zookeeperz

I actually misread the silver part. nickel plated steel hence the reference silver but in colour only the date was 2016 . I think everyone read the article "silver 2p found in poppy appeal box"? . http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-36530514

Received email warning from NGC today thought I would share it. Always good to be forewarned

Look at these bandits. I have been seeing a lot of hate rants on various forums about these guys. I certainly do not like the way they structure their adverts. Ambiguous at best. You think you are buying something completely different until you get further than most would read . Take a look at the 15 piece silver set @ £39.90 . I though has to be too good to be true. I kept reading and reading waiting for the hammer to fall and it did but not until the last sentence of the advert. All the while it's kidding you along this whole 15 piece set of 1 ounce silver coins is £39.90 . It even says in this set you will get 4 coins and save £30 on the first. BS it is for 1 single coin lol. https://www.bnt.org.uk/barmaids-grief-double-florin-coin £239 for that garbage totally shameful and using BNT as well which has bugger all to do with the real BNT I am sure. Only thing they will do is give the wrong impression of the good guys

Look at the date widths and how far the dates are from the edge of the coin. different style 7's closer together at the bottom 8$7 closer together at the top + that 8 on the top coin has a larger top section than the bottom on the bottom coin its other way around?

seen many of these?

Here is obverse

oooooo looks like I stuck lucky with the hammered gurus. What are these and are they worth much. I am sadly lacking in 99% of knowledge in hammered as shameful as it sounds

There is another article in which a Stamp collecting dealer poo poo's the existence of silver 2 pences struck in error. Should stick to the business he knows rather than comment as if an authority when he clearly doesn't know as much as he thinks and debunks them as myths. Plenty of articles on these coins and all verified by the royal mint . If memory serves the last one sold for £1300. I think it sometimes becomes a case of the green eyed monster because someone hasn't seen one or doesn't own one it therefore must be fake? queer as folk are sometimes. Been down that road as well lol

Need any 1932's lol?

even the reverse neg view I can't see anything?

Cany anyone see an H ? I have blown this up to 700% and can't make out an H

In the book it says maybe so who knows? But I would of thought if there was something there it would be much larger than just 2 really skinny lines?

I can see the shoot through of the 2 through the beginning of the 3's tip and the downstroke through the middle serif of the 3 but that is all I can see as in resemblance to a 2 but when I blew it up there is what looks like part of a line running through the bottom corner of the three that's why I thought it was a 1

Nope but I can see a possibility for a 1 the top right serif and there could well be a part of an upright in that bottom curve of the 3? Ahhh so that's what it looks like

Hopefully back in 2007 I had a convincing argument for them change the rules. Body bagging rare varieties with no record taken is depriving the whole coin collecting fraternity of coins they would never know about. Imagine they did it to any of the super rare varieties we have. Just because it has something deemed not fit for grading purpose because of verdigris it doesn't stop it being a coin actually minted and actually being a variety. As long as the label says what is wrong with the coin it has a rightful place in coin databases. Short version my argument then was who are they to decide what is or what is not a variety. They are there to give the coin an MOT that is all. Collectors decide what they will collect not TPG's . ultra Rare coins in any condition will be purchased by collectors . I had loads returned with some minute spot on an UNC coin with nothing to say what it was. Just ungraded in a plastic wallet. Not their place to designate what a variety is only to confirm or dismiss it being what is being sent in for.

got to be Photoshopped? Wonder if it was put on sale April 1st ?

And aptly as it is that is where my nic came from playing Takomi's Zookeeper for hours and hours

Perhaps it has something to do with the luster or patina that we cannot see. When they put these under ultra violet lights I am guessing that if it has been cleaned there will be a flat area or dull patch. The pics prob don't show it. Just my thought But it looks fine from where I sit

I know mate i went there but they are all at odds with each other so I am lost as to the next step even the Bombay mint couldn't give any information . Mind you what mints do lol

Whilst we are all here does anyone know a guru for British India coins. I been down the usual routes online sites and even the mint in bombay itself. But still cannot get a definitive answer to why there are no 1947(b) 1/2 Anna coins . I have seen 1 other than mine in 2 years. Even krause has a cryptic description " the makeup of the 1947 Bombay coin is unknown but thought to be the same as 1946" there are no mintage figures for them. I went on world of coins but they seemed to think this coin didn't exist and all 1947 were dated 1946. Unless they run a few and decided they were not needed and cancelled the rest?

Agreed to the left of where it stops it looks like its took a hit and there is still a fait outline of a curve but that could just be my peepers. But if memory serves the top part of the open 3 is shorter than his? and why is the bottom of the three missing? Or is that to hide the ball on the foot of a normal 3?. I smell a foul here

Yes I have also seen other dates that resemble RE to look at but never pushed on further mainly because if there were any we would of known by now.?

Sorry Terry I should of Put mine is a 1916 RE that resembles the tooth structure of the 1915 my bad

My RE Although to look at you would think this must of been an early strike as it resembles the 1915 more with just a bite out of the tooth?

Is he deficient in the sight department? A picture of a Britannia's Knees and a ghost picture that Could of come from anywhere. Possibly up for the award of worse pictures of the year award?