Rob

Carry on using it until it either disintegrated or became obsolete.

I don't know for certain but would think not as you have a piece of machinery involved now which has to locate in the top and bottom of the fly-press. You see quite a lot of underlying detail on some hammered coins, but rarely see anything which could be rationalised to a previous die on the milled. Recut or overstruck corrrections to letters are common, but they usually involve the preceding or following letter in the legend, suggesting a misprunt.

There are at least two varieties of the large 0, one of which is over an undersized 0.

Generally speaking they have to be spectacular clips to be desirable as minor clipping occurs too frequently.

Novelty value only I'm afraid. A slight premium to 10p, but not a lot.

I can only see the V. I'd go for badly aligned on the first clout with the hammer, then the position corrected on subsequent blows. Whilst I don't have any examples with a corrected positiion, I have lots with hopelessly misaligned letters, overstruck letter errors or just spelling mistakes on completed dies, as the literacy and skills of the engraver were clearly lacking in many instances.

I can't see the displaced S on my screen, but that might be a contrast issue. If in line with the other legend characters, then it is most likely a double strike IMO. I can't see any way in which it can be related to the holes in the head. Maybe they are due to 18th century hammer damage? It looks too smooth to be a flan lamination problem.

It's worth the silver content. It can't be uncirculated by definition and has most likely been polished plus there should be some damage from mounting, so numismatic value is zero or thereabouts. It is not a rare date.

Your doctor needs to check your prescription. What are you on?

I concur. Collectors will in general only have a couple of examples at most and dealers are unlikely to have a full spread of grades. You could ask someone like Micchael Gouby as he may have sufficient stocks to cover all grades, but don't bank on it. Dealers will not be falling over each other to accumulate low grade material, as for many 20th century pieces, demand for anything other than ef or unc coins is limited to say the least.

Placed carefully in camera bag.

I have been spared an ordeal (maybe). The Churchill rev. design is by Mark Richards, an example of whose handiwork I already have. The down-side is that the other pieces he has designed are the Kate and Will £5 and the Philip 90th birthday £5. I opted for the latter. I also note that the specification given for the £5 in the 2 coin set is BU. There is no attempt to assign a quality label to the 1965 crown which accompanies it.

Mooo. Sorry, forgot. HB Paul

The other copies and this are certainly related. Weaknesses in the legend and inner circles match. Given the surfaces, I struggle to believe it isn't dodgy, and even if genuine, how come this one doesn't get a damaged field designation given the state of them. The reverse looks like no-mans land on day 1 of the Somme.

Did'nt you know that CGS dictated prices? Lol the 1860 1* halfpenny i recently bought they have one slabbed at 80 something amd reckon it's worth £750 I was more questioning of the slab contents

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Superb-Henry-VIII-Silver-Groat-CGS-45-/321562828047?pt=UK_Coins_BritishHammered_RL&hash=item4adea35d0f

I'm ambivalent about the toppings. I just eat what's available. Put me down for a half on each side.

Murdoch did. He had 43 out of 47(?)

I'm in the happy position of my wife saying that she likes Saxon and Norman coins. I might just try to please her a bit more.

I saw this 'suggested bid' thing for the first time too as I haven't bid on anything for months either. I clicked on the place bid button minutes before the end when it was at £79.77 to see what came up and decided the best plan was to put in my max at the last moment and cross fingers as I have always done. I don't understand why anyone would put in small increments other than to avoid being screwed by a large shill bid, but if you are going to bid way in excess of the existing bid and are prepared to go to a certain level, then shill bid or not you should be happy with any result up to your max. When putting in my bid it jumped to 188, but still put in what I was prepared to pay (which was well above the end price). In this case there was a third bidder at 501.

Sorry about that.

Ah, no, Rob, not you, you're barking! I was referring to your part in adding a balanced child to the pot! I've done worse than that, I've added 4 (relatively) balanced people. Mind you, one's an anarchist - still good for an argument though.

Wow. Balanced individual. Nobody has ever called me that before. Are you sure? I'm currently thrashing around at a overweight meat fly that has invaded my territory. What's it doing when it is below zero outside? It's November. Mind you, we went walking up Longdendale at the weekend and the clover was in bloom, daisy like weeds flowering aplenty, and even a cowslip. The wind was warm.

The wife got opted in by default initially. We sold something, but the buyer didn't want to complete. I don't know how much they wanted to charge him, but based on my experience is probably at least a third again as what it should be.

Yours is a Besly 1B die pair, mine is a 1A pairing.