Peckris 2

"Sausages with backside of mushroom, eh...? ...CYril"

Yeah - you don't want coal dust all over your coins

Or 'sometime cleaned' may merely be arse-covering time. When in even the tiniest doubt, play it safe.

The Gnome Service, of course?

Mine's in cardboard too.

or... Alcune persone sono in campo?

You Scarss git

There's much controversy about cleaning. I once bid on an 1887 silver set that a dealer there said he wouldn't touch "it's been cleaned". What I'd seen was coins with a mirror finish, and some people it seems can't tell the difference and categorise any old silver coin without toning as "cleaned". They aren’t, always.

the 1925 in the DNW sale may be a better grade but it's no great shakes and is part of a 4 halfcrown lot.

I picked up a 1925 halfcrown that had been seriously rubbed - GF/GVF from Warwick in the 90s. But as it only cost me £6 I didn't worry too much about it. Still is my 1925 until I get a better.

This doesn't address Bamford's point about the low likelihood of a die lying around for six years and not reused. However, it could be explained by my pet thesis about the postponement of bronze from 1858 to 1860 being the reason why there are just so many 1858 varieties - if they'd used up older dies.

Shouldn't his name be Hancockarse ?

PLNNY the Elder, or Younger?

Welcome Artisan, from yet another South Westerner! My first bit of advice is very simple. As a newcomer to collecting, don't even THINK of becoming a dealer until you have a solid foundation of knowledge in, and experience of, coins in general. I'm sure the dealers on this forum would agree? That doesn't of course prevent you from putting any spares you may have from your collection, up on eBay and you would get help doing that in this forum. Your area of interest - Roman to Victorian - is very wide, and there are many books you could invest in. The first one would be Spinks Standard Catalogue which is published annually. However, coin prices don't change dramatically these days so don't get the latest edition (rather expensive), but pick up a copy from eBay that's 2 or 3 years old and won't cost nearly so much. You can get help from members here about the coins you want to identify, but pictures are a MUST! If you need more room than the attachment maximum for each post allows, then just make more posts. Sadly there are no big coin fairs down here, which would be your best way to see and learn about the coins you're interested in, so treat this forum as your resource and we will help where we can. Good luck.

I suppose it's one way of getting out

Nearly 2 million? Not that rare!

That would give me the pip.

Hahaha - for the first time, slabs begin to make sense!

In what way is this any different from the date width variations found on most years of OH pennies? Genuine question.

Sorry, I'm none the wiser!

yep, seems to work. (don't buy that penny, way overpriced!)

Sorry, I got my youtubes mixed up with my ebays - trying an ebay link: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304031301636?hash=item46c9ad8004:g:bUYAAOSwPYFfSTt9

Works for me.

Who is that guy? If I knew, I could perhaps understand this post!

It seems like a microscopic difference really. However to me, the 1 on the variety looks thicker than it does on mine. That might be enough to account for the "just about over a bead" versus "exactly over a bead"? So, same die, but the 1 recut perhaps.