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Here's my example Richard. Looking at my past records I see that over the years I have sold 6 of them, none as good as this though!

I look for them several times a week on Fleabay - I've done this for years now- I hardly ever see one, even in worn condition. It doesn't suffer from the 'Collection Bias' that has flooded the world with worn 1912.1918/1919 'Heaton pennies, ( maybe 1875H too) or BU 1901's (because that was the shiny one in the pocket of the person the day they heard Victoria had died) etc etc.. It's not spotted by non- numismatists over the years. F79 is the No1 penny for me that seems to have it's rarity rating way out..... Finding a really good 'un without paying over the odds for a selected one at an auction is proving impossible. Mine is a nice GVF bought when someone didn't know what it was and put a BIN of £15.....that'll do....

Please excuse the huge pictures, but I thought necessary to see the detail. Below is the text from Bramah for his 25c. I have inserted red numbers to align with the features highlighted in the coin pictured left…….which is undoubtedly an example of what he was describing. Something I have noticed, I think mentioned on the forum before, is the additional protrusion top right of the 8. This looks like a 90 degree corner of a numeral which has straight horizontal and vertical lines at that point. I have also shown a second example with same features 1 to 3, although the protrusion top right is less obvious. This piece shows yet another protrusion within the top loop at bottom right side; a straight line at about 45 degrees. This was not particularly clear on the left hand coin, but is present. When I stared at that numeral, like I used to stare at those pictures on pub walls where tigers or other things would eventually appear, I thought I could almost see a numeral 4 starting to show itself!!

Here is mine bought privately February 2017. You may already have it, but If you do happen to want a better pic, Richard, let me know and I'll photoscape it.

Not bad at all. I've noticed some of the scarce copper varieties don't actually command big sums. I managed to get one that was aEF from Nathan Smith for £40 last year. Considered it a bit of a bargain as you really don't see too many of them.

Thanks for the pics, Jerry. I've taken a second look through auction archives and I've now recorded 16 examples, most of which are a decent grade, so it looks as though it may only be scarce rather than rare but almost certainly less common than Freeman's R13 would suggest.

It may be rare in top condition, though I doubt it would reach your criteria overall. Here are my two, though the second might already feature in your records having once been sold by LCA I think. Jerry

"Restrike" requires the coin to be officially reissued. My opinion is that the term cannot be used for a fake coin. He should have called the coin "fake" or "reproduction" in my view.

Yes, caveat emptor. Nothing random going on here, and the intention is clear, the fakes have been bought with the intention of selling on at a profit to people who shouldn't be allowed out unsupervised.

Each and every one of these tins of random junk has a fake valuable coin placed on top of the pile in the lower right corner. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/1960john060/m.html?item=402645840095&hash=item5dbf8ff0df%3Ag%3A0SEAAOSwI-BgAJLB&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

Indeed she is a cunning stunt