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Reported, a Russian newcomer. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Coin-Britannia-Georgius-III/253468946417?hash=item3b03ed2ff1:g:s-sAAOSwZDdanR6j Jerry

A few more toned silver coins that may have disappeared, or have not been seen by newbies ...

I just thought that the esteemed members of this community might be interested to know that a 'milliHelen' is the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.

So a centipede is 1 year of the total time Jimmy Savile should have spent in jail?

We need more clues, size and pictures would be a start, weight if you have accurate scales. When you say ‘found’, do you mean detected? If picked up cheap in a car boot sale, it could easily be a replica. Jerry

Thanks for the pics and the comment davidrj I have several other year examples and, whilst talking with PWA 1967 (Pete,) he tells me that every year between 1874 to 1894 have examples of this left of date LC feature. I've seen an article seemingly agreeing with your "glitch in the machinery" comment. It suggests the feature may be the result of rogue"hammer die machinery" being slightly out of alignment and an edge repeatedly hitting planchets in the exact same spot over the years. I'm trying to re-locate the article so that I can quote it more accurately and give the author due recognition. Cliff

I seem to have replied to the pre-edited post.

Hi Pete - the trays arrived today - brilliant thanks! Just what I needed and expertly packed. Cheers,

While not breaching anything (yet), this listing for an 1850 shilling (copy) caught my eye. I'm sure it won't be long before these start turning up without the Copy/replica/filler/restrike labels. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1850-Victoria-Retro-Shilling-Ideal-Gap-Filler-Exact-same-size-as-original/282862667265?hash=item41dbedc601:g:w78AAOSw38BacBKR I'll let you all be the judge of it's qualities.

Super coin, I’ve never found a milled Lizzie, but dozens of hammered! Jerry

A few of my very best that, like Rob, were on Photobucket at one time ...

Thought you might like to see bigger pictures of the milled 6d

X is for Xcited! ( ... or a hasty Xit. I'll get me coat ... )

I reported both of these coins. Another I reported it's not even a good fake if there is such a thing.https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VICTORIAN-SILVER-CROWN-1892/323114460538?hash=item4b3b1f657a:g:PGoAAOSwLWZamv79

Not sure why a ship is for X, nor why a xenophobe is for z. Surely these would be better listed under E for educational standards? No?

Try the old trick on a coin of similar metal (CuNi): household ammonia in 1:1 with water. Immersion or the aforesaid Q-tip (bud) tamping with this solution can remove much of the accumulated cra-. I have found this to work rather well although not perfect - usually get improvement. CuNi is much harder to work with than sterling silver!

Don’t clean it unless you know what you are doing to some testing on cheap coins before you do and coins of value and silver dip should remove that fingerprint

With Acetone it's all timing. If it were a recent print within a few hours it would lift it but any longer it's hopeless. I have a lovely Irish proof 10 shilling coin with a nasty print on it. I tried using acetone on a Q tip to remove it but it never worked unfortunately.

The fingerprint is unfortunate, but unless you are sure of what to do, it's best to just leave it. My motto is no cleaning of coins unless absolutely safe to do so. Not sure whether acetone would remove it or not. Probably someone else would know. I've recently been advised that acetone removes old lacquering.