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Good luck with the test Richard , and get well soon. Terry

I must confess I didn't won't to show my ignorance but , JB ???

I would have said the penny is a 9+j F97A. Victoria on the obverse 9 appears to be looking forward , whereas on the 8 she seems to be looking downwards . The 9 also has the R in REG pointing slightly to the right of the tooth , and as we know that can be difficult to see clearly on some pictures in this case the R does seem to favour just to the right of the tooth.

It looks like a Ankh the Egyptian key of life .

Hi Zo . Funnily enough as you may know I bought a 1922 dot on trident penny recently , and was having a really good close up look at the dot with the magnifying glass, only to discover a minute crack running from the teeth down along the right side of the centre prong of the trident . The crack is hard to see as it blends in with the scratching damage on the face of the die . This dot is of course circular and not elongated at all. I had a count up of all the dot pennies and found that six are elongated , and show a crack running off or extremely close to the dot/comma. I've just three with almost perfectly circular dots two of which have a tiny crack running off the dot . The only one I have with no sign of a crack at all is the 1897 dot , but Freeman states that an example was found showing a tiny crack nearby . I don't have an 1870 dot or the cannon ball 1875 which look to be circular in shape. My thoughts on the drilling of a hole at the end of a crack in order to stop it spreading would only work on a flat sheet , in this case the die is a deep block of metal , and a crack would run extremely deep down into that block , perhaps as deep as an inch [2.5 cm] or more, and it would seem to me that drilling down to that depth with a drill bit of 1mm or less would be near impossible . Any shallow drilled hole would be ineffective as the crack would continue to spread deep within the die Picture Terry

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1937 Proof missing sea and with no horizon around the lighthouse. Found this If any of you are interested , its now on Richards list.

I think someone has found one recently. Probably Pete. I do remember that it was a beauty. You'd not need another! Jerry showed us a VF he found recently. I also found one about VF, I posted on here with !! A BLOODY GREAT FILLED HOLE IN IT !!

That's Dr Jerry , a Time Lord

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1922 dot on Trident . Very pleased to pick this one up.

Is this the Alderley Collection you bought from John. Pictures aren't to clear though. http://colincooke.com/collections/alderlycollectionvictoria.html

I think he thinks he's a Cocker and as you can see proud of it

Actually I live a very active life and work hard just like my Dog

AAh yes unattributed as an F175 6 pounds lucky find

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You do have to be sharp . I bought this one on an ebay B.I.N a couple of weeks back . F175

Yes Pete I hurriedly read Santa's post , and I can see a difference , the size of the holes . The narrower one has both centre holes of a similar size , but with the wider date type the top hole is smaller than the bottom one. I cant personally see anything else .

Iv just realised a way to tell the difference between the types , its by the centre holes , on the straight crossover type the holes are almost circular , where as on the normal type its misshapen.

Below is a picture of other examples i have of the two types , plus the normal common type

It seems to me that if its that hard to tell the difference , then it doesn't really matter so long as no damage has been done to the coins surface

I'm not sure is this a wavy 2 ??

Any chance of a picture

Ive found three different 9s so far first a narrow 9 second a 9 with a large centre hole third a 9 with a small centre hole

As was I . with the scratches and the ware on the obverse, I thought it topped out at a very good price