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hopefully this link works 1916 penny Sadly I'll never know - just got this from the seller "es gibt leider ein Problem mit der Münze - ich finde diese nicht mehr. Möglicherweise wurde sie von mir doppelt eingestellt, jedenfalls ist sie nicht mehr auffindbar. Ich habe Ihnen zudem keine andere Ersatzmünze von 1916 anzubieten. Gerne überweise ich den Betrag umgehend retour, falls Sie schon überwiesen haben. Möglicherweise haben Sie auch einen Ersatzvorschlag aus den von mir eingestellten Münzen, es können dann als Entschädigung auch gerne 2 Münzen sein. " My German isn't good, but I think he's not got the coin he advertised.

Thank you!

Most of us here have experimented how to get best images from our coins; using either flat bed scanners or cameras with varying decrees of success I came across this link microscope, this looks as though it may be useful for examining die varieties or errors, but probably not for imaging whole coins (unless they are very small). I suspect it may be useful to the bank note collector, but I foresee problems for examining with both depth of field and reflections from items with lustre. Has anyone here tried this or similar products? - if so please post some pictures.

hopefully this link works 1916 penny

This one had both sides pictured 1916 penny I'm hoping that it is a hollow neck with the broken tooth at BRITT: , always difficult on small photos, but at least only €1.92 invested

Lots of 2009 1p here in S.Manchester, no sign yet of owt else

Apologies, old geek slang Been there, done that, got the T-shirt

BTDTGTTS! frustating trying to decide whether an "I" points to a space or a tooth on a blown up photo, or else nice coin but no picture of the side I'm really interested in

BMC 2214. F 164A. Dies 1*+C. Near Fine, buckled. Rare - 17 bids and now up to £480 - anyone here ever seen one of these?

Someone thought it was worth £400! I must recheck my junk box

and who would have looked twice at lot#142 !!!! must be the ugliest E8 penny ever, looks like fire damage

the "1933" has gone for £500!!!

Oh dear! after no date 20p and rare "new pence" 2p someone has now liisted another"1930s penny marked 1933" except that instead of a clever (and quite desirable) fake he's illustrated a 1930 penny

Wow! £1,510.99 - way out of my league

I think this is 19thC Moroccan cast falus

Thoughts on this one? 1933 penny ???!

This looks similar to this 1880 penny I haven't a clue what's going on either!

Pennies seem to be turning up fairly regularly, but I've not seen any other 2009 denominations. But I did get a 1986 Commonwealth Games £2 in change today, showed very little wear and had green smears both sides, these came off with quick dip in acetone. Cant remember the last time I saw a nickel brass as opposed to the bimetallics in circulation.

David Groom's excellant new book arrived yesterday, and the bird's foot is illustrated! Interestingly he states it is found in lots of years for GeorgeV pennies. I wonder if others are associated with die cracks, and whether there is any correlation with the degree of ghosting on the reverse.

My most recent copy of Le Franc is 2006 1882 mintage 1.1M one of the commoner mintages for this series, the rarer dates can fetch very high prices B €4, TB €12 TTB €20 SUP €45 SPL €100 FDC 160 Now if anyone has a 1875A or 1878K they don't want....

I don't have a copy of Peck to check, but I think it must be I hadn't noticed it before I took the pictures last night, I think it's fairly common, at least one on the current batch on Ebay Clashed die rather than ghosting methinks, my coin 2 was probably the die about to die

Not sure whether this is the right place to post this, as I think these are clashed dies rather than die varieties First image shows a flaw half way up the trident stem The second image has the same flaw, but very strange flaw on and below George's ear, there are also two die cracks on the 2nd G of Georgius and the E of dei I seem to remember that Peck mentions a "birds foot flaw" but I've never seen it illustrated in any of the catalogues

Where can I get a copy please? Google not helpful David, Have sent you a message separately with the details. Daveg38 Thanks!

Where can I get a copy please? Google not helpful

Hi I've just joined this forum, so I thought I would say "Hello" I started collecting coins as youngster in the run up to decimalisation, I was one of those kids who pestered bank tellers for a 5/- bag of pennies with my pocket money! I almost made the complete date run of pennies (but not all the varieties), the only one I never found in circulation was a 1951. Never did complete the halfpenny series, and farthings were long gone when I was hunting from circulation. The coins were put away and forgotten for many years - study, girl friends, wife, mortgage, familly & career took precedence for both time and cash! Semi retirement and my discovery of Ebay rekindled my interest. I'm still a penny freak, but my main collecting area is now to get all the foreign ones, not just Ireland and the commonwealth but the 30mm bronze issues from the Latin Union and further afield. French bronze 10 centime pieces are my current project. David