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Everything posted by davidrj
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Victorian penny set
davidrj replied to coinkat's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
I have to admit to being a date set collector, but I am old enough to have completed the penny one of each date set from circulation, all bar the 1951 ( I bought one a couple of years ago) It's when you start trying to get all the varieties that the fun starts -
Something not right about this ebay penny
davidrj replied to Bernie's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Three more fake bun pennies here and in seller's other listings, though these are all listed as forgeries -
Something not right about this ebay penny
davidrj replied to Bernie's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Fake for me -
another dangerous modern fake, 1933 penny
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Can I second that in spades! on 20 September I fell at home, getting my leg tangled in furniture, leading to a fracture of the distal femur just above the knee. I was in hospital until just before Xmas, and I am still non weight bearing, so sleeping downstairs and walking with a Zimmer All the NHS staff were brilliant, and I mean all , not just doctors and nurses, also the physios, OTs, porters, cleaners etc. The main problem they were all working long shifts and there was gross understaffing. I saw staff in tears due to frustration they couldn't give the level of care they thought patients needed. So I am still receiving treatment, I need to go back in shortly for a marrow treatment to encourage new bone growth.
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I use Gouby for my bronze pennies, but include Freeman in brackets in the label. Hopefully a revised renumbered "Son of Freeman" will appear in the future for us to use as a reference, time moves on, who still uses Peck numbers for bronze?
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It might do, if anyone needs the birds foot flaw variety
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The reverse dies of GVI pennies - a reappraisal
davidrj posted a topic in Confirmed unlisted Varieties.
The standard works on George VI pennies list three reverses:- A - The sea level on the right extends to the centre of a border tooth; the upright limbs of N in ONE point to teeth (5 teeth from limb to limb); the exergual line consists of a large raised line with a very fine second line below it - 1937 only B - Similar to Reverse A except that the sea level on the right now extends to just above a border tooth; the two upright limbs of N in ONE both points to a gap; there are 4 complete teeth between the limbs. - 1937 to 1940 (the 1940 with reverse B is usually referred to as "single exergue line" C - Similar to Reverse B except that the exergual line is in lower relief – 2 fine lines separated by an incuse groove; the waves just above the exergue have been retouched and are now separate from the exergual line. - This reverse was used from 1940 to 1951. - the 1940 with reverse C is referred to as "double exergue line" C* - Is the notation used by both Groom, and the new Freeman to describe the variety of the 1944 penny with the terminal 4 pointing to the centre of a wave. Although recut waves are cited for C* , both references list reverse C for dates 1945-1951. I propose that C* is significantly different from C to warrent it's redefinition as die D. The exergue lines are now clearly double, making them much easier to see than on the 1940 & 1944 reverse C. The waves are sharply recut and are clear of the exergue lines. This die is used 1944 to 1951. I would argue that the 1944 varieties are not a trivial date width variation but two distinct dies -
A rare 1927 penny - Link
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Merry Christmas everybody! ??
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Do we know whether coins were treated with hypo after striking, or were they struck on pretreated blanks? If the latter, it may purely be a case of a different supplier of the bronze blanks.
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Guide to Chinese brass cash coins http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/china8.htm#hsien
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I regard scanning stuff on Ebay as the same as sifting through 5/- bags of pennies in the 60s, OK so 99.9% is crap - but the fun of spotting something unnoticed is still there
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A few years ago I was the underbidder on an apparent 1911 Gouby X, A few days later I got a "second chance" offer which I accepted thinking the original purchaser had backed out. I accepted the offer and got a standard 1911 by return of post. The seller wasn't evil or bad, just uneducated in coin varieties - so long as we are talking trivial amounts, I think we just have to accept the reality that 90% of ebay sellers haven't a clue
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Hope not, but I had a run in with him a while back for a dodgy description, he blocked my attempt to buy this one today. Fingers crossed for you
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Edit facility seems to have disappeared for me
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It was an 1875 cannonball
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I'll wait a day or so to see if anyone on here bought it (only two other bidders). If no show I'll put pictures up in the penny thread
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True. My bid was three figure though
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Sitting watching a penny for 9 days with a starting price of £7.99, put a sensible & fair snipe at 6 seconds to go, and being beaten at 5 seconds by £2 Being underbidder is the story of my life these days
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The reverse dies of GVI pennies - a reappraisal
davidrj replied to davidrj's topic in Confirmed unlisted Varieties.
But the C* 1944 has two clear raised lines -
The reverse dies of GVI pennies - a reappraisal
davidrj replied to davidrj's topic in Confirmed unlisted Varieties.
Wow! I seem to have stirred the pot, no bad thing I share everyone's frustration with the 1940s. I have a heavilly circulated "single" that I've been trying to upgrade, having bought several which looked good on the pictures, all turned out to be "double" - I couldn't understand why the double exergue was so obvious to see on later coins but not on 1940; 1944s were not on my radar due to the date spacing difference. So I started looking to see if other pointers existed and came to the conclusion, to my satisfaction at least, that die C is only used for late 1940 and early 1944, and may be regarded as a transitional stage between B and C* (my D) David -
The reverse dies of GVI pennies - a reappraisal
davidrj replied to davidrj's topic in Confirmed unlisted Varieties.
Pennies 1944 - 1951 - all with recut waves -
Sadly there are far too many folk recognising unattributed varieties these days I was following this too and put in a tentative (failed) snipe on the off-chance it wasn't spotted, didn't go further as it was not a real improvement on my existing example. There's a newly listed one on Ebay here
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Agreed, I'm struggling to capture this, the image on the left below is what sparked my interest - taken from the seller's image (not listed as anything special) And interesting variety, similar to the better known BP 1862 F extra plumes, not convinced either are repairs, more likely clashed dies