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Not yet - the incubation period is not up. On a pragmatic level, just because you have contact with someone who tests positive, doesn't inevitably mean you will get the disease yourself.

Job's a good' un

BREAKING: The World Health Organization has announced that dogs cannot contract Covid-19. Dogs previously held in quarantine can now be released. To be clear, WHO let the dogs out.

At first glance MS62 seems overgraded. But would need to see in hand. Certainly not got much eye appeal - IMO any rate.

Heard back from them now - they've apologised and offered me my money back or a credit note. Fair enough

It is a very nice looking coin.

Well it definitely won't go out of my head again, Ian - that's for sure !!! I still haven't had an e mail reply from Ingram. I'm wondering how long to give it before I call them.

Obviously really likes F90's.

Thanks Ian. Any thoughts as to what that protrusion is?

Old Walter Gabriel.......

I won't be impressed if I don't also get back the £9.00 paypal fee, which was on top of the price of the coin, and if I'm not also re-imbursed for the next day tracked delivery postage payable on returning the item to them. Although given their track record at royally pissing off others here previously, I'm not holding my breath.

I needed a decent F114, as my current one isn't that great. So, despite a poor pic through a slab on their website, I ordered one described as GEF. Even though the descriptive bit of the slab was not included in the photo. Took a chance, but wish I hadn't. The coin arrived today and clearly shows that the dies are described as Gouby R + r, which is a F115. A F114 is R + p. Idiots.

It's interesting Bob. Hiram had the two F90's in his collection, the first of which went on 12th February, also at a DNW auction, for less than half the price of the latest one. The first one did have a bit of a ding from obverse to reverse, but otherwise wasn't too bad. At any rate, I wouldn't have thought it was worth just half of today's offering, which is sub fine, but issue free. £5,500 hammer, and off the top of my head calculation wise, a bit over £7k with the premium.

Anybody here get lot 103, the 1877 narrow date penny at today's DNW auction? It went for £5,500. Didn't expect it to make that much.

Very clever - love it.

Rather pleased to have obtained a 1918H penny with a fully struck up breastplate and reasonable hair detail. It's very difficult to find specimens with a good strike to both obverse and reverse. This one is otherwise only about EF, with a tiny trace of lustre in the legend, but it's the rest of it which appealed to me. My previous one was not as good, and has been consigned to the oddments drawer.

Hadn't noticed either, but now you mention it, two well's and one so

Never noticed the crack to the right of the date, Ian.

The potential die crack is just above the O of ONE. Die clash...? I prefer the smoking knee theory. Has more of a ring to it 🎶

Nae.....they're good, but not that good.

It's certainly a very nice coin, Ian. But now that you've posted such a good photo of it, I'm inclined to agree with Richard that it's a normal F73, as opposed to a specimen. There is a slight metal flaw and possibly evidence of a die crack on the reverse, as well as the fact that the H is a little lower down. Worth keeping as one's F73 specimen though.

Noticed a new book in Waterstones the other day - "Russian Rupture", by I. Kikabolokov.

Thought as much - thanks.

We've probably all experienced this scenario. Colleagues know you're a coin collector, so every now and then one will bring you some in to ID and value. In this case someone brought me an entire tin of coins, all of which were worthless, with the possible exception of this one. I had no idea what it was, as it's outside my speciality, but it looked as though it had potential and I told her so. She asked me to take it away and see if I could positively ID what it was. From brief research at home, it looks like it might be a spade half guinea from 1790, but the obverse just doesn't match pictured specimens at all. So I'm wondering if it's a fake. The reverse looks a lot better than the obverse. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.