blakeyboy

Ok- two penny questions 29 years apart: 1 . I've noticed that my best 1904 penny had the 4 over a tooth. is this something to get exited about? I notice that London coins don't seem to reflect the rarity of the variant ... 2. I know that Michael G documents the 1875 obverse dot by the 'I' of VICTORIA, and postulates about a speck of something migrating from obverse to reverse dies, which I don't understand because it's a dot not a a ding but anyhow he mentions the large date only. i've just noticed the two obverse dot types I have both have the small date as the obverse....is this unusual? It takes a strange Christmas day to notice such things.....!

Oh I'm seething now...ah well can't watch everything....:) Nice one Jerry! I'm raising a glass of Ujliesa Squinzano Rocca del Mori to you as I write this. (A present) First Xmas at home for 26 years.....

another one I missed: anyone here smiling??? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1863-One-Penny-Coin-Queen-Victoria-Great-Britain-in-Extra-Fine-XF-Condition/274615232659?hash=item3ff057e893:g:5AcAAOSw6rZf2ROD

Only 370 days till Christmas!!!!

If you thought Tier 4 is bad, Tier 5, which comes into force on Tuesday, will have anyone over the age of 50 spending Christmas with my Mother-in-law. I knew it would end in Tiers. I can only apologise. It's been a difficult week. Wot with me back and the weather and that and now the Covid Crap I'm past caring. Nothing down here. No really. Why are you still looking? Ooh Matron!

Peggy Lee "Fever" Dusty Springfield "I just don't know what to do with myself" Chuck Berry "No particular place to go" and who could forget the Knack's "My Corona"........ ...and so it begins........:)

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just had to be....!

Took my boat to its MOT today and it just sailed through.....

Yes- quite interesting...I have an 1880 with '0' in the usual place, but with the top of this high '0' still visible. but not that high '8'.......

Too late I'm afraid, Terry- been selling mine since Monday!

Agreed, Peck. Earlier in the year I went though by 1957 calm sea 1/2ds and put some on Fleabay with the different 7's, and no interest whatsoever! I remember, as a child, a Mars Bar going from 2d to 3d, thus acquiring the extra dimension of depth......:)

Surely the fact that he is selling a coin that he does not possess enough rope? You can then ignore all the photo mix-ups, or is he genuinely a confused idiot, and is unknowingly using the picture of a coin that Richard has in his possession to sell another? Is he reading all this?

Yup, a polite query about all such fraudulent listings illicit such a tone in the reply, usually worse. They've hatched a little scheme, think themselves very clever, and when their bluff is called, the ego is sorely bruised and they react.....

I couldn't afford to spend any more on it....things are tight! When it arrives I'll have a good look at the ding and see if it's a '3'........oh hang on.......damn.......

Remind me- who is the US idiot who heat treats all coins so they have a 'rainbow'?? They sell loads to idiots!

£78

If I can't find a coin that arrived in an American grading company's slab, and busted out, I start my search by looking behind the poster on the wall....

Thanks Mike!

I must sign up too....sounds like there are some good coins on his lists...I couldn't find anything on line. Was the F148 expensive? Pricing this type of rarity must be very difficult....

My friend, who is very wealthy, asked his son what he wanted for his birthday, and his son told him he wanted a cowboy outfit, so my friend bought him Hermes.....

You are not well, I'm pleased to say....

Hmm I've been thinking- if the 'grease' did fill a die, how come it always seems to fill the die perfectly flat so an area has no detail? there is no time during a strike for much to happen, and surely some grease will be left on the coin, so it leaves the scene very quickly. If this is the case, considering the numbers minted, a grease spot would change in volume, and the effect on the coins would be very varied, and the coins having a flat blank area would be almost unheard of..... And why is it only the sea that gets 'greasy'?????