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  1. secret santa
    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.
  2. secret santa
    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.
  3. secret santa
    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.
  4. secret santa
    I've bought several like this hoping it was a number - perhaps even the fabled number 1 - but it never is !
  5. secret santa
    Yes, But I forgot to record what price it fetched.
  6. secret santa
    I'm just praying that Atlas will be bidding when I sell my collection !
  7. secret santa
    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.
  8. secret santa
    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.
  9. secret santa
    This is the 1885 penny that you really want. I could kick myself for missing out on this a few years ago.
  10. secret santa
    Just a nice coin, I think. Although not that much better than my own specimen bought for £35 in 1999.
  11. secret santa
    There is a circled character (or something similar) clearly stamped on both sides.
  12. secret santa
    Michael is fine - we exchanged emails last week.
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  14. secret santa
    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.
  15. secret santa
    These repairs were very common in the early 1860's.
  16. secret santa
    Done, with pleasure.
  17. secret santa
    I'm adding the pattern pennies to my rarest penny site for completion (on a single page).
  18. secret santa
    I've sent you a message.
  19. secret santa
    There were only 2 parts for Bernie's sale; the other part may be the rest of the coins in the auction ?
  20. secret santa
    I've sent both.
  21. secret santa
    It appears that Bernie had got his coins slabbed for the sale and interesting to compare the gradings against previous provenance, e.g. the 1863 die 2 was described as VF in the Laurie Bamford sale but had been graded as AU details-cleaned for Bernie's sale. And the F76 was EF in Laurie's sale but had improved to Unc in Bernie's sale ! As they say, grading is in the eye of the beholder.
  22. secret santa
    I did exactly the same but with description and commission added as well - nice to see us nerds are alive and well !
  23. secret santa
    Agree - they made a great job of the catalogue.
  24. secret santa
    Zilch !
  25. secret santa
    Total prices with commission - over £420K !
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