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My daughter works in a coffee shop in London, and she brought home her tips money for me to check. Here are the highlights: KCIII 2023 oak leaves 5 pence and 2025 bees one pound.   |
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Very nice!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice finds, peterh. Errers and Varietys.
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excellent finds! |
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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I paid for some gasoline in cash yesterday and got a handful of coins in change. When I looked at them later, one was a 1999 penny with full mint lustre. Not a spectacular find, but still in remarkable condition for a 27-year-old coin!  |
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Outstanding! |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Cool find, NumisRob. Errers and Varietys.
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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Hiya NumisRob. It's so nice to know they still turn up in your change. I got a Jeremy Fisher 50p that way the other day.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I got £200 in 50p coins from the bank yesterday and these were my most interesting finds - my first ever 2022 Shield reverse 50p...  ... I found 14 commemoratives but they were mostly fairly common ones, apart from this - a 2011 Football 50p, the lowest mintage Olympic 50p...  It's quite unusual to get Olympic 50p's in circulation these days, and I've seen the Football coin, even in circulated condition, selling for up to £15 on ebay!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I like the 'offside explained' reverse.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Cool finds, NumisRob. Errers and Varietys.
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Outstanding! |
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Hiya. Just remembered something. NumisRob's AU Penny reminded me. Over the whole issue of the portcullis 1p there was a die variety where the rivets in the portcullis were a slightly different profile. There were other varieties in early decimal coins too, like the face and mane of the 10p lion, and details in the 5p thistle. Not only did business-strikes vary, but some proof and BU examples did as well. I've not seen these documented anywhere either. It may have had something to do with the Mint preparing for when they changed the size of the coinage but I never really researched it. Oh well, is this a rabbit-hole I see before me?
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Spyro - there have been quite a few articles about these varieties in coin magazines. One very clear and quite scarce 5p variety is the '1980 Proof Reverse', which has longer and more exaggerated serifs on the letters of the words 'NEW PENCE'. It's the reverse used on the 1972-9 proof coins but 1980 is the only date you find it on some circulation 5p's.
On the subject of varieties, I've noticed one already on the 2025 £1 coin: there is an edge variety similar to that found on about 1 in 20 2016 coins. On some 2025 £1 coins, the date is immediately adjacent to a milled segment on the edge, and on others it's adjacent to a plain segment. I'm not sure if the variety also applies to 2023 pound coins: every one I've had so far has been the same.
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That's interesting. I was going to try and put a couple of pics up showing what I meant but it seems I need a new clip-on lens for my phone. I'll see what I can dig out from older pics and post them up. Not this week though - far too busy with DIY at my son's house!
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