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Probably true, and being in possession of each of the business types, I would say that these are the kind of variety that cure my insomnia! The differences are minute and consist of nothing more than letters pointing to teeth or gaps and not much else. I'm sorry if it's anybody's 'thing' but if all varieties were like this I'd collect bottle tops. Agreed1, I have all three types in decent grade, but differences are minor and very uninteresting. The 99+ variations of ship halfpennies leave me cold too, not really enthused by anything post george V

It's a recognised variety for those of us who like such things, very rare, a specimen (graded as Fine and said to be finest known) sold for £700 here James Workman sale My example cost 45p on Ebay, which is why it's worth looking hard at the crap for certain dates David Why is the finest known only F?...nice one on the 45p coin....I've bought a few coins of which I was quite smug with...and even a few off dealers lists...a 1849 farthing in GVf for £6 ...he wasn't a farthing buff....I will have to through my sack full of pennies to see if there anything rare. Presumably cos no one has yet found a higher grade example Those of us that collect varieties have to put up with whatever grades we can get. Davuid

It's a recognised variety for those of us who like such things, very rare, a specimen (graded as Fine and said to be finest known) sold for £700 here James Workman sale My example cost 45p on Ebay, which is why it's worth looking hard at the crap for certain dates David

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super 1918KN Classic British Coins again This guy really can find the goodies!! First time I've seen the bird's foot in top grade, suspect it won't finish at 99p David

I'm the same, the only windows in my house face due east and due west. I'm getting reasonable results from my scanner, great for variety checking but my images are definitely flat . Roll on Summer, for good light, Now I've virtually retired I can give my copystand a try out with the digital camera David

Neat! I must try that

My cassette of the Hobbit always evoked the message "Bad block at 6F - rewind tape" , tnen another 10 minute wait Best machine I ever had was my Archimedes, but add ons were just too expensive Back in 1986 I bought a 286 Tandon AT for work for £1000, plus another £1000 for a 100MB hard disk. We marvelled at it saying "We'll never fill that!" David

Don't know what lighting he's using, or whether he has the colour temperature on his camera mis-set; but if you turn down the magenta in his pictures, they don't look bad

20p!!!

There was rampant inflation at the time, many blamed decimalisation, but figures show inflation was lower in the period post February than during the preceding period. Folk in Europe blamed the introduction of the Euro for rising prices. Don't know whether the figures backed this up, or it was again a way of expressing annoyence at the change David

Ditto! I used to borrow 10/- off my Mum if I was going out for the night David

Wow! Is it really that long ago. I was in Oxford then, and I remember deliberately getting the bus the bus to work (it was only 3 stops and I usually walked) so that I could get some of the new coins in my change. I also seem to recall that Lsd disappeared incredibly quickly I find youngsters gobsmacked at just how large pennies and halfcrowns were

Euro coins a bit confusing but lots of info including die varieties

Spanish coins 1474 to 1868 in Spanish but useful

Portuguese coins nice site

Decimalisation??

You've got it wrong (as does most of the country) I'm so glad someone else defends the 'leopard' truth Methinks no-one in England will ever get it right now, after that "Three Lions On My Shirt" nonsense, grrrr. They are three leopards en passant heradically speaking, as opposed to the Scottish Lion rampant (or is it guardant? Does anyone care?) Mind you, if I met a hungry big cat, I wouldn't stop too long to check out if it was a leopard or a lion Heraldic English is arcane, seems lions and leopards are interchangeable lions/leopards

I upload my pictures to photobucket then paste the IMG code here. the image code looks something like this Hope this helps David

No. They are all on Ebay

Yes, proofs are nice - I thought as a schoolboy I would NEVER be able to afford a proof, and I remember some years later buying a 1950S proof shilling and feeling ridiculously pleased with myself! It's really frustrating, but whenever people here post links to a Spink Auctions coin, the link just takes me to their home page, not the coin itself. If it takes you to the Spink home page when you click on the link -- upon returning to the forum post -- try clicking on the link a second time. Oh, that works!! What strange voodoo is this ... ? Very strange I agree, but a vary useful tip, thank you

Just got a 2010 2p in change today, anyone else spotted this year's coins yet, they normally seem to be released for the Xmas tradind

Don't worry. Not everyone collects gold, I don't have any. Nor me, I also have very few silver coins, Copper, bronze, brass etc in abundance David

I agree! I also buy prefer a holed coin in good nick to one with heavy wear, heavy cleaning I hate David

As my grandmother used to say "I'm as old as my tongue, and a little bit older than my teeth" Don't think I can beat 13 David (OAP)