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Couldn't let it go just an upgrade to my ongoing albeit snail like full set of brass threepences in unc. Will need to save a few sheckles eventually swap out the 46 and 49. but this will do for now for £8 I think I bagged a bargain. couple of tiny greens to deal with but a cracking coin far better than the standard dross.

looks like a crude medusa type creature on the right if you rotate it back anti-clockwise Head,body and tail ? and either something representing the devil like a horned minotaur?

Almost erased fodder

That is a corker sir!!!

Yes it's my own fault for not reading the reverses properly. It's even worse with the half pennies. Be ok on mint condition coins in your hand under magnification but for all that description it is wasted on actually identifying anything from online coins. I've lost my mojo . Now I see something of interest and ignore it as it is probably not even a coin and a lump of coal lols

There is treasure there Craigy . I have been watching the series on TV called The British. How we were shaped from ancient druids thru roman britain and so on. When the romans left britain all the rich folk stashed their valuables and hid them in fields. Being a super sleuth I would look for easy rememberable landmarks or certain tree locations that would stand out as a memory jogger . In case they forgot where they buried the stuff. You know they had that "safe place" back then too . If I was there I would cast my mind back and imagine it was me worrying about all those gold coins and jewellry I had and would be looking for somewhere to bury them. Weather this is true or not my memory tells me that the amount of ancient Artifacts found represents about 1% of what is actually under the ground or in places yet to be discovered. Get ya diviner out if all else fails you might find water I wish I had a detector I am on the main road from london to colchester as was back in their day . I would be banging on the farmers doors asking if I could buzz the fields

I though LCGS were strict on grading but this lot hold the crown for now. I am glad it never came back to me graded F-15. Retribution would of been sought These people have no business being in coin grading that is for sure. I guess an MS-70 they would grade XF-45 with a note on the label saying "looked to good to be true" lols https://www.ebay.com/itm/UK-Great-Britain-1862-Half-Penny-England/321968111252

yes I see it now oh well back to the naffing drawing board lmao. ty guys

Blue if you don't mind

Morning folks. I bought this 1929 florin. it's such a nice coin . Great strike and just dripping with lustre . But there is some really strange pattern underlying the whole coin almost like a butterfly wing effect in each section where the shield isn't present and a strange looking C at the top right quarter. Any ideas what has caused this? is it something in the design or on a wrong planchet? any help most appreciated

On my 1922 threepence all of ADVANCE AUSTRALIA and the date is Doubled die which is a true DD not repunched as you can see the notching on the serifs like on the 2 they are notched bottom left on the angle and the top where the 2 starts same for the 9 tail and 1. I have looked for others for a good few years after I found this one. Always nice to fly under the radar for a while but then it becomes frustrating when it feels like you are the only one who has one lol which I very much doubt.

Heavens no. I'd slit my wrists first

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GREAT-BRITAIN-1826-1-4d-FARTHING-PCGS-MS63BN/273173774393 Shocking tbh I would of thought with that amount of damage to the edges they would of called it a details coin. I mean an innocuous edge knock is one thing but when it's been in the hands of a panel beater it's a stretch too much I think

it looks same as picture under the loupe. If it was incised wouldn't it break the cartwheel lustre on the parts that were etched? because this looks as it was when it left the mint. There is also other design markings under the shields and on cross points of the sceptres . The obverse looks like it could possibly of been double struck as the patterns to the left of G's face looks like and inverted profile rotated? The design itself isn't like something you would do yourself.The pattern is uneven and has different layers not like someone etching a wing shape in to the coin if you get me. the shapes look to be at different depths. akin to something being struck deeper in one section and lighter in others. I have not seen anything like it before. And around the design elements the brown fluid like substance looks to have been trapped during the annealing process and not washed out as it is local to that design point. The kings head has no fluid residue at all or any trace of it ever having any.

Those areas that look like mirror images of themselves side by side are raised just very slightly almost as if the fluid has settled in the incuse valley and hi-lighted the shapes which are identical in each segment. Impossible to know what is beneath the main design as nothing can be seen. it's entirely possible that it could be the original design that never quite struck correctly and just left the slightest imprint and the at a different angle struck completely? stranger things have happened at sea.? Why they always seem to happen at sea is a mystery to me though

with a whimsical undertone I found a line but it's on the right hand side of the lighthouse. I also found some strange defect at the top of the lighthouse making look like the outer stairwell they have that are always used for fight scenes in movies . Also a fingerish flaw? Perhaps from a person of restricted height And a lonely mouse swimming off to join the navy

I remember when google sent you where you wanted to go straight away with 1 or 2 alternatives. Now any word in a sentence is a link to the beyond of god knows where. It's absolutely crap now worthless tool.

what it look like Peck? do you have a Piccy?

They seek em here they seek em there 1881 4 berries Farthing I thought i'd share.

Incuse wave? Oh no here we go again. Out with the Pennies lols. all good fun. Great Info Hawk nice 1 Richard