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Thought i would share this 1854 DOT , E of DEI ,as not seen another and really clear in hand.

it rather looks like the type of 'E' used is used for ONE and PENNY.....

Oh, bugger! Another change to the 20th Century bronze varieties book.

Just bought a couple of upgrades from Asprey Coins, based in Havant. In doing so, I had a good long chat with the owner, Mark Horton, on Monday Evening. Easy to talk to and a real coin enthusiast. Anyway, we got round to talking about varieties, and he drew my attention to something - possibly a mini variety - which I've never come across before. Namely slight differences in the E of PENNY in 1900 pennies. Mark had observed that the lower bar of E in penny was straight in some examples, and slightly curved in others. I checked mine, which was curved. Mark sent me an e mail with some illustrative pics. They're a bit big to use on here, so instead I started looking at 1900 penny examples on e bay, and outsorted a couple of examples. Straight lower bar of E in PENNY Slightly curved lower bar of E in PENNY I've used the direct links as you can employ the zoom feature and see more easily. But he's right, there is a noticeable difference. Thoughts? Mark was very happy for me to raise the issue on here and use his name.

True. If you spend £10k on gold commemoratives, you might end up with around 5k worth when you sell. However, spending 10k on silver commemoratives might leave you with just 2k worth.

However, if you must buy commemoratives, then gold ones are the best IMO. By orders of magnitude.

One piece of advice I would always give to those interested in buying commemoratives - buy gold. Whatever else happens, they will never lose their bullion value.