Rob

Another popular reference is British Commonwealth Coins by Remick, James, Dowle & Finn if you can find one. 3rd edition was published in 1971. I don't think you will find anything to cover the modern stuff apart from Krause due to the diarrhoeic output of modern commemoratives. You are unlikely to find cheap useful reference books as the specialist volumes are usually out of print and were never produced in great numbers anyway. A few pounds if really fortunate, but frequently tens of pounds or even hundreds.

Enforced dieting due to rationing is a good bet. O/w I was going to say the onset of wholesale indulgence in fast food in the 70s and 80s following an explosion of outlets, as it coincided with a large uptick in general affluence leading to more car use, i.e. less exercise by the general public. An increasingly academic curriculum in schools resulted in less physical activity across all age ranges, and by the end of the 80s, computers and games were becoming mainstream which compounded the inactivity.

This Commonwealth halfpenny has quite a distinctive profile which might lend itself to 3 equal cuts with a curved profile, plus a bit extra, except there is no spur at 12 o'clock on the English side. The mm.1 has 2 short and 2 longer sections with a bigger discrepancy than those above.

Verdigris - environmental damage, no grade assigned

They already do - it comes up R or B and lands on an arbitrary number. Pf. Who would have thought it?

The copper Wiener was a case of this. Slabbed 66 despite a rim nick and a couple spots. My copper example is as struck and vastly superior to that.

The Weyl pattern, lot 249

Not guilty

Bought one lot for stock, but nothing for the collection. I wanted one of 3 Wiener shillings, but I'm not paying £7-15K for one. £3K maybe for a nice one. Equally, not paying £3K for the pattern decimal penny.

Could that possibly be 5/4? My eyes were immediately drawn to the vertical line above the 5 loop and not the spur off the end of the 5 top

I concur

The desire to stay and protect your home is a strong feeling. Additionally it represents in many cases virtually the bulk of the family's assets. If you leave your home, it then costs money to live somewhere else, so you need considerable wealth to draw on given that you are also likely to have lost your main source of income. A case in point is the person I am hosting. She lived in village just outside Kherson a few hundred metres from the end of the airport. This was hit on the opening day because it was a military base and fell to the Russians within a week, but most people stayed and lived in their cellars, keeping quiet so they weren't heard by passing Russian patrols and surfacing only when necessary. Most people assumed they should be relatively safe once the war had passed through, though best not to tempt fate. They lived like that until news of the massacres in Bucha got out at the end of March, at which point they decided they didn't want to hang around and be part of a repeat episode, so looked for somewhere to go - which is where we came into the equation. With no income, displaced and now looking for work in the capital, her husband had to keep the liquid funds for basics, while wife and daughter borrowed the money from a friend for the bus to Romania and two airfares on to the UK. It was only £400 for the pair, but that is an average monthly salary over there, and if you haven't got it to hand, non-functioning basic services makes raising funds 10 times harder. Moving isn't an option for many. Half the people in this country have no savings, so what would they do in similar circumstances? Probably stay put in many cases.

Here you go. Both different dies. My reverse is over ermine as well.

Did they identify it as such, or just as a 1967 1964 penny?

A touch of realism? Maybe for only a few, but it helps get the message out given Russian reliance on TV. https://news247gh.com/its-absolutely-impossible-to-defeat-ukraine-russian-pundits-admit-on-live-television-video/

RUN AWAY!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxoRgpUPXTI

I didn't get the lot I was interested in. Only out by a factor of 6x.

I bought this and wasn't wholely convinced it was a proof. A view shared by the person I sold it to as well. It was ex Peck and Norweb and has subsequently gone through another sale, but don't have the details.

You must have been wealthy then if you had washers at 5 bob a piece.

Nothing in the obvious places - Nobleman, Huth, Dangar etc

I think he's trying to be all things to all people. He's a fascist even though he claim to be de-nazifying Ukraine as a good socialist. He just does a pick and mix from the dictator's handbook - after all, there's bugger all difference in methods of repression and execution of policy whichever side you look at, just the target scapegoats who have the misfortune to be named. The extremes of either side have always been separated by little more than the thickness of a cigarette paper. If you want to de-nazify Ukraine, the most bang for your bucks is the return of 100K+ Russians to their homes. And if the majority travel in body bags, then it will hasten the end of Poo Tin.

I still have a bit of a problem with a clash of edges as I consider it implausible you could get that depth of impression from 28g of silver falling onto another edge, perfectly aligned so as to produce the incuse A as if it were part of the edge. It isn't the same situation as a brockage, where you have a coin in situ to make the incuse detail on one side, all made using one of Boulton's presses utilising much more force than that obtained by gravity. If there was another coin only partially ejected, then I expect the collar to malfunction as the first coin would have to be in the same plane as this coin, and that would surely jam the mechanism. It doesn't add up to my way of thinking. The collars used for this issue are 3 part (or at least my type example - 1819 no stops is so), with their ends joining in the middle of the gaps after DECUS, TUTAMEN and REGNI. That would be consistent with the clear joint line after TUTAMEN, but the other two are not obvious. Where the join should be after REGNI, is that a trace of a full height cross pattee, and in the gap after DECUS a smaller cross - or am I just seeing things? Crosses were used on some edges during William III and Anne on halfcrowns, but my crowns of these two reigns didn't use them (only used on halfcrowns?). I don't have a late Geo. II crown to say what was used on the issues prior to the new coinage. Help someone? The earlier silver used the Castaign edging process, which in the case of a couple of my coins left a very sharp vertical cutoff in one place (with a step in height on the edge), as seen after TUTAMEN above and coincidentally also after TVTAMEN on some of the earlier coins in my trays. Was this consistently the starting or terminal legend on the strip and I'm wondering if could this be a one part collar? I can't see any trace of a vertical line in the appropriate place, but this could be due to wear. Check? I don't think we have the answer yet, so more research required.

It might be of interest as we know that at least two incuse edge collars for crowns of this period were made. They weren't used on many patterns, but L&S lists 4 with an incuse edge that could apply (151, 186, 187 & 194), together with a 5th (184) that had an incuse edge but not of full height (clearly not applicable). The collars wouldn't have been thrown away, so maybe the wrong collar was used, replaced and the coin restruck. The coin is a bit dire for research, but are there any hints of understriking anywhere else?

Slightly at a tangent, but there's nothing new in conspiracy theorists/flat earthers/tree huggers/preppers. I found the attached in an auction catalogue recently. Enigmatically called Q and presumably dated 1970 given the 10p leaflet was published in that year. Is Qanon the latest incarnation of the league of nutters, or is it just that the letter Q has some magical quality for people of such mindsets that I haven't discovered yet? I blame it all on subversive behaviour by Russia and Trump.

No, I just added up the lower estimates from the featured items section on the website. These are all have over 10K for lower estimates and comprise only a few dozen items. Being simple numbers - no calculator required. What the estimates are for the other lots, I have no idea, but the number will be significant. I don't bother looking at the whole contents until the catalogue arrives.