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Anyone seen this dot flaw before?

If you hold the coin to view from the edge, the recessed ear variety shows a distinct concavity rather than the normal convex bust. here are my pennies - top 1915 normal and recessed, 1916 below normal and recessed. The "Recess" is best seen in the area behind the ear lobe. Far easier to spot in photos of worn toned examples

No, that appears to be a new one, Matt. Interesting - I wonder how many there are with that dot, still in existence?

A couple of photos of my (poor) 1918h and 1919h

1862

A good way is to get an old torch reflector and put the coin inside, the edge will then appear reflected, and can easily be photographed to allow you to count them on an image.

and close-ups;

My son arrived back from the USA today with a couple of my penny purchases in his luggage. The first is a 1864 plain costing £50, which I think represents good value and looks GVF or better to me. The second is a slabbed 1862, 2 over 1. This already features on Richard's rarest pennies site as a past Ebay offering, and was also off the Bay after considerable negotiation over price. Difficult to photo, in the rather scuffed slab. The microscope fares better, and reveals some of that waxy green gunge around the lettering which I would normally remove, but as its in a slab I will simply observe for now. Nice clear overstrike however. Still haven't got round to photographing my LCA purchases, will show some in time. Jerry