declanwmagee

I think it might be an optical illusion - because the exergue narrows, the 9 looks smaller. Has to be - deliberately smaller to fit further right upsets too many assumptions about why the date is wide...

not a million miles from us, Coinery. twixt Stroud and Ciren, or Soiren as they say round 'ere

Well now, looks like it to me. It's not even the same 9 ! I wonder if that's common - the further right the number is, the smaller it would have to be to squeeze under the exergue. If the accidental theory is to continue to hold water, we can't have them making design changes to allow for wide dates. Doesn't make any sense...

I wonder how often they are changed now, with astronomical, by predecimal standards, mintages

WW1 Shortage of good steel to make new dies? I'm thinking of the reason Peck (C.W.Peck!) gives for the round cornered, sharp cornered thing for NB 3ds in WW2.

Go on then, I'll chuck mine in too... Had to keep both of 'em, of course...

Nice find! To be treated as an interesting curio, or a must-have micro that'll need upgrading one day?

Thing is, if you're upgrading a coin, and then you find out that the VF going out is a scarcer microvariety than the EF coming in, you just have to keep both...don't you? I'm sure it's the law ...Date Runs Act (Coin Collecting) 1972, I think

Crikey. Some people are so flippin' clever. Did you see the binocular chair powered by a drill? Fantastic.

Inevitable result of pressing Yes to all the options in the install! Avira has just updated itself on mine, and the first two checkboxes it offers you are options to do just that: - Make itself the default search engine - Make itself your browser home page Always say No to such nonsense.

In my early days, (about 5 years ago!), I sold a 1941 florin that had been similarly blackened, with the Description: "Horrible 1941 Florin - I wouldn't buy it if I were you" Needless to say, it flew off the shelf...

Well I didn't know that! Nice trivia!

previously known as Richparfishing, if anyone remembers him. Never understood why people change their names on ebay. I've always used the same one, I buy on it and sell on it, and guess what, it's my real name! Nothing to hide.

Heart, every time. Your head can be wrong, your heart never is.

my pension is predecimal! The coin collection is the nearest we'll ever have to one of those, and I challenge any financial adviser to compare capital growth graphs with me! Since 2007... I bought an endowment once and remember being shown graphs that purported to show how the market could never ever go down.

I still don't use banks, unless you count PayPal, and I always spend what's in there, on coins, as fast as it comes in. We do have a building society account to cash the odd cheque we get, but again, nothing gets stored there. Even now we have bills to pay in our dream cottage, we have managed to sort everything like Council tax, electric and internet with monthly cash payments at the Post Office. The only thing we have to pay by cheque is the car insurance, so it's a once a year visit to the Building Society with a roll of those wicked banknotes. Over the counter, they write a cheque, into an envelope and off the insurance people. I am one of those dodgy tradesmen! So it is possible, and the more of us refuse to participate, the more power they lose. It is the moral imperative of every free man not to give your power away!

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...and STOP selling your best ones!

Crikey, that's good info, 1887! Is that from your own surveys, multiplied up, a la VR Court? No need to multiply up only interpolate. I do my own research and in this case it is based on a sample of 507 shillings in my collection, on ebay, or for sale with other dealers. The margin of error decreases inversely with the size of the sample. Interestingly the YH is twice as numerous as the rev. A. I guess there could be an error of .2% without offending the mathematicians. In cases of doubt, for example where I do not have the coin in hand I ignore the data. Could you give me ref. for the VR Court data please? Royal Mint figures are quoted and misquoted variously. VR Court did a variety survey of £9,000 face value of 20th century pennies in the early '70s; I have it as a PDF. I'll fire it over to you if you can give me your email address...

It's a crossover mule - two obverses, two reverses, so 4 possible combinations. Pointings are the quickest and easiest indicators: Obv 3, Rev C, F.471, C10, I of DEI nearly at a bead, L of HALF between beads Obv 3, Rev D, F.473, R5, I of DEI nearly at a bead, L of HALF at a bead Obv 4, Rev C, F.474, R12, I of DEI between beads, L of HALF between beads Obv 4, Rev D, F.475, R3, I of DEI between beads, L of HALF at a bead

that's a good idea. oh crikey What's the maximum no. of columns in your version of Excel Declan? 255 I bet you've got 107 more good ideas...

that's a good idea. oh crikey

I've had a right good cull of my stupid database recently, so I've got the number of fields down to 69 for an individual coin. The lookup table that holds information about all the possible coins I could get is still a bit out of hand though: 148 fields

No, nor me. Got most of them up to nEF and than stalled - apart from 1902 and 1905 - found those two close to UNC but not quite.

Crikey, that's good info, 1887! Is that from your own surveys, multiplied up, a la VR Court?