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  1. secret santa
    Can anyone tell me how I can change the background of a coin photo to black as above ? It certainly seems to enhance the picture.
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    Well, it was Jerry's photographic memory and the 1926 ME is not on my rare penny site, but otherwise, spot on, Eric 😄
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    Pete, do you know if the photos were taken with the coins on that black background or whether the background was blackened later ?
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    Totally agree.
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    All these minor differences; are they new varieties or not - perhaps we need a VAR for coins ???
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    I don't want to pick a fight or even start a lengthy debate but, if we define a classic "variety" as being a particular die-pairing of a unique obverse design with a unique reverse design, thereby becoming a unique combination of obverse and reverse, then F164A fits slap bang into that definition.
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    Strange that Freeman didn't know about its existence between 1969 and 1978 - make the DNW provenance of "discovery coin" a little less important ?
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    Often called the "crow's foot" this die clash occurs on many dates - this one is an 1877.
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    That's why they call it a "modified effigy".
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    Well spotted Gents - I put this up on my website without thoroughly checking. Shame on me !
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    Nice one Mike - I need one like this. By the way, if you would crop your photos, you'd save me hours😀
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    I suspect they'll get added over the next few days.
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    A lot of new specimens of some real rarities - I wonder whose collection it was ?
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    where do the photos come from Pete ?
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    I voted to leave but the biggest threat to us now is a Corbyn government rather than staying in the EU.
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    Boris could end up with the shortest tenure ever.
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    Boris or Jeremy ? The circus starts again today.
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    Unlike politicians, the teeth never lie - reverse A
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    My own 1877 F90 originally went up at 99p so I immediately contacted the vendor to tell him it was worth thousands and not to accept a tempting cash offer. Wound up driving up to Derby to inspect the coin before paying an arm and a leg for it !
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    Julie Etchingham - she's lovely. Reads our news at 10 on ITV quite often.
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    Shyster !!!!!!!!!!!!! I messaged them after they put up the first 1877 "narrow date" to correct them and, when they didn't, I threatened to message Ebay at which stage they replied that their (I don't know their gender) father had just died and they hadn't had time. This may be true but I suspect not.
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    Sadly, I have to locate, and put on, reading glasses to operate a mobile phone. This trend to do more and more with one's mobile phone drives me to distraction. I don't normally carry reading glasses around with me but soon I'll have to have them grafted to my face.
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    Talking of coins not being what they purport to be, I see our old friend Lukasz has come up with another rarity - he certainly finds more than his fair share. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Victoria-Penny-1862-Struck-In-Silver-RARE/333252930899?hash=item4d976c2d53:g:pFAAAOSwug5dGQJJ
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