Peckris 2

I don't dispute that in the 70s there was a peculiar attitude to work, with dreaded words like 'demarcation' holding sway, and rigid lines that tended often to curb entrepreneurial enthusiasm. However, as you said, "nothing happens in isolation" and those less-than-savoury 70s attitudes to work arose because of the earlier exploitation of workers that was so widespread before WW2. Thatcher was the counter balance to that, but she went too far the other way : her government was deliberately antagonistic - even militant - towards the miners, who like the steelworkers and shipbuilders got virtually no help once their community's jobs had gone. She encouraged people to buy their own council houses (good) but then didn't build more social housing (bad). She was a virtual slave to free market economics courtesy of Keith Joseph, and any liberal tendencies in her government ("The Wets") were ruthlessly purged. She did help get our economy back on a sounder footing (though being a member of the EU also had a lot to do with that), but the price we as a nation paid in societal terms was high. Too high.

Yes - you've circled part of what I call the "main upright" (I'm not a musician, I don't know the technical terms!). That is a version of the Irish national emblem of a harp engraved with a Celtic design. I can see that fairly clearly from the enlarged picture you've shown. The other picture shows a plain harp. No offence, but I think you could perhaps have done a bit more research before 'throwing every penny at it'? If it's a known variant you would then be able to look up its rarity (it may indeed be rare, but I'm not so knowledgeable as you are on these particular coins).

The two harps are different - one has a Celtic design on the main upright, the other is nearly plain.

It was however, the result of Thatcherism, and she was the main architect of that.

The existence of a rare-by-then overdate in 1893 makes me wonder if the OH was intended to be for 1893 like the silver but they postponed it until 1895 and used some 1892 dies for pennies?

I think I recognise the style - I have some silver "jubilee" plaques of Liz dated 1978 with the legend VIVAT REGINA. Same designer perhaps, maybe same private mint?

Yes - the YH version has longer teeth.

Done.

Do you mean the longest or shortest string? If longest, that's not the string, it's part of the female figure.

Yes, the Gothic v looks rather like a b when worn sufficiently.

Or sick. Or disabled. Or a single parent. Or homeless. Or an unemployed miner, steelworker, shipyard worker. Or elderly trying to live on the state pension.

Sure thing. The main difference is in the date: the first 8 appears to be punched over a higher 8 (I think), and the 7 is quite a bit further from the 188 than is normal.

That Bradman calls for this...

Nice chord progressions.

Perhaps the original owner had run out of sixpences?

You too can have an "uncirculated" 1968 10p for a very reasonable price! I guess 1969 - 1981 are sold out? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Uncirculated-New-Pence-Large-10p-Ten-Pence-Coins-1968-1981-UNC/163314706600?epid=849532362&hash=item260650a8a8:g:KcEAAOSwAOxbugny:rk:12:pf:0

Damn - sold out! Well, that's saved me £550.

Have a search for "How We Know Kavanaugh Is Lying" by Current Affairs. It's a long read (my saved version is over half a megabyte) but the evidence presented is pretty convincing.

He identified one of my 6ds as a pattern, but I'm not getting carried away - he says there are very many unrecorded patterns.

That's very difficult. How long is a piece of string? You would probably need to look at the mintage of 10p's and 5p's between 1968 and 1980, compare that with the mintage of shillings and florins between 1947 and 1967, then do a 'finger in the air' estimate of 1) the withdrawal of older coins due to wear, i.e. the normal course of events and 2) the mass withdrawal of coins by collectors and nostalgics and speculators in the few years before 1971. My own very rough guess is that the number of pre-dec coins still in circulation would have been less than a quarter, and maybe considerably less.

The problem is manifold: Kavanaugh is up for the highest legal office in the land but has not demonstrated 'judicial temperament' which is essential in that role his own diaries testify against him, and forced him to lie about their meaning (terms like "barf" and "Devil's Triangle" were redefined by him) as this is not a criminal trial, but a job nomination, different standards apply 'hard evidence' is almost impossible to provide in a case like this - if the accusation is true, you can understand why Ford tried to mentally bury it why haven't any of Trump's other Supreme Court nominees come under attack in similar ways? It this was political, they would have been without doubt. I agree that it would be nigh on impossible to now bring criminal charges, but not to repudiate the nomination; let's not forget that Kavanaugh was a mere law clerk until promoted by Bush for political reasons (repaying favours? Not sure.) - further investigation may or may not be appropriate, the FBI seem to think not.

Sadly the pictures have gone to the Internet GRaveyard.

It's quite possible - the War resulted in some vastly reduced standards in die wear etc. Plus we shouldn't forget that because of inflation there was a vast increase in mintages, plus there was a shortage of manpower. The Mint had their hands more than full.

Later gilt will always come away showing an underlying normal dark copper colour. Or, where it's been 'painted on', the final effect is so obvious you can immediately tell it's not genuine.

In addition to what @Rob said, the pennies I'm talking about look exactly as if bits of metal are stuck in them like chips in a biscuit. Not streakiness, but discrete little gold-coloured flecks (probably brass) that are embedded into the content of the penny, not simply on the surface like streaky lustre.