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OK, I'll just shut up at this point

Well done, Pete

Also, who got the 1869 from the DNW. Nice coin with fairly even subdued lustre and no problems. Went for £2000 hammer.

If it's any help, Matt, the Fitzwilliam museum have all old auction catalogues, and the Christies auction of 23rd October 1984, is amongst them. Here's the link It's a bit antiquated as you have to scroll down under C to find Christies. That shows that they hold the catalogue for that auction, but it's not clear whether you are only able to view within the museum itself, or whether they would send you a copy for a fee. There is an e mail address you can make enquiries at.

The same coin with the same provenance from the Bamford sale for what it's worth.

Yeah....they're 2 all at the moment with Celtic at Celtic Park, in the Champions League. On paper a match they should walk.

I've got a Henry vacuum cleaner. I'm told they're suckers, unlike the people who use them

Yes, it's Steve's isn't it. Very nice too.

I think I'd have to look at a couple in hand, to see for myself Pete. Good stuff though. It's great when a new variant comes to light.

Interestingly enough, banknotes used to be - with the exact date of production, I believe, not merely the year. As for the variant in question, it's not one I've ever seen for sale, so I suspect there's no intererst at present. Maybe one for the future. Although the differences are so minute, that you obviously need strong magnification to even spot them.

So I phoned DNW and explained the situation. I was told not to worry as they haven't updated all the client's accounts yet.

Interesting that picture 24/24 in the slideshow depicts a number of fake slabs - all the ones I can see have the word "cleaned" written on them.

Definitely something underlying as you can clearly see what looks like another downward stroke, just to the left of the vertical bar, and overlapping it. The die also looks as though it could be worn, given that the top horizontal bar is thin looking. Precisely what has occurred here though, is difficult to determine. Nice coin, nonetheless.

I'm hoping my lots will as well, although they haven't been marked as shipped on the DNW website yet. Interestingly, since paying, my account, under "account management", is showing as £0.00, but under "invoices" it's still showing the full amount as owing, as though it should still be paid.

I was born and brought up in Chelmsford, and you would be surprised at the number of Ipswich Town supporters there are there.

They probably will, but a few weeks ago I thought Joe Hart fell a bit unlucky. He was always a cert under Pellegrini, but he clearly didn't fit into Guardiola's plans at all, nor could he into any other premiership team. AQlways a popular guy at the Etihad, and now look where he is.

I'll let this one go through as I've already paid and the next Midland isn't until 9th October. But thanks for the tip. Will remember for next time That's incredibly fast considering it only finished yesterday. Much quicker than LCA, who take a week or so.

Missed the Man U v Leicester match. I'd imagine Leicester will be mostly concentrating on making a decent of the Champions League this year. Just watched Arsenal thump Chelsea 3:0 on BT Sport.

I've yet to receive one. Looking forward to seeing it.

That's not a bad idea, Jerry. Obviously it would be very decent of Chris to do that. Yes, the Midland isn't very far from me.

Thanks Pete. I've had a good and successful auction. I'm also pleased to say that the only coin I lost out on was to a fellow forum member, Jerry.

Cheers Nick, although I think what I failed to take into account was the postage cost of the two books I won, one of which is a Peck. I didn't previously have an account with DNW, so there won't be any previous amount wrongly carried forward. So used to just the few pounds for the special delivery of one or two coins, that I never initially thought about the cost of posting heavy items.

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@SWANNY did you get them, or any of them?

I would definitely agree with die clash rather than ghosting. There is evidence of die clashing on both the obverse and reverse on that 1871. The area by the Queen's throat, is possibly one of the most frequent points for die clashing to show on buns, in this case the reversed image of Britannia's leg. It is, of course, extremely common, so doesn't really detract.