and George V & VI. Hence, as I referenced in an earlier post, why some which are now extremely rare, were never collected pre demonetisation. Some weren't identified until Freeman's time, and the enthusiastic collectors of the mid to late 60's were probably using those small "Check your Change" booklets, which, whilst obviously very useful, did not cover the lesser known varieties. So they nearly all disappeared in the melt and probably many more in the subsequent unofficial melts which still go on to this day. Having now got nearly a full complement of Coin Monthly's from November 1966 to February 1971, it's also noteworthy that there is absolutely no mention whatsoever, in the sales ads, of many of the 20th century Freeman types we now know so well. A 1913 penny, for instance, was a 1913 penny. No more than that.

Yes. Ironic that there is nothing scarce about 1902LT or 1912H pennies.

Probably. Ingram and Ingram definitely. The booklet mentions the LT, H's, KN's & the ME. Undoubtedly they got hoarded.

I've never seen an Edward VII farthing with convincing original mint lustre, but I've seen an 1898 and a 1901 which looked kosher. Maybe just good coin doctoring though.

#16,490 A pirate walks into a bar. He's got the whole pirate look down. He's got the peg leg, the hook hand, an eyepatch and the hat all going on. The bartender takes all of this in, impressed. There's just one odd thing and he just has to ask. "So Mr. Pirate, your look is pretty cool. I gotta ask though, what's with the chocolate wrapper on your hat?" The pirate replied, "Arrrrgh, I've a Bounty on me head!

A very nice example. The Sparrow balloon tokens were some of the first I collected in this series, just need the RRR piece for the set of six

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I like them and I don't need the money.

I'd expect these to exist though, despite the spurious nature of the above example. I've seen Old Head Victorian examples. See London Coins, 2 March 2014, lot 2293, "Farthings (5) 1879 Large 9, 1879 Small 9 (2), 1901 with traces of lustre, not mint darkened, 1907 with lustre, not mint darkened NEF to GEF". As typical with farthing varieties, no-one was particularly interested and it went for £42 + premium. M"

For silver, I guess George III crowns are not difficult to find in near UNC condition as they were delivered to the banks warped individually in soft paper. The crown had not been minted for such a long time and many people wanted to save an example. Young Head crowns are very rare and expensive in UNC. There is a big price difference between EF and VF also; VF or below are common. I guess the limited mintage coupled with the large number of years in circulation before the Jubilee and Old Head kicking in have created many worn examples. I can understand why the 1887 crowns are common in UNC because it was the first year of mintage and it commemorated Victoria's Golden Jubilee which was an important event. But I am rather surprised why the later years of the Jubilee crowns are still relative common in UNC given so many books have commented on the unpopularity of the design. Why save something that's unpopular?

Not like genuine lustre at all - it's been artificially gilded, probably to pass off as a half sov> You can always tell these - the gilding is matt and completely the wromg colour.