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Just bought this for the "wacky designs" set - Obv Cyberman, Rev Kitten I suspect it's a medieval German pfennig - research still to do when I get it in hand

All eBay sites are part of Ebay.com - so the same account name & password works for all of them - exception is their S.American associates that are variants of Mercadolibre.com , again one time registration works across the different national sites

Extraordinary , this from http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=177838 "There are only 3 in MS-62, there are more of them around but it is a very rare coin. Apparently they discovered the DDO at the mint very early in the production run and managed to condemn and destroy most of them before they ever go out. Add to that the misfortune that someone decided to make counterfeit 1969 PLAIN DDO cents. The Secret Service confiscated a bunch of the 1969 S DDO cents along with the 69 plain fakes. A few of the 69 S coins were eventually returned but most of them were destroyed by the SS as counterfeits before it was determined that they were actually genuine Mint issues. In all grades there are probably between 20 and 50 known today. And it is probably closer to the low end of that estimate."

Chris I can send you originals (I think Photobucket reduces stuff), what resolution are you looking for? David

nowt special these are the two scarce bronze ones the 1939 halfpenny I found in change 2 yrs ago! shame about the dings on the pig

or you could go for something really interesting, like this , shame he doesn't post to the UK

Quite - ancient history to my son & his kids

1180-1213 France - Priory of Souvigny anonymous denier

Cashing in whilst there are still folk around with a living memory of the event

I've always wondered why "International Playboy" wasn't on offer in the Job Centre when i left school - I'm sure I would have been good at it

Good grief! But you can get one that doesn't look like it's just been dug up for £14.99 Wow!

This one arrived this morning This on first glance is a 1662 schilling minted for Riga in Latvia in the name of Christina of Sweden, however it is copper not silver. Took me a while to correctly attribute - It is in fact a Romanian coin - counterfeits were made in Suceava, probably by Titus Livius Boratini (between 1661-1663), during the reign of Istratie Dabija (1661-1665) and probably this activity was continued by the following rulers of Moldavia – Gheorghe Duca (1665-1666, 1668-1672 and 1678-1683) and Ilias Alexandru (1666-1668). The schillings minted in Suceava are struck in copper alloy, some of them having traces of silvering, with a poor technical execution, with wrong legends etc. see http://romaniancoins.ancients.info/falsuri.htm Having great fun with these remarkably cheap little hammered coins, this one £2.20 plus £2 postage David

and another 1536 Reval (Tallinn) Baltic Crusaders Livonia, Schilling

and this 1331-1355 Bugaria Ivan Alexander & Michael Asen IV

Another in the "Wacky Design" category France Louis XIV Brass Jeton - Ordinaire des Guerres (Feuardent 498 Nuremberg) Don't think the engraver had actually seen a live elephant

duplicate post, sorry

tardigrades are really cool little beasties, they can survive everywhere

That's a Dutch rather than a Scottish lion, William's personal badge as Duke of Orange-Nassau http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Arms_of_Nassau.svg/200px-Arms_of_Nassau.svg.png

I found all dates of penny 1860 to 1953 in change except 1951 -still a gap in my collection, suppose I should get one someday

That 1863 looks interesting Scott, can you post a bigger picture of the date please?

The golden rule for all auctions, decide your highest bid and stick to it - virtually everything I buy on Ebay is via a snipe David

There's the 1922 with unlisted reverse (similar to 1927) & the dot in trident on normal reverse, then there are the various "helmet stalks" and "tidal waves" on Liz pennies

and 1582-1608 Lorraine Nancy Sol Carolus

A couple of new arrivals 1213-1276 Aragon James I Dinero 1530-40 France Denier Tournois Francois I

Guilty as charged! I started by searching 5/- bags of copper from the bank, my limited funds at the time meant any silver was spent, only pennies were saved Liverpool in the 60's was still a major port, so foreign coins were common in circulation, pennies from Ireland, Australia, S.Africa etc - even Argentinian 2cvos! So my interests widened to other 30mm bronze pennies such French 10 centimes, and others worldwide Now getting tired of chasing missing dates and better grades, so going much further back on French copper, and dabbling in medieval European deniers when I see a nice design at a decent price Nowadays I just buy what takes my fancy - still like my bronze pennies though, some are still those pulled from circulation 50 yrs ago, finding a worn 1869 was a triumph!!.... paying a fortune for a higher grade would not be the same. .