Peckris 2

I got this when I tried to post a hilarious Amazon review. Many times I edited it but nothing worked ... until I spotted that one of the reviews featured a list of luxury brands (for comic effect). When I removed that line, the post sailed through. Have a look and see if something in your post can be identified as a product - you will get the "Forbidden" message as the software thinks it's spam.

Here's more about this series: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/cleopatra-thea-and-her-son-antiochus-viii.301597/

Interesting. In my own (FileMaker Pro) database, I designed a layout that compiles prices from Seaby/Spink from the 60s to recent times for my own collection. Here is a small sample (note that coins I didn't already own in the 90s have no values for that period which I own no catalogue for, unlike the other values; there was anyway a great stagnation in values for about 10 years from the mid 80s to the mid 90s): *note it's not up to date - there's nothing after 2009 in this image, and I've also since added 1976 values

Different penny. That one IS EF. But not a proof!

Does Malwarebytes create software for PCs too, as well as Macs? If so, that might be worth getting. Firefox have been warning of extensions that won't run on their browser for ages now, which is one reason I won't use FF. I do however use Chrome on occasion, and really think I should stop, given how nosy and intrusive Google are.

An E usually means Ephesos, but if confidently identified as Athens I won't argue.

Hmmm. That's so worn compared to surviving lustre, that I'd be tempted to say it has been artificially lustred at some point.

I don't see "proof" anywhere in the description. Still, a quid for a VF 1863 penny is still worth it.

Me too, but whatever you do, use pumice and not granite...

That's a good one. It's counter intuitive that of 100 alphabetical English numbers, the first would begin as late in the alphabet as "e".

Just as an addition: the ESC numbers are yet a third hand - neither of the others uses a continental 7.

Lighthouse products are - or were - sold here by the site owner Chris Perkins, so yes, I'd say they can be recommended. I'm not able to advise on sizes or boxes.

This is pure Holmesian deduction... The two tickets appear to come from the same source, as the writing and style of the first side of both - though written at different times with different pens - is the same. The writing on the second side is a different hand, but appears to be the same as the prices written on the first side, which use different pens from the other details. Conclusion (possible): the coins were at the same sale and the prices realised were written in then; the B numbers could be sale lots, while the initials could be the buyer or a code for the buyer.

Not sure why you call them killjoys when the end result is a coin that stands out for collectors as different from the others in that series...

I've sent her a polite message explaining that unique "cud" die errors are worth little above face value as there are few collectors of them. I added that if it was a genuine die error causing a number of coins (e.g. the undated 2008 20p) they would have much more value. But perhaps she enjoys spending hours looking through thousands of coins for errors - she needs to get out more!

Agreed - there are traces of lustre in the odd place on my 1940 penny. You sometimes see this on the other dates too.

That makes sense. Halfpennies from the early 1940s wear to a lighter and redder colour than previous.

That's what Michael Gouby speculated .. but I thought all published mintage figures from 1953 on were for coins minted with that year's date?

Does anyone know why wartime pennies were toned by the Mint? Farthings from 1897 to 1918 were toned to avoid being passed off as half sovs but that doesn't apply to GVI pennies.

It arrived today, and I'm 98% sure it is Mint toned. Has all the characteristics and it would also make sense that they'd test the procedure out before they introduced it full time the next year they minted. I've also 'swiped' the eBay pictures for my own records.

Respectfully .. too much wear for EF. GVF seems nearer the mark.

And the abrasion below the 'g' of gratia.

Ah, that makes sense.

Can you change feedback? Didn't realise you could.

That's very strange - instead of a genuine feedback it just describes what was bought! Almost as it the seller had their own suspicions about her and decided to make sure that any subsequent buyer looking up the seller/item would spot the word "restrike".