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I attempted to post in the thread I started about the forum being unusable of an evening (it happened again) but I got an unformatted page with the following text: 403 ERROR Sorry but the page you have requested has encountered the following error: Forbidden Please feel free to browse the rest of my website You may also use the "Search" feature to find the product you are looking for I apologise for the inconvenience. There was also a side-bar showing the sections of the main site (the shop).

Oh right - yes, it's a wired connection, not 3G or anything like that. I clear my cache whenever I turn off my computer (daily) and I think I tried pinging predecimal.com during the week when I couldn't access it but I think I got no response.

Not sure what you mean by connected ISP router. Anyway, I tried to access the site again three times during the week at around the same time - each time it wouldn't load but everything else was working fine. I'm posting this now early on Saturday morning and it's fine.

Everything else seemed to be working but predecimal.com was timing out. Desktop computer.

Not sure - Davies seems to suggest they're all inverted axis I think.

A couple of times this week the forum hasn't loaded at all of an evening (in Australia - I think that equates to late morning in the UK). On Wednesday night the site didn't load at all and on Friday night it worked for a while but eventually it didn't load at all.

Is there an easy way to tell the hollow neck from the normal neck without looking at the neck? I've looked at the images at http://www.aboutfarthings.co.uk/Farthing%20-%201911.html but the denticles on the hollow neck one get fuzzy around the bottom.

Yes I remember reading it somewhere too - they were definitely in his first book but not in his latest edition.

As for commonness, I've seen a number of young heads in VF-EF for sale lately so they're not out of reach (probably).

I get you now. As Nordle said, die polish lines? Anyone with a 1967 missing waves see anything similar?

I don't quite understand Terry - are there lines running from above the water line into the space where the waves should be?

1838 to 1901? 1887 is probably easy enough, like most other denominations of that year.

Nice find. With regards to this possibly being a die-fill, there aren't any intermediate examples are there?

I remember reading about something similar a few years ago - someone ended up getting locked out of Paypal because they had $1000 sent to them and that apparently triggered some alarm bells. I guess it's helpful to know it can be increased anyway...

I don't think it is. The PVC slime can be removed with acetone I believe but it may need more than one dip and applying a bit of force to shift it will probably help. Re storage, I use 2x2s made from polyethylene teraphthelate (PET) which is apparently inert.

There may be medium or long tail varieties for the 1879 (there are for Melbourne anyway).

I'd say aVF too. Not sure if there any varieties off the top of my head but it's worth checking before selling it for bullion value,

The image doesn't show it well but there should be a very obvious second/stepped rim, similar to the below:

It's a recent discovery - apparently a number of 2004 New Zealand 10c pieces were struck using (slightly smaller) $1 obverse dies. They don't seem excessively rare - I think there's one for sale for $31 NZD which is a bit over £14. They were apparently produced as a result of a mix-up at the Royal Mint.

aUnc or better.

Any chance of digging up the annual reports from around that time? I think there's a state library in Australia that has some Royal Mint annual reports available (but only to residents of that state, which excludes me, and you too I assume) - anything similar where you are?

Actually as I think on this some more, it seems like the same thing happens with florins and half crowns of George V. I rarely see any decent florins for sale (if at all) and they seem expensive for what they are when I do, while half crowns seem more plentiful and cheap in comparison.

Hm, it's odd that it doesn't apply for the half crowns - perhaps portions of the florins were sent to overseas colonies, but not in large enough numbers to have an impact on overall rarity?

I would think the 1887 coins survive in reasonable numbers because they new designs commemorating whichever Jubilee it was, whereas subsequent years were nothing special and thus weren't held onto.