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Afternoon, Got this one for sale. If anyone interested, make me an offer on DM. Cheers.

Nothing wrong with a bit of lippy

Hope you enjoy this one, I had to smile when I found it a couple of months ago. Just look at that eyebrow ! It now resides with the rest of my George III Half Pennies Very Best Regards Richard

A easy contemp fake worth about $100.00

Yes, that's not genuine though it doesn't look like a modern fake - possibly what the Americans call an "evasion", i.e. counterfeited in the 18th century?

I started to sort out my Victorian - Edwardian Halfpennies at the weekend. I say started because it took ages to pull together all the best examples. I'll need to go through them again and try to sort out them out properly identifying the correct die pairs Anyway here is (I think !) an 1861 Halfpenny where the 2nd 1 has been struck over another 1 (but no 8 over Very Best Regards Richard +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

My first coin purchase was a George II 1757 Halfpenny bought on a Saturday morning for 50p from an antique stall set up in what was then our local reference library ... unfortunately there are no official 1757 Halfpennies . I still have it and a quite a few other contemporary counterfeits or contemporary forgeries from albums. You might have seen the following for sale on ebay It is a George III Halfpenny dated I think 1775 (its very difficult to read) struck over a Palmers Stagecoach token which would date to around 1797 SCARCE George III Evasion Half Penny Overstruck on Palmers Mail Coach Token | eBay Very Best Regards Richard

Afternoon, I have this 1854 penny ornamental trident graded MS64BN to go. Really nice strike. Light carbon streak at 8 o'clock. PM if interested before it goes on ebay.

I am not particularly good at telling varieties apart, but by comparison with Terry's selection above I would say @The Bee's is the 13 tooth version. Whilst on 1877s - many years ago when I was just getting into coins and really only interested in getting each date, I bought an album of decent pennies at a market. Many were very nice indeed and are still part of my collection. Amongst them were two 1877s. I kept the better looking one and sold on the other. The dealer that bought seemed stunned to buy it for only £1 and I have worried ever since that it might have been a narrow date that I missed!

I've tried a few solvents, notably: Acetone - dissolves most grease based gunge. It's also miscable with water so you can rinse coins in distilled water if desired. Isopropyl Alcohol - Acetone is better, IMO, but this works. Limonene - This is degreasing agent widely used in cleaning electronics. It's the orange smelling stuff you use to clean heatsink gunk off CPUs, for those familiar with it. It works, but it's very, very smelly and has no discernible advantages over acetone. Ammonia solution - Probably the strongest cleaning agent for grease based stains; you can rinse coins off with distilled water. It won't react with silver or gold, but it will form cuprammonium complexes from copper salts. I've never tried it with copper coins. I got a little borosilicate petri dish and lid off Ebay. This lets you immerse a coin with about 10ml of solvent and pop the lid on it (good for anything that produces fumes). I also got a 10ml pipette for transfering solvents into the dish. Usually soaking in acetone and/or ammonia solution for a few minutes is enough to dislodge most gunge and bring the coin up nicely. One thing I did consider is getting a water pik toothbrush for rinsing and using distilled water for the rinse.