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Interesting. Keep us posted Richard.

Will RM even be aware that they've delivered an item previously reported as missing? If they've just pushed it through the buyer's door, probably not. ETA: what does track and trace say?

Hmmmm, tough. You certainly can't say it quickly, unlike:- "She sells sea shells, by the sea shore" or "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper", which seem very easy by comparison.

What happens about the compo now?

It is that. I thought the same as Bernie, that these must have been struck only 10's apart to retain such identical die flaws. Well, I thought that fleetingly before Bernie said it, but then dismissed it as the odds being overwhelmingly against such a coincidence. But logically, how else do you explain it? The longer the gap between strikes on two separate coins from the same die, the more any die flaws will have changed such that it becomes obvious under magnification. Surely? unless I'm missing something blindingly obvious.

The best one is "I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son, and I'm sitting plucking pheasants till the pheasant pluckers come".

I just got lucky, chaps. Also, I've been waiting a very long time. It was expensive, but still a very fair price for something as good. They are astoundingly difficult to locate in high grade, especially as high grade as this specimen. Don't think I'll need to upgrade anytime soon.

Finally managed to obtain a choice specimen F148 1897 high tide, after many years of one just eluding me. Private sale arranged with Cooper's Coins before it went on their website. Special nod to Pete for the heads up.

I had one a few years ago in a transport cafe on the A5, which was like rubber. If I hadn't been so starving at the time, I might have sent it back. Another one of my Gran's old weather sayings: "if it thunders at all, it will thunder at Thurrock". No idea where she go that from, but I don't think it had any validity.

Yes, that's conclusive Ian. Bernie's coins seem to fit the first of your three 2015 pics, with regard to die crack positioning, and mine fits the third, exactly. Different coins.

Presumably the carbon spot now clearly visible between the E & G of REG wasn't there when you had the coin? Conversely the vertical smudge under the D of DG seems to have gone, as do one or two other minor blemishes. Just looked at my F14, which has some die cracks, but not all in the same place - and certainly not that rather unique looking line which runs Eastward from the tip of the helmet feathers, which appears on both coins in your example pics. All the die cracks are in the same place. Mine does have the one between the F & D, but not identical to the two examples of yours, which are identical. It doesn't have a die crack at all under the O of VICTORIA, whereas again, yours are identical. Not 100% sure.

I'll wholeheartedly second that. Let's hope that 2021 will be an improvement on this year.

Indeed, from the potential buyer's point of view, that's just plain weird. I mean, you could have then just decided to run with the original BIN price. Maybe it was a genuine error, and he got one of the digits wrong. I think I might have sent a message querying the counter offer. I wouldn't have thought £25 in response to an advertised "make offer" option, against £34.99 was unrealistic.

Hadn't there used to be an organisation called "Toc H", or am I dreaming it? If there was you certainly never hear of them nowadays. I remember some of my Gran's old sayings. One was "As the days begin to lengthen, the cold begins to strengthen". Then conversely for Summer "As the days begin to shorten, the heat begins to scorch 'em". Another was "if the ice in November is thick enough to hold a duck, there'll be very little else but sludge and muck" Many other sayings as well, but all commonly used ones.

No problem. If you PM me your address, Chris, I'll post them to you. ETA: just realised it also includes October 1967.

Nice example of an F32. Pity he's got his thumb overshadowing part of it.

First spares are December 1966 and January to June 1967 (excluding May). If anybody wants then or any one or more of them, let me know.

In the October 1979 edition of Coin Monthly, there's a feature on the fact that they would be going to fortnightly beginning 5th October 1979 (so 5th to 18th & so on after that). I'm not sure of the exact date it ended, but it had to be before July 1980, as I've now seen a Coin Monthly for then. So it appears that it ran for less than a year. Might be a bit of a challenge tracking all the fortnightly's down - even for such a relatively short period. In the meantime, I'm pleased to say I've managed to place two very low price orders, which give me February 1988, the entire period from June to December 1989 plus January & February 1990, and June 1991. Now that I've started down this road, my objective is to obtain the entire Coin Monthly (and fortnightly) series up to and including February 1992. Beginning to end. As there's likely to be some overlap and duplication, I'll flag up any spares and members are welcome to them free of charge if they're interested.

Yes, I wondered that. Good Point.

Absolutely a F148, and worth at least 20 times that amount. KB Coins has one in the same grade for £1450. I've noticed before that Cambridgeshire Coins seem a bit careless on varieties. Worth keeping a watchful eye on.

Damn, last time I scanned through Cambridgeshire Coins website, I'm pretty sure this one wasn't there. Now it is and has already gone !!! What a bargain.

Received all of them today. There are two articles about pennies in 1981, which I've made a note of. But absolutely none in 1983, 1985 and 1986. In fact by 1985 the magazines were palpably thinner than in earlier years, and everything inside beginning to look very samey.

But not one called Larry.............

He's got several of that type hasn't he Bob? On another note, I understand that offers in the region of £160k are being looked for as far as the Edward VIII is concerned.

Reassuring that the coins remained in UK hands.