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I bought a beautiful Roman sestertius in nice condition but it clearly has a fake or artificial patina. I decide to get rid of the fake patina and strange enough in its clean state it actually look more "honest". I now decide to leave it out exposed in the air to get some natural patination. It may take some time but it wil be worth it.

There are yet again 2019 peter rabbits as well thats four years on the trot- I have it on good information that "peter breeding" and "peter having a dump" are in the pipeline

The only battle ship one I can think of on a penny was the mono faced Edward viii Reverse .

London Coins auction Feb/Mar 2020 - beware Lot 1438 which I believe to be a F763 (more common than F8B) and Lot 1444 which appears to be an F22 with missing top leaf but when you look at pictures from the earlier sale referred to, the top leaf is clearly visible.

Looks pretty authentic to me...................

The date is correct on this specimen, the coin itself is upside down....

This was four foot from the last Aethelred. 3 Aethelreds have come up from an 8 foot radius. Potin.

An interesting and very informative overview. Your final remark reminds me of the regret voiced by Martin Folkes concerning the lack of records of this coinage in his time. He wrote: “It were to be wished that some account of it had been published whilst the memory of the transactions was yet fresh…..As it is only from very imperfect tradition that any knowledge has been handed down to us. ….Concerning all this money I should be very glad to be better informed.” The lack of data doesn’t seem to hinder the compilers of the GB 200 Coin Index - “Tracking performance of the top 200 English coins”. With regards to the “Scarborough Broken Castle” Group, (the only siege issue covered). Of the dozen denominations listed, six are believed unique and mostly reside in museums, of four others only two examples each are thought extant, which leave half a dozen sixpences and a few shilling. I thought I would add this photograph of a Newark halfcrown 1646.

Both these examples were issued in Dublin by order of the Lord Justices during the Irish Rebellion. The rare shilling of January 1642 is from the first issue and normally is referred to as "Inchiquin money". Its weight is expressed in Arabic numerals, penny weights and grains. The halfcrown known as "Ormond money" is from a much larger issue of July 1643, and shows the value in Roman numerals. This coinage was surprisingly declared legal tender in England and Wales and sometimes examples turn up in Civil War hoards.