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To be honest, Chris, I'm not sure. But what you say closely describes the 1860 to 1901 version, which is in a ring binder and loose leaf, with pictures of all the obverses and reverses described.

I've got "The British Bronze Penny 1860 to 1901", but not "The British Bronze Penny 1860 to 1970". Michael has the former for £50 but the latter is sold out and has been for a long time. We could do with a re-print. If you can't get one from Michael, Mick, one might hopefully come up for auction at some point.

Query about the 1856 penny. I hope someone can confirm my thoughts. Peck records the 1856 ornamental trident (ref 1512) as "very rare", and the 1856 plain trident (ref 1510) as "extremely rare" (page 407) . Conversely, Bramah, at page 109, considers the 1856 OT as "very rare" and the PT as "scarce". This isn't about the differing qualitative terms used by each, but about the actual relative rarity. From my observations so far, I'd have to say that the 1856 PT is much the commoner of the two, within otherwise scarce parameters, and that the 1856 OT is - in fact - very rare. So Bramah appears to be correct on relative scarcity, which leads me to wonder why Peck concluded the opposite - unless it's a clerical/typing error. Thanks in advance.

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You've heard of the lion rampant - well this is the cat rampant:-

50p's certainly seem like a popular collecting item. Quite surprised £2 coins aren't more popular than they are, for modern era collectors.

Although it is 99.8% positive, and with that level of feedback you're always going to get some dissatisfied customers. Even so, I'm always slightly wary at anything less than 100% these days, as I've been shafted on one or two occasions.

It's a shame - the verd seriously detracts.

For an F8 that price was an absolute bargain. I bet most of the potential UK buyers completely missed it. Not a bad coin.

I just couldn't resist, Jerry !!!

Looks like it could do with an overnight soak in balsamic vinegar.........

Probably so, which would explain.

Hmm...either way it's an impaired proof.

One very minor word of warning. Don't lay it on any light coloured fabrics as it leaves a lot of black specks behind. That tendency will probably disappear in time.

So trying to sell them he'd have had norfolk_n_chance.....

Mine arrived yesterday - very pleased. It'll be useful.

Problem these days is that the West is so acutely distracted with other things, that the Russians might (not unreasonably) assume we'd gone soft. It's noteworthy that they don't care one jot about the things we care about, nor do they ever receive one jot of criticism for not doing so. It's as though they're 100% exempt.

Agreed. Once you get a one party state in power, the right of the ordinary person to criticise or make fun of the political operators, is immediately negated. Not a pleasant prospect.

Are the Chinese government for real? First they blatantly renege on their commitment to honour the one nation two systems concept for 50 years, then they get angry because the UK has apparently "broken promises" by potentially granting UK citizenship for up to 3 million Hong Kong people. I don't think they were expecting this swerve by the UK, and they're well rattled, as they obviously don't have an immediate effective riposte to it.

It's a wonder it wasn't 99% in favour, in the time honoured way of the old communist bloc.

For that era, they are incredibly high quality images. Looking at them, they could have been taken yesterday.

Neither do I !!!

Had this e mail......was obviously successful for them.....

Cat watching a horror film......

Very pleased with this 1853 Peck 1503/Bramah 15, intermediate colon penny, which I managed to buy for £135. Like the 1853 PT, it's quite scarce, so to get one in EF for that price, was pretty good. I'd been umming and ahh ing over this one from KB Coins for £295, which is a demonstrably inferior specimen for more than twice the price. So another instance of an e bay "best offering".