scott

makes you wonder why they bothered if they knew dies were coming. but very nice

any new varieties listed?

most of that is foriegn, some interesting looking things there but cant see much

it is currency, the spreading effect is caused by a heavily used dye so can only be currency especially as the first 1 in 11 looks recut

yea common years for all 3, the post war "token" coinage, French coins are fairly cheap too.

it is possibly a planchet error for that crack no signiture? anything more noticable

what i need are pictures

that modern 10 kopeck looks battered. yea the Duit is old. 18th century

i have one of those, do find the odd 1861 and 61. I picked up a light brown 92 as well, only seen that on 93's

i can locate many of those

those prices.... i could pick up those for a fiver

i have the 1879 and wasn't there 4 varieties of the farthing? but yea, why is the 92 listed?

done magents on iron coins, not very magnetic when the coin is nearly 1000 years old though US coins are easy because the later issues you can see a copper band on the rim they could also feel differant, good condition silver edges are sharp, best way to put it. there is a cool test you can do with our own 1p as well. get a 1991 or earlier and a 1992-97 rub your finger over the portcullis on each. as the later one is thiker it will feel differant when you do it

they do exist actually this will clear it up. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1893-Penny-2-coins-wide-and-SCARCE-narrow-dates-/200860279955?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&nma=true&si=pB5oDIE9zR9VtmKyOCsl628Yklw%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc first time i have heard of it myself. but it is clear there, also read about 1889 90 narrows and a 91 wide oh and an 89 wider as well. only found 1 example of an 1893 narrow in the crocker collection that was NEF though. it is unlisted. dunno if there is a new edition of Gouby after that sale, because it wouldn't be listed otherwise. and it opesn the possibilty of 1894's

looked in CCGB 09, and saw that the 1892 narrow was listed in there, but nothing about the date spreads of 1893? they do exist, just not listed in there.

yea, depends on the copper ore though, the yellow type accounts for most of the worlds copper deposits, a change in the copper source to a diffetant chemical makup of copper (aka swedens more red type) would account for the colour.

thinking for a minute, and people talking about the gold colour that i believe is the copper content, i was getting this reserached apparantly it IS copper, just out of a type that is this colour. (it is also first batch from mother coin ) might explain this one

i would if i knew what one looked like, i can snap up varietes easily when i know they are there yea i'm still interested in it.

yea thanks for outbidding me on that... i wanted to look at the differance myself

i think the redness on 1918/19 pennies are differant to prevous dates, 1908/9 are a pleasing browner colour, the only red one is 1893. here it is. incendently, perhaps colin cooke says swedish copper was used in the early milled copper, which was a red colour.

was mint stuff probably, Edward VII silver is rather scarce, especially larger issues.

i have a streaky 1919 incendently i have seen foreign coins with the same streakyness. i have bought a 1927 recently with streakyness. i'll upload it at some point

there is also the odd 1893 in a light brown colour as well

got this one possibly. not British but line goes right around.

best one yet... a coin in a folded up bag... the bag was about the size of a cartwheel penny, how that didn't get lost i dunno