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Just checked and it does have the engrailed edge.

Also, Peck states on page 371 that the currency penny P1342 has the incuse curl "as on all the preceding pennies", i.e proof pennies P1321 to P1341 - but I believe that none of these preceding pennies have the curl - do you agree ?

Is it possible to access this list of unrecorded strikes to add them to my site ?

Thanks guys, I'll check the edge and confirm.

Are the Taylor restrikes not included in Peck ? I'm woefully ignorant about these early copper coins.

I have recently spent a lot of time adding the George III 1797 and 1805/6 pattern, proof and restrike penny varieties to my varieties website. I thought it needed doing because the pictures in Peck are small, black & white and very low resolution , making it hard to identify individual varieties and check the minute details such as the number of gunports on the ship. I've been taking photographs from auction sites but still need photos of some varieties to complete the task. While I was doing this, I discovered that my specimen of 1806 "P1326" is, in fact, an unrecorded (as far as I know) die-pairing. Peck, on page 366, states that the only occurrence of the 1806 proof penny with imperfect date figures (1 and 0) is in die-pairing KP31, paired with a reverse featuring a ship with 3 stays from the foremast to the bowsprit, being struck in Gilt (P1325), Bronzed copper (P1326) and Copper (P1327). However, the penny that I bought from London Coins auction in 2010 (lot 1544) as a Peck 1326 has the obverse with imperfect date figures described above but the reverse of KP30 which Peck records uniquely on P1322, 1323 and 1324 and has only 2 stays from the foremast to the bowsprit and, importantly, a very conspicuous die flaw from the second A of BRITANNIA to the border. I don't know whether this has been noticed and/or recorded before, or how important it is but it is interesting (to me, at least !) All other specimens of P1325-7 that I have seen have the die-pairing documented by Peck. Maybe some of you copper experts can comment ?

The rims on the rare obverses A and B are much wider, much like the reverse on the coin you posted above.

The Ruttles - a masterpiece - every song sounded like a genuine Lennon-McCartney composition. So clever...............

Years ago, when I played hockey every Saturday, we were sometimes a man short and the opposition would lend us a spare player. A colleague of mine who wrote the match reports would always refer to the borrowed player as "Bill Anchor" in the match report and his name would appear as W Anchor in the team listing at the end. Our local paper never spotted it and we had many a chuckle seeing it in print.

A young Joan Sims, stalwart of the Carry On films.

And definitely the same to you Blake, I do hope you find some merriness over the festive period.

The human race is unbelievably arrogant, granting ourselves "human rights" that even overrule the basic rules of society sometimes and deciding that other "lesser" species on the evolutionary scale are worthy of preservation for the purposes of entertainment or sustenance.

Oops, missed that !

Thanks Guys - what did it go for ?

Actually, I don't think it does (but I could be wrong)

That was the (apostrophe) flaw as opposed to the dot, so when is a dot not a dot .......................?

Excellent !

Bob, can you post a photo of the whole CGS reverse please - I'll add it to my varieties site. Thanks Richard PS just checked and I do have a photo of a slabbed coin. A bit orange but could be yours ?

Collectable is an interesting word. Does it mean "capable of collection", in which case anything could be regarded as collectable, or "worthy of collecting" which could very much apply to a unique item ? In the case of a unique coin, there is probably a fascinating story behind it, which may or may never be told but would be interesting to discover.

I'm getting spots before my eyes.

To me, the concepts of a raised dot (caused by a circular "dent" in the die) and a die crack don't go together. I can't see how a die crack could lead to a clean dot. Far more likely that a "particle" found its way onto the surface of the heated and softened working die while it was being created and produced the indentation ?

No, it's in a different place ! Compare the dot position against the teeth. The circular dot above is nearer to the E.

The fixture secretary for Oxfordshire Hockey used to be Roy Soles. The name R. Soles would appear all over the place in letters, minutes etc. Some parents must be really dumb, or sadistic.

Just checked a few others and it does occur on other varieties, e.g F74 and all F76 specimens.