Martinminerva

Not so, Mike. The "bids" list doesn't show the seconds that an item finishes at. For that you have to see the listing itself (screenshot pasted in by using the item number) and you'll see it was 20.16 and 42 seconds, thus the various "snipes". Listings rarely end exactly at 00 seconds unless a seller schedules a listing to go live later rather than in real time. The clock weirdness you describe though I have noticed too in that they are not always in sync. Suspect latency in our broadband connections, and not sure if there is a solution to that. Hope that helps at least a bit...

Just a normal 4+D. As stated above, the remains of the LCW is visible below the shield to prove reverse D, and similarly the remains of LC Wyon seems visible entirely below the bust, albeit either with wear or die fill, which would be obverse 4. (Freeman notation)

And the second one also looks like a replica or copy: there appears to be some silvery metal showing through the "gold" where the coin is damaged above the queen's head. Copies of sovereigns are incredibly prevalent, sadly. If so, it would have basically no value at all. Sorry.

Just seen this on BBC website: Posted at 21:1521:15 BREAKINGNo presenters or pundits will feature on Saturday's MOTD - BBC No presenters or pundits will feature on Saturday's Match of the Day programme, a BBC spokesperson says. Saturday's Match of the Day programme will "focus on match action without studio presentation or punditry", they say. Hope it's a sign of things to come... all those massive salaries out of licence fee payers' pockets that could then be avoided! Maybe the BBC could then fulfil their (not government's) broken promise to have free TV licences for the over 75's which was part of their charter renewal last time around. Wishful thinking perhaps!!

£3,200 hammer - not a surprise as it's a superior specimen. link Anyone on here get it? Hope so!

Good shout - I think you're right. But hopefully Dr Larry can post a better picture in due course. 1874 8+I is much rarer than Freeman lists, I'm convinced!

Yes, this one is definitely 9+I

...and I think this one is an 1874 9+I, but I confess I can't be sure as the colon and leaves are not clear on the picture. On obverse 9, the leaves are even further away from the colon again. Post a better picture when you have it in hand and I'll let you know!

This one is just a "normal" 7+I. Notice the position of the top leaves of Victoria's wreath in relation to the colon after G:

Obverse: @secret santa Richard, if you want to use these for your rare halfpennies website, be my guest!

Talking of 8+I, keep looking out for the very rare 1873 (sic) 8+I too. Unrecorded originally in Freeman, it is now mentioned in Appendix 4 of the reprinted version. Dracott records 3 specimens seen, and here's a fourth: (obverse to follow)

Despite being a regular bidder and buyer for well over a decade, they didn't even send me a printed catalogue this time (they did this for a spell once before); I much prefer to read a paper catalogue thoroughly than browse a ponderous website, so I won't be putting in any bids. Not very good business acumen...

Maybe so! But I'm sure it will reappear at some point in the future, along with some more utter cock and bull.

Yep - that's a 9+K. I was watching this too, but the seller kept "ending" then re-listing it! Good show too on the 8+I - that's a very rare die pairing in my experience, rarer I feel than Freeman states.

Hope so! And as has already been spotted by copper123 above, is it 10% going to charity or "over half" as she says in her blurb?? You just don't know what to believe about her! 😉

Agreed - it is a quite nice (but certainly not uncirculated!! More like GVF to me - and there's a scratch) but very common 4+D. Bad luck!

Well spotted! Was this recently or a while ago? I take it you got it? I spotted and "bought" the 1897 HT some time ago, but it never arrived and they refunded me without question or delay. I think they realised their mistake...

Oh lord, it's her again. And no amount of mentioning "the misses" will disguise the fact. Quite a house in Leeds she lives in... One of her earlier 1933's was found inside a clock, I seem to remember, and now one up her chimney... 😉 Wonder where the next one will be discovered... Any guesses?!

That is a shame . Although if you were going to enter the counterfeit business as a chinese die maker I think the Contemporary Georgian counterfeits would be the best place to start. I have a lot of them and recently have been shocked at some of the prices they fetch in the US ...it is a big part of their history You should be on safer ground listing them as non-regal or contemporary copies - there are loads of that sort of listing all the time. "Fake" is probably a word to avoid... Mind you, in 200 years' time, wonder if there will be a good market for today's Chinese copies and replicas? Maybe "Chimney sweep of Leeds" (see above!) should just hang on for a couple of centuries! 😁

It is 8+J. Reverse K has Britannia's left leg distinctly descending into her lap and the date digits much lower. J has the two legs parallel (as above), and digits higher.

Here we go again... "New" seller in Leeds, but same old guff... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/385421080558?hash=item59bce2f7ee:g:SCwAAOSwhtxj7Tf7

Wonderful digging around! Well found! These make very interesting reading and I will add to my library!

This is one of those catalogue errors (like 1854 half sovereigns?) that has persisted through the years - I guess it was originally catalogued either in error or assumption, and then subsequent cataloguers have just "borrowed" the information. Goodness knows how they arrived at rarities and values ("based on realised prices at auction" or similar when a specimen had never actually been recorded!!). It was in the old ESC, EMC and Seaby catalogues, and I think even in some of the Spinks when they took over publication, though now corrected there and by Bull. A genuine mule would be an impossibility as the arcs and the date are on the same obverse side, though I grant that a 33 arc die might just have been prepared and then discarded, and so it is just conceivable effectively a "pattern" or two might just exist, though the absence of a recorded example these last 130-odd years would suggest not. Happy to be proved wrong, though! Here's a shot of some blurb from the Coincraft catalogue of 2002. The Dickinson referred to is "Victorian Godless and Gothic Florins", SCMB 1978/1980 (Seaby Coin and Medal Bulletin) but I don't have a copy of those. Does any member have, and can they post screenshots? Ironic then that they kept it in their catalogue for many years afterwards!

More from Blakeyboy's favourite seller... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234888374858?hash=item36b0702a4a:g:wtsAAOSw~ZNj4fCP Who would have thought that verdigris would be such a selling point?! 😉

Thanks very much. Do any other members have any specimens of 7+C# to add to the census?