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I think there is an H, but in any case which obverse is it? That would give a clue as to whether it could be a ‘no H’. Jerry

True, Court quotes 16,129,850 for the 1916 RE penny so there must have been many individual obverse working dies. As I understand it, the puncheons would build up the design in incuse, the result being used to strike a master die which is a relief die. From this, whatever number of incuse working dies necessary could be struck. It would seem likely that only one master die would be prepared, and thus the border tooth puncheon would only be used once in building up the master die. Logically any progression in the damaged tooth would have to occur when sequentially preparing new working dies from the master. Does this seem reasonable? To answer Pecks earlier question re the non-continuation of the RE obverse, perhaps the damaged master die was deemed to require replacement, and rather than going back to the individual punches to build up a fresh master, they simply returned to the previous non RE master to produce the next generations of working dies. Jerry

Which means that the several working dies must have been made from one progressively more clogged RE master die, and why would the master die become clogged if used presumabIy to make a very limited number of working dies? am not sure which is more unlikely, that or one particularly long-lived obverse die. Any other solutions? Jerry

It could be a late ‘15, the question is whether the damaged tooth progresses chronologically; are there any relatively undamaged tooth RE 1916’s? It is unlikely that several distinct working dies identically broke teeth, so a multiple die usage would necessitate a damaged master die or a deliberate use of the damaged tooth as a marker for the new obverse. More research required . Perhaps as we use the broken tooth as an identifier, we are missing undamaged tooth coins. Jerry

That’s nice Terry, and confirmation that it is a single die variety. Jerry

Likewise, I had sent him the links and he wishes, quite correctly to protect his reputation. Perfectly genuine but numismatically inexperienced auctioneer I suspect. Jerry

I have emailed the auctioneer. It will be interesting to see the outcome. Jerry

Essentially conservation is remedial work to stabilise, and prevent future deterioration. Cleaning is to make it look prettier, at least in the eyes of the ‘cleaner’. Jerry

Possibly, have a look in Michael Gouby’s book where he shows an ‘E’ probably repaired with an ‘L’, but on an F10 penny if I remember correctly. No reason why it couldn’t have been used on other dates, I suspect most dies were ‘refreshed’ for continued use in the early high production years. Jerry

The figure you have drawn in yellow is not an ‘F’ but it’s mirror image. It is unlikely they would ever have needed such a punch as when they were repairing an incuse letter on the die they could just have used an ‘E’ punch or an ‘L’ as Gouby describes where appropriate. Jerry

Yes, it’s a repaired E, but not with an upside-down ‘F’ as it would have to be a mirror image punch. Jerry oops Rob just posted the same point, but much more succinctly.

This almost had me in tears........sob! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1933-One-Penny-EF-ULTRA-RARE-224-918-minted-Union-of-South-Africa-George-V/162965618854?hash=item25f18200a6:g:mdQAAOSwjI5auPKY Cue wanton violence towards massed violins.... Jerry

Yup, looks right.

No, but they might have told me 🤫! It just goes to show that no matter how observant one tries to be, there is so much material that no-one spots everything. I will try and post my recent EBay finds in the next couple of weeks, including a new erroneous 1861 letter die repair I think. Jerry

Wow, nice selection, how did they creep by! Jerry

Very nice, and a bargain! Did you know it was there, or a pleasant surprise? Jerry

I think they are all fake, but have little sympathy for the purchasers who shouldn’t be buying if they don’t know the subject well enough to be aware that most on EBay are replicas. They obviously have so much money that they can throw it away for lack of basic research. I would never buy a siege coin, Gothic Crown, Wreath Crown and several others unless from a known reputable dealer like Rob P. Jerry

That’s pretty much what I reckon, though I’m not a slabber! My coins go in rimless capsules in a mahogany coin cabinet.

To my mind, and it is difficult to be sure from photos, it is a nicer looking coin than the one that just sold on LCA for about 2k with juice. I will post pics in due course. My winning bid was a fraction of my actual bid. As anticipated the vendor had several bin offers, I had warned him he would get them, can’t abide that, I would rather have a chance to win fair and square. The 1879 small date that briefly appeared yesterday may have been pulled for this reason, sadly. There have been some interesting pennies on the bay over the last couple of months, I have a backlog to photo thanks to the domestic situation (move and renovation) but will get snapping soon. From a wet Japan, Jerry

Another optimistic liar. Please report........ https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hammered-Silver-Coin-Elizabeth-1st-Sixpence-1562-AD/263558375340?hash=item3d5d4da7ac:g:0X8AAOSwHcpaq6Ru Jerry

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I’m sorry, I don’t understand. Which are you, ‘Guest useless’ or ‘stupid’? And what are you answering? Jerry

If he does know that all his ‘inheritance’ is fake, he must realise that he will get caught out eventually, yet he has used his business name as his EBay moniker; given that he comes from Rotherham, this is probably his Facebook page with address, if anybody is interested. https://www.facebook.com/skyhightreeandgroundsmaintenaceservices/ At the current bid prices, he will have taken over £5000 by the end of these auctions. He is either ignorant, or extremely stupid, or both. Jerry

I bet Ebay are feeding these stories to the Mail for their own benefit! Jerry

Certainly a load of bo**ox. But at least the comments below the article are realistic. Jerry