1955 Sixpence With "I" Of Six To Tooth

Thanks cointosser, you've got me going through my current sixpence lot from my junkbox

Safe to say this isn't rare, first four I checked I had 2 of each type.

You need to buy Groom 20c silver varieties

http://www.amazon.com/Identificatio...=1-1-catcorr
Here it is.

Ah yeah, another book needed on the list! Thanks peter1234!!

I've just received The Identification of British 20th Century Bronze Coin Varieties and The Identification of British 20th Century Silver Coin Varieties from my niece as a belated Xmas present.

The silver book is pretty impressive - detailed explanation of major varieties with photos, notes on minor varieties however there's not much on the rarity of different varieties. Mr Groom says that's because few dealers list these coins except for the very major varieties.

There's a huge amount of varieties for the decimal coinage - far more than I expected.

The first 2 1953 UK crowns I looked at are Obv 1, but I have some more somewhere and I'll check those.

So it's getting it from the plastic?

I don't think we have acetone here... will olive oil work too?

I've just examined 7 1955 sixpences.

3 have "I" of SIX pointing slightly to the right of a tooth, 4 have "I" of SIX pointing to a space.