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    I don't touch coins . It's au naturale
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    Arrived today nice 1862 6+G Penny and 1926 OE Sixpence
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    1844 Penny and a rather lovely stowaway 1946 Penny beautiful satin finish and a freebie what could be a better start to the day than that. Thanks very much Pete a true gent and the coins aint bad either Richard
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    Update: Don't even want to get in to how inept these services are. Retracing steps I already did to get back to exactly where I was to start with and having to wait in phone queues for 10 mins after i had a 5 min Q&A barrage from Mrs botfire press 1 for this ,press 2 for that. After all that they told me that it had been delivered to Harold wood sorting office 10.35 am 4th june. So if you just glance above in the previous post I already bloody well knew that. Nice lady on the customer service registered the complaint failure of delivery and walked me through the steps I didn't have to take as I was the recipient. So after feeling I accomplished absolutely zero other than to have on record I never received the coin I went back to the seller told him what the CS lady had said that he being the sender would need to open a claim with USPS as they were the designated courier. In the meantime I also registered non receipt with the what I can only describe as Neanderthal fleabay resolution team who informed me they would get involved in 3 days should I wish. They told me the whole procedure which was what I have already done without their useless 3 day too late never updated to current progress system that will take up to 14 days to resolve and even then should it get to the point of he said , I said god knows who would of been deemed at a loss. Then just as my faith in mankind had almost dropped to an all time low Out cousin seller from across the pond had refunded my money in full no questions asked so a reasonable outcome at least. I say reasonable because I would of much rather of had the coin. Don't get many of those 1902 Half crowns above EF for £56 very often. Just glad it's been put to bed
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    Well all bar 1 but strangely and directly because of your intervention the sole coin he has for sale mas marked copy on the envelope. (more like they all were until he was sussed) I reported him earlier as well. I think for any novice reading an inro that starts. "handed down,relative died,I am selling for a friend,I know nothing about coins" all of these are red lights alarms to run for the hills and all normally have between 20-90 feedback generated by the ring of scammers they are in. Whilst there may well be a genuine seller as a matter of security for yourself just ignore it and move on. If it sounds too good to be true it 99/100 times is.so.
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    De ja Vouz. I am getting a little pissed at the service of these overseas couriers and our so called best post service in the world. I was expecting a 1902 half crown I bought from across the pond. Had tracking number and have been waiting for it to be delivered. Well apparently it was delivered 4th june . Well it may well have been but it certainly wasn't delivered to this address. I have followed it as far as the local post depot in Harold wood and then it said 10.35am delivered but no address is given. So i'll be on the blower in the morning to see what the hell is going on. 2 in 3 weeks I smell a rat after never having any mail go missing in 30 years. It's not that it has gone awol it is all the BS trying to now get a refund. I can't start proceedings it has to be done by the sender. I just can't be arsed with it all anymore tbh. Trying to get a bloody email address of these crappy couriers is like trying to reinvent the wheel being sent round and round and getting nowhere. Then you cannot fill your own details in the claim forms for where's my parcel because there isn't an option to select any other country outside the USA. I am teetering on explosion point lol
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    Yes even more reason for ebay to be shut down. This last interference is beyond a joke. Now as you say there is no way to check on past sale as the link initially sends you to the sale with the smallest picture thumbnail in the world . Only when you click "see original listing" does the truth of ebays criminal intent to aid the scammers become visible with a link to something you neither asked for or wanted.
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    This lot was 12 euro inc postage. Nothing really outstanding but they fill a gap for now . I need to go back and look at the 1917 threepence as It looks like an overstrike 7/2 ans the 9 looks like it has been struck over a rotated 1. notice 1914 misaligned date . I know same 1916 picture. thumbs are so bloody small lol
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    Another 2 just off the boat from somewhere I couldn't even pronounce lol . I mean for 8 euro 10 inc postage it would of been rude not to
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    That's the guys coin in this post . best i could do with it as it was only tiny
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    not reverse E. reverse E looks the same as the coin on the left as in the britannia head. Reverse E has the shield Heraldry coloured. Middle coin on the pic of three coins above is reverse E The reverse of the coin in question is almost identical to the reverse of 1879 the only differences is the helmet shape ans the plumes are arranged differently as they are on the 1878
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    typical Jerry answer . dreadful pic but something going on there
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    That is a very interesting 1863 Penny did anyone bother to blow it up? You'll see what I mean Does something slender tilted lurk beneath?
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    There are many varieties I am discovering that are not in the books but have passed through the auction houses. Just seems a real shame to collectors in general that these new varieties are pushed silently under the carpet. Like the 1881 F/P Farthing. Until 5 minutes ago I never knew it existed. If you say E I am inclined to accept it and will look out for 1863's although you don't see many if any
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    Better comparison
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    As i was browsing through the pictures of my coins I noticed this farthing which is the 3rd in the picture. There is no record of this type. I looked on Colin's site and he has a blank space for the 1881 proof reverse without a picture and it says only known for the proof reverse. Anyone know what it looks like as you can see the differences pointed out in the pics below the 3rd coin is not the same as the normal 1881 reverse? thanks Richard
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    Seen loads Larry but I never have had the equipment to call it one way or the other. not just isolated to farthings I have one on a shilling on a post on this forum. Because of the design of the letter it is very hard to detect weather it is an offset re-punch. ie. tilted at what ever angle or a multitude of attempts to correct either a broken letter or one that simply failed to make much of a contact mark. I think the letter O personally failed 99% of the time. most i have seen have been recut as you can clearly see the joins. Certainly has the E feature along the bottom of the B . What is on the opposite side could it be a die clash? as i would of liked to have seen actual metal rather than a raised outline if you get my meaning?
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    If a coin was struck outside the collar the blank would be larger . I thought the whole point of it being in the collar was to restrict the metal from spreading out further than the set parameters?
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    I don't believe anything I read and I believe even less the the propaganda the news reports everyday. I research my own sources . All govt's are corrupt as hell even ours. I am just grateful that some of the whistleblowers hold enough clout to have their voices heard. The nation at large are the mushroom state " for most of the time kept in the dark and fed horse manure"
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    I believe some of these are 3/2 you can even see the very very faint scar lines and the break in the back of the three where the bottom foot of the 2 would run and all have an extended edge outside the bottom edge of the 3's curve here is a better example of what I mean and have suggested this on many a thread. Picture is blown up from a past sale I missed but I believe this is irrefutable evidence that such an overstike exists I made a drawing error such is the uselessness of a mouse when freehand tracing lol the 2 should out above the 3 but you can see where I meant by the normal picture
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    If it were a business other than the govt run extortion bureaux the monopolies commision would swoop on their door . To me paying tax and VAT on goods already paid on is illegal . And it is the biggest govt scam of the modern era. Vat and tax on new items is a given but to continue to charge full rate on 2nd hand goods is just an outrageous act of piracy.
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    My latest addition not the most valuable coin in the world but nice strike and the pics are all various lightings the first is the digi light and one lamp but with auto correction. Always makes it a few shades darker for my liking. 2nd pic is exactly the same but no auto correction and there is quite a difference. Last is my standard set up with 2 lamps and the digi lamp which is almost bang on what the coin looks in the hand. This is the hardest to get right lol
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    I have also seen the bust lines finish to the left of the rose and below this another bust line. Which was the reason for my question in another thread about transitional dies that the canadian coins exhibit and were all struck at the heaton mint and it cannot be a mere coincidence that heaton also struck early pennies of our own. I am trying to find the darn coin lol. I think its on here somewhere . The obverses are the same but one is much lower than the other and the mantle is missing.
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    Well we do have varieties with narrow and wide rim and I would class those as varieties but only if on the same year as in a coin struck in 1863 with obverse 6 with a wide rim couldn't be directly compared to a coin struck in 1860 obverse 6 with a narrow rim. There would be too many variables involved like metal composition which personally I think was a constant struggle and until decimalisation always was and what was the norm in 1860 wouldn't necessarily follow on in 1863. So logically thinking these are sub varieties of the same obverse because you cannot have the same obverse one with a wide rim and one with a narrow rim one with colons pointing to teeth and one pointing to spaces and just call it obverse 6. It requires more research as to which styles were used in which years. It is the same micro variations that book authors quote. It may well happen on other coins that share the same obverse or reverse but for different years. Richard
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