secret santa

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).

2022.

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 ?

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 !!!!