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I was going to say 8. I haven’t seen the other photo, but the nostril looks shallow and the legend not as thick as obverse 9, to me. 🙂

That would be my view. 🙁

That’s a nice one Pete, can you post the obverse please? 🙂

I think you know why. 🙁

So are his RM trials.

I used to be scared of spiders, a phobia I inherited from my parents. But I once kept scorpions, and by extension tarantulas. The worst I kept was a Pterinochilus murinus, known in the pet trade as an OBT - Orange Bitey Thing. The sod could teleport, I tell you, and it had to go. I had a cool Uvicularia metallica called Lars though. After that your common or garden Tegenaria gigantea seems a bit tame. Dysdera crocata has a much better set of fangs.

I’ve heard that these huntsman spiders have been deemed responsible for human deaths, although not from envenomation. Apparently when you leave your car with the windows open in hot weather they’ve been known to climb inside and find somewhere nice to hide, like behind the sun visor. When you drive home and make the turn into the setting sun, you flip the visor down and it drops into your lap causing you to panic and crash. Any truth or just urban myth? Atrax robusta is a nasty piece of work, from what I understand.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unknown-Coin-in-Worn-Basal-State-George-II-UK-1-2-Penny-Size-Poor-P-1-Grade/392421963652?hash=item5b5e2bf784:g:qKwAAOSwNeFdGjig What do you have to do to get a grade of O?

Click on the Advanced box, then at the bottom of the page there's a link to proceed.

Same for me Mike, but I can override it. What browser are you using?

My car entertainment system has a cassette player.

Congratulations. Looks a decent example. Out of idle curiosity, if you don't mind me asking, did you mysteriously get it for your maximum bid?

I've been known to spend an hour looking for an F169 without remembering to check for the dot.

Guaranteed genuine mate. Santa Claus it is.

Were both unattributed Pete?

Now show us the difficult side...

I do like a nice fleur-de-iris.

I'll be honest, it was Pete that drummed that one in to me.

At least it’s not a F174 like my last F176 was! 😂

F176 Mike. I’ve stopped even looking at reverse pointings as the thin v thick edge is much easier. Thin reverse edge and equal gap between GRA.BRITT = F176. Thick edge and GRA. BRITT = F175. A pleasing £1.84 from the US of A for that one. 🙂

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Two recent acquisitions:

Only just seen this Mike - that’s lovely. ebay? Better than mine I think as mine’s got a few scratches that let it down a bit - it was full of muck when I got it. Hat off, as someone here says. 😉

It is a little bit dished in the middle, and the reverse doesn’t look quite right either. It’s almost like there wasn’t enough metal to fill the die.

Reverse: