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Are you kidding? ebay tacitly encourages the selling of fakes by paying no more than lip service to their "policing". They don't care what sells, as long as it sells and they make money.

But at least we get to see the chimney from which it came....perhaps when they built the house the King laid the foundation stone...in the chimney they did smoke a lot back then so perhaps it makes sense

This company (Cambridgeshire Coins) is so careless and let an 1862 F38 go for just £4.00 !!! Admittedly not in brilliant condition, but a bargain nonetheless. Previously they let an 1897 high tide penny in GEF with lustre, go for about £45 - missed that. The site is worth regularly checking for bargains. link

Oh lord, it's her again. And no amount of mentioning "the misses" will disguise the fact. Quite a house in Leeds she lives in... One of her earlier 1933's was found inside a clock, I seem to remember, and now one up her chimney... 😉 Wonder where the next one will be discovered... Any guesses?!

That is a shame . Although if you were going to enter the counterfeit business as a chinese die maker I think the Contemporary Georgian counterfeits would be the best place to start. I have a lot of them and recently have been shocked at some of the prices they fetch in the US ...it is a big part of their history You should be on safer ground listing them as non-regal or contemporary copies - there are loads of that sort of listing all the time. "Fake" is probably a word to avoid... Mind you, in 200 years' time, wonder if there will be a good market for today's Chinese copies and replicas? Maybe "Chimney sweep of Leeds" (see above!) should just hang on for a couple of centuries! 😁

Thanks Martin. It was an impulse buy on Saturday. Probably paid too much for it. £71. Initially thought a K but on posting here, realised that it was maybe a J. Hence the additional text. Thank you for confirmation. Another one off the list though. To many people, the condition would be a problem, especially the scar across the bust, but for me it shows that the coin was used as intended, with a history and a life. A survivor, if you like, rather than fresh from the press. Floats my boat. F314 8+J. R16. I'm happy.

My website states quite clearly that F103 has obverse M with 5 teeth from R to I and so your "suspension" is incorrect.