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I have to own up to buying the F112 at LCA a few days ago. The new bathroom has been put on ice and the atmosphere at home is a touch frosty. Your sympathy would be appreciated.

At times like this I go to the Fridge for warmth!

I can't imagine that anyone would prefer a new bathroom to that penny. Well done!

Bramah mentions Very Good and Good as grading terms (below Fine as nowadays), and that was in the 20's. So it's been around for some time in the UK and thus maybe originated here. Don't know either way. It might be like putting a z in words like realize - now American English but in fact old English.

Hi guys, I'm Adam, I'm new to the forum (nerd points if you recognise the names from my display name). Anyway, I'll introduce myself, I got into colleting coins 15+ years ago when I found a couple of old coins in my granddads house, which were a 1919 penny and a 40's brass threepence and probably a few more. I was in school at the time and because of history and my fascination of the Victorian period, the industrial revolution and the Titanic disaster I became really interested in coins and my first goal was to get a 1912 penny, the year the Titanic sank. After that i got hold of an 1890 penny and from that point I tried to find older and older dates. I haven't been collecting for a few years but recently I started getting back into it recently. These days my main interest is Victoria bun pennies. I started off with a target of getting a simple date run but when I noticed all the varieties of 1874 penny I opened a can of worms and from there I discovered the Freeman varieties and different die pairings and bought "The bronze coinage of Great Britain". I've decided to collect the Freeman varieties up to rarity "R14" because I believe they're fairly accessible and affordable in low end condition from what I've seen so far. For me, pennies in Fair/fine condition are great as long as they look nice and there is enough detail to identify the variety, but I'm happy to have poor examples the rarer they are to keep things affordable. The most I've spent on a penny is a nice looking 1881 F102 for £27.50. So I could be an ideal person to trade all your lower grade duplicates with Just so you know where I'm up to, these are my varieties of interest that I'm still missing: 1860 Freeman 1 (1+A) 1860 Freeman 16 (5+D) 1861 Freeman 18 (2+D) 1861 Freeman 20 (2+G) 1861 Freeman 25 (4+G) 1874 Freeman 77 (8+G) 1879 Freeman 96 (8+J) 1883 Freeman 116 (11+N) 1889 Freeman 127 (12+N) Also these but in a better condition than the very worn ones I currently have: 1869 Freeman 59 (6+G) 1871 Freeman 61 (6+G) Anyway, I'll look forward to talking with you guys

Wow. Just wow.

Sheer class Richard. Beats a new bathroom any day.

For reverse C, the top of the crown on the Irish harp points to a bead and the rim is very thin, whereas on reverse E, the top of the crown points to a space and the rim is thicker. There are other identifiers, but these should be enough for high garde examples.

The Freeman 8 mule I won at the LCA arrived today. Very pleased. OK, nowhere near the best available, but problem free and another really rare coin that doesn't come up for sale very often.

At least it’s not a F174 like my last F176 was! 😂