JLS, I've added the picture in its current state and will replace it if you manage to smarten it up.
Would you like me to attribute it to you personally (if so, let me know your name) ?
Thanks, Paddy, that tip is absolutely priceless. Like Gary, I have sometimes deleted something by accident or dragged something by mistake into oblivion and that single action would have fixed it. I've just tried it and it works.
Thank you again.
Might this be a 2 over 1, Mike ? Freeman states that sometimes the minutest trace of the 1 can be seen and your photo suggests something at the top of the 2.
I would be vary wary of DNW at the moment with uncatalogued lots. They have recently sold Hiram Brown's collection of copper and bronze and they parcelled many of them into multiple lots with no regard for the content. If care had been taken to catalogue the individual coins, they would probably have doubled the price paid. Your coins are almost certainly not of the same quality as Hiram's but I imagine DNW would only offer them in bulk lots.
In the process of creating my website of halfpenny varieties, I'm finding it much more difficult to differentiate between halfpenny varieties than penny varieties. Some of the differences are so slight that it must be a nightmare trying to identify worn specimens.
I believe there is a small minority who self-abuse at coin sites - the 1933 penny has a lot to answer for.
I've even splashed out on the odd rarity myself.
They probably won't be able to host pre-auction viewing either which, combined with the more recent deterioration in their photography, will contribute to a huge non-event.
When I bought my Peter Nicholls coin cabinet, they also sold me a pack of paper discs about 23mm diameter on which to record details of each coin. They no longer supply these and I need more. Does anyone know of another source ?