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Collectability is in the eye of the beholder 😉

I believe it is a superimposition although I can't be sure as I didn't record the origins of the picture.

This is found on many dates in the 1870s for some reason, caused by a clash of obverse/reverse dies.

Bog standard F10 - colons point to teeth.

OK - I've found it on page VP1 in the obverse description. I would say that this is an error in that: either Michael meant to include "away from edge" on every obverse D in order to differentiate them from obverse E which is definitely "close to edge". Or, he accidentally copied it from the obverse DE below which is (like Obverse D) also away from the edge. I certainly wouldn't expect the V over inverted A to be different from any other obverse D coins. Do you have a particular coin that you are looking at in hand ?

Rob I'm not sure where you found that JB has the signature in a different place. As you say, they are all obverse D (Freeman 2). I agree about the Je to Jk repairs. I'm assuming that collectors have sent in photos of these repairs to Michael who decided to include them, purely for illustration. The list of die repairs is virtually endless and I personally don't regard them as particularly noteworthy, other than the occasional spectacular example, e.g. N over Z, E over P etc. Clearly, these repairs are of interest to some collectors, viz Larry's numerous examples of similar repairs on halfpennies on this Forum.

The LCA specimen next month should be much cheaper.

Should I be doing anything special with my used printer ink cartridges, or can I just put them in the non-recycleables bin ? They're from non-branded suppliers rather than printer manufacturers.

1860 if that's the question.

I'm quite surprised that this one didn't sell, as the bronze pennies achieved very strong prices.

This penny is listed as an "E over F" in the next LCA - can anyone see anything to verify this ? And why would anyone have picked up an "F" punch to work on the reverse die of a bronze "ONE PENNY" ? And would an "F" punch of this size even exist ?

Now added - thanks Mike.

The 6 is always the clincher - quite different on the 2 dates:

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As struck by what - lightning ?

Good news.

I think that the large rose variety has been getting a bit of publicity lately and dealers are probably cashing in.

There's another one in the next Noonan's auction.

It looks normal to me. The "tail" on mine looks fatter.

Here's the fatter 5:

Probably not. I don't have a microscope and the coin is slabbed. I'll have a go but don't hold your breath.

I have an 1855 P.T. penny which I bought because it appears to have the date numeral 5s in different fonts with the right hand 5 slightly "fatter". However, the reverse of this coin appears to have a slightly different design with Britannia's chain mail bodice having what I describe as an ornate central panel. It's a pity that the coin isn't a higher grade but nevertheless it does look different to me. Normal Plain Trident reverse My coin's reverse Sorry about the size difference - it must be to do with the resolution of the originals.