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Happy birthday Bob, best wishes and have a great day!

Hi Ian, you might have one with a very faint dot, I assume it's the slight bump to the left of that small chip and not the chip itself? Here's mine overlapped on your picture, I put a yellow dot where it should be to help.

Haha I'm glad it wasn't just me, Rob truly is a machine when it comes to anything coin related and you can have a great chat and will always learn something new. And yes, I'm tall enough at 6'1" but I'm still looking up when we talk

David Craddock's table is the first for me, being a penny man he's always got something good on display.

Straight from Elizabeth? Big jump, expect varieties galore in comparison!

Thanks VS, that's extremely dear though!

I should add that Colin Cooke's refers to 2 varieties of 8, one being thin and one being thick. Perhaps this is the thick variety? I still think the 5 is struck over something though, you can see something protruding at the tip of the 5.

Looks like reverse 1 obverse A, with a 5 over a possible 3? I'm not sure on the 8 however, I think it might just be flat from wear, I can't find any reference to the 8 being overstruck..

Do they not use an extremely powerful microscope to check the area, just to make sure it is what they say it is? I can't remember the specific name of the technique though, but you can get a local university to do it for you.

Too right, double that's not going to happen either..

That's good news, this should be a bloody good one for the penny lads then if they've started by listing this lot!

Well I'm not 100% sure but I really don't remember seeing the Gouby X, the 1909 Freeman 169 or the 1922/27 just to name a few when the preview first came out, so maybe they're just slow in the process of getting the whole collection up. We can be hopeful, at least!

You never know, maybe they've just not added the whole collection yet..

This is probably better off in here too VR Court Penny Survey Sorry if it's already here

Terry, I spotted this while on ebay, this one has the beginnings of a die clog on the V but not yet on the N. It's a 1940 double exergue.

:DThat's a stonker of a coin though Bob, a nice find!

Complete madness, but I suppose so are many of LCAs work ethics sometimes.

Do they really not offer live bidding?! I'm stumped why they wouldn't do that, surely that's just neglecting a whole area of bidders..

Can you listen in on any of the LCA auctions or is it just online bidding through the saleroom only?

Yeah definitely cleaned, I imagine to get rid of any verd it had because there's a spot left where the tide meets Britannia's legs.

I'd say that's pretty accurate, based on what I've seen from watching/buying lots and also starting them at a price I would be 'happy' to take for a coin but is something under its real value, I've not attracted nearly as much interest as a 99p starter. On the 99p lots it's normally the first 2 days gaining watchers and a bid or 2 at 99p, then the next 4 days getting to about half its value and picking up a couple of extra watchers and finally a mad rush of bids at about 5-20 seconds before it finishes. Whereas higher starters just grab a bid or 2 and to be honest I do sometimes myself skip past them, there's certainly an attraction to a 99p starter.

What do they do when they keep that many coins together, does it just belong to a museum or several or..?

That's a goodun, worth every penny. The strikes on the later series are truly wonderful, especially the reverses.

Wow amazing tokens Paulus, especially the halfpenny from Somerset, the design is great! Looks like Brg has some competition I want to start collecting conders one day, I love the history and probably the designs more than anything, but any examples I see in a nice condition always seem to be in the hundreds. I actually saw a really nice jeton from Nuremberg recently and the design was amazing, it's called something like 'the pennymaster' and it has an almost full alphabet on the reverse!

From their website; "CGS will encapsulate such coins as they would be gradable in the traditional market but would attract additional descriptions accompanying the grade which describe the problem. The CGS ticket will reflect this and include the main grade F,VF,EF,UNC which CGS consider the coin to be and also a single phrase description the problem. The normal My Page functions will not be available as CGS will not value such coins." Link