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The exergue reads; ERECTED TEMP HEN 6 ie the building portrayed was erected in Henry VI’s reign. Jerry

Over the last four months, the only one that still shows is the 1904 ( listed by forum member Coinery ). I tend to photograph new acquisitions in batches, hence intervals between posting on these pages. Jerry

Here are a few of my recent acquisitions, the F169 is the Baldwins one, cheap enough at a bit over £500, the rest are from Ebay, a tenner for the Gouby X, less for the 1875 cannonball and 1860 Gouby G with very close colon dots. And I always said date spacings didn't float my boat but was tempted by the 1904 with 4 over tooth -just about- it is not exactly the same as the variation shown in Groom but either way seems scarce. Jerry

I’m still going with normal 3. The angle between the top serif and the diagonal is just not tight enough- the inner angle of the (large) top serif on its right and the angle of the diagonal should be closely aligned. And the lower half of the 3 is too indistinct to prove anything. I can’t see this coin gaining traction......except possibly on LCA, where the 1862/1 they are touting looks dubious in the extreme to me. Jerry

It’s so difficult with the wear. The most focussed picture is the top one, and on the basis of that one I would say normal 3. But the less focussed pics could suggest a narrow 3. On balance I would say no, with the proviso that I might change my mind in the hand with angled lighting and a loupe! Jerry

Yes, the P is to a tooth. The narrower rim also confirms reverse A. Jerry

Yes, it’s a decent example. I had spotted it too a couple of weeks ago- I think it did a complete cycle without a bite- but as I have a better example and am SKINT I left it. It was very good of Pete to think of another member here, HAT OFF Pete well done. Jerry

I think this may be a Friday afternoon coin too. MS 67 with all those bag marks? I wouldn’t want it. And the starting price at a European auction is 750 Euro. Fat chance. https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=3295&lot=8765 Jerry

I tend to use the comparison scale at the back of London Coin Auction catalogues which equates Fine as Sheldon 30 and GF as Sheldon 40. I find it overall a reasonable comparison, markflorida quotes it above. But then I frequently disagree, though usually to a fairly minor extent, with third party assigned grades and of course the coin not the slab takes priority. I have total empathy with Robs acceptability criteria. Only last week I removed a NGC MS 65 Victorian penny from its slab to remove a tiny (and thankfully superficial) fleck of active verdigris, you have to be so watchful even of a slabbed collection. I much prefer capsules. Jerry

Well, this is the response I've just had from this idiot. I have sent him a further slightly stronger message which I wont publish 🤐 😁. Perhaps others might like to message him too! iv had everything evaluated and been advised in detail on the value and specs of each item , if your not interested in purchasing it then I do not see the need to message me , iv seen the 'site' were coin collectors get together and bitch about peoples items and I find it rather pathetic and have reported various members , it would be a good idea just to mind your own business instead of concerning yourself with mine. many thanks Reply Your previous message Hi, that isn’t an F169 penny, but the ordinary 1909. If you look at the London Coin Auction coin you picture and took the details from you will see that the 1 of the date points directly to a border tooth, whereas yours points to a gap. Jerry All good fun! Jerry

Likewise.

Hi Dave, yes, House and barns are listed, grade 2, but we found Historic England and the planning department sympathetic to our wishes as fundamentally these involved undoing unsympathetic works from the seventies and restoration of original, so out with plasterboard and stud walls and in with wattle, lime and oak. A mate and I did everything apart from specialist plumbing and electrical work, the latter involving lots of wireless switching and the former some fancy kit such that the total bills for both together came to over 50k. The Historic England inspector declares the house to have originated as a late C15 Hall house, on the basis of smoked roof timbers supposedly from a central open fireplace, originally entirely oak framed but evolving through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the stone staired, massive fireplace and stone encased structure now standing. Jerry

Well, the building on the far left in the pics contains several dozen early valve amplifiers from Leak, Quad, Pye, Pamphonic and many others, a dozen Quad ESL57, Lowther, Kef, Spendor and other speakers, valve testers and vintage TV’s and radios, you can hardly move! And valves by the hundred if not thousand. I used to be as obsessed by audio as I am now by coins, and still have an active interest. I bought a nice early Naim pre/power combo in a local auction on Tuesday, currently on the bench awaiting new caps, led’s etc. A lot of things are on a back burner at the moment including renovation of a couple more series land rovers- I am due for fusion of four cervical vertebrae with decompression of multi-level cervical spinal stenosis on 10th July (if there is a hospital bed), and at present my limb power and co-ordination is significantly reduced. I can barely walk to the pub! So I have to keep practicing. Jerry

I was looking through Santa’s “heads ‘n tails” site earlier and the “ inverted V for A in Victoria “ obverse Freeman 10 caught my eye. As Santa asks, does it exist? As a true variety, I think not. Certainly F10 pennies with an absent bar to the A do exist, but I feel it is highly likely they simply represent die fill for the following reason. The working dies used to strike coins of a particular design can be used in their hundreds depending on die longevity and coin demand, and will themselves each be struck from the master die. The master die includes the lettering on the coin, though not necessarily all the digits. Master dies can last years preparing many hundreds of working dies depending on demand. Freeman obverse 2 exhibited mal-alignment of the letters in BRITT, a master die or hub issue transferred to many working dies. Look how long the Freeman obverse 6 master with the flawed colon after D:G: lasted- years! The point I am making is that an obverse 2 working die could not have been made with an absent A unless that featured on the master, which is unlikely. Therefore there would be no need to erroneously enter the A on the working die using an inverted V punch, the bar of the A can only disappear through die fill, and an absent bar cannot be taken as evidence of use of a V punch any more than the absent bar of the E in an ONF penny implies use of an F punch. Both these are spurious varieties. The majority of the true minor varieties that we see are are the result of something added rather than something absent, re-engraving of design or erroneous letter or number repair while trying to prolong die life. Or indeed sometimes deliberate overstrikes to the date for re-use in later years. Opinions please! Jerry

Not at all, Terry 😇, it just goes back to what I said before, these are simply appropriate die repairs, equivalent of the use of an ‘L’ in repairing an ‘E’ or an ‘I’ in repairing a ‘T’ as shown in Gouby without specific varietal status, and not, as some would have, an ‘inverted V for A’. Not that it is impossible these exist, just that most supposed examples are demonstrably not, as the one above. While I do also gather these interesting die repairs in my collection I don’t consider them a true variety........yet. Perhaps a general consensus as to their varietal status would persuade me regarding these ‘alternative letter punch ‘ repairs. Jerry

Here are a couple of pics of our place after 2 years of renovation. Got to start on the barns next. The wildflower meadow in front of the house gets cut from late July, its a mass of fritillaries, cowslips, primulas etc in the spring. Jerry

Well done, Mike, the F38 was good value. I was shocked by the F76 making £410, very worn and dented, I had thought of a punt at about a ton! The F9 was also pricey, a tolerable VG at £1100 or thereabouts, I had thought half that would have a chance, it doesn’t compare that well with a couple of LCA offerings of the last few years. I can wait for examples of both of those. An interesting collection albeit lower grade, will have taken some effort to put together. Jerry

I doubt it, I emailed him last week about his fake 1844 crown, he insisted it came from a “professional numastic auction hence verified”, so I sent him links which he said he would compare but the coin is still there. Perhaps if others messaged him about these coins he might take notice, but he has quite a number of likely fake milled silver (USA, China) that he is trying to sell and I suspect he knows they are not kosher. Jerry