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I agree that it is obverse 1 rather than 1*, the gaze is forward rather than downward, and the rim is too thin. But they are out there, I have a couple of Ebay examples in low grade and a nice AEF F763 that was advertised as F6 at Lockdales a few years ago, less than £200; keep looking. Jerry

Yes, well done. I actually think that Freeman marginally underestimated the scarcity of these. Jerry

Yes, yours has the missing line too Pete. Seems to be pretty much a feature of all 3/2’s, possibly many of the minor degree dies Gouby shows too. I see that Richard’s website has been updated to include this feature, though I don’t think that the filled die repair and the overstrike are directly associated in that 1893 coins that are clearly not overstrikes, even minimally displayed, can also have the line flaw. Jerry

Well, there really ought to be some 1892’s with the flaw, unless there was just a single batch of flawed 1892 dies which were all updated into the progression of altered ‘3’s including the clear ‘ 3/2’ that Gouby shows in detail. Or the ‘3/2’ could be regarded as a ‘2/3’, an 1893 die mis-repaired using a ‘2’ punch, which I do not favour. Either way I feel that there must have been a flawed master die to enable the missing line to occur on dies producing both overstrike and normal coins. Jerry

No, I can’t see it either. I wonder whether this flaw was on a master that was used to make several dies/dates over the 1892 to 93 period. You have a nice doubled inner circle to the lower left of the date too! (Spellcheck initially converted ‘doubled inner’ to ‘double dinner’ , quite a nice interpretation I thought!). Jerry

Yet it looks the same flaw. Not sure what to make of that. Does yours have the bulge under the upper loop of the ‘3’ that you see on 3/2 coins? Jerry

So do my 1893 over 2 pennies (all three) but not my plain 1893's. Jerry

That is interesting, I wonder whether a partly filled die could have been repaired by re-engraving the vertical lines? What coin is this? It might be possible to track the die fill and repair by looking at other examples . Jerry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_May_(cashier)#:~:text=Frank May was the Chief,£10 banknote of 1888. ?

Likewise, so job done. He did say it didn’t look like a beaded to him either; perhaps a little more research would have been in order, but his response is fair and honest; I dare say we all make mistakes. 😮 Jerry

Not necessarily a worst offering, just mis-described by NGC and the vendor has followed suit. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126326106682?itmmeta=01HPP1PAKM29E6B28M1EVHGG5E&hash=item1d699f6a3a:g:NV4AAOSw2tZlxS33&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAAsLKd0l82XvnuaGrzJO%2FHcJBV3x52qzjv7EFUyGtuDfrY3BiF%2BgCLs%2F0oAPx%2Fn0SCC3RYgwRYFrRUDPMG%2FjfGZzu2ShMHdF58OPVYNlD%2BPndD4YGTqM7lC1YVglfmlKPDqzbdsYoAG6L1bd3CV68Ofczf280EJOyzDBDpNBXB5YeOESC2tfazyh2oR4M4VNnnR8bnBs8D5P1Ga873l60L2fb0i9cBE9XtVSCS1gVpihmJ|tkp%3ABk9SR_6p2cG1Yw I have messaged him might be worth others doing so too. Jerry

Fantastic, sounds like a theme for another topic but I am a great fan of the KT66 and have a number of vintage amps that use them from Pye, Pamphonic, Sound Sales, Leak (TL12’s) ,HMV Williamsons and others. I am lucky to have many spare MOV valves, will certainly see me out. But my perspective is very much that of a collector, I can service or repair vintage amplifiers and televisions, but my knowledge of electronics is pretty basic. I also have several thousand LP records, mostly 60’s and ‘70’s Rock, Prog, Folk etc but I have to admit some Pop too. But mostly renovating my ancient farmhouse and barns for the last six years though.

The dye free meths over here is Industrial Methylated Spirit (IMS) and it is widely available. Jerry

I could imagine it selling for £50 to 100 if it’s a REALLY good fake, but if it’s an obvious one to the naked eye then the value would be minimal. The value is in the quality of the workmanship. Jerry

I think that is a real possibility, given that an 1858/7 die could well have remained in use into 1859, and have been in need of repair to the second ‘8’ upon which the mint worker instinctively reached for the final digit punch then in use - the ‘9’. To me it certainly looks like a ‘9’ is in the mix. Jerry

I think the whole point is that he took all the bronze at face value from circulation, and I have also read this was accumulated through a Scottish bus company; these would have been common coins for them to handle given the average fare was only a few pence. Freeman himself did the sorting into dates/varieties and prepared the statistics (actual numbers in his possession are given in the early penny book). He at one time held over 60,000 pennies, a personal investment of some £250 and I suspect that the bus company was perfectly happy to help with the research at no cost to themselves. He clearly took the halfpennies and farthings too as within five years of his initial work he was ready to publish the authoritative bronze volume. Jerry

I’ll let you know when it arrives. Jerry

Not EBay, but surely this auction is a load of total bollox…..😁 https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=7558&lot=499 Jerry

This is the best one I could find, again from the USA. If you look at EBay ‘sold’ 1940 pennies, there’s definitely been a flurry of ‘narrow date’ sales! I found one well circulated example on EBay UK, and four or five from the USA. At a very rough estimate, 1 to 2% of pennies of the date available when Terry made his post. Thanks Terry for making us aware of the type, I suspect rare rather than extremely rare in high grade but always nice to have something new to look for. Jerry

I think this is the same site, on detectornet. http://www.ukdetectornet.co.uk/H3 Booklet - RP Jan 27th 2018.pdf Jerry

Happy New Year, Everybody! From the Temple Bar in Ewyas Harold, having just spent a pleasant few minutes rousing the populace with a few rounds of the church bells. 😑😁😈 Jerry

It’s remarkable that this penny crept through a week on EBay, it closed at £26.21 and arrived today. Five bidders, yet I assume it went unrecognised except by me. Advertised by its vendor - an establishes dealer- as mm rose, it is in fact eglantine/ eglantine over acorn and the same reverse die (and probably obverse) as the Comber specimen. The obverse die has moved in the strike, but it is in pretty good condition, indeed better than the vendors photo after removal of soil and encrustation. An extremely rare coin……unless you know otherwise? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116003103643 Jerry

May all your coiny wishes come true! Jerry