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Expensive for sure, but Neil Paisley will usually start reducing the price or offering on e bay if they don't shift fairly quickly. So watch this space. No worries, Matt. It's the sort of thing I would also do. Yes, where they paid £3000 + 17% commission, so £3510 in total. £1k profit if they sell at that price

Great series, Peck. Thoroughly enjoying reading your articles.

RIP David Bowie 1947 - 2016 A great talent lost.

I think the guidelines are very tricky and confusing, and I can understand why the guy in this case was taken in. Most people (the proverbial man on the Clapham omnibus) would quite reasonably assume that "legal tender" always had its popularly perceived definition of currency/notes, acceptable in payment for goods and services. Seems this is not quite the case. Legal Tender

No worries - sorry they're not brilliant quality.

Has anybody see the two magnificent offerings Colin Cooke is making this month. Can't give pictures as they're small. black and white, and in a magazine. But.....wait for it.....:- 1919KN (F187) uncirculated with good lustre on both sides £1,950.00 1926 modified effigy (F195) BU full lustre, exceptional. Slabbed as CGS80 and as such it is certainly one of the finest known - a mere snip at £4,500.00 Wow (they may already have gone, but if not, they'll be loaded on their website in a few days)

A good one - not got a new one to report yet though

Indeed. There are some absolute belters in the Elstree collection.

I notice that the link to Steve's (Accumulator) penny collection has disappeared from his posts under the new regime.

Some exceptionally nice coins shown above by ChKy.

...and yet I'd agree with the vendor's observations (save for the less bright bit, as we don't know that for certain yet). To be honest it doesn't look cleaned to me, at any rate nothing about it is hitting me in the eye in that regard.

Thanks to you and Rob who initially mentioned it - a very interesting article.

Tom, I've just sent you what I believe to be an actual private message as a test - I clicked the "message" box. It doesn't appear on your feed.

Because one of the most popular denominations.

Maybe in those first two years, the figures were merely scratched on when a given batch target was reached. In the later years, possibly completion of part targets were scratched on. Who knows? - in the absence of absolute definitives, all we can do is speculate.

Yes. In "The British Bronze Coinage, Pence, Halfpence and Farthings 1860 to 1869", Michael Gouby states that only four numbered strikings occurred in 1860 and 1861 combined. They were three on pennies, and one on a halfpenny. On two 1860 specimens, the numbers were 40/40 and 63/63. On an 1861 penny - 99/99. On an 1861 halfpenny, 102/102. These differ from all the other years, in that the numbers were identical. At page 5, Gouby states of these 1860 and 1861 examples: "The two scratched numbers on the coins of 1860 and 1861 are the same, i.e. 40/40, 63/63 and 102/102 on a halfpence; the conclusion reached by Dyer is that it represents the cumulative total output of all bronze coins, since 1860, for the Royal Mint - in units of TONS." All the 1860 and 1861 examples are in the British Museum. Hope this helps

Special New Year wishes to you, Peter. Nothing and no-one can ever replace your dear wife, but I hope you begin to find renewed happiness and peace of mind in 2016, although I know the road is a long hard one. God bless mate x

I wish I'd known this a couple of months ago. I could have let you have an 1873 unc - I had upgraded to BU.

Thanks Matt - that works to a point, but when you click "sort by", then they just come up with "Sorry there is a problem, please wait 2 seconds". Says this repeatedly.

There are several of the rarer varieties I'd like, but my main aim at the moment is a really decent Freeman 1 - I believe there's one coming up in the March LCA.

Especially 1906 and 1907. Superb 1909 by the way, and always great to get some history.

So a tad early for actual art deco

Love art deco, and that is a very nice object.

Richard - Just one little query. Why have you got the 1889 Bronze Proof Freeman 129, and the 1891, Bronze Proof Freeman 133, as N3 rather than R8 or R9?