Peckris

I don't like the carbon spot right in the middle of reverse. Spoils an otherwise good coin. I'd have it! (Not too worried about a tiny little spot like that). Does anyone know which is the the rarer - pattern or proof?

WOWEE. You did very very well there Declan

I always thought it was a tuppence? Maybe the filles were more upmarket round your way? Liverpool??

Kent coins seems like a cheap low grade place to buy coins. Nothing very exciting, but the prices are ok for what they do sell.

Threepenny bits should be stroked, not stamped

It comes to something when describing a coin as a forgery is dishonest! but I do know what you mean I suppose it comes to something when a forgery can sell for a couple of hundred, and a boring old repro sells for about £10. My problem is that it's a modern repro which you can buy for £14.99 that has been put in an old envelope rapped in a peice of news paper dated 1934. That is just designed to deceive. Hopefully no-one will be. Especially when they look at the feedback score.

87.5% feedback. Says it all, really...

It comes to something when describing a coin as a forgery is dishonest! but I do know what you mean I suppose it comes to something when a forgery can sell for a couple of hundred, and a boring old repro sells for about £10.

Weird - it's silvery grey (mostly) on my machine.

That's possibly a mild acid attack?

I've long paid for everything with plastic

Your coin has a strange silvery colour - can you post the whole reverse?

Just to my own eyes (before reading down), that reverse is suspicious : it has all the look of a newly struck coin but with wear to all the usual high points (thistles, roses, fleurs de lys). There's also some uncharacteristic raising to the edge of the rim, like something taken from a mould.

Forget the pointings - what I can see there is two distinctly aligned 4's: the first is rotated slightly counter clockwise, the second is rotated slightly clockwise, in relation to a hypothetical vertical line. That alone is enough to account for the pointing difference. Good spot.

Me too - you just beat me there scott!

Um, it doesn't say anything about WW2!! It's been changed Peck, it did mention WWII Oh right - the seller may have got themselves a history lesson in the meantime then!

How do you know they are lead?

Wasn't there a Peter Perv on Blue Peter once upon a time?

The 'P' is incuse (cut into the blank) where all raised parts are called 'relief'.

Um, it doesn't say anything about WW2!!

Hmm - tricky one. It looks as though something may have stuck to the die and impressed itself into the blank around the '1'. Or, it could have been someone playing around with a metal punch or other tool, after the coin left the Mint. There does look as though there is some damage to the top of the '1' - can you get an even larger sharper picture or scan, or is that as large as you can go?

Well that's a complicated question. Circulation is the biggest factor, but also environmental conditions must be taken into account : burial, salt air on coasts, poor storage (PVC), etc etc. But stored adequately, a coin's lustre will last indefinitely, though it may tone and/or fade. But it is still there, technically. As Coinery says, a shimmering but toned coin (copper/bronze) can be fully lustrous! Just make sure you store properly - PVC-free plastic flips, cabinets, trays are the best. Keep free from environmental pollutants, but don't get too hung up about lustre fading or toning. It's not the same as circulation wear, and only the money of determined but ignorant buyers will say otherwise.

Lustre is a actually a property of the prepared blank, and as you say, it imparts a reflective quality to the coin. As it wears, that special surface disappears and so the lustre gradually goes. It does vary a lot in colour, but think of it more as 'reflectivity' and you won't go far wrong (though 'colour' is generally how it appears to the eye).

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