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I'm puzzled about this. Edward V was never crowned king, and during his brief spell as monarch Richard III would have controlled the Mint. After Bosworth it would have been moot anyway.

It’s not that far off VF imo. Obviously such coins look more worn when enlarged, so in hand it probably looks very nice.

It’s not VF but it’s better than Fine. Between the two I'd say.

both coins are nice to have - the William especially.

Edward VIII didn't have any coins OFFICIALLY issued, but the new brass 3d was issued to traders for them to try them out in slot machines. They were supposed to be returned but a few weerent so these are extremely rare and valuable. Also, there are rare proofs of many (all?) denominations, so it could be argued you can exclude him from the list. As for Lady Jane Grey, she is not included in many lists of official English monarchs - Edward VI had tried to disavow Mary and Elizabeth and nominated Jane as the nearest Protestant candidate. Even if you do allow her, 9 days was hardly enough time to prepare and issue coins!.

I would say “UNC for details” but the wiping and green tone makes it a less than desirable coin.

Yes, as already mentioned this was withdrawn to avoid them being gold plated - but they're not rare, nor is the replacement reverse (which was introduced for William IV, and continued to be used until 1911 when the ‘lion on crown’ design replaced it.) You've got two very nice examples there, around EF.

Good luck! That's the large blue book divided into three horizontal sections? I'm keeping mine…

I didn’t even know there were two different designs on the 1992 20p?

Noonan’s often refer to lots as “may have once been cleaned” which I assume is an arse-covering exercise. However, this coin does have a telltale sign of possible dipping just under Geo’s chin. But it doesn't look blatantly cleaned, I agree.

The Geo V reverse ghosting is a fascinating topic. It’s rarely seen on halfcrowns which have a fairly deep and intricate reverse design, but often seen on pennies, halfpennies, sixpences, and shillings, all of which have a lot of blank space on the reverse designs. The first attempt to eliminate ghosting was on the ‘shallow portraits’ on 2/6 2/- and 1/- 1920-1926, and pennies 1922-1926, which partly succeeded, but not until the modified effigy 1925-26 was it nearly completely successful.

I think you may well be right as the teeth also show signs of being displaced to the right - I think it’s properly called “die bounce”?

my sisters had the cough from hell - hope it clears up soon

Doesn't seem to affect the collectors of vinyl, cassettes, and now CDs ! The lack of an object in everyday use can actually spur collectors.

I wouldn't go that far - the coins that you've used it on are as relatively scarce to each other as the index suggests. As far as general copper and bronze coins go, most people use Freeman / Peck / Gouby as reliable indicators of rarity. Spink’s catalogue’s values can be used as a vague indication of rarity but need to be taken with a huge pinch of salt, as popularity as well as scarcity affects values : for example, the 1902LT & 1912H pennies are nowhere near as scarce as their values suggest.

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I remember that @scott had a strong interest in these varieties at one time.

I don't know this Numista rarity index at all, but from what I can see it appears that the higher the number, the rarer the item. I was initially thrown by the R7, because the grading scale used by ESC (for example) only goes up to 7 which means extremely rare. Freeman goes up to 20 which is ‘possibly unique’. With your (fairly standard) Charles II 4d rated R40, I deduce that index may go up to 100? ETA: just Googled, and indeed it goes up to 100, but they say it’s based on how many Numista members have the item and how often it is up for ‘swap’, so fairly esoteric, I'd say!

Recut letters - a frequent occurrence on Victorian coppers and bronze.

The engraver was Bertram McKennial not de Saulles. I wonder where you get the R7 from? Quite a nice coin, between F and VF for me.

Anything's better than that.