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How about this one ?

I'd not seen that - many thanks for the link. Really interesting. Richard

My 1970 edition contains the numbers you mention. No mention of missing H and I don't think there's a later edition ?

Michael Gouby has recently sent me pictures of an 1860 F10 with an interesting variation on the reverse. There are 2 additional lines to the border of St Andrew's cross in the top left quadrant of Britannia's shield. They seem to be too accurately placed to be the result of a die clash and Michael has asked collectors to check their reverse D pennies for any further instances. I have checked all mine and can't find any. Michael (and I) will be interested to learn of any additional examples.

An 1882 F115 with apparently no H was sold by London Coins in 2014

But it can be difficult to distinguish exact obverse/reverse on very worn specimens.

£4,500 plus commission

Just watched the unc 1882 F112 sell for £30,000 plus commission !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lovely coin - good buy.

Brilliant - thanks

Can someone provide me with a link to this article please. I have just uploaded photos of almost all the J Moore patterns to my varieties website.

Thanks to Bernie, I picked up an average 1895 wide date recently on Ebay. Not wonderful but a reasonably interesting example of 1895Bb which Gouby describes as scarce.

Thanks, although I have neglected it through the summer. If anyone has additions/corrections etc I shall have plenty of time in the winter to update it.

Absolutely right Mike - that's why I posted it !!!

One thing's for sure - you can't make a decision on whether a coin is bronzed from a photograph. See the photos below of the same coin: LCA (top pic) and NGC (lower pic) both describe the coin as bronzed copper. My own photo shows a very patchy colour, unlike the consistent finish that Rob describes. So, is this bronzed or not ?

Please let me know if it's as good as it sounds and I'll get a copy to update my halfpenny site.

I've never knowingly downloaded restoro and a search with File Explorer doesn't find it so it's still mysterious. Malwarebytes says it blocked it rather than deleted it. I'll read your link later, Mike - thanks for that.

Even weirder - I have downloaded Malwarebytes and run a scan and although it didn't find anything, it seems to have cured the problem in all browsers - but time will tell. Actually, I've found that it blocked a website called restoro.com which "appears to be malicious" - maybe that's the cause ?

This is weird - 24 hours on and Firefox has now slowed to a standstill like the other browsers. It must be a virus.

I have now installed the Firefox browser which is so far working perfectly which suggests to me that a virus has somehow infected both Chrome and Edge although as I said before, McAfee scans don't find any issues. Strange !!!

IIRC ?

Onedrive is using nearly 30% CPU; nothing else reaches double figures & most are zero.

What should I be looking for - something that takes all the CPU or something that takes all the memory ?

McAfee scan shows no issues.

Today, from nowhere, my browsers have virtually slowed to a halt. When typing from the keyboard, each character takes at least a second to appear on the screen. There is not a problem typing into a Word document. Similarly, it takes several seconds to open a new tab in either Chrome or Edge. The scroll wheel on the mouse is similarly delayed in action which makes the sizing of images on a web page impossible. A broadband check shows that speed is unaffected. The PC has become unusable. Any advice out there ?