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Hi Loose54, I've heard it said that one picture is worth a thousand words, and when it comes to coin die varieties, no truer words have ever been spoken. To see the subtle differences between Freeman obverses 15, 16 , and 19, have a look at the photos of the Nicholson collection on the Colin Cooke website: Go to: colincooke.com Select: "Other", "Collections", "Dr. Basil Nicholson Collection of Halfpennies", "Part 5" Then: Items 455 & 457 = Freeman 340 & 342 = Obverse 15 Item 459 = Freeman 344 = Obverse 16 Items 460, 461, & 462 = Freeman 347 & 351 = Obverse 19 Let me know how this solution works for you. I can provide high resolution photos of those Obverse dies, if necessary.

As a new member, I should be grateful for the opinion of others on a 1887 jubilee head shield reverse sixpence. This has R on I amendments to the R in BRITT and VICTORIA, which I understand are well recognised. in addition, there is an inverted A or V adjacent to the A in VICTORIA which I have not seen reported before. Have there been previous reports of this?

Forgetting the contents of the article..... I take my hat off to the kid. FOC advert in a national paper....fantastic PR job. Young business of the year award from EBAY. All he needed was a website and would of generated some traffic straight way. Weather he has made £50K or 50P is not the issue IMO. He has done something on his own and kicked on with it ,nothing illegal and nothing to upset anyone. Hope you read this and weather you sell coins or decide to do something else on your own i wish you all the best.

Crikey, imagine the state the country would be in of everyone started believing the Daily Mail. Oh wait...

Many thanks Pete, they have arrived and are currently making me smile like a crazy person. This has definitely raised the bar on my penny collection, making most of the others look rather average. At school they warn kids about Class A, Class B and alcohol, but I think they should also inlcude "The man with free pennies".

This may answer some questions. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/Coinage.jsp Ahhh crap. This post is nearly 2 years old. Bit late ?