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Quick update. Weighed in at EMR as 80/20 Cupro Nickel solids. £4.20 per kilo. 20kg. £84. Quick and simple. Heavy copper, currently £6.08 per kilo, for the bronze. And rolled Ali £1.10, for those interested. Blake.

I would be surprised if the dates didn't mean something to your grandfather. Kept in a Queen Mary tin and no date later than 1919. A full run from 1912 to 1919 may be significant. Maybe change kept from his pay or even the profits from games of "Put & Take". I have some collections like these and I wouldn't assign an indvidual value to each item in a collection. The value is in the group and possible explanations for its existence.

I'm old enough to remember when 1961 halfcrowns had a variety “EF missing”, the designers initials below the reverse shield. Of course this was just a filled die and that ‘variety' has not been listed for decades.

Many thanks - now added to the website.

If it helps, and I'm sure you know but the image shows he was a full Corporal in the Royal Artillery and he had been fighting for three years when it was taken or in total if the War had ended at that point.

My Grandfather,

Many thanks Richard, thought you would have one!! I have taken your picture, rotated it, and positioned same as my top 1844 DFF above. These two coins are now shown below. It is difficult to compare those border gap features with the pixels available on the 1843. It does seem to me, however, that the die flaw can just about be seen on your coin in the same position......... also the small protrusion above the F. First impressions, therefore, are that this points to a single reverse DFF die used on both the 1843's and the 1844's. If you reduced the size of your picture to get it within the forum 500Kb limit then please could you email me the original thanks? If you can get same picture with more pixels so that border teeth can be seen more clearly that would also be great.

Yes pity about the weak strike on the reverse

I just can't bring myself to spend a lot more on this "inverted 1" variety when it is now well known it is due to a filled die and so not a "true" variety. The correct thing to do is to delist it as a variety. But there is no inclination to do that of course.

A recent buy at york fantastic grade and really rare , hoping to buy a "new model crown " in the near future , well it just needs a little luck

Banks do take the old £1 and £2 coins, paid direct into your account. Google seems to think banks won't accept commemoratives. The Post Office will accept for goods and services apparently but I doubt I'd get shot of more than 4 at a time. And it's not something that I'd like to make a career of. Can't remember the last time I bought a stamp.😐.