Peckris 2
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On 1/7/2026 at 3:05 PM, Coins Of the UK and US said:
Thanks everyone. The help is much appreciated. This is the coin in question.
I'm not seeing the images in any of your posts. All I get is a large black square with an X top right to close it, and a small broken square in the centre.
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Interesting posts, though absolutely nothing to do with Brexit!
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On 1/6/2026 at 7:08 PM, Sword said:
Very true. But a decent EF example is now well over a thousand pounds. I don't particularly like that George IV portrait and so didn't want to pay so much. As for William IV, I would eventually settle for a halfcrown which is of the same design.
I picked this up for about £200 over 20 years ago:
I wouldn't rate it as a thousand pound coin but should be well over what I paid!
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On 1/11/2026 at 9:22 PM, Unwilling Numismatist said:
Hi Chris, I'm just back catching up and this topic has piqued my interest - can you elaborate on the "rare 1887 6d" please?
PS - Hi everyone else!
Hi. It's this one, identified by @1887jubilee as one of many (minor) patterns of 1887 silver:
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It's the 6d on the left - note the far 7, and the first 8 with a higher 8 beneath it referred to as a "horned 8" on one example in an auction lot.
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On 1/4/2026 at 9:10 PM, Sword said:
Then it gets really difficult with the gothic (pricey rather than rare), William IV, high grade George IV, high grade Young Head. That's why I started other denominations.
George IV crowns aren’t so very hard to find and are much cheaper than William IV (the hardest).
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The 1897 dot penny, and the 1946 ONE' penny were given prominence in an early issue of Coin Monthly (beginning of 1968?), and are arguably the most collectable - ironically caused by their comparative lack of rarity therefore giving collectors a better chance to own one.
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4 hours ago, blakeyboy said:
Those HEIC files are a pain- and I only use a Mac!
People don't set phone pictures to formats other people like.
Size problems on posting pictures is an easy fix- email to to yourself, setting the image size you need, then drag out of the email you receive into your post.
That's all I've ever done- no extra programs needed either.
There's any number of online HEIC > JPEG converters.
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On 1/3/2026 at 8:46 AM, Paddy said:
I think it depends a bit on your mindset. I get more pleasure out of filling a gap in a difficult date run with a reasonable example than I do from picking up a common coin in Unc.
Type collections don't just contain common coins!! (I speak from experience..). Also, I do have date runs for a few favourite series, e.g. George V halfcrowns 1927-1936, and bronze pennies 1895-1967, though I don't lose any sleep at all over the odd gap such as 1914 in UNC, but I would love a high grade 1946 ONE' penny so I do take your point about filling gaps. But as I say, I really don't lose sleep over most gaps I have.
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how weird, I'm sure I just replied to this, but where is my reply???
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Surely they must exist? I do remember the Sandhill cases from the 60s, which held each denomination for a particular year. However, if you picked up a few of these cheap for 60s dates (you will want a 1965 which will hold from Crown down to halfpenny, and a 1966 to get the standard halfcrown down to halfpenny), you could adapt them to hold denominations for each monarch from 1816.
Otherwise you might have to bite the bullet eventually and get a cabinet, or if that proves too expensive, you could go for Lindner trays instead.
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1972 proofs compared to other proof sets might pay an interesting look - same situation.
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hey, we won didn't we?!
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Can you please post pictures? It might not be a crown but a coronation medal for example, or a crown struck for one of the colonies. Or even a private mint.
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Do remember this: it's far better to have one UNC coin of a particular type, than a date run in F (for example). Just saying...
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2 hours ago, wlewisiii said:
Oh, that's that [multiple words censored] Apple image format that nothing else can easily use. You're using an iPhone? See if there is a setting to save it as jpg instead.
Google "convert HEIC to JPEG"
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11 hours ago, Coins Of the UK and US said:
Hi everyone. I am trying to increase my expertise on coin collecting but I am unsure how to tell the difference between just high quality coins and cleaned coins.
If anyone can please help me with this, that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance, all the best, F Drummond.
If a coin looks bright and shiny, don't immediately assume it's been cleaned. Here's one way to tell: IF the fields look bright and shiny but the design and legend are not, then it's unlikely to have being been cleaned. However, if the legend looks bright but the field between the characters does not, then it could well have been cleaned. Remember that cleaning will affect the highest parts more than the lowest, especially between the legend.
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On 12/23/2025 at 7:21 PM, secret santa said:
As I wrote in an earlier post -
Regarding pennies, an addition not incorporated into the 1985 edition:
Page 31, number 80A (1875 8+H with H below date) - can we assume that this coin does not exist ?
Some of the changes/additions were incorporated in the 1985 edition but at least one (the one above) was not. I have only checked the comments on pennies.
I meant printings, not editions. I know about the 1985 edition, but I imagine there may well have been more than one printing of the 1970 edition?
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On 12/12/2025 at 9:51 AM, PWA 1967 said:
It was inside a copy of the 1970 First edition i bought a few months ago and hadnt seen one before.
I actually have the 1970 edition - I wonder if those errors were corrected in later printings? I bought mine new and I don't remember seeing that insert.
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On 12/6/2025 at 7:17 AM, SilverAge3 said:
I found online two different 1920 pennies which suffer some major loss of detail in Britannia's face, breast, forward knee, they appear to be crumbling apart. The spear hand is very clear and defined, but just outside of the effigy. Both these pennies are mint state, and otherwise show nice detail.
Yes - 1920 was the last year they only used the deep cut obverse portrait, which 'sucked' metal away from Britannia, and caused a 'ghost' of the portrait outline which you can see clearly in the top example; it's more common to see between 1911 and 1920 than fully struck up reverses.
In 1921 about half the pennies use a shallower portrait which partly alleviated the problem, but it wasn't until the Modified Effigy from 1926 that they reduced the effect to small enough not to worry about.
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Unfortunately, no. Nothing of interest there.
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I've never heard of anyone differentiating between types of 1865/3 - have you ever found a seller who does?
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That's a ridiculous price for what is regarded as the easiest halfcrown to find in top grades of the 1920-26 series.
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On 11/25/2025 at 12:07 PM, e26 said:
If anyone is after some 2024 coins best get in now before prices go crazy (as usual when a coin or set of coins is confirmed NIFC):
https://www.royalmint.com/corporate/circulating-coin/uk-currency/mintages/
The 2023 50p 20p 10p and 1p are all considerably under 1m minted, so expect to see them on eBay at absolutely crazy prices.
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Here's what I did in Photoshop:
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British Coin Type set.
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What's not showing is the faint scuffs on the obverse where it was probably rubbed at some time. Probably affected the price?