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Someone needs to contact Ebay !

Just a nasty gouge, I think. But more interesting is the smaller 8 between the 8 and 9 !

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186870556693?itmmeta=01JGNP4NDW5WNJFM335PHMWNRP&hash=item2b825a6815:g:ySMAAOSw5vxndy6d&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAAwHoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKncFcnWSLqtCgP%2BB35E8Ulne5ZFoshmnnZYQI3kNdSFiiX8To5MZYZsHkKqGwyGy2KZvQ4BW%2FczgjcfOSSSf45x12Rd2Vm2POtYtB%2FxEwMx7ZpFLNPe2PuMLmi2vywBIfX584dsWc5aoYq67vCc6yD3t2xHmYuDvCUmG7I1mDKxvL961pEaiEtKJNVvyNJFEiO9XKIIg8O%2BAmYhGBqizrnULSGP6j5nMI9BcS3EDL17jQ%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR4DXkraFZQ I messaged him to say that it's not an F8 mule and his reply was - "Are you blind ?"

Oh no, they're not.

I've still got only 18 of them as yet. Just added this one (with credit to Ian)

Merry Christmas, and many thanks to everyone who has supplied pictures for my websites. Richard

Interesting, I'll add this to my varieties site, Ian, though it would be very easy not to notice this at first and second glance !

NAC pics

Adams pics below.

So it is - how did you spot that ???

What's that ????

There was a very nice F1 penny described as F6 which I though might go for a bargain price but it was spotted and bid up to over £1400.

You can tell from the screenshot that you posted - whenever a lot is not shown with a hammer price, it has not sold. Actually I find their website quite friendly compared with some, e.g. Spink whose archive facility is criminally bad.

Love those Quatermass films - my mum and dad wouldn't let me watch it when it was televised on BBC in black and white back in the day.

I've bought several like this hoping it was a number - perhaps even the fabled number 1 - but it never is !

Yes, But I forgot to record what price it fetched.

I'm just praying that Atlas will be bidding when I sell my collection !

The majority of the most expensive coins in last week's Workman sale of pennies went to a single bidder - it will be interesting to see whether they turn up on Atlas' site.

I'm not sure; I've called it a pattern but I've not seen it in hand so it might be a proof but it's probably unique being struck with reverse Freeman K which has the non-heraldically coloured shield.

This is the 1885 penny that you really want. I could kick myself for missing out on this a few years ago.

Just a nice coin, I think. Although not that much better than my own specimen bought for £35 in 1999.

There is a circled character (or something similar) clearly stamped on both sides.

Michael is fine - we exchanged emails last week.

I would say that the rotated T is the most interesting of the 3 repairs but they all result from the same manual intervention, rather than being a considered design change.