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  1. secret santa
    When they featured this in the preview I emailed them and suggested they describe it as F762 which it is and, although they thanked me for my email, they ignored me ! But it's rare one and whereas Michael Gouby originally suggested it might be a "late strike for VIPs", presumably because of the inverted reverse, the article by Paul Holland in the 2017 BNJ suggests it was an early strike and from a working die rather than a proof die. Still very rare though.
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    C'est la vie - it was always a possibility even though a little disappointing.
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    I'm glad you're pleased with it Mike. Always nice to see a collector add to his/her collection rather than someone buying just to make some easy money !
  4. secret santa
    Is a metal detector included ?
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    An impressive and useful piece of work Mr hawk.
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    Very wide 4 on that one.
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    An interesting (not) dot between 1 and 8 !
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    Young man, you really must get out more.............................
  9. secret santa
    why oh why did Freeman have to record F147 ??????????????????
  10. secret santa
    Thanks Mike - that was a hell of a bargain.
  11. secret santa
    Definitely - yes please. If collectors have further examples of any of the rare pennies shown, I'd appreciate details to further improve evidence of rarity.
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    Mike Have I got that one on my rarest website ? R
  13. secret santa
    Thanks Declan, and Pete has just mailed me a copy so Happy Days.
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    Great work Declan. Would you mind if I use your stats on 1913 pennies for my penny varieties site ?
  15. secret santa
    Don't recall seeing one but a die break shouldn't be enough to make it a particular variety (IMO)
  16. secret santa
    I do something very similar - I take high quality pics with a digital SLR and macro lens, store them on my PC and on ONEdrive (cloud) whilst keeping a duplicate set of pics reduced in size by 60% using Photostudio (from 2 or 3 megabytes to <500 Kb) on both for uploading to here or websites.
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    Looks like a standard currency issue to me but I'm not an expert. When I took a holiday job in 1965 as a lorry driver's mate, we used to transport antique furniture quite often, and the shop owner used to sometimes tip us a Churchill crown which, considering that Smithfield Market would tip us sixpence, was a small fortune.
  18. secret santa
    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Victoria-bunhead-penny-dated-1671/263426088724?hash=item3d556b1f14:g:9UoAAOSwp7taU6Be Never realised Victoria was on the throne for so long !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1897-DOT-Victoria-Penny-coin-W1897a-Fair-F147-O-NE-very-RARE/142486494758?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D49131%26meid%3D256f57045f0e4a90b2a78ae6f448981a%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D253354778435&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851 They're not all locked up yet..................................
  20. secret santa
    Yup
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    If you've never seen the genuine one, I doubt it.
  22. secret santa
    Blimey, these fakes are good...............................
  23. secret santa
    Just had a look at at a picture that Rob put up (of a genuine one I assume) and I can't see any obvious difference from the one mentioned above in the sealed pack. What am I missing ?
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    which of course doesn't help if you've never seen the real thing....... Anyone got a pic of a genuine one ?
  25. secret santa
    Help me out here, how can you tell it's a fake ?
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