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There was an explosion yesterday in a Japanese car parts factory - apparently it was raining Datsun cogs.

Japanese workers employed in a sewage works were happy to meet each other briefly, like Nips in the shite.

Hi again, Richard. This one above is Freeman reverse H (narrow date, sea does not cross linear circle). Not sure which obverse of course as you haven't shown it!! (More likely 7 than 6 as 6+H is quite scarce). Reverse I is below - wide date, low date numerals, H mintmark over gap not bead, and sea up to but not across linear circle. But it is properly rare!! I have taken the image from other Richard's website (secretsanta) and I as ever gratefully credit him here - especially given all the silliness that has been going on recently about images of rare pennies!

Glen Murray, who as far as I know is a US gentlemen who lives and has lived for a long time in Spain, has written some very specialised handbooks, such as Las Acuñaciones de Moneda en Segovia (30BC to 1869), published in 2009; Casa de Moneda de Madrid (1614 - 188), published 2014; and finally Cecas de Potosi y Lima (published 2016). These works are fantastic- they have so much detail ( mintage by face value and year), gold or silver content of coins, background information, names etc of assayers and mint masters, superb life size photos of coins, high quality paper, etc - and they are all surprisingly cheap - the Potosi - Lima book, 290 odd pages of fantastic information cost me only 18 euros, and I seem to recall that the Segovia handbook was 15€! All are published under the imprint of the Asociacion Amigos de la Casa de la Moneda de Segovia: www.SegoviaMint.org and info@segoviamint.org - and they are essential for any collector of Spanish coins.

Bernard is the father and a good friend of mine. You can view the online catalogues at Colin Cooke. https://www.colincooke.com/collections/

OMG, has Coin Monthly been resurrected?

Hi Martin Many thanks , no its not an I, I think I thrown a bit by the closeness of the back of QV's head to B in Britt which seemed closer than other 6 + G's Currently I only have one example of an 1874H obverse where the sea doesn't cross the linear circle . I have it as 7 + G