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Mine's curved (the E that is)

@Rash - Could it not just be die deterioration causing this? The second picture being an earlier strike on the same die.

Whaaaat... Do you have a comparison pic? I've not heard of the wide 2 1902 before

I love that the title of the thread is 'Pesky Blunders', then the first sentence says 'Peaky Blunders' and that the name of the show is 'Peaky Blinders'

Well put Pete. I think he mainly wanted to know if anyone else had recognised that this has occured on more than one coin, which they have. Anyway, it's a nice low tide Brian!

..and put up a picture! You're a 'regular participating member' now

Makes sense, cheers Nuts.

I love the seller's grade on this one "Smooth grade, however please see for yourself as everyone grades a little differently"

Great link squire. Also does anyone know if the plate on the last page supposed to be there?

Doesn't it leave the strike a little less sharp because you're effectively adding a layer to the coin? I don't know I've not heard to liver of sulphur before, but just wondering.

I know someone who uses a heat gun which will dull the coin, as always if you're going to do that then practice on a valueless coin first. I've not got any first hand experience of that but I've seen the results and it's definitely an improvement. That coin you've posted isn't too bad already though.

Yeah still nice, I prefer them without the hypo too and yours has a little bit of lustre

Yeah it's strange that the price hasn't caught up with the relative difficulty of getting this year in a nice grade. Not a bad thing, at least not while I'm looking haha

I'd go £100-110 for it without regrets

Dropped to £600 haha. 1934 Penny I tell you what though, it's a bloody good example haha.

Yeah, have a good day ChKy!

I was going to say that I didn't think there was one known but then thought I made that up haha.

Yes, I've just seen this addition to the site, very well described and laid out. The close up pictures are great, too.

The reverse also has a double stamped N in Penny and the top right serif on the Y is missing as well.

Keep us updated!

Nice first post, Terry. Weclome!

Yeah Rob's definitely your man for this one, maybe you'd do better scheduling a meeting

I speak regarding pennies mainly, but Gouby published his book (The British Bronze Penny from 1860 to 1970) back in 1986 which did contain a lot of varieties anyway, but more and more come to light and seem to pick up more popularity when someone publishes another book with a mention to it. He did another study which looked mainly at bronze between 1860 to 1869 where he would have added previously unrecorded varieties and then an even more comprehensive version entitled "The British Bronze Penny (Victoria 1860 to 1901) Specialised edition" which many other varieties and minor attributes where mentioned. Then you have Michael Freeman's book which followed the same sort of path with more up to date versions being released, I think the last being undertaken by Spink but they only updated the prices (I think). Then the even more granular book by David Groom but this concerns 20th Century pieces, however it goes into some great detail about varieties and minor changes to designs that even the former 2 missed. You also have places like the "unconfirmed varieties" threads on this forum, someone recently had their work recognised in their area of collecting as a previously unrecorded variety and is awaiting publishing. To answer your first question, I think that it's more of a thing now because as people near completion of their collection they want to be able to create more boxes to tick and to carry on the collecting. Varieties give you the chance to do that, and as numismatics gains more popularity and more coins are being hoarded, people are starting to see more and more differences in design and in turn, open up more varieties for the collectors.