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[Adopts tone of voice of the railway bore you dread sitting next to you...] Ah well you see, it's quite easy to tell. I can see from the riffle squod mark that the bullet was made in the North Croydon Works of the Machine Arms Co and they only made them with that particular riffle squod up to 17th August 1914 and the entire consignment apart from one case was used before November 1914 in the Belgian trenches on the Western Front - the one case was used in 1915 but only at Gallipoli so if I was a betting man I'd feel my money was safe in saying that is a 1914 bullet. As I was saying to my friend Roger only last Tuesday - and there's no-one knows more than Roger about riffle... [cont p.94]

I was having another good look at the pictures of this New type 1847 with no colons after REG, and noticed that instead of a gown with the elaborate lace neck line, which you find on all the other reverse Victorian copper types. This one has what looks like a Gorget breastplate , with the embossed head of Medusa set into the centre , its difficult to be sure though as it could be a chainmail neck piece with the embossed head of Medusa on a solid piece of metal set into the chainmail . Small breastplates like this were used on armour going back as far as the Romans, and has been used for decoration on some military uniforms right up to the present day . Pictured below is a Gorget worn be the German Military Police during the WW2, which I think looks remarkably similar to Britanniar's neck piece on this newly found type.

Thinking about it the HYPO i feel it must of been put on the blank before it was struck ,the 1946 pennies were all lustered and fully struck from a mint roll. They were almost black but with a sheen that would of come from the strike IMO.

I will have a guess Mike..........36,743 😊 Joking aside that is an error in the book ,your own coin which has just naturall toning IMO is the same as most.There are exceptions to the rule some years that have MT when shouldnt have ,i had a 1932 that was MT.There are some years that should be MT 1944,45 & 46 that you find have missed the MT and occasionally 1934 ,sometimes partly as well as the full coin. The 1935 though are MOSTLY normal . I believe the HYPO was a liquid wash that the coins went through after striking ?. Why some years have it that shouldnt though i have not got a clue 😊 Infact it would make more sense that the BLANK was washed BEFORE striking and some of those were mixed in with others 😮 Pete.

To get back on topic. My father used to be very condescending....After he died I realized he was just looking down on me.

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