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2 pointsNice easy going thread! Can't wait for the day that I can contribute with a find or two of my own!
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1 pointI was in Yeovil today to see a roof repaired on a property I own. (Mini tornado picked it up on New Year's Eve and didn't put it back where it found it) Yeovil is clearly the centre of the universe.
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1 pointI used to run for Yeovil Olympiads Athletic Club in the 1980s
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1 pointI am daft and from Manchester but ..........YEOVIL............cant take another post seriously . You will be saying next your from Burnage and sing in the bath to oasis........ Only joking frank and welcome to the forum. Pete.
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1 pointYeovil........................Washer
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1 pointYes. In "The British Bronze Coinage, Pence, Halfpence and Farthings 1860 to 1869", Michael Gouby states that only four numbered strikings occurred in 1860 and 1861 combined. They were three on pennies, and one on a halfpenny. On two 1860 specimens, the numbers were 40/40 and 63/63. On an 1861 penny - 99/99. On an 1861 halfpenny, 102/102. These differ from all the other years, in that the numbers were identical. At page 5, Gouby states of these 1860 and 1861 examples: "The two scratched numbers on the coins of 1860 and 1861 are the same, i.e. 40/40, 63/63 and 102/102 on a halfpence; the conclusion reached by Dyer is that it represents the cumulative total output of all bronze coins, since 1860, for the Royal Mint - in units of TONS." All the 1860 and 1861 examples are in the British Museum. Hope this helps
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1 pointGraham Dyer's article in BNJ vol. 52 refers. The numbers are believed to refer to the cumulative total tons of bronze (pennies, halfpennies and farthings) struckfor the numerator, and the cumulative total tons of bronze pennies for the denominator. Using the bronze coin production figures for 1860-8, the various fractions observed provide a very good fit. So in this case, the figure 542 is within the range 498-577 tons struck since 1860 for 1867, and the figure 329 is within the 375 tons of bronze pennies struck up to 1868. Given the mint figures of 41 tons of bronze in 1868, this coin neatly fits the hypothesis.
