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  1. davidrj
    FDC = "Fleur de Coin", translates as "Flower of the Die" and should only be used for first strikes from new dies - aFDC is nonsense
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    Thanks
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    Manx , Isle of Man coins Mals - Isle of Man. Thanks to geoffhobson
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    The link doesn't work for me is this one by James Mackay published 1978 any use?
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    pattern 2 cents 1857 and a pattern 5 cents 1857 both way beyond my budget!
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    Thanks Geoff , I'd never looked that close at the date before - but definitely filled 3s when I blow the image up Is there a reference book/site for the varieties?
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    My only predecimal Manx coin - 1755 penny sadly marred by a large blob of solder
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    welcome!
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    Been on Ebay's support chatline - they say "We have checked further and this has been an ongoing issue on the site. Rest assured, our Technical Team area already working no this to be reoslve." edit- their mistyping not mine
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    No, I only have one Ebay account, been using saved searches without problems for years without problem, pretty well essential after ebay disallowed wildcards Is this just me? can anyone else here save a search?
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    Anyone else having problems with Ebay Search? Ebay wont let me save any search, even though I've deleted all my old ones - I'm using Firefox 25.0.1?
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    But then the 2p & 20p mules are both certainly accidental - should they be excluded? Taxonomy is always an imperfect discipline
  13. davidrj
    Goose is in the oven; spuds.parsnips, sprouts etc ready to go time for a drink! Merry Christmas everyone
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    Quiet in here today! have you all started on the 12yr old malt already? Merry Xmas everybody and may you fill some of those annoying gaps in your collection in 2014 David
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    Probably throughout history, when economic times are bad, silver and gold disappears under mattresses
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    confusing terminology gets in the way when discussing date widths in pennies the "narrow" dates for 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, & 1879 are distinctly different dies from the "normal" or "large date" bun pennies - I prefer "small" date - using "wide" and "narrow" as descriptors for variation of date width for a specific die the former should be in the price guides, the latter not in my view edit: Just noted Accumulators post above
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    Is this the silliest moustache ever? Italy 10 Centesimi 1894 BI (Heaton)
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    answering my own question "A Numismatic History of the Birmingham Mint" James O Sweeny 1981 still unknown mintage though
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    Just ordered my copy - has to be ink on paper for me
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    and another Latin American 28.9 mm 11.86g cupro-nickel pattern 1 real or Honduras 1870 - mint unknown but probably either Paris or London who were both experimenting with cupro-nickel as an alternative to bronze at this time (Paris produced the currency 1 real for 1869 & 1870, London starts the cupro-nickel penny series for Jamaica in 1869) happy with this on at £10, I was searching for an upgrade to my poor copy of the currency type
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    They will, once their own kids start asking questions. My grandchildren love looking at old photos from the "black & white days"
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    Another "penny" Ecuador 1872 2 centavos by Heaton, single year type, mintage unknown but probably less than 500,000, hard to find Does anyone know if there is a searchable achive for what Messrs Heaton actually produced in the second half of the 19th century?
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    Amazon
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    I went from collecting pennies from change. ( Date run, but NOT all varieties completed long long ago (though many are in cr*p grade)0 - to foreign pennies and penny sized coins I just need one to complete my French bronze 10 centimes date/mint run (1853-1921) - the 1878 K ... very rare & pricey assuming you can find one Nowadays I tend to buy what appeals to me at the time, most likely still to be large copper/bronze though
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    it's actually worse than I thought - two different die rotations! these three 2 pence carefully positioned on the scanner with the tops of the shields aligned with a ruler as best I could the other shield twopences I have (not 2013) all appear normal be interested to see whether this sloppiness at the Mint is normal for this issue - check your change please folk
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