Rob

Not sure what you mean when you say the coin is a 'downturn', but I wouldn't get your hopes up. There are a few die faults giving rise to warts and the like which don't add much, if anything, to the value.

Just collect what you want. Buy as many or as few as you want. There are no rules. Most people stop due to either having completed, or being frustrated due to an inability to complete. Widen your horizon and it is likely you will be pushing up the daisies before you find nothing to buy. All assuming that you still want to collect, of course. I refocussed because the pace of acquisition had slowed dramatically. Still didn't stop me creating a 'Too nice to sell' category though, so I guess I still kept part of the original focus.

Spink are unlikely to want it unless bulked up (with a few more errors) as I don't think it would make more than £10-20 as a stand alone piece. The problem is that wrong flan pieces are ok up to a point, but the denomination has no large following unlike say pennies, crowns or halfcrowns, so most potential buyers would be error collectors, who tend to be bottom fishers.

It is also 12-sided, but if the images in K&M are accurate, it is smaller, so you wouldn't necessarily see the angles of the rim. I hope the letter is genuine as 8 weeks seems a remarkably short time for them to turn an enquiry around. Also, if you have copied it verbatim, I would expect the RMM to spell curator correctly and use capital letters for its name.

In the absence of an image, nobody is sure what it is.

As I said. Food for thought. Not sure where we are up to. How did all this come out? Did he genuinely film Nice or not? Is any of his film corroborated by uninterested third parties?

oooh. That's food for thought

I think the official reaction is the right one though. Until you know who did it, people should not jump to conclusions. Otherwise you end up with trial by tabloid and there are a lot of potential Christopher Jefferies in this world, me included.

midst

The ease with which the rim and teeth are obliterated on the 1909 is a significant reason for the low population because it isn't a particularly rare date within the mountains of crap I see on a regular basis. You don't lose the date very often.

Completely screwed up. 25 degrees and sleeting. Obviously not quite cold enough up top to form hailstones.

too small

Carbon spot?

Nope. Blandford Forum. And Corfe only has one f.

A Dorset one.

Or an E over F, but not punched deeply enough into an already hardened die

Definitely two different dies because even if the fields were polished to remove the flaws and underlying E on the highest points on the die, it would still be present where it crosses the right prong of the trident.

My coin has no serifs to the bottom of the first I in VICTORIA and the F, plus on the reverse there is a long vertical flaw leaning slightly right passing through the centre point of the 8 from the rim to just under the hemline above, but quite faint once it hits the ground. And there is no sign of the underlying E in ONE which would have to mean that mine was before it was recut unless it is a third incarnation with the field polished sufficiently to remove the original. That's possible given the underlying E in ONE on yours is not parallel to the linear circle, which mine is. My LCW is not well formed either

Call it F whatever you want. Happy to bow to superior knowledge. It's a prooflike reverse unc type example early bronze penny to me. I just went off the ticket, which I'll change.

Don't know if it helps with the chronology at all, but I have an F10 where the reverse Es are weak to the point where the first one has the middle bar nearly filled, and the second E with the bottom bar quite filled.

Because people buy the paper and so they have an ongoing business to fund their diatribe. There's only one paper without political affiliation and that's the FT. Sure some journalists are left of centre and others right, but the paper gives both sides the opportunity to air their views. All the others you can bin because they will only ever lean one way or the other, so objectivity is inherently compromised. Another good source of apolitically driven information is of course Private Eye.

sic (twice) Come on chaps, sharpen up.

Your legend looks marginally thicker all round compared to the other three. That would be as expected of a copy made from a mould which was in turn taken from the genuine article

Because some genuine pieces sell for thousands,

Two parts joined together says it all. It is a modern casting. Genuine pieces are thin and very difficult to cast copies to the correct thickness.