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Those would have made my list too - and I'm amazed that I missed Bowie and Laura Nyro, two of my favourite artists.

Don't see it myself.

The 1953 set above described as "DCAM" is barely frosted at all - it looks like a perfectly average specimen of the set. As for 1977 crowns, there are two proofs: one is the CuNi from the standard year set, and isn't frosted. The other is the silver proof, sold separately in their own cases, and all have a virtually identical degree of frosting; 'CAM' I would say, but if others wish to say DCAM... [shrugs] ... won't affect the price, which has barely moved in 40 years.

In no particular order: Beatles Who Genesis Steely Dan Grateful Dead Mercury Rev Goldfrapp Father John Misty John Grant Oscar Peterson Miles DAvis Queen Pink Floyd Misty In Roots Sly & Robbie (dub) Nick Drake Sleaford Mods Joni Mitchell Neil Young David Crosby Zappa Leonard Cohen Chic Buzzcocks Magazine Dire Straits The Beat The Specials Madness …and many more I've missed at first think

That's how I always report - fraudulent as in a copy / replica not described as such in the listing.

Free with 4 gallons...

There are more varieties of 1858 than possibly all other copper pennies put together. It was all down to the delays involved introducing the bronze with which the Mint had major problems. So they used and reused the 1858s. Then the delays continued so they had the 1859, finally the very rare 1860 just before the bronzes were ready.

Of course it's real - it's the ultra rare "1881 with beaded border".

Could be Kaithi perhaps?

I don't think it's Sanskrit (which alphabetically is virtually identical to Hindi).

Good luck with your £450 valuation! (The problem with the commoner varieties of 1860 - 1863 is that many were put aside at the time, as it was such a radical change to the base metal denominations; there's quite a lot of them out there. Nevertheless they are popular, so you might still get a decent offer).

You've got to take into account that these are the world's longest continuously struck/circulating coins. They may even still be being struck. I'm sure there must be ways of determining the age of examples, but I personally don't know what they are.

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I would say that it is Freeman 10, Obverse 2 + Reverse D. Not one of the rarer types, but very nice condition to have. Approximate value, around £200.

That last one in the CAMEO list appears to be NO CAMEO.

Frosted on one side I can understand. But no frosting at all? That's not a cameo.

That's ludicrous. If there is no frosting, then the term "cameo" cannot apply without rendering the English language meaningless. I'm not sure what PCGS think they're up to.

No doubt Richard will get the usual bad press.

You have a 1959 half penny with silver on it and it looks copper with no hole

That's Boris Johnson for you!

Really? When did decimal end and what's taken its place?

That's far and away the most important thing. Read profusely - books, magazines, specialist tomes - and try to work out what interests you before you jump too quick. A good starting point would be Collectors Coins GB and Grading British Coins, both available via that banner ad above. If you think you want to go further back, invest in a copy of Spink's Standard Catalogue, which lists most English types from Celtic and Roman onwards, and which becomes more comprehensive the further forward in time you go.

Probably not a specimen - as this was one of the last 2 years of silver content a whole lot were put aside. I have one very like that. I remember in 1980 it listed at £2 in BU (and most of that series). Then the Bunker Hunt family tried to corner the world silver market, and these jumped to £12 in BU almost overnight. After a few months of Brits feverishly turning in their ancestral silver for its melt value, the whole enterprise failed and these were back to £2!

Ah, sorry - I didn't realise you were personally so badly affected.

PMD? - if you look very carefully there are marks on the O at the top, and there also appears to be some faint marking on the G bottom, and the scratch seems to have been deflected by the curve of the G. What's more, the scratch inside the G seems lighter than the scratch across the portrait. If the damage had been present before striking, you would expect to see consistency either side of the legend.