Peckris

Anyone willing to pay £670 for a Poor Vicky halfcrown must have a screw loose. Where's the pleasure in owning that? To take it out at regular intervals, coo over it, and tell yourself it is possibly genuine if only there was enough detail to tell?

Am I the only one to think that that is ridiculous? What is the argument that it should be other than 50-50? Absolutely ludicrous. I've never considered one face of a coin to be more significant or important than the other. I think this must be some kind of urban myth.

It's where bits of the legend started to wear - the relevant letters were 're-cut' but as they couldn't be aligned with the previous letter absolutely exactly, you see this 'doubling' effect. Very common in the 19th Century. Yes, sometimes there are cases where coins are double struck, but then you see it all over not just certain letters.

It's where bits of the legend started to wear - the relevant letters were 're-cut' but as they couldn't be aligned with the previous letter absolutely exactly, you see this 'doubling' effect. Very common in the 19th Century. Yes, sometimes there are cases where coins are double struck, but then you see it all over not just certain letters.

If 'being cynical' means telling it like it is, then yes. So it's all down to planchets then? In that case, there must be the same ratio of rainbow Morgans to non-rainbow Morgans over here, as over there. And conversely, there can't be many rainbow UK coins over there either. Unless of course ....

Probably a re-cut / re-punched legend rather than double struck - good spot though.

Nice 2mm. There are other differences too, alignment of letters with border beads and a shorter trident. There are only 3 basic reverse types (though lots of varieties) for the bronze penny A: Ship & lighthouse - Bun pennies 1860-1894 (34 yrs) B: Just Britannia - old head Vic, Ed VII, George V 1895-1936 (41 yrs) C: Lighthouse - George VI & Eliz 1937-1970 My view is that each series should be treated together for die identification, rather than splitting into reigns I've never really thought of it like that, but the 3-category split does make sense. Well, I would split the B into pre-1927 and post-1927 (B1 and B2?) - but I think it's a good principle.

That looks absolutely typical natural silver toning. For God's sake Gary - couldn't you have issued us with sunglasses before posting that?

Fixed now? I didn't have any problems viewing.

looking for more 1898s and 1895s so far found 3 varieties of 1895, the 2mm all appear identical but hard to find spares of the 1mm with intact border beads date differences on the 1mm quite striking, but is there a slight difference in the relationship of the drapery, waves and rocks to the union flag on the shield?? scans done together at roughly the same orientation correction lighting from the opposite direction shows NO difference in the 2 1mm reverses - top image is a 2mm still looking for another wide date(s) David, It looks like the 1mm examples (bottom two pics) have the 5 located at a different location in reference to the edge tooth! One is right over the tooth, and one is to the side of the tooth(gap). Yes, that's exactly what I spotted too - the 5 is to a different pointing entirely.

I'm not sure it's correct to call this a "split R"? If you knitted the split together, you would have a very fat end to the curve. The lower portion looks like the proper R, while the question is, what caused the upper portion? I have an 1862 farthing with a 6 that also looks 'split', though in that case it might be an repunched alignment.

1905 would be your Key date for the halfcrown. Liverwho? Liverpoo Sorry - intermittently defective l on the keyboard. You meant Manchester Untied? (sorry, my keyboard goes into Moyes Mode every now and then )

Fair

Don't bother with a DSLR unless you're interested in photography. If you don't need one, they are heavy, bulky and require a huge investment in lenses etc. The most you need is a Point & Shoot compact that has a macro setting. If it doesn't, get one with quite a high resolution (e.g. 12MP minimum), shoot as near as you can, then crop the picture down to just the coin.

Well, if that's the standard of Photobucket videos, I don't think YouTube will lose any sleep Medals were minted the same way up if you rotate them on a vertical axis, but coins always used to be minted the same way up if you rotate on a horizontal axis. Partway through the 19th Century this changed though not all at the same time. By the 20th Century all coins were minted with the same axis alignment as medals. That's what those symbols ↑↓ and ↑↑ signify in the Spink catalogue - to tell you which alignment.

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He must do - every time he looks at the Vatican

Ah, the "L over I" variety! What's that in Spink...?

Reverse :

On the other hand, while I wouldn't pay £424 either, there is a phenomenal difference in scarcity between VF (or sub-EF) examples, and genuine EF or better. My own example (MUST upgrade!) is definitely sub-EF :

and if you go to 11mins 15 secs that is where it is Thanks for that! A truly fascinating piece, and stuff there I didn't know about the original designs for the decimal coins. (The second part of the piece is at 25:20 for those who want to save searching through).

Hahaha - I know what LMAO stands for ... but LMIO ???

I have just finished my fourth Picture Book for children...does that count? Been completing the illustrations in the small hours, the only time I've got for such things; very nearly ready to pack them all off to the big guns! The Pumpy Grottum has turned out to be one of my favourite characters, with 'Moley and the Treetop Cafe' my favourite story! It's good to hear about life outside collecting! I didn't know you were a kids' book illustrator Stuart? Perhaps we should ask Chris to set up a new forum, "What We Do When We're Not Collecting". I'm an amateur photographer but the members of that forum are far more talented than I, so I'm a bit shy there (no, no, really..). As we're talking about life outside coins and outside coin books, I'll mention that I too have written a children's book, entitled 'A Calamity of Clutterbucks', including the illustrations. But getting it mainstream published is another matter. I also help my other half with self publishing her poetry books - I do the 'typesetting' and cover designs etc. - she does the poetic stuff. Otherwise, I have an old Volvo P1800 that takes time and money on a grand scale to keep running, a garden that takes too much time and I play a Surdo (big bass drum) in a Samba band. My other great interest is songwriting, for which I have a Yamaha Motif synthesiser - so far 9 written and just one to go before I find a singer and go to the local studio to record them. We could start a Writers forum within Predecimal! And considering that mine host is a publisher...

Oh, I've finished it three times already - it will soon be time for the 4th revision.