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  1. blakeyboy
    Yep- that makes sense. Mind you, if, as seems likely, that most 1908's in good nick have been examined, then from how many there are and how many of them are 164a, you could judge the actual 164a mintage....
  2. blakeyboy
    Sounds about right, though it's rarity, as a percentage, is surely exactly the same as worn examples....how could it possibly be otherwise? If I'm thinking straight, if the percentage of EF+ examples in the total extant population is larger than the percentage of 164a's in the total minted population, then high grades may well be out there. If it's lower, there won't likely be any. Same as the 1903 open 3.
  3. blakeyboy
    What unusual wear! Or as often used on Ebay, 'ware'.
  4. blakeyboy
    Nice. As I've said before on here, the story behind a coin should be better than the coin's value...
  5. blakeyboy
    And many are just plain 'dug up' too....
  6. blakeyboy
    Just got it!!!
  7. blakeyboy
    This one is actually rather refreshing..... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000-ONE-PENNY-COIN-COPPER-PLATED-STEEL-ELIZABETH-II-EXTREMELY-COMMON/401845135170?hash=item5d8fd62742:g:NOsAAOSwGhBdUUan
  8. blakeyboy
    This is all very similar to what goes on in primary cells. Or indeed when a galvanised roof has a bad scratch- once you have the two different metals exposed to rainwater, a cell is formed that is basically short-circuited, so a toroidal current path forms, the chlorides get to work, and the roof has a hole in it in a shorter time than if it hadn't been galvanised.....
  9. blakeyboy
    I've just looked on Ebay under "two pence 1983". Nearly 100 hopeful twats pitching the usual crap. Do you have a link to the coin you mean?
  10. blakeyboy
    £227 and counting...whaaaat? It clearly says 'Genuine' and 'fantasy' in the same line....
  11. blakeyboy
    If you look again, the main description says "SIGHS OF OLD AGE" .....is that what I'm doing?
  12. blakeyboy
    Thanks Terry- I never took note of that fold in the ribbon before.
  13. blakeyboy
    Wow...not only the wrong date, but the rare one....wow... Six years ago I bought a tin of Vicky halfpennies- £1.50. One of the 1862's in Good had the little 'B'...I had to hand it to my wife to confirm I wasn't seeing things....
  14. blakeyboy
    She does, though...!
  15. blakeyboy
    Ahh.. short so. I often do the same. I look constantly for 'newly listed' listings of those exact pennies, and it's amazing what slips through....!!
  16. blakeyboy
    Those are such a great lot of bargains. Once again, I looked on ebay to see how I possibly missed them, and can't see them anywhere. Were they bought a long time ago?
  17. blakeyboy
    Maybe, but only if were 15.
  18. blakeyboy
    Yep, same as many other areas of life - greed that can't be stopped. I wonder if any of the big players will eventually be brave enough to announce they are going back to 15% or some such, thus grabbing all the sellers......
  19. blakeyboy
    No Whitman folder has a space for the 1933, so it's been cut out crudely........
  20. blakeyboy
    This marleybob is now beyond a joke. I think they've crossed a line now. Is there any way of stopping this twat?
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  22. blakeyboy
    Yes, we've seen some wonderful Viz adverts, but I'm putting this up because the last paragraph about sharing your information was clearly dreamt up by a genius in a pub.
  23. blakeyboy
    You are right- I just asked the woman who does my mother's cleaning and she looked at me like I'd lost it.....
  24. blakeyboy
    I have a F28 gap....what condition?
  25. blakeyboy
    My thoughts exactly!!
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