Peckris 2

Presumably marginally more gullible than people who buy the genuine coin?

So why would @ozjohn install one?

So they now freely admit a lot of their output is shite?

Not so sure? The orb doesn't look FULLY struck up, and the thistles top and left also don't look fully struck, nor do the diamonds on the crown. And the hair detail on the obverse doesn't convince me either. However, this likewise is merely opinion.

Especially if they're selling a shilling...

Never seen its like. Privately produced?

Very very nice Mike - and very rare, possibly as rare as a 1926ME in similar condition.

I think it's an illusion caused by how the lustre has worn?

To my mind it's a thin planchet, though how is another matter. It's clearly not post-Mint as it's fully struck up. Interesting.

You waited 9 years to ask that?

Yes, a good bit of research that. It does, however, beg the question of how much notice did the collecting community take of these articles and letters? Serious collectors in the 1960s were only buying top grades pre-1937 and the recessed ear was not published in official catalogues and guides, and very much less noticeable in EF and above. I remember that the 1946 ONE' flaw was described in a beginners' page in Coin Monthly early '68, soon after I started my own interest in coins - it didn't lead to any widespread dissemination of the variety for years though. I think people read those things in magazines and thought "Ooh that's interesting, I must look out for them", but due to a lack of follow-up (which of course would occur rapidly now in the internet age) soon forgot or lost interest.

I particularly liked the 'presidential painting' given to Trump by an admirer ( he has some???) - Trump is portrayed sitting next to Nixon, which is a bit of a 'fail', surely?

Or perhaps "50P MEANS 50P" Oh wait, "50P MEANS 23P" Oh wait, "50P MEANS A BOILED SWEET"

Quite so. The exceptions brought real joy but were mostly halfpennies - 1909 in NEF, 1935 in GEF with lustre, and a 1938 in Unc with good lustre. However, pennies were mainly low and ugly grades making the recessed ears easier to spot than EF or better examples would have been, but they never turned up!

Dan Daley of Lockdales used to be pretty sound, as was Stephen Lockett (the "Lock" in Lockdales) but I'm not sure he has any interest in them these days.

Ring the bells for Christmas Timex, Fa la la la la, la la la la

A great example of ghosting.

This is a real unknown. I was pulling pennies from 5/- bags got from banks through 1968-69. I knew nothing about the 'recessed ear' variety, but I did see very clearly that some specimens of 1915 and 1916 looked 'odd' as if the ear had been punched in. This was especially evident on the worn examples I saw so often - much more so than on the EF or better examples we collect. I could have had the urge to collect these oddities, but did not. However, other kids doing the same kind of thing might have decided to collect them without knowing exactly what they were.

Or a recording of the sea breaking on some shore.

Looks extremely dubious. Wouldn't touch it with a 9-carat bargepole.

Yes, but more 1926ME's would have been spotted and taken out of circulation than 1946 ONE'

The 1926ME is really only scarce in average grade. Very very scarce in VF or better, and positively rare in EF or better.

In those days there were clocks everywhere. Walk down any main street in any town and you could see the time. Now public clocks have all but disappeared. I use till receipts sometimes...

Mostly the site works as it should, but the 'Unread Content' feature sometimes has a bug. What happens is that with the list of topics the cursor doesn't change from a pointer into a hand+finger, so you can't click to enter a topic, and sometimes also the list of topics doesn't fully load. Reloading the page usually solves it (maybe after two or three attempts). This never used to happen, now it happens about every day. Anyone else noticed this?