Chris Perkins

The last time I looked the earlier coins with the same error were about £5-£10 I think. Perhaps someone will pay a little more for a very new one, in case there aren't as many like that as usual (which I doubt, it seems to happen a lot on the new shape £1 coins).

I should have said 'hard to find' because yeah, if money is no object it would be easy to amass hundreds of them. I did used to include a double-page spread on the 10p varieties but it never really took off. In the next book I will clarify and perhaps even add values for at least the 2006 type A. If you're offering £30 for an 'as-new' example then that's its value and I think perfectly fair and realistic.

I love this kind of thing. Modern rarities that no one is bothered about because there is little financial incentive to look, they involve a little effort to understand and spot and because they haven't been exposed in the Sun or on dodgy click-bait tabloid websites. I hate that side of decimal collecting, plus all of the deliberate misleading crap and even fakes on eBay over the years.... remember the dateless mule 20p, when people were actually grinding off the date of normal ones and attempting to pass them off as 'dateless'! How many 2006 10p's do you think you've actually seen in total? 2006 was a massive mintage at 118m+, so it would seem the type A die(s) were for whatever reason, just used for a tiny fraction of that total. Even if it was for a million coins, it's still under 1% of the 2006 total. All these years later and finding a stunning example will be very hard (as you know!), like finding a decent 1807 slave trade £2 with no DG initials (i.e. the circ only variant). They may well be rarer than the Kew 50p. Might even be comparable with the mule 2016 £1 coin with the tiny 2017 dates on the reverse - and surely more of those should exist in the wild but a magnifying glass is needed to even see it.

You're magically an enthusiast now. The expert grader old rank was always there. No idea why they need to have 2 now.

Very good to hear. I couldn't find any reports of issues with TypeIt4Me in conjunction with the forum, but that another browser seems better is no surprise, browsers are so complicated these days.

Hello Sylvester. Sorry if I didn't reply to your pm back in March. Doesn't look like I did. I'm afraid I don't have any 10p's later than some nice 1970s examples. I'll keep you in mind though if I ever come those.

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I think the 1843 groat is the highlight there. The other 3 are all nice coins, too. The 6d has a little wear, the 3d is very nice but has uneven toning. The third farthing looks like it might have some darker areas/surface issues.

I found the setting and pasting should now default to plain text.

If I can find the setting among the hundreds of others, I'll try switching it to force plain text (instead of defaulting, I think, to rich text). It may have been plain text before. That could be the issue.

Looks more like a lamination issue to me. I wonder if someone has tried to stick something in the gap out of curiosity, or might just be the pics. Those 3 halfpence are tiny.

It comes out very jumbled doesn't it. What is the name of the abbreviation software?

Not bad. Coincidentally, those are IMO textbook examples of a normal circulated coin (around Fine) - the crown, a mid grade coin (around VF) - the florin, and a higher grade coin (around EF) - the shilling.

The five on the left are some of the normal British WWII issue. The Italy one will be relevant later... The star at the top and the 2 on the right... I'm cheating a bit because I know your surname and how to use search engines. Gold one is the general Polish WWII medal and the cross is the Polish Monte Cassino medal. So what does the star on the blue/black indicate?

Sorted, I think! For some reason those who are in the group 'Moderators' were not allowed to upload/drag/attach images. Try it now.

Can you show me a screenshot or shots of exactly what it says and where it goes wrong? Obviously you can't post them here so would have to email. Unless attaching the long way round works.

I think any coin person would have recognised it instantly and been able to find the exact type based on the details that can just about be made out. I'm pleased that I was better at it than millions of dollars of silicon valley AI power. I must admit though, I did use google lens to identify something the other day. 😉 I haven't been that active on the forum for quite a while, and do you know what, it's good to be back!

Here we are, looks like this type, or a similar Paley's issue. D&H on that page is a reference to the major catalogue of such coins by Dalton and Hamer. In it, there are 10 slightly different varieties of basically the same design: Richard Paley's Bishop Blaize and Lamb Leeds Conder Halfpenny 1791

Might there be some kind of setting to improve that? (I mean in the settings of the forum)

It's some kind of 'Conder' regional token, almost certainly a halfpenny. Date appears to be 1791. That's probably a sheep fleece in the coat of arms and it's probably a bishop on the other side - someone will know what town that makes it! Unless you can read anything off it.

Both of you are now Enthusiasts, which I know is also below your standing. The default ranks are a bit odd, they go: Newbie, Rookie, Apprentice, Explorer, Contributor, Enthusiast, Collaborator, Community Regular, Rising Star, Proficient, Experienced, Mentor, Veteran, Grand Master. I can change the names and points required, add more etc.

Hello. Certainly a nice looking coin cabinet. I hope the content is equally high-end! The greenness is caused by PVC, which was a common constituent of plastic coin albums from the 60s to 80s (and sometimes beyond). You may be lucky and be able to remove the mess with acetone, which won't harm the coins.

What kind of device/browser are you using? It is the same if you try something else?

Everyone has defaulted to newbie I'm afraid. I can bump anyone up (have done for you) if they don't fancy waiting to accrue points again.

There's also a 'MID' leaf on the miniatures, but not on the full size. But if that's how they got to you, assuming your grandfather is no longer with us, then probably best left as they are.