Chingford

I always look at the hard to clean features, for example small loops in letters and numbers, the majority of a coin is easy to get to and clean, but loops filled with dirt are generally a giveaway, even dipped or soaked these tend to retain the dirt/grease and would need a good eye, sharp pick and a good few hours to clean out convincingly.

I would think Christmas would have had opportunity to census coins that were collected from circulation at the end of 1860 when they were demonetized, as well as collect and use them in the years before. This knowledge was later used by Braham in his conclusions. Any personal observations by Braham could only have been from collections and not circulation.

Pecks was more a catalogue of coins in the BM, an extension of the publication, and consolidation the work of Greuber,.whereas Bramah was essentially a rewrite of Christmas whose book was not made publicly available and most of the copies were destroyed soon after his death by his family. These were surveys from general population of coins observed in circulation at the time.

I would value circa £400,

This year, slabbed MS64, PWA did the image but free for you to use

As with the 48/7 the position of the upstroke divide is right smaller, and equal. I have seen 48/7 with left smaller, but not 58/7 The other three are smaller fat 7 with tooth, without tooth and the longer slim 7 I am sure you could get more with positioning and date widths

I haven't got my collection imaged unfortunately, but the link above shows Mals collection which is complete for denominations.

Only found 14 from my list, but a couple of them are RRR, those highlighted or Green I have, the red I haven't as yet. Most if not all of my spares I sold/swapped to get others, might have one or two left, will look for you over the weekend. When Rodgers sold his Toy/Model coin collections the majority went to the Fitzwilliam and British museums, these can be viewed online, the remainder seem to have been bought in bulk by a small number of individuals, I will message you a list of people I have bought from and sold to, they maybe will have a few of the more common ones, most are active on Ebay.

CP1856 PT both large and small, OT small date only

I have messaged you a list I abstracted from Rodgers, I have been collecting theses for years, and still nowhere near finding them all. Regards John

Yes, goes back to the first Reverse die for CP1841, fault was A/A which carried through the series,

LOTR King of the dead, dead spit

Temperature, highest October on record, recorded in March, Cambridgeshire,

He is as loud and outspoken in real life as you see him on TV, I helped out at a few Showmasters Autograph fairs with my Brother a good few years back, He was signing Star wars and Flash Gordon memorabilia

Met brian blessid a couple of times, 😊

Footnote on Bramahs page 21 mentions Garside and Numismatic circular Vol XXXIII Cpl 314,

Probably the best of the twelve known to date, No REG Colon.

Victoria (1837-1901) Pattern Penny Ref 23/238 Price £3,875.00 Wt. 9.45g., 1894, obv. by T. Brock, rev. by G. W. de Saulles, in bronze, veiled bust left, normal legend, rev. Britannia seated right, large sailing ship by feet, edge plain, BMC 2065; Gouby PV; F.776 [R18]; S.3955, of the highest rarity, brilliant, toned, Exe C. W. Peck collection, sold by Spink, 1964-68 and M. J. Freeman, Christie's, 23 October 1984, (248). practically as struck

To further muddy the water, legal claims have been brought and upheld over private pension schemes were women retired at 60 and men at 65, all the men would have to be compensated for the inequality in those schemes, one case is still in court and if upheld would mean enhancement of all private schemes including those already in payment.

CP1854

Should only be at 5%, Plus service charge was about £8 with the PO

At times like this I go to the Fridge for warmth!