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  1. secret santa
    Take a look at the F28s on my rarestpenny site - most of them have the dropped last 1 in the date like your picture.
  2. secret santa
    Yes, it's on most of my obverse 6s.
  3. secret santa
    A bit tenuous in my view......................
  4. secret santa
    This one's the dead give-away. Even on the most worn specimen if 1860 or 1861. Look at the big pictures on my varieties website. Easier than looking at Freeman/Gouby books.
  5. secret santa
    It's very worn but I think it may be Victoria...........
  6. secret santa
    I don't know - I bet Rob will know.
  7. secret santa
    When they featured this in the preview I emailed them and suggested they describe it as F762 which it is and, although they thanked me for my email, they ignored me ! But it's rare one and whereas Michael Gouby originally suggested it might be a "late strike for VIPs", presumably because of the inverted reverse, the article by Paul Holland in the 2017 BNJ suggests it was an early strike and from a working die rather than a proof die. Still very rare though.
  8. secret santa
    C'est la vie - it was always a possibility even though a little disappointing.
  9. secret santa
    I'm glad you're pleased with it Mike. Always nice to see a collector add to his/her collection rather than someone buying just to make some easy money !
  10. secret santa
    Pete, is there any way that you can get me the photos to add to my website ?
  11. secret santa
    Is a metal detector included ?
  12. secret santa
    An impressive and useful piece of work Mr hawk.
  13. secret santa
    Very wide 4 on that one.
  14. secret santa
    An interesting (not) dot between 1 and 8 !
  15. secret santa
    Young man, you really must get out more.............................
  16. secret santa
    why oh why did Freeman have to record F147 ??????????????????
  17. secret santa
    Thanks Mike - that was a hell of a bargain.
  18. secret santa
    Definitely - yes please. If collectors have further examples of any of the rare pennies shown, I'd appreciate details to further improve evidence of rarity.
  19. secret santa
    Mike Have I got that one on my rarest website ? R
  20. secret santa
    Thanks Declan, and Pete has just mailed me a copy so Happy Days.
  21. secret santa
    Great work Declan. Would you mind if I use your stats on 1913 pennies for my penny varieties site ?
  22. secret santa
    Don't recall seeing one but a die break shouldn't be enough to make it a particular variety (IMO)
  23. secret santa
    I do something very similar - I take high quality pics with a digital SLR and macro lens, store them on my PC and on ONEdrive (cloud) whilst keeping a duplicate set of pics reduced in size by 60% using Photostudio (from 2 or 3 megabytes to <500 Kb) on both for uploading to here or websites.
  24. secret santa
    Looks like a standard currency issue to me but I'm not an expert. When I took a holiday job in 1965 as a lorry driver's mate, we used to transport antique furniture quite often, and the shop owner used to sometimes tip us a Churchill crown which, considering that Smithfield Market would tip us sixpence, was a small fortune.
  25. secret santa
    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Victoria-bunhead-penny-dated-1671/263426088724?hash=item3d556b1f14:g:9UoAAOSwp7taU6Be Never realised Victoria was on the throne for so long !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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