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A couple of Ebay finds from last week, both from the same vendor! The F763 was £29.95 and the 1861 Gouby G was £4.95. The latter would be an addition to Richard's 'Rarest Pennies' site. There appear to be at least three 1861 Gouby G die pairings on the site, this coin matching a couple of the other listed coins. Whether the actual staging of Gouby G can be determined is doubtful due to wear. While referencing the 'Rarest Pennies' site, where has the F38 gone? Too many of them? I did spot an unrecognised F763 at the Midland Coin Fair last weekend, but only about VG so I left it as it was from the same pair of dies as mine. Jerry

And the Gouby G.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-46186430

Yes, decent 1915 examples very very hard to find.

As they say "Hare today, gone tomorrow".

Got to say I like you running rabbit avatar! Really cheerful!

The 1916 is relatively common ,but the 1915 scarce IMO Mike 16 .....1 in 5 15......1 in 30. Only a guess 🙂 Looking at CGS they have done 17 1916 and 2 1915 the 2 1915 i sent them both 🙂

….and here is a close up of the overdate on that coin. The 4/4 more convincing, with the front of the underneath 4 quite clear...………..as highlighted (red arrows)

It does say including ....not that this was the entire collection that was stolen However I suspect that the unfortunate victim could very well have been a classic client of those companies that we all know, who prey on selling to mainly the elderly and definitely to people who don't know the value of what they are buying and who often do it furtively and with the best intentions in order to leave something of what they think is of value to the family when they've gone and generally is worth about 10 to 20% of what they paid..at best. Stick to your knitting is what I say ( can you still say that ? ..of course men knit too....phew ! I think I got away with that one...) ......don't buy what you don't understand or haven't researched....Crypto being a recent classic example of people doing this

There was my collection of Halfgroats that went through DNW in three parts, then theres the Ivan buck collection of groats and pennies and Currently the J Hewlett collection in many parts and the J Atkinson collection of Groats and pennies Tealby - Richard III

Santa Between those two choices...Gouby / LCA...put me down for Gouby! LOL...

The gap in the rubbish bin?

I became a grave digger but my boss told me to lighten up.