Peckris

I'm keeping firm hold of my printed copy! It's a first edition, AUNC, and is the 'no ISBN' variety.

It's the same with Facebook, Twitter, etc - if I want to login to two separate accounts I have to have two browsers open, as otherwise any new tab or window will be for the account I already have open.

Excellent! I thought I had a multi-page email telling the story of "What do you say when your wife says, one Saturday afternoon..." - unfortunately despite it being hilarious, I don't have it; it must have been a paper print out from the late 90s before I got connected to email and the internet. (Was there ever such a time? Seems hard to imagine now).

Oh, believe me - it is! There are a massive number of fake £1 coins in circulation, and a gang producing them was busted only last year. They are fairly easy to spot when new though, and some are when worn too as they have the wrong reverse for the year on the other side.

All very good

And too, in the lettering style of the day, a punch with a very small 5 and one with a very small 3 would have looked rather similar.

Indeed - eat drink and be merry, for spring is a way off and there will be poor hunting until the next bison can be painted on the cave wall.

Depends on what you class as a 'date variety' and 'intentional'. As Derek points out, the narrow/wide dates that occur in the 1870s are simply the easiest method to identify what is actually a different reverse design (see Freeman for all the other changes and identifiers). Yes, it's micro-design in that the main Britannia reverse is essentially the same from 1860 to 1894, but it was slightly changed intentionally many times. On the other hand, the spacing of the final digit in OH 1890s pennies are the result of human agency in punching the final digit; you might view that as a kosher variety - some do, like some people collect Vicky silver die numbers - but it isn't even a micro design change and is certainly not intentional.

Off to relatives for Xmas dinner and festivities in about an hour Season's best, you lot!

In that case, I'm NOT clicking your link Dave

I just looked thru 10 1904 Pennies, and didn't find any with the 4 over the tooth! I would assume it is the most difficult to find. Yes Bob, they're unbelievably difficult to find and worth $15,995! Or the narrow date 1877 on your website, of course WOW!!!!!!! I have got to start paying more attention. It looks like David is going to have a additional 1904 for his book's next printing! Does anyone you know actually have one of these? I thought the $15,995 remark was simply jocularity ... it's serious?? Or perhaps you missed some British-type irony ..

Bit out of focus Angela! From what I can see, those are mostly modern commemorative sets, proofs etc?

Gorgeous! And seasons greetings to you too

You're welcome. It may even synchronise between your computer and your Kindle as to where you are in a book, though I haven't researched this in depth.

Yeah but no but yeah but no but.. There are coins I bought for comparative peanuts in the mid or late 90s that I simply wouldn't part with - even though their value has gone up 5 to 10 times. 1903 halfcrown VF £26 (American dealer!); 1797 2d GEF flawless rim, traces of lustre £100; 1926ME penny from CC GVF/VF £39; and many more. It's partly the fact of owning what now turns out to be a real bargain, but also the fact that an upgrade would now cost silly money unless I was able to swap the "bargain" for a decent proportion of the upgrade price.

"You can't beat a bit of Bully-on" "You get nothing in this game for two in a bid" I must have missed that show! Sounds very Larry Grayson "shut that door" era? Possibly a bit later? 80s and into the 90s. Bullseye on ITV - how we spent our Sunday afternoons before the World Wide Web and Sky Sports Jim Bowen was a bit of a legend in his own lunch-hour.

Can't say these float my boat, UNLESS there are other differences too? I suspect though, it's just the punching of the final digit. I remember in the late 60s in Coin Monthly when Ron Stafford - or one of his ilk - tried to sell us on a plethora of 1907 varieties, all concerning the length and pointing of the 7. "Where are they now"?

It's the area I've referred to in the past - the psychological limit for the masses. The limit of about £3K up to a few years ago which has increased to around the 5 or possibly 6K (hammer) mark now. It takes something rare or particularly exceptional to breach this level. Once it has however, it is a case of who blinks first. Glad I'm not one of "the masses" then - my limit is a lot lower than that

Let me try. 1st and 2nd. Hmm. I think you'll find it's your browser not the forum software. You're not using the dreaded IE by any chance? But that's not a thread title, is it! You're right Nick, it's a peculiarity of the thread title, which is automatically capitalised by the software. Not a problem in posts. I happen to use Safari, but it's not a browser issue. Try starting a thread with the title "This is the 1st time I've tried to not type 1St", Peckris. Oops. You're absolutely right. Sadly, it didn't do it as I typed, only after I'd posted. Now I'm left with a topic I can't delete Mods - would you delete it for me please?

Let me try. 1st and 2nd. Hmm. I think you'll find it's your browser not the forum software. You're not using the dreaded IE by any chance?

"You can't beat a bit of Bully-on" "You get nothing in this game for two in a bid"

I'd love an example but my love is not priced at £3k...

Very good, I imagine, for such a rare coin.

And cartwheel twopences too, apparently, though Boulton must have started losing money on them as their real value in copper was greater than 2d by the early 1800s.

That first one looks definitely 'treated', certainly cleaned.