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  6. Posted

    Anyone got any ideas on the two 1880's I put up with missing sea and the extra bit on the '0'?

    I can't find anything like them anywhere.

    Funny, isn't it- one on it's own is just a curio. If ten turn up, everyone starts looking for the eleventh one,

    and the price rises. Unless, like the first 1863  5 below date, it's been looked for......

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    Well, looking at all his others, what he'd sold in the past, made me realise his position.

    I also recognised that because I'd been there before.

    I have a friend who can't keep his mouth shut when I'm doing a deal on something really cheap, and ruins everything.

    I've been there too.

    You probably feel that I spoiled a bargain for someone, but the penny had already rocketed, and it's the only time in the last five years I've helped someone out like this. Those who were going to bid, bid, and someone won, and, you are forgetting that my main advice was to let the auction run, so I rather sided with your view........

    I've had loads of auctions pulled that I was top bidder on, knowing that my bid was probably higher than what the seller took,

    and it's annoying, and this was my primary reason for contacting the seller, and it worked!!!!

    You have probably gathered by now that I buy lots of things that are way more valuable than pennies for a living,

    so I know how it goes......

    Don't lose sleep over it.

    It's not that important, if you think about it....

    B

     

  21. Posted

    Here're a few of my recent finds- all dirt cheap, and more pacing up and down.

    I don't have pics to hand of my 1862 halfpenny in Fine- I bought a tin of halfpennies and farthings, under two quid, and had

    to hand that coin to my wife, with palsied hand, to tell me what she could see through the magnifying glass

    next to the lighthouse---"Oh, it's a little 'B' " she said, thus confirming that I wasn't seeing things......

    That paid for a chunk of our holiday.....

     

    First up, 1870 dot. Left loads on it, no-one saw it properly, £20 ish.

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    2 hours ago, Peckris said:

    1926ME penny obv rev.jpg

    Given to me as a schoolboy in 1968 - in change, from a bus conductor! I'd only just started collecting, and I didn't have any 1926. It was many months before I realised (oh happy day) that it was an ME. :) 

     

    Blakey - one very similar to yours (but with an attractive green patina) went for over £300 at Warwick & Warwick, back in 2001.

    Oh wow- you must have gone mad, and everyone would have tried to understand why you were acting like a spaniel!!!

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