Peckris

Don't worry - coins up to 10 or more years old and virtually BU turn up quite often.

Thin over fat surely! The underlying 8 shows through so much it must be that way round?

Sorry, but WTF is the point in the above post ? It's not even spam, it's just meaningless garbage. The point was to allow me to vent - the guy was clearly performing a public service

Choice! A dab hand with the arrows, shame that they mean bugger all!!!!! I've contacted the seller, let's hope he is an honest joe.

Yeah I see the fork, a few of my 1860s have the fork at the very tip, but none as pronounced as yours, thats a great example. Yes - I actually tried to interest Colin Cooke in it when he was working on the Farthings section of the replacement for Peck, but he didn't seem that bothered really. I wish I'd sent him the picture now, but it's too late *sigh*.

Old Head? London Mint? If so, then CCGB gives £70 EF and £120 UNC. Jubilee Head (London) £110 EF and £160 UNC Other mints, worth a LOT more.

Dirt is a possibility, but you can see it also peeking over the top of the 8. From the distribution of it, I think could well be an underlying 8.

Definitely an inverted 8. It also has the beginnings of the 'forked tail' 6, do you see? Here's mine, much more pronounced :

If it's "Very worn" it wouldn't be possible to say which numeral overlies which. If it IS an 1865/3 'clear date' it would be worth a few pounds, but no more.

Now THAT would make an interesting variation on the Xmas tree chocolate coins ...

The sharpness of the edge is a good indicator of a proof, as it's something that prooflike early strikes do NOT have. But yes, seeing it 'in hand' is the only sure way to tell.

One way of getting answers to questions is NOT posting them into specialised forums like this one and hoping that some poor cluck is going to take pity on your dumb ass and give you a free leg-up. As you've mentioned Google I assume you know what that does? Right. Then get thee hence and type something into the Search field and leave us poor clucks alone. Lest we kick your dumb ass.

Badger, when you click Reply, the post you're replying to is quoted for you in the reply box. So you just type after the end quote that's already there.

Well he must have been a brave man trying to take an imprint of that Not taken from one of the replicas available as it look too much like a real penny. A pity he didn't blow the felt hairs of the back before making the impression Gary Those replicas are total pants. Even the Lavrillier pattern looks more like the real thing than those abominations. I'd have paid £240 for that top one. The bottom one is a bad job, especially for the money. Speaking of the Lavrillier pattern ...

Didn't bother playing it to be honest. If I've heard that damn song once I've heard it 1967 penny mintage times But... after your comment, I went and watched it .... with the sound turned right down. NICE

You said 1963 before, not 1961. The 1961 Scottish is worth more as it's scarcer. Up to £5 for a truly Unc example. 1939 in GVF, perhaps £2 - £3 max.

There are only a few very dedicated collectors of particular die numbers. The total absence of one (where there should be one) certainly would be noteworthy and rare, but very few people are concerned about the particular die number. But, you need to be careful as gold always throws up fakes. Perhaps an unrecorded die number should alert you, or at least make you cautious.

Be careful. Be VERY careful. Some insurance companies define a collection as an 'individual item' and NOT a particular coin. Check it with them!!!!!!

Just out of interest Hello17, why are you listening to old fart boring straight rock music? I may be an old fart myself these days but I'd far rather listen to Dizzee Rascal or other assorted hip hop artists than to a genre that hasn't had anything worthwhile to say since The Smiths.

??????? Excuse me?

Yes, it does. Interpol was involved in high-profile faking crime syndicates on more than one occasion. It's not the 'making' of these items that is a crime, it's the attempting to pass them off as genuine. Same with international art forgeries.

I'd say that was almost definitely the reason. Scott. It was always the plan that shillings and florins (unlike what they said on The One Show) would continue to circulate alongside 5 and 10 pences as they were identical sizes and equivalent monetary value. Which they continued to do until the size reduction of the early 1990s. It was therefore still theoretically possible to receive a pre-1947 silver coin until comparatively recently, as I did on one or two occasions, to my great happiness! Sixpences were to have been withdrawn before D Day (1) but were reprieved and continued to circulate until ... 1980? (as 2 1/2p)

I though current estimates are about 11-12. I have held the example in the British Musueum, had to wear rubber gloves though. As to the royal family holding collections, I suspect they do although may not actively collect themselves. A 1935 proof crown previously owned by Eddie VIII came up for sale late last year. Had been kept nicely polished by his housekeeper. The accurate estimate IS 7 - but those are for the 'currency type' 1933 pennies, as itemised by Andy. However, you have to add into the equation the pattern 1933s, where the obverse was a new portrait designed by André Lavrillier. One of those was sold by Colin Cooke fairly recently. No-one knows for absolutely sure how many of these there are, but likely only a handful (probably rarer even than the currency type). One of them is a uniface, obverse only, but still classed as a 1933.

Welcome to the forums Brian "the whole 30 years" of what, exactly? (By the way, you'd be better creating a new thread for something like this - just for future reference. But it's no biggie.) If I'm wrong I'll apologise but think this might be the prelude to a spam attack... Tres bien mon amie Now you come to think of it ... I was so busy welcoming him to the forum, I failed to see he'd not mentioned our hobby!

I share your pain. Mine are too busy fighting, shagging and doing things they'd rather I didn't know about to concentrate on anything so 'static' as collecting coins. I can just about get them to play golf, but that's as far as they will go. Just got my eldest boy (12) interested in fishing. He told me you can do it on an xbox, ps3 apparently! He even likes helping to sort my job lots from auctions and takes some for his "collection" Sadly he has discovered girls and puberty now so I fear all may be lost!!! I started, on passing an antiques shop many many years ago, and in a saucer in the window was a worn copper coin dated 1672, price 6d. I couldn't resist owning something that old, that cheap! The head was a silhouette, but I could make out the legend CAROLVS A CAROLO, was thrilled when told this was Charles II.