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It's been speculated on and with hindsight, bleedin' obvious for years. All dictators operate the same basic way. First thing is to grant themselves the position of leader in effective perpetuity. The fact he limited his period in office to 2036 is an irrelevance and totally arbitrary. Previously he had the inconvenience of two terms max. Copper misread my previous reply. We desperately need a bus to run him over, or his butler to give him some Eau de Polonium.

Massive, massive respect for the people of Ukraine and especially Kiev (or should I say Kyiv) who seem to be putting up one hell of a fight against the Russians. They'll probably lose the immediate battle, but no doubt form guerilla groups to harass Russian occupation troops in the weeks and months to come. I'd also bet that this action will attract mercenaries and sympathisers from neighbouring countries, who will join the fight. Not to mention sophisticated weaponry being passed to them. This can't be going down well in Russia itself who no doubt see the Ukrainians as pretty much the same as themselves. Putin seems to have possibly miscalculated, and all the hard words about de-nazification, have removed any face saving way out, short of rapid outright victory. All the crap he comes out with means we might as well completely discount anything he says.

It was way back in Oct 2014 that I discovered the new 2*, so that's nearly eight years ago now. There must have been many test types made, but after test runs found them to be unserviceable for the long production lines needed were then destroyed with no examples surviving through to the present day . But I guess we'll all will keep looking , as you never know what's going to turn up !!

It is a shame, though how long has it been since the last new bun penny variety was discovered - a couple of years? I think it was the different alignment of obverse 2 or something like that. I'm not sure when the last discovery before that was. There are probably more discoveries to be made but there can't be that many more to be made.

google lis truss and pork markets - its a classic

That's absolutely brilliant. Thanks for the heads up.

An earlier strike of a single die type 1915 Recessed ear ,not attributed and dont see many.

Had a bit more of a play using the original London Coins image... There does seem to be something there, even though I agree it's not conclusive either way. But I wouldn't be happy to have paid a large sum for it. My money would still be on removal or die fill.