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I always make a point of putting 1953 farthings aside to check properly later. And discovered this one today. A 2+A in high grade with good lustre. Loss of lustre on the high parts, old finger print traces on rev. I bet PCGS would call it MS something RB. It's GEF though, surely. Sorry about the quick phone pics.

Welcome to another penny man !!!

The Silver ones were probably more then than you just paid All the ones i have sold were cheap but i dont want to keep boxes of things to just collect dust. Pete.

Thank you all for the welcome ! I have, as I am sure quite a few collectors have, fallen into bad habits and started collecting just one of this and one of that and finally after decades of collecting ended up with an ecleptic mix of coins and exonumia and one day you turn round and realise you have what my Wife calls Numismatic Addiction or NA for short. Is "NA" is also short for Nag and I dare say this as she would never visit this site :-). She dislikes coins at best and at worse Hates coins. She once questioned wether I would like to marry my collection instead of her and after considering this at length I am wondering if it possible to trade the Wife for coins ? - I will check your sites discussion threads for verification :-) My current collection covers all British denominations and my intention / goal is to vastly reduce my collection so I can concentrate on only collecting all British Edward VII coins plus regardless of Monarch all Pennies, Half Pennies, Sixpences and Brass 3D's. Now I know this sounds like I am not reducing things greatly but this really is a big reduction for me. One other coin I have a great interest in is the 1934 wreath crown and I have read some of the threads on this site about this coin and also about the fakes out there and this problem is mainly caused by these so called Museum Replicas which in themselves are neither a bad thing or illegal but the problem is that when resold the new owner may either accidentally sell as genuine or worse try to pass off as an original. This is one reason my I have some of my coins slabbed. One interesting fact about 34 Crowns is that they contain between 68% to 76% silver. I always thought they were 50% silver but after my friend zapped them with an XRF gun the metallurgic content certainly surprised me. Some reputable sellers sell these 34 replica Crowns with "Fake" or "Replica" stamped into them or something similar to the changes on the 1797 Cartwheels and there should be a law which forces the inclusion of "Fake" or "Replica" on all non original currency / proof coins. To respond to Mr Badexample I would like to explain about boats: Like coin collecting unless you do it there are misconstrued ideas about boating. A boat is a place you can escape alone or with friends on, totally away from the world enjoying Britians green and pleasant land with mobile phone firmly turned off, where you can drink Red Wine, play Backgammon and sort / examine your coins in absolute peace and quiet. The only usual disturbance is some greedy Swans occasionally wanting a free food handout. One cautionary tale about boats and coins is that whilst we all know coins sink I once thought that slabbed coins would float so instead of working upon my coins down below in the boat I happily sat on the back in the sun and to my cost several slabbed coins ended up in the River Ouse. The sovereigns are still languishing at the bottom of the river but to my joy the half sovereigns floated. So maybe slabbed Farthings and Silver 3D's will float as well. Let me know Normally people say Don't Try This At Home - I would strongly recommend you DID try floating your slabbed coins in the sink at home as the majority will sink. Again thank you for the welcome and I look forward to enjoying this site, the knowledge I will acquire and the banter I am sure is yet to come.