davidrj

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.

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