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Difficult to say, top picture was an archive scan, second was done last night - might be purely scanning/photohop differences - but there are still remnants of blach gunge around the lettering - nervous of going down the rose thorn route The dark field stains always there ??ink, as I said coin is much better in hand, must learn how to image shiny coins The jury may be out on using for high quality stuff, but definitely worth it for reappraising the stuff in your junk box:- Portuguese Ceitil from the 1500s

Okay, I'm getting braver this a scarce but sadly holed penny - Gouby 1860 Jd - triple entered F plus other recutting errors an ugly specimen still - but the green gunge has gone [/ URL] the coin is a lot better in hand with lustre - scanning fails in this case

Thanks all for help, similar here nearly chucked it originally

being double struck doesn't help, but just had a suggestion by andyg on CCF, http://www.icollector.com/Hall-in-S...0s_i14157642 Looks a good bet to me - German - Hall-in-Swabia hand pfennig 1300s Really love this interwebby thing, remember when we spent hours in fruitless library searches

This was covered in the muck of ages in a recent bulk lot of hammered copper very thin 0.4mm, 17.8 to 18.3mm, 0.55g, yellowish silver colour

and two more :-

Finally decided to buy some Verdi-Care Here's first go - just the wiping technique, on some low value copper Top coins are before treatment but post acetone bath Soaking experiments to follow

As a collector of world copper, I gave up worrying a while back - let's face if you find the coin in the reference works (in English or otherwise) there's only a choice of two sides! I standardize my photo pairs, the side with the date on always goes to the left - this usually being the side I want to see when sitting in a coin tray

Welcome Rich

Greek coin

High Tide not, the the P to a space is clear on a real one

This one came from circulation masquerading as a penny back in the 1960s All right it's in crap condition, but very rare (a nominal mintage of 363,000, but probably far less) current values in USD from the 2013 Argentinian catalogue B $80, MB $250 One of those "find me another" coins

Boulton restrikes?

Remember that only folk over the age of 50 have any memory of UK coins other than decimal, there is a collector base of folk who scan their change, rather than/as well, as buying RM year sets.

Happy birthdays!

Mark Hunter my local MP ran the campaign to save the Cheque seems like they will now be around after 2018

What on earth is this?

Finding copper and bronze from the tropics in decent grades can be a nightmare, even supposedly common pieces with very low value in Krause take the 2 cents Eastern Caribbean Group - these penny sized coins were issued 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960-1965, Only 1955, 1965 and proofs were ever offered to the coin trade before going into circulation (these are cheap and plentiful in high grade) the rest are very hard to find

I've been collecting 50p & £2 from change too (can't be bothered with the rest), but quite a few gaps - what value bags do the banks issue these in?

Both correct, but "climate change" is a better term to use - a rise in planetary temperature does not mean everywhere gets warmer More energy in the atmosphere leads to a more dynamic system - basically the world is likely to get more interesting weather

Interesting map of all the countries where we have put boots on the ground over the centuries - much easier to start a collection from places we haven't been too Surprised we never made it to Sweden

Mine came in the post today

Everything I win on Ebay is via a snipe bid 6 secs before the end So I don't look at "ending soonest", I rely on "Newly listed" - anything I snipe I put on my watch list

My Uncle Eddie was gassed, suffered disabling chronic bronchitis all his life (he died about 1960)