Peckris 2

I think I recognise the style - I have some silver "jubilee" plaques of Liz dated 1978 with the legend VIVAT REGINA. Same designer perhaps, maybe same private mint?

Yes - the YH version has longer teeth.

Done.

Do you mean the longest or shortest string? If longest, that's not the string, it's part of the female figure.

Yes, the Gothic v looks rather like a b when worn sufficiently.

Or sick. Or disabled. Or a single parent. Or homeless. Or an unemployed miner, steelworker, shipyard worker. Or elderly trying to live on the state pension.

Sure thing. The main difference is in the date: the first 8 appears to be punched over a higher 8 (I think), and the 7 is quite a bit further from the 188 than is normal.

That Bradman calls for this...

Nice chord progressions.

Perhaps the original owner had run out of sixpences?

You too can have an "uncirculated" 1968 10p for a very reasonable price! I guess 1969 - 1981 are sold out? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Uncirculated-New-Pence-Large-10p-Ten-Pence-Coins-1968-1981-UNC/163314706600?epid=849532362&hash=item260650a8a8:g:KcEAAOSwAOxbugny:rk:12:pf:0

Damn - sold out! Well, that's saved me £550.

Have a search for "How We Know Kavanaugh Is Lying" by Current Affairs. It's a long read (my saved version is over half a megabyte) but the evidence presented is pretty convincing.

He identified one of my 6ds as a pattern, but I'm not getting carried away - he says there are very many unrecorded patterns.

That's very difficult. How long is a piece of string? You would probably need to look at the mintage of 10p's and 5p's between 1968 and 1980, compare that with the mintage of shillings and florins between 1947 and 1967, then do a 'finger in the air' estimate of 1) the withdrawal of older coins due to wear, i.e. the normal course of events and 2) the mass withdrawal of coins by collectors and nostalgics and speculators in the few years before 1971. My own very rough guess is that the number of pre-dec coins still in circulation would have been less than a quarter, and maybe considerably less.

The problem is manifold: Kavanaugh is up for the highest legal office in the land but has not demonstrated 'judicial temperament' which is essential in that role his own diaries testify against him, and forced him to lie about their meaning (terms like "barf" and "Devil's Triangle" were redefined by him) as this is not a criminal trial, but a job nomination, different standards apply 'hard evidence' is almost impossible to provide in a case like this - if the accusation is true, you can understand why Ford tried to mentally bury it why haven't any of Trump's other Supreme Court nominees come under attack in similar ways? It this was political, they would have been without doubt. I agree that it would be nigh on impossible to now bring criminal charges, but not to repudiate the nomination; let's not forget that Kavanaugh was a mere law clerk until promoted by Bush for political reasons (repaying favours? Not sure.) - further investigation may or may not be appropriate, the FBI seem to think not.

Sadly the pictures have gone to the Internet GRaveyard.

It's quite possible - the War resulted in some vastly reduced standards in die wear etc. Plus we shouldn't forget that because of inflation there was a vast increase in mintages, plus there was a shortage of manpower. The Mint had their hands more than full.

Later gilt will always come away showing an underlying normal dark copper colour. Or, where it's been 'painted on', the final effect is so obvious you can immediately tell it's not genuine.

In addition to what @Rob said, the pennies I'm talking about look exactly as if bits of metal are stuck in them like chips in a biscuit. Not streakiness, but discrete little gold-coloured flecks (probably brass) that are embedded into the content of the penny, not simply on the surface like streaky lustre.

Sadly I never scanned them - they're still in a Whitman folder somewhere. Sometime... This, however, is my 1926 penny which is exactly like your streaky example:

That looks more like 'streaky lustre' than the effect I'm talking about?

I don't think so! However, I can probably hazard a guess how it arose. You may have seen some 1920 and 1921 pennies with gold coloured flecks in them. It's actually brass and appears to have been caused by the Mint putting unused shell cases left over from the War into the mix. I actually own a couple of these, and while I can't confirm the truth of the cause, I can certainly verify that there are pennies out there with gold-coloured flecks in them. That could well be the origin of the myth about 1922 pennies.

pAS for me. I can't see any signs of wear at all. That was a great price for it!

Rob's "hot and cold" is relative. In one sense the decimal market has always been flat, for the simple reason that no dealer will ever come close to the over inflated prices that the Mint charges for new issues. To anyone contemplating collecting in that field I have one thing to say: "Buy only in the secondary market and never from the RM".