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davidrj
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I Wanted To Say Hello
davidrj replied to geoffhobson's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
The link doesn't work for me is this one by James Mackay published 1978 any use? -
I Wanted To Say Hello
davidrj replied to geoffhobson's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Thanks Geoff , I'd never looked that close at the date before - but definitely filled 3s when I blow the image up Is there a reference book/site for the varieties? -
I Wanted To Say Hello
davidrj replied to geoffhobson's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
My only predecimal Manx coin - 1755 penny sadly marred by a large blob of solder -
I Wanted To Say Hello
davidrj replied to geoffhobson's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
welcome! -
Been on Ebay's support chatline - they say "We have checked further and this has been an ongoing issue on the site. Rest assured, our Technical Team area already working no this to be reoslve." edit- their mistyping not mine
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No, I only have one Ebay account, been using saved searches without problems for years without problem, pretty well essential after ebay disallowed wildcards Is this just me? can anyone else here save a search?
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Anyone else having problems with Ebay Search? Ebay wont let me save any search, even though I've deleted all my old ones - I'm using Firefox 25.0.1?
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Collectors Coins Great Brit. 2014
davidrj replied to Chris Perkins's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
But then the 2p & 20p mules are both certainly accidental - should they be excluded? Taxonomy is always an imperfect discipline -
Goose is in the oven; spuds.parsnips, sprouts etc ready to go time for a drink! Merry Christmas everyone
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Christmas & New Year.
davidrj replied to tubandpud's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
Quiet in here today! have you all started on the 12yr old malt already? Merry Xmas everybody and may you fill some of those annoying gaps in your collection in 2014 David -
got this in change today looks like a coated copper blank
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Probably throughout history, when economic times are bad, silver and gold disappears under mattresses
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Collectors Coins Great Brit. 2014
davidrj replied to Chris Perkins's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
confusing terminology gets in the way when discussing date widths in pennies the "narrow" dates for 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, & 1879 are distinctly different dies from the "normal" or "large date" bun pennies - I prefer "small" date - using "wide" and "narrow" as descriptors for variation of date width for a specific die the former should be in the price guides, the latter not in my view edit: Just noted Accumulators post above -
Is this the silliest moustache ever? Italy 10 Centesimi 1894 BI (Heaton)
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answering my own question "A Numismatic History of the Birmingham Mint" James O Sweeny 1981 still unknown mintage though
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Collectors Coins Great Brit. 2014
davidrj replied to Chris Perkins's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Just ordered my copy - has to be ink on paper for me -
and another Latin American 28.9 mm 11.86g cupro-nickel pattern 1 real or Honduras 1870 - mint unknown but probably either Paris or London who were both experimenting with cupro-nickel as an alternative to bronze at this time (Paris produced the currency 1 real for 1869 & 1870, London starts the cupro-nickel penny series for Jamaica in 1869) happy with this on at £10, I was searching for an upgrade to my poor copy of the currency type
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Historical Past - Family Tree!
davidrj replied to Coinery's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
They will, once their own kids start asking questions. My grandchildren love looking at old photos from the "black & white days" -
Another "penny" Ecuador 1872 2 centavos by Heaton, single year type, mintage unknown but probably less than 500,000, hard to find Does anyone know if there is a searchable achive for what Messrs Heaton actually produced in the second half of the 19th century?
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Amazon
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I went from collecting pennies from change. ( Date run, but NOT all varieties completed long long ago (though many are in cr*p grade)0 - to foreign pennies and penny sized coins I just need one to complete my French bronze 10 centimes date/mint run (1853-1921) - the 1878 K ... very rare & pricey assuming you can find one Nowadays I tend to buy what appeals to me at the time, most likely still to be large copper/bronze though
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Just pulled 3 2013 2 pence from my pocket change - looking to pick one to keep[ One is normal, the other two have approx 120 degree die rotation, ie with obverse normal at 12 o'clock, the reverses are about 8 o'clock A sample of 2 out of 3 not a good statistical sample as they could well all have come out the same mint bag does this happen often these days?
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it's actually worse than I thought - two different die rotations! these three 2 pence carefully positioned on the scanner with the tops of the shields aligned with a ruler as best I could the other shield twopences I have (not 2013) all appear normal be interested to see whether this sloppiness at the Mint is normal for this issue - check your change please folk
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1864 Victoria Penny
davidrj replied to RLC35's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Nice one Bob! -
Not got a clue on this copper - can anyone help? 3.8mm thick, 27.2-27.6mm diameter, 16.76 g ? Indian native stae or central Asia - one of the 3 scripts looks vaguely Russian