Cerbera100

Yay, I was right! - just not brave enough to have a punt at the initial mark!

Fate... I was sat here browsing the forum, and I came across your thread - seconds after I've just opened my trusty copy of North V2! Ok - Can pretty much rule out Ed II and III... and it being Durham limits the choice further! So, with a bit of digging (and not being able to make out the initial/mint mark or abbreviation marks) I'm going with either Vb, VIIIb or Xb. I may get shot down, but I think my reasoning is sound!

As the usual coin was a penny, so cartwheel pennies (or possibly twopences) or later, not much chance of a rarity methinks. Personally, I plan on having a 1933 penny on one eye, and an Unc 1869 penny on the other... Now, where's that lottery ticket got to?!

Very nice!

Is there not some form a legislation against desecrating graves?!

Surely only the RM issue sovs and their multiples...?

Any photos?!

Knowing the RM, about three trillion pounds...! And a few months later, a certain dealer in the locality of the BM will be charging ten trillion pounds! ---------------------- Sorry, just re-read your post - I thought you mean a diamond jubilee whatsit set... 80th birthday set in gold? Never heard of it...

Initial reaction (get it ) - WV, but could be HV...

If you are referring to the 2008 shield-reverse with the 'extra 1', in my opinion this is a die crack... I have four examples showing the growth of the crack - however I can see why the early one can be thought of as a 1. I'll pop some pics up tomorrow!

There's no rhyme or reason to any of it. I'm pretty sure that their quotes computer software is little more than a fixed number plus a random number. Nope - no fixed number involved at any stage! Just a spotty teenager being paid minimum wage on a weekly contract tapping the details in to the magic-maker... There is a field called 'competitive quote' (ie - a quote received from another insurer) - pop £0 in there, and the premium drops about 80%! A guy in my department got done for fraud for putting all his friends' policies through at virtually free! Good old Norwich Union!

I completely agree with Peck - though must add... thats some good pic skills for a newbie! Normally they are taken from about 2miles away and horribly blurred!

Dear Ebay police, this letter is to tell you that accumulator, ColinG and Azda are all the same person and are shill bidding on a penny coin owned by Rob. Right, now their taken care of - £5. Dear Gollum, Unfortunately, whilst it states in our official rules that people bidding under different usernames is forbidden, we dont actually give a flying duck as at the end of the day, the higher the price, the more we make on our scandalous charges - especially on PayPal! As such, I'm afraid that the bid stands at £45.01 with Azda. However, this sounds "A* UbEr-RAR, Specil Edtion All Coletors MUST HAVE - Way beter than AUNC+++++!" so I'll bid £45.015 Yours, eBay Police

Really?! I've picked up three in the last year for less than £500 each - in the leather cases! I doubt even Coincraft would go as far as £1100! DNW's last one (June 10 lot 1269) went for as little as £330+premium - albeit with a tatty cardboard case... Spink's had one in March '10 (lot 314) sold for £460+premium... Bonhams - six sold in last 18months, all less than £600 inc premium...

Ahh right... so its got a big + sign on the rev... thats rather unimaginative isnt it?!

Yes - the nightingale one is rather lovely! If I'm honest, I dont even know what the 2011 one is supposed to be commemorating! Let me think... 2011... eleven years since the millennium?! 143 years since some one did something?! 4.1billions years since the earth was formed?!

It probably is - but then, did the sender write on the outside "CONTAINS HIGHLY FLAMMABLE LIQUID"?! Probably not! With regard to toluene, its great stuff - I used to make it in the lab at uni when we were bored! I hadnt thought of using it as an 'assorted grot' remover though... where did I put that litre bottle I acquired?!

Not seen one yet... that I know of!

Jedi knight not you are. Bloody good job. You're weird. Thats rich coming from a coin collector!

look at price of these coins going though ebay if you have any for sale for 30 quid contact me,these coin are real Collectors items and should not be rubished,same if you have any 1971 double headed half pence coins for 30 quid .keep them and enjoy them that's what is's all about. Many here would disagree - and would probably refer to them as ridiculously overhyped items that were minted in (as they now estimate) hundreds of thousands. They've probably not even now descended to their true level. On the other hand they may have, but I'm not about to wait around and find out. The sheer numbers that have appeared on eBay shows how non-rare they truly are. Worth pulling from change of course, but not IMO worth paying good money for. O let's see shall i, have a coin from my pocket, what a silly coin it is, what shall i do with it,i think i will throw it away,ye wat ever. I think the point that Peck was making is that these undated mules have been massively over-hyped on eBay, in the press and by certain less-than-scrupulous coin merchants. At no point in the next 500 years will these coins be worth the several hundred pounds that some people originally paid for them, and you'll be lucky to get much more than your money back on £50 in the same time-frame! I have bolded the pertinent phrase in Peck's post - the part which you seem to have completely ignored! Of course if the lady in Tesco hands me one in my change I'm going to pull it out, and I might even consider a £15-20 punt on ebay but no more than that! As an aside - you say about silly coins lets throw them away... a friend of mine has an almost phobia-esque reaction to 5p coins and actually does throw them away... to the point where he got us barred from a pub in Exeter when he hit the landlord with one!

DONT DROP THE 1933! That would be very expensive!

How can you get lost from Maidenhead to London?! I mean, I know its only a little tiny road, but I think the M4 takes you right into Hammersmith!

I didn't know the Fat Duck issued coins! I live not for from there - will have to see if I can get a tour of the facilities!

Don't know of one, that's why I'm asking. In that case, forgive me! I thought you had one up your sleeve that you could dazzle us with! It does seem strange that a design that they had apparently consigned to the recycling bin appeared on the final item... One thing that has just occurred to me, has anyone seen/got a not-so-wavey one in a pres-pack? Possibly they saw the design on these and decided to do a quick redesign for the circulation issue? Though its a lot of effort for only a million pieces... Also, why is the cycling one only got an issue of less than half that of the rest?! (see here)

Indeed - it suggests that two master dies had been made up... interesting that the 'withdrawn' one is in the 'specimen' folder; perhaps there was a mix up when the dies went for their 'specimen' finish treatment? Go on - you know you're dying to enlighten us!