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I got three in my change from the canteen at work. I think they must have received a few bagfuls.

They're the type of rubbish you'd put in your decoy cabinet in plain sight for housebreaking villains. While your serious one is hidden away.

Still looks a weird colour to me. But that apart and in answer to the original question, yes, it is a very good strike.

Yes, but if they're old coins, it does make you kind of wonder where they were kept for the previous nearly 100 odd years, if just a further nine in a mahogany cabinet can accelerate toning to the extent that it has.

My Nicholls is a Mascle........ I can honestly say that none of my pennies have been adversely affected. The toning (if toning it can be called) is confined to my shilling collection for dates between 1914 and 1919. None of the 1920 and after specimens have been toned - one or two had already toned slightly when I had them, and they've not changed. But the 1919 shilling I had has toned considerably. I think I posted the image on here when I first got it in 2009. So I'll try and find that and post a current picture for comparison.

It does make sense Pete. I edited my post because I realised it didn't make logical sense in its earlier form. Some of my pre 1920 one's have toned quite spectacularly even since I've had them. It has to be something to do with storage, although what I'm doing wrong I don't know, as they're in a Peter Nichols cabinet in a dry warm room. It's the upward facing reverses that have received the toning. I say some, as others are 100% unaffected. Indeed, all the Edward VII ones are unaffected.

The colour just doesn't look right, Pete. It's more like a bronze or copper coin.

Link - here Image below Reasonable strike as far as I can see, but not good enough picture to supply a more definitive judgement, IMO. Especially in terms of the reverse. Also an odd colour which surely cannot be solely down to toning. More likely the photography.

I tried as well, but the page kept getting timed out (512833)

The best shilling I have is the 1905 I won at Spink in April, 2017 - NEF and totally issue free.

She gave me the coin today (cost £5 not £10 so got a fiver back). Whilst I was very pleased to receive the coin, I was a bit disappointed as the die it was struck from, was obviously very worn. Much of the lettering is unreadable, having been almost entirely worn away. Oh well......

Very nice - and 1924 is a very difficult year to get in top grade. Even more difficult than the rarer 1925 IMO.

Strangely enough my 1921 has got much higher relief than any of its 1920 to 1926 neighbours. In the photo, you can just about discern the more raised lion in the 1921, and the flatter lion in the 1923. Much harder to get a good pic of a shilling than of a penny, because of increased glare sensitivity. I took this one in natural light a few minutes ago, on the window sill. ETA - did the 1923 again, as it appears half chopped off in the first one. Further ETA: With all that said, I think I'm deluding myself, as the pre 1920 obverse is of palpably higher relief, than any subsequent, including my 1921. Even so the 1921 reverse lion is definitely higher relief, as stated above.

That's true. My early 1920's shillings have a very shallow relief - especially the 1923 - so it's no wonder they "wore out" so quickly. Many of them probably down to <fine within 10 years at normal use.

Has to be yours. Not only does it have the brighter lustre, but additionally, as you say, the three lions on the upper shield are well marked on yours, whereas with LCA's specimen, they are indistinct (especially the lower two), probably due to advanced die wear. It's a major flaw on that coin, which does detract.

Gave a friend who was visiting South Wales a tenner to get me a coin struck, as she was visiting the Royal MInt at Llantrisant. She went yesterday and called me to say what a fantastic experience it was. The coin she got struck for me was the Mary Shelley £2 commemorative, and she was told that currency coins of the same type "probably" won't be issued for circulation, which surprised me. I did a little bit of research but could find nothing, other than there seem to be two other 2018 commemorative £2.00 coins, one for the centenary of the RAF, and the other for the centenary of the 1918 armistice. Not a biggie, but out of interest is anybody able to cast any light on whether or not these commemorative £2.00 coins will be issued as currency strikes for circulation? Thanks.

It looks like a Gorham glove pomander. If there's any of the marks shown in this link you might be able to date it.

Are they still in circulation, or did they go the same way as pre 1947 silver in the UK? (collected up and melted down for their silver content)

Also, why does the recent visitors section of a given profile show:- recently? You can see your own, but everybody else's is blocked for other users. Not me being nosey, by the way, just curious as to why changed.

There were faults on both sides of the divide to be fair. Neither side can take any moral high ground. The unions because of their lousy, truculent attitude, and ultimately Thatcher for being over ruthless and dogmatically obsessed with privatisation in a naturally mixed economy. However, where I think Thatcher went badly wrong was in closing all the mines (or the overwhelming majority any rate) in the so called "dash for gas", which exhausted our North Sea supplies for electricity production at what had been coal fired power stations. She should have kept most of them open. Not only would that have saved whole communities, but additionally, investment could have been made into clean coal burning. We would also have still have a good reserve of natural gas and not have to buy any from the Russian Gazprom (how's that for the law of unintended consequences, for Thatcher) nor any need to start fracking.

Never got one of those in my change. But prior to the main issue of £2 coins in 1997, a 1986 Commonwealth Games £2 would occasionally turn up. But not seen one since about 1995.

Never imagined for one second there were.

Very nice - yours? I hadn't realised there were two.

I presume, still in the British Museum to this day.

Got an interesting one from June 1854 (exact date not known) referring to the Cuff coin auction of June 1854, and the sale on 26th June of one particular coin which fetched £260 hammer. Unsure which newspaper it's from - possibly The Times - but it makes for very good reading.