secret santa

The wife's already had a go, and it's cost her a lot more than 30 quid in compensation........

link please.

Surely the hairdresser must be number 1 ????????????

On this F114 it looks as though all the date numerals have been double struck including the underlying 1 (which is logical as it's part of the die).

Might this be a 2 over 1, Mike ? Freeman states that sometimes the minutest trace of the 1 can be seen and your photo suggests something at the top of the 2.

I would be vary wary of DNW at the moment with uncatalogued lots. They have recently sold Hiram Brown's collection of copper and bronze and they parcelled many of them into multiple lots with no regard for the content. If care had been taken to catalogue the individual coins, they would probably have doubled the price paid. Your coins are almost certainly not of the same quality as Hiram's but I imagine DNW would only offer them in bulk lots.

Absolutely essential !!!!

In the process of creating my website of halfpenny varieties, I'm finding it much more difficult to differentiate between halfpenny varieties than penny varieties. Some of the differences are so slight that it must be a nightmare trying to identify worn specimens.

I believe there is a small minority who self-abuse at coin sites - the 1933 penny has a lot to answer for. I've even splashed out on the odd rarity myself.

Isn't the extra leaf (bottom left in the 3rd group) the key indicator ? i.e. Obv 7

They probably won't be able to host pre-auction viewing either which, combined with the more recent deterioration in their photography, will contribute to a huge non-event.

When I bought my Peter Nicholls coin cabinet, they also sold me a pack of paper discs about 23mm diameter on which to record details of each coin. They no longer supply these and I need more. Does anyone know of another source ?

Sorted - thanks guys.

To help pass the time, I have begun to create a new website of bronze halfpenny varieties along the lines of my penny varieties site. It is very much work in progress with much to do but if any halfpenny collectors have counted and recorded the border tooth numbers on the various obverses and reverses, I would be grateful if they would supply them to me to avoid me having to count them myself ! The website is www.halfpennyvarieties.wordpress.com Bear in mind that I have no knowledge of halfpennies (although it is beginning to develop) and so there will be numerous errors, I expect.

Done to keep vampires at bay........

Thanks Jerry - hopefully my website will help with identification !

Yes, please.

My ha'penny varieties site certainly isn't going to go down to that sub-atomic level.

I'm not sure it's in the right place.

Right, your images are now visible - I'll download it. secondly, Colin Cooke has a good set of images from the Dr Nicholson collection which I can plunder.

Elizabeth II still work in progress (as are many others). Trouble with these "modern" varieties, the auction houses don't tend to put photos up as they are not rare, and so I don't have pictorial examples of these different reverse types. Re the above comment, 2nd page of what ? (also, I can't see your images)

Try searching the Spink archive - you will waste 20 minutes of your life on what must be the worst auction archive website in the world. It has been discussed on here before but they do nothing about it.

Eureka !

Queueing ?

Onomatopoeia ?