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  1. Mr T
    Was there a symbol for guinea like there is for pound?
  2. Mr T
    Has anyone tried counting the denticles on this coin? I got 158 for the obverse but none of the pictures I can find are good enough to see whether the reverse has 184 or 185 (the denticles on the Heritage photos at http://coins.ha.com/itm/great-britain/great-britain-george-v-modified-effigy-penny-1926-au-details-altered-surfaces-pcgs-/a/3042-29971.s?ic4=OtherResults-SampleItem-071515%C2'>
  3. Mr T
    No closure once again but I was reading Marsh's The Gold Sovereign and noted that he thought the 1927M sovereign existed, even though both Australian catalogues (McDonalds and Renniks) note that there are no known examples and neither the Bentley Collection, the Hemisphere Collection or the Park House Collection had an example.
  4. Mr T
    So the 1922 proofs use the new reverse? That complicates things further...
  5. Mr T
    Does anyone know where this was published?
  6. Mr T
    Thanks all for the input. Apparently there was a sale of it in 1983 at least.
  7. Mr T
    Where does he say this? Right you are. I feel like there could still be some undiscovered varieties now...
  8. Mr T
    Hm, not sure. I searched their collection online and couldn't find one, and I thought it was privately owned but I'm not sure.
  9. Mr T
    So, just going through and trying to make sense of all this - if the new obverse die is called 2* then the coins that exist are: 1860 2 + B 2 + D 2* + D 1861 2 + D 2 + F 2 + G 1862 2 + G @rashenly2 do you know if this new obverse die occurs with both reverses D and D* as described by Paul Holland?
  10. Mr T
    Out of curiosity is the image at http://www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk/pics/pen5.html of a real 1954 penny? I only ask as I was intending to count the beads but given it is described as being anonymously donated I wanted to be sure it wasn't just a modified 1953.
  11. Mr T
    Looks like it was struck through a lamination.
  12. Mr T
    No worries.
  13. Mr T
    Looks post mint but bits of it look like lamination. Hard to say.
  14. Mr T
    Why is that? They didn't do the dates themselves did they?
  15. Mr T
    How about the obverse 2 on 1862 pennies?
  16. Mr T
    The curved/flat based letters occurs on Victorian silver too, as well as Australian pennies. I think it's got to do with metal flow, possibly during working die production. It's a smokescreen to lure people away from looking for that new obverse D !!!!!! There's a new obverse?
  17. Mr T
    Not sure - can't check just now but check in one of the documents at the end - some of the later issues have a separate document for short articles and plates I think.
  18. Mr T
    Someone was looking hard at bun head pennies as early as 1907: http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/1907.shtml (look for "The bronze coinage of Queen Victoria").
  19. Mr T
    Very much so. Collecting circulating coins is good for maintaining progress.
  20. Mr T
    My advice would be to make a book your first purchase, and definitely start at the inexpensive end first so if you do make a mistake it won't be expensive. Looking back at some of my first purchases, I probably wouldn't have made them knowing what I know now but it's all part of the learning experience. For me I think that browsing this forum and ebay fairly regularly imparts a sense of what is a reasonable price and what isn't.
  21. Mr T
    Michael Gouby's book on the subject is quite good in that it provides large clear pictures of each obverse and reverse in their entirety.
  22. Mr T
    I'm not a member of any societies, partially because I feel committed enough as it is, and partially because I like the sort of anonymity that the Internet provides. Societies do good work though, especially with their journal production.
  23. Mr T
    Type the URL, then highlight it, then click on 9th button along on the second row (the chain links with the green plus) then paste in the URL. I think.
  24. Mr T
    Echoing the sentiments of others - indescribably good. You should write a book. Any more details than what we got in the thread about it?
  25. Mr T
    I'd agree with this sentiment that the unpopular denominations are undervalued, but being unpopular they're probably going to stay undervalued.
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