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I think it's also a generational thing, a new tranche of collectors now have no experience of pre decimal UK coinage, and are taking an interest in change in their pocket so we get threads like this one on decimal pennies, or a recent thread in another forum on 2p varieties. If and when a future author produces a detailed work on the decimal issues listing these and other varieties, interest will be engendered and new discoveries may well be made We still await a fully comprehensive study of George V pennies

I think that's another wide one, we are talking micro-varieties here, I tried searching my stache of duplicates with a loupe and quickly lost the will to live, my scan below of 1918 KN varieties shows the very slight difference in the N relative to border beads, very difficult on worn examples

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This one came up as a suggested alternative to the link above 1918 penny different rock looks like a interesting filled die to me, but don't think I'll be shelling out £199.99 to examine it more closely.

It,s one of those oddities of collecting, this one doesn't appear in Freeman or Gouby, and is only in Peck as a footnote, so tends to be ignored, whilst the 1897 and 1946 dot pennies are far less dramatic but attract a premium as they appear in listings. I think definitely a die clash I wonder if anyone has looked to see whether the bird's foot occurs with both the wide and narrow KN types, both your coin and mine are wide KN

Awful news. Sincere condolences David

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Here's a detailed image I emailed the editors of "Le Franc" at CGB and got this reply "Dear Sir, We thank you a lot for this information. We got once that coin with the reversed shell... but we didn't notice it. Can we publish the photo of your coin in one of our next "Bulletin Numismatique" to present your discovery, and so we will ask if somebody else have a similar coin ? I wish you a nice day. Best Regards" A speedy and honest response!!! If only Spink were as accomodating

Of course a completionist is never happy with the grades of all dates, so I've been looking to upgrade my 1853 MA 10 centimes Another difficult one with a mintage of just 1,009,338, and I came accross this one for €20 on Ebay a reasonable price but no improvement on grade, until I noticed the Marseillles mintmaster's mark of a scallop shell is inverted - an unrecorded variety cont below ...

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I've just spent $20 on a truly horrible coin, but it filled my last gap in the series of French bronze 10 centime pieces (1852-1921) The 1878 K Bordeaux mint has a recorded mintage of 100,000, but probably the vast majority were dated 1877, and is the rarest of the series (Ok there is a very rare variety of 1897 - 3 known) much harder to find than the 1871 K (mintage 26,500) and catalogues at €150 on Good (B10) I tend to buy interesting coins by type these days, but at heart I guess I'm still the one trying to fill all the gaps in my Whitman folders

given that we have evidence a series of trial die pairings involving "normal" obverse and reverse dies with both the "1927" type obverse and the modified effigy reverse over the period 1922-6, the existence of a trial obverse die dated 1924 later reused with a 6 punch is not beyond the realms of possibility.

see http://www.predecimal.com/forum/topic/8353-1922-penny-reverse-of-1927/#entry94002, Bernie mentions the 1926 variants

weak date figures are very common on early buns, die wear or clogged dies

I got a farthing in change 12 months ago

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Why would anyone slab this????? a £5 coin at most

A good summary of post decimalisation Sterling Area coins & banknotes here

The Leek, thistle & shamrock look naturalistic, so why a heraldic rose? looks odd to me

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A bit of skillful alteration here? from the waves I would think one of the earlier years of QEII pennies

That looks like a design drawing rather than the coin, which hopefully may be better

a nice find! see article here

Another single year type bronze "penny" USSR 5 Kopeck 1924