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Why don't graders include the Peck or Freeman numbers ? I suspect this has been asked before.

I see it sold for $780 - I don't know whether that includes commission but still a lot for a circulation coin. And here's another: https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-17DVEY/great-britain-bronzed-copper-penny-1797-birmingham-soho-mint-george-iii-pcgs-proof-62-brown which sold for $600. It appears to me that the 3rd party graders are being lax in their work !

Good move !

Oooops - my typo !

The link below is to a penny in the imminent Stacks-Bowers auction. It has been slabbed as Proof (with no Peck number) but I have pored through the various obverse and reverse designs of the recorded proof pennies and I believe it to be just a nicely struck currency 10 leaves variety. https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-1CB8EP/great-britain-penny-1797-birmingham-soho-mint-george-iii-pcgs-proof-62-brown However, bidding has already reached $5000.

Thanks - now added to the website.

Richard Could you please post a photo of your 1862 F41 obverse so that I can add it to my rare penny site.

Please do.

I have this one:

He has now taken it down after I'd messaged him.

Some naive buyer may well buy this. It's very frustrating.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/196599130251?itmmeta=01J6QRM9GEJXST213EAJN4DENJ&hash=item2dc638a88b:g:I-AAAOSwDuhm1JrG&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKlxC92JWfA0aLxfCgwdx5BHgo8YGT06macKdD4XHzKwr1spDo9bE33jwUD1Sz3nT71jXeu3W8l6gaM6kk7z1ukZ7NU%2FwzMZ8ye88CHwI6eLua0YqJ9RatMvk9xbBiwWawBbD7A15Vz%2FeTfDaodIhEv9NiiP8l1O%2BzxisP%2FdGM3iK2ehJXIrjVl1qTq2Qxj4gJ3%2Flu1yLgika%2BW8WyA%2BsTy4wgSYV9%2F563wgQRrQPrNMtPzDXXs09Xl8dP0L2aBMzNRdMRR%2BzIsaT0RcDDVsR1Af|tkp%3ABk9SR6aY0fi1ZA My article in September's Coin News provides a very timely warning about these coins !

These dots appear randomly across the years - see my website: https://rarestpennies.wordpress.com/scarce-dot-pennies/#top

Nice info - I hadn't noted that. Normal tide on left; high tide on right

No, it IS a high tide. Normal tide on left

Thanks - so, it does exist, but clearly they have erroneously given two different coins the same identifying code (K69).

In the 2024 Coins of England decimal edition, on page 97 variety K69 is a Queen Elizabeth £2 coin but on page 405, K69 is a Charles III £2 coin. The QEII coin is supposedly a "Britannia" variety bearing a "privy mark" denoting the year of her death but I can't find any photos/trace of this coin. Can anyone help ?

2022.

Clicking on the link gives several options to download - which do you recommend ?

I suspect that there are around 50-100 examples. I stopped recording them coming to market several years ago.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204853278137?itmmeta=01J19R66GKQ4EAWG8C5J6RZVCG&hash=item2fb234f5b9:g:N4wAAOSwmehmetfM What a bargain - less than £1000 per coin !!!!