scott

saw a nice penny dated 1963 on ebay with a differant spreading then usual... 18 63. missed dout on it though but yea many date spreads even number types (1860, 61,62 especially had many spreads, and 1862 had differant angled 2's, have one posted here with 2 over 2...) even into edward 7th there were differant spreads as i have one of these i'll slap the image up i'll let you decide, i'll get a better one of the date tomorrow

there is something about 1985 coins.. the legend seems slightly smaller. i would love one of those 1988 £1's in shiny.. my best find was a 1983 £1 with lustre (not full bright more like a brightness) but that was a few years ago now been luckier on other fronts. both types of 1992 20p (those are the hardest date to get either way lol) and a dot to dot 10p 1992 lol

i have noticed the striking errors more on farthings, and that spreads to both sides

1861* just a typo, its still not bad wouldn't sell any farthings though even my 1858 small date

i have one where the letters are faded and as a result the dot is fainter, that i would expect, the letters are very well struck and as a result i would expect the dot to be so

yea i got this one, has some discolouration, got it nice and cheap though

my dealer is a common undergrader. sometimes to the extreme my 1961 EF farthing i got for £1... O.o I had memerised the common aspects for george VI obverse, and got myself a VF 1946 3D for £4 (was about the same as the picture in the book)

havn't seen many 2008's recently, never seen the brittania 50p though i'm too busy going for that 20p, even though it seems everywhere is running out of 20ps....

dont think 2009's are out, dont think there will be errors they ditched the old design didn't they?

well wouldn't value depend on the alignments of the dots, but yea there are errors as odd as that around, i have a thin planchet 1975 5p lol

firstly, which would you have, i have got this from the royal mint site mintage 1988 --- 7,118,825 2008 --- 3,910,000 (Royal Arms) so the 2008 has half the mintage of the 1988 (well more) yet i havn't seen a 1988 in a few years, i'm hording these based on those figures (strangly enough i have 4 of them and only have 2 of the other type...) so would keeping these £1's be more desirable in the future then the 88's as people do not know about the rarity yet? or will it be that 1988's will always be more desirable

its not the royal mint, its the london mint (the rip off selling one ) doesnt help that chris moyles mentioned it briefly today either >.< i really want one, not paying £50 though, and now i wont get one in my change

i saw one listed as 2008 20p, with a picture of the reverse, it was £18.11

yea and not only that, us collectors will miss out because people will be looking for them

good god, they are selling for silly money on ebay, like £90-500

yea its those mules that used to sell for £20, very dissapointed about them being annouced, now i will never flipping find one

anyone else found one yet? i'm curious if this is a 1 off strike or a faulty batch, would be interesting to find out if i can class it as a variant and what value it would have

another possible fake http://www.omnicoin.com/coin_view.aspx?id=967955 an interesting one, some details seem to point to fake, (letters on both sides scratched more then normal they usualy rub, few oddities on the ONE especially the E, and the alignment of the side text, it does rotate to more of the middle on the other side) http://www.omnicoin.com/coin_view.aspx?id=967956 what about these 2

there is none, perhaps a project for one of us. there is of course online referances but thats not 100% coverage

might have to buy one of these, bronze is usualy the best category to collect price wise, i'll wait until after my holidays though.

as for the pounds, there are many differant "standards" to these fakes, i already have a thread linking some of the fake pounds i have found, the mix is interesting http://www.predecimal.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4344 i will update this thread is i find new ones of course, but some are very nice (the 1998 one for example, very little to determine its fake except the date)

yea, i kinda like those george V aussie coins. i prefer the british stuff, have a few variants myself http://www.triton.vg/pennies.html i use this, covers varieites for aussie pennies

i origonally kept this back for the reverse off centre error, never took much notice on the obverse until someone noticed something missing... there is no dot at the bottom of the obverse, no reason for there to not be, strike looks clean enough (no fading of detail near the dot location, no scratch, its just... not there) i wonder if there a dodgey batch with no dot?

1946 and 1949 also edward VIII any shiny ones, too, any date those are worth £1 or 2 depending how good they are.

they are clear, in the enlarged parts, i cant go too big or it loses the detail.