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lots of fakes of these, I have one somewhere, I'll dig a picture out later David

After looking at it closely and comparing it with others, it appears like the "N" in SKILLING is weird, when compared to the others on eBay and the design on the reverse of the stars (or flowers?) on either side of the 1 looks interesting. So perhaps it is a rare die variety? I really don't know, I don't know the first thing about Danish coins and so I don't even know if they really have a thriving collector market for minor die varieties, but if so, then perhaps the N and the stars/flowers are the clue. Looks like you may be right = 1771 varieties CD must reexamine the several i have, David If you have any from the Norwegian Kongsberg mint they may be of some value! - The 1771 skilling exist in hundreds of variations and is a popular area for specialist collectors. Even our Chinese friends have made a copy The above coin is (likely) minted in Copenhagen round 1783 and is a common main type. However the rosettes are double and it may be a rare die pair - I know the collector who bought it and he sometimes pay quite high prices for such coins. I have an unfinished die study on my homepage which I'm working on from time to time: http://www.steppeulv...1_skilling.html - unfortunately in Danish. Thanks Seuk, that's interesting, just goes to show there is always something new to learn

After looking at it closely and comparing it with others, it appears like the "N" in SKILLING is weird, when compared to the others on eBay and the design on the reverse of the stars (or flowers?) on either side of the 1 looks interesting. So perhaps it is a rare die variety? I really don't know, I don't know the first thing about Danish coins and so I don't even know if they really have a thriving collector market for minor die varieties, but if so, then perhaps the N and the stars/flowers are the clue. Looks like you may be right = 1771 varieties CD must reexamine the several i have, David

Am I missing something here? Or has the world gone mad - extremely common coin in crap condition? David

and a 2012 5p today - clad steel - odd colour and a very strong obverse strike David

Sometimes folk can be helpful! I recently wanted to get rid of a sideboard from my late mother-in-law's house so i put it on Ebay at £4.99 start - buyer collect - it was very heavy and far to big for our house A very helpful lady messaged me to say it was a trendy bit of 1960's Danish designer furniture. I relisted it with the description she sent me at a starting price of £199, and it went for £286 there are good guys out there David

Got a 2012 2p in change today, don't normally see new stuff till Xmas shopping season - or is this a new quantitative easing initiative? David

One Pound in 1929 had the purchasing power of about £40.50 today So a shilling was worth about £2 - ie twice the value of a dud pound coin today - simples

And me!

WTF??? gobbledygook and postage only £98

Happy Birthday

No vacancies for "international playboy" at the Labour Exchange when I left school, shame, I'm sure I could have been quite good at it

Fair price for what it is IMHO, long tradition of coins like this in France monnaie argente et dore often fetch a premium David

logically there ought to be 1915 recessed ears without the chipped tooth, yet to find one though!

one for Debbie someone has decided to "improve" the detail lost on the left hand coin, direction of the ribbon was what intrigued me on a poor ebay image

Fantastic! Awesome!

Whoever done it even bothered to put the nips on lol :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Sorry Debbie here's my naked Brittania nowhere near as skillfully done though

Skillful addition of the H under the date though!

From memory this is what they looked like in circulation (1960s) copper always ends up showing through the silver in worn billon coins. Henry VIII's debased coinage gave him the nickname "Old Coppernose" David

my scanner head pushes the light out behind it, so if the coin is orientated in the direction of the scan, the image of the coin will appear to have been illuminated from 12 o'clock

background colour definitely affects scan quality, the inside of my scanner lid is white, scanning toned copper/bronze results in very dark low contrast images - the scanner averages the dark coin/light backgound. Much better results if i put a dark blue behind the coin. For bronze with lustre, i use a yellowish brown background. Also important to crop the actual scan window as close as possible (in the preview mode) , to eliminate as much background as possible before the final scan worth experimenting, but always scan at a high res, you can always reduce the picture size later

ditto, recommend AVG

Not a great monarchist, but I'm coming round to the view that a hereditry lottery is a good a way as anyof picking a titular Head of State. definitely wouldn't want a Predident Thatcher or a President Blair. The Irish probably have it about right Still hope those celebrating today have a good time and don't get too cold and wet Is this what they mean when they sing "Long to rain over us"? David

Have a look at Michael Gouby's site , he has pictures and descriptions of some of the varieties, His book is excellent but only covers Victorian pennies, for the rest you need a copy of Freeman Beware though, this could get expensive if you get hooked! David

You could try post a picture here they've helped me with a couple of problem coins