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Tough call Blake. I sincerely hope you can find a way through it all. We have advanced so much, technologically. But still we can't find a cure for some of these dreadful illnesses.

Indeed. Although of course, we don't know exactly what happened on the day. It could have fallen on the floor and he picked it up and put it in his pocket intending to throw it in with the melt, forgot about it. Then decided to keep it for posterity. Maybe later gave it to a young relative as an example of a silver threepence. Of course, in 1945, he'd have had no idea of its future worth. I bet it will fetch many orders of magnitude more than £4k this time.

Blake, you could always get a mifi. They are a secure network you can use anywhere, without having to try and use the often weak and insecure local wifi's. Sorry to hear your sister is unwell.

Ah, that might explain a lot.

Deal !

Then we must agree to disagree, Chris. Trouble is these political threads are started, and people inevitably post their opinions on them, which they are free to do. We all think differently. Maybe we should make a joint agreement between the two of us to avoid them in future - what say you? I mean, I can't say I'd be especially bothered about avoiding politics on here.

Somebody will take an early bath.....

Bit of a put down for those of us who contribute a lot, day in and day out, to this forum, Michael. Sorry you feel that way.

Really interesting article about your Dad, Jerry, and I will try and catch that programme when broadcast. Wildlife and animal welfare are also of great concern to me as well.

That's the one, Chris.

That's what I do - then save them in my pics, and upload to this site on a post.

Paddy's above is uncirculated. Ozjohn's is about GEF. But with the coin in question, I can't see any hair detail at all. Also there's some flattening of the lions - especially the rampant lion's mane. No evidence of even residual lustre. Sorry, but it's not even VF for me. Maybe it might look different out of the slab, but on current evidence......

Ah yes, I see. Thanks.

The way it looks through the slab is no more than F/GF, rather than UNC. Maybe the grader was very inexperienced.

To be fair, it's a difficult one to get out of, legally. The companies running those schemes are caught between a rock and a hard place. From a wider perspective, equality is equality. You can't cherry pick the best bits and reject the rest.

Can't see it now.

The problem arising from allowing concessions to waspi women is that there will obviously then be a further knock on effect to men who reach 66 when the ages are supposed to be equalised - from next year I believe, only to find that their age has gone up, but women of exactly the same age are getting a financial concession. Nothing then to stop those men taking action under sex equality legislation and demanding they get a concession back to 65. Where does it stop? I appreciate the process was accelerated for those women born between 1952 and 1954, but it was for men too, to bring forward equalisation at 66 for both sexes from 2020.

£495 as per Jerry's post above. Not unreasonable given the rarity.

Well done Blake - I'm still trying to get a F24. Difficult one.

And yet it's been reported that in traditionally Labour areas, many householders have said to activists who were doorstepping, that they couldn't vote for a party with Corbyn as the leader.

Agreed, I'll have to wait until I'm 68, so I don't see why they should get any further concessions. Besides which, it would have a knock on effect to the age group just below the waspi women, who would then say they were being unfairly treated.

The London Labour elite badly miscalculated the mood of the country as it stood outside the M25. Of course, the elephant in the room is that with a more credible leader, Labour would probably have strolled it.

Live and let die more like, Blake

Nor me - even the image is a collector's piece. It'll be interesting to see what it fetches at auction.

There are clearly two completely different marks, albeit in the same general position (although, not precisely) on the 1946 penny. The one referred to as a footnote in Peck, page 518 of the 1964 edition, states: "Some specimens of this coin have a small raised dot (flaw) on the rev, high up after ONE (specimen in BM)' Freeman, at point No 36 on page 75 of Bronze Coinage of GB book dated 1985, states "Some specimens have a small elongated raised dot in the field above the E of 'ONE', caused probably by damage to the die" - the operative word being "elongated" - thus highlighting the apostrophe shape. The confusion seems to arise from the fact that the apostrophe shaped mark is referred to as a dot, the same as the actual dot penny shown by Bob, with the later excellent photo from Mick - but of course that dot is in a different place and is a different shape to the much more well known one referred to by Peck and Freeman.