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Sadly I never scanned them - they're still in a Whitman folder somewhere. Sometime... This, however, is my 1926 penny which is exactly like your streaky example:

That looks more like 'streaky lustre' than the effect I'm talking about?

I don't think so! However, I can probably hazard a guess how it arose. You may have seen some 1920 and 1921 pennies with gold coloured flecks in them. It's actually brass and appears to have been caused by the Mint putting unused shell cases left over from the War into the mix. I actually own a couple of these, and while I can't confirm the truth of the cause, I can certainly verify that there are pennies out there with gold-coloured flecks in them. That could well be the origin of the myth about 1922 pennies.

pAS for me. I can't see any signs of wear at all. That was a great price for it!

Rob's "hot and cold" is relative. In one sense the decimal market has always been flat, for the simple reason that no dealer will ever come close to the over inflated prices that the Mint charges for new issues. To anyone contemplating collecting in that field I have one thing to say: "Buy only in the secondary market and never from the RM".

Not sure why you're unhappy with that first one? It's rather unlikely you'd upgrade that in a hurry.

No, I agree with you. The early 70s (the first 3 or 4 proof sets) you can make a case for - no pun intended. However, it would have been preferable if subsequent sets had been much more sporadic. Individual changing designs or new denominations - the 20p, £1, £2, 50p, etc - would have been introduced as single issues in various forms such as regular metal, silver, and piedfort for new denominations. The whole "several proofs each year" thing has just devalued the proof experience IMO.

I'm late to this thread - yes, it's Julia Domna; you can make out the MNA AUG to the right of her bust, and just discern the DO to the left. It's her portrait too. I found my first denarius on the spoil tip of an archaeological dig in 1974 - a Julia Domna in VF. Sadly I was a penurious student when I got back to Brum and sold it to a dealer for around £7, a small fortune back then.

"One is not amused. How about ewe?"

Any coins?

Anything in the museum would be valuable and / or rare. Everything else got melted down?

Randy California, I think? They lost that case, hope they didn't also lose a heap of legal costs.

Three tracks from possibly the most underrated band of all time: Rock, jazz, ballads - they had it all. Plus the litiginously failed original riff to Stairway To Heaven?

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Sensayuma? Not us...

Very fair. Tbh, if it was mine I wouldn't rush to sell it, but we're all different (thank goodness).

Certainly return proof coins that have been poorly handled, as these clearly have. It's nothing new however - you don't see fingerprints on 70s proofs, but sometimes you see very bad staining, a reaction with the coloured inlays. 1973 proof sets especially it seems, it's rare to find one where all the coins are perfect.

I would largely agree with copper. However, it wasn't out of the question, and I expect on rare occasions someone would pull a (grim) pre-1920 coin from their change. It never happened to me but not impossible. Do bear in mind that the only factor in such coins that went up in the 70s was their bullion value.

Why do you say C over G ? I'm more inclined to say a repunched C as it appears to be an underlying C.

What do you mean by "variety"? There are so many types: different mints e.g. Heatons, Kings Norton major design changes, e.g. 1927 reverses less dramatic changes like beaded/toothed borders, height of sea, position of initials etc die identifiers mules die flaws and fills Just scratching the surface there (no pun intended).

Well, of course it's "upper" - you wouldn't find a seraph in hell!

I would (after eliminating the tautology of "almost practically"!) based purely on the photograph. Seeing the coin in hand I might vary that, but not by much.

Yes - I too found more pre-47 florins than shillings, though that may just be coincidence; the mintages of Geo VI silver florins and shillings are broadly similar. On the other hand, before 1982's 20p introduction you'd see many more florins as you'd get up to 4 as change from 50p, where you'd only get one shilling. Sixpences survived until 1980 when they were demonetised.

Just on the picture alone, I'd say that was as near Unc as you're going to find on those coins. (Can't see evidence of dipping.)