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Bookshop display with a sense of humour:

Thats the problem Jon ,they have done a good job BUT then hidden the cleaning by dipping it.

Is it just me who thinks that's not a bad job of removing the crud from the farthing?

Magnay, David Edgar (1942-2009) Contributors to British Numismatics 24 July 2021 Biographical and Other Notes Spent his early years in the UK and Singapore. Educated in Northumberland and aged 18 joined Lloyd’s Bank in Southampton. In 1960 his interests changed from stamps to coins. He moved all over the country with his job, rising to senior manager of the Liverpool City centre branch and senior commercial manager in Cardiff, living in Cowbridge. On being made redundant in the late 80s he founded The Business Mortgage Company Ltd. from which he retired in 1998. He spent 37 years in the Territorial Army. He specialized in toy coins and model money, Victorian pattern pennies (DNW February 1999) and helped D. Roger’s with his book Toy Coins (1990) and D. Young and J.G. Scott’s book on imitation spade guineas. Regular at Token Congress and many articles published.

What can I say? A hero gone.