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Although I'm spent up after Christmas, I really felt that with two recent price reductions to 71% of the original asking price, I just had to get this 1919KN penny from Lee at Colin Cooke, so cracked open a savings account to get it. Very pleased. It's GEF both sides in my opinion, although Lee described it as a/UNC. In hand it's actually still got that UNC sheen though, with the merest trace of lustre remaining in the obverse devices. It's a fairly good strike, with only very faint ghosting to the reverse, and some moderate hair detail. There are a couple of very minor edge knocks at about 2 O' Clock and 4 O' Clock on the reverse. Also what looks like a die crack extending from about 12 O' Clock on the obverse, South South East across the King's head to the top of the ear. That apart it's completely issue free. Unusually for a KN it seems to have toned dark. Or at any rate would have toned properly dark had it remained in circulation.

Still amazes me how many hammered coins this particular field has thrown up, and with other bits and bobs it nods to a long gone market site within or bordering a deer park , was obviously a medieval market for quite a while as the coins range from Henry II to Charles I, i think this is Edward I. ?? Durham mint which is my first Durham coin from this field, and its a big old flan on it, please excuse the awful pictures, any id is welcome, thanks for looking,

Possible lamination error before the blank was struck or a blank intended for a different coin ? I believe the sheets were rolled together causing one sheet to join another of a similar thickness.If they did not join the blank would be thinner but the same size diameter ,although ones i have seen tend to be more weakly struck. Either way if the coin is thinner it obviously wasnt the correct thickness when struck as cleary shows the design on both sides ( apart from the daft acid things PM ) ,so either lamination or a blank meant for a different coin mixed in with the others.

Since we are dissecting Mr Gahlin's collection, I have a question regarding token edges. The Bedale halfpenny I bought was listed as DH9. But is this not the engrailed edge, 9b?