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  1. secret santa

    1897 Type 3 Open 9?

    You're right and I've now found it but it's a PDF and too big to attach.
  2. secret santa

    1897 Type 3 Open 9?

    I think I remember Peter Andrew buying a lot from LCA (Elstree collection ?) which included a document regarding 1897 variations. He sent me a copy but I've saved it to somewhere that I can't find !
  3. secret santa

    1863 colons

    I agree with Jerry. It's quite easy on worn coins to convince oneself that something is not as it should be, but collectibility is in the eye of the beholder although, as Jerry says, it is best to confirm genuine oddities on coins in EF or better condition (assuming one can find them - but if you can't, it probably means that they are not worth recording).
  4. secret santa

    LCA December

    Catalogues won't be out for a little while.
  5. secret santa

    1863 Open 3 Revisited

    Actually, ignore that, it's not always true !!!
  6. secret santa

    1863 Open 3 Revisited

    No - a useful guide is that the top of the curved part of the 3 is just about level with the top of the curved part of the 6 on open 3 varieties but lower on normal varieties.
  7. secret santa

    Sad News

    Desperately sad to lose a fellow lover of coins.
  8. secret santa

    One Penny 1860 Help!

    Here are the pictures of Louise's 1860 penny.
  9. The waves are the clue - clear daylight between base of waves and double exergue.
  10. secret santa

    1861 Penny anything there?

    Pareidolia........................
  11. secret santa

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    Thanks Mike - fascinating and very relevant to numismatics !
  12. secret santa

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    That's not in my dictionary, Jerry - is it an obscure Welsh word ?
  13. secret santa

    Pennies

    If you haven't got it, buy "The Standard Guide To Grading British Coins" (from Predecimal). It nicely describes and illustrates the grades (states of wear) on all the major obverses and reverses. Every design has its high point of relief which shows wear first, and on George V obverses it's around the eye and top of ear which wears first, reducing it to EF as in your 1934 penny.
  14. secret santa

    More Pennies

    My mate Bernie Workman will be most upset !!!!!
  15. secret santa

    Penny 1861

    Yup, F33. Take a look at my varieties website (below) to help with identifying obverse/reverse varieties.
  16. secret santa

    More Pennies

    I believe that they are probably scarce rather than rare. The more we discuss them, the more people will check their own coins and the more will emerge from the woodwork. That's been true of the 1863 open 3, the 1903 open 3 and the 1911 hollow neck.
  17. I think you are slightly undervaluing them given recent sale prices.
  18. secret santa

    More Pennies

    Liam Could put the obverse up as well or PM me a photo and I'll add it to the website although they're coming out of the woodwork so fast that it may prove to be not so rare as I thought. Richard
  19. Fancy finding 2 rare English pennies in Bulgaria !!!
  20. I have now added this coin to my website - I hope this is OK with you Voynov ?
  21. secret santa

    Can you identify this please ?

    That's because they are !
  22. secret santa

    Can you identify this please ?

    Many thanks for the responses to this.
  23. secret santa

    Can you identify this please ?

    Thanks Rob - who's the baby ? (BM = British Museum ?) Was it issued in 1897 ?
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