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Oui Vive la revolution I love the French coins around this period (just before and after).

I would go further. Sometimes the 5 is triple cut

No problem. If you want a real challenge, try to find an 1825 with cleanly punched and completely formed characters and the legend in alignment. It's a bit harder than you might imagine.

Reinforced legends seen on dies was a means of extending their life. Rubbish accumulates in the incuse parts leading to partly formed characters. Sometimes these are recut to give clear legend. It is also possible for the initial character to be sunk in the wrong place and a correction made to the position. Whatever the reason, this feature is frequently seen. Examination of the legends on first issue farthings will usually show partly formed letters implying the punches employed were not the best.

I guess we are all completionists, as much as it's possible to be, depending mostly on the extent of our collecting parameters. When coming to the end of a 'basic' run of Freeman pennies, I'm guessing there'd likely be a temptation to expand it further into the more recently published micro-varieties? Equally, one might opt for the pleasure of closing a lid on something, and beginning instead a new Davies run of shillings? It's human nature, particular the nature of males, to want orderly boxes, for everything, so a micro-varietal penny collector is no less diseased (well, maybe, lol) than the collector who 'closes the lid' on a simpler Type Set, only to immediately open the lid on a new box. We just keep going on, for as long as we can suffer the tension that an open-lid box delivers upon our delicate little male brains (and the delicate little brains of some very strange females too, of course ).

On the face of it I can understand you feeling that the number of teeth/beads is insignificant ,as it shows little on the overall appearance of the coin , but that's not the whole story. Taking Pre-Decimal bronze pennies,[ my passion ], in the 107 years of mass production of circulation type dies, there were only 19 obverse, and 13 reverse pennies with differing numbers of teeth/beads. [as yet found] . Usually the number of teeth/beads changed with the changing of the image or font . But not always . In some years, notable 1860 1874 1908 1911 and others multiple changes were made to the number of teeth/beads with little change to the image or font. This would suggest that The Mint was trying out different dies for the next generation of pennies, and with only small amounts of them being released into circulation. It follows that most of the one year only tooth/bead die types are scarce or rare. This obviously is a minimal visual change, but significant in terms of the sequence of the dies used. These changes were deliberate ,and not made by error or chance, so must be part of the Historical sequence of die experimentation in coin production at the Mint. Terry

I have always used the phrase "intentional design change" because I think that is where I found myself being led when looking at farthings. There will always be anomalies, but you have to try and least define thresholds for inclusion.