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Agree that F79 is underrated, quite pleased with my own example.

This is mine, which I bought from Guy Fie, via this forum, for a very reasonable £250 in 2017. Slight fingerprint on the obverse, but apart from that GEF with some residual lustre.

I got mine from DNW last year for £618.

A touch better than mine lol

Lovely examples! Mine is a GVF that I saw as a very cheap BIN ( no attribution ) and grabbed it fast!

I'd say the F79 is definitely rarer than the R13 ascribed to it. They are very rare in high grade. One of those varieties that's not quite in the extremely rare class, but is definitely scarce enough to be hardly ever seen on e bay. Quietly underrated type.

I've just done a check of 1875 pennies on Ebay: Obviously, many are that flat that it's not possible tell some apart... Large date 120 Small date 74 1875H 14 F79 ( sea over circle) 0 Pretty much as usual The Heaton version is touted as very rare, and isn't.( except in very good grades) and the F79 is hardly ever there- I see maybe 3 a year tops. Maybe some of the F79 are that flat you can't tell, but where are the other better grades, since it's only rarity 13 or R5, supposedly?

Russians? We were in Liverpool last night for the Russian State Ballet's production of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. Fabulous, with Expressionism and Dada influences in evidence throughout, so I came away a very happy bunny (man) indeed.

Very good- saw what you did there. Treble VATs all round!! ( on the slate please, Dave...)