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secret santa
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Missing Waves
secret santa replied to secret santa's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Surely it must be caused by something a bit more robust than grease ? The power with which a die strikes a blank would drive grease out of its way ? -
Missing Waves
secret santa replied to secret santa's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Is a picture of the whole reverse available Terry ? -
Missing Waves
secret santa replied to secret santa's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Umm. I'm not sure I'd include that one on the basis of that photograph. -
Just emailed it to you.
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Penny Acquisition of the week
secret santa replied to Paulus's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
No thanks, just the close-up of the date, which I've downloaded now. -
Mike, I can email you a scan.
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Penny Acquisition of the week
secret santa replied to Paulus's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Cliff, I've started to build a page of copper penny date styles - can I use your picture please ? -
Next day tracked delivery - consequential loss fee enhancement
secret santa replied to 1949threepence's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
I wish I'd known that before. I've just entered the tracking no. into Parcelforce and there was a complete history. Apparently they issued customs charges in September (which I never received) and eventually sent it back to the US because the customs fees weren't paid. What a cock-up ! -
Next day tracked delivery - consequential loss fee enhancement
secret santa replied to 1949threepence's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
No, I sold it for what I paid for it. I'm not in coin collecting to make money. -
Next day tracked delivery - consequential loss fee enhancement
secret santa replied to 1949threepence's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
On a slightly different note, but still worth noting in the current climate, is that I bought a golf club from the USA a couple of months ago. The USPS tracking data shows it to be delivered to a "facility" in the UK on 5th October. However, it's not possible to contact USPS to find out more details and so this is another non-delivered item. These are (relatively) dangerous times to be mailing items. -
Next day tracked delivery - consequential loss fee enhancement
secret santa replied to 1949threepence's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
No, I sensibly insured it for the price I sold it - ~£2350 -
Next day tracked delivery - consequential loss fee enhancement
secret santa replied to 1949threepence's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Special Delivery is what I used when the Royal Mail lost my rare 1862/1 penny recently (see thread on that subject) - I did at least get refunded. -
The A of BRITANNIAR for those of you that are interested.
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Stuff to Make Us Laugh
secret santa replied to Madness's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
From the Daily Mail this week: I saw on display in a Pet Shop an animal described as an "Amsterdam cat" so I went in and asked "how Dutch is that moggy in the window ?" -
Customs Charges - how random are they?
secret santa replied to 1949threepence's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Have you been charged 20% or the correct 5% ? -
Penny Acquisition of the week
secret santa replied to Paulus's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Great find - always nice to find a second example of a rarity to prove that it was a genuine strike and not a man-made variety. I'll add this to my website. -
Retention of DNA from covid 19 swab tests???
secret santa replied to 1949threepence's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
I've always felt that this must be the case given the way that different nations/races get affected. There must be a reason why some apparently "healthy" people under 50 in this country were so badly affected. -
More likely a partially filled reverse die in my opinion. A worn die will have the highest parts worn down which would cause the incuse parts of the coin to be weak, and even on the highest quality 1860/59 pennies the left breast is usually flat whereas the rose etc at the bottom is usually fairly sharp.
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Retention of DNA from covid 19 swab tests???
secret santa replied to 1949threepence's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
They'll only work if people follow basic rules of common sense, and we've seen and heard enough to know that there's too many of the population who will ignore them. -
Pete, could you mail me pics please. Thanks R
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Record your lost or stolen coins here.
secret santa replied to jelida's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
What's a sticky post, please ? -
I would certainly be very happy to add many more of the variations that you have posted previously (bringing the posts together would be ideal) and I agree that it would be perfect if a new naming convention could be agreed among a few specialists, perhaps along the lines of CP9999AA as per Gouby's bronze penny convention.
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Ian, you must seriously consider making all your many hours of work on copper pennies available to the numismatic community in some way.
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Interestingly, my large rose penny seems to have this obverse including die crack.
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Gouby 2020 Additions & Amendments
secret santa replied to Cliff's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Just heard from Michael that he'd sent 2 update packs to Gary Schindler in the States but when they arrived with Gary, the packet had been broken open and packets of sweets substituted for the updates ! Can you imagine the mentality of the person did that ? Michael is understandably distraught and this is yet another unfortunate experience that he's had sending things to the US. He has vowed never to ship to the US again and who can blame him ?
