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A rarity for the unofficial farthing collection I picked up earlier this week.

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

At least if you see peter rabbit on a coin its a good bet its from the UK

Summer in Queensland. Although the article doesn't mention it the minimums over night are not going below 25 deg. C and the humidity is over 80%.

There are quite a lot of complicating factors: most but not all coins containing silver were hoarded or withdrawn much earlier the craze for 'modern' began in 1966 with the government announcement of impending decimalisation and the 1967 date freeze : obvious rarities / scarcities were taken out by collectors, though many scarce varieties didn't come to light until after the event, and this applies to all denominations halfcrowns and halfpennies were demonetised in 1969; most 1925 and 1930 halfcrowns had long gone, the scarcity of many Unc 1950s halfcrowns only emerged quite late, there would have been few around. Apart from those, they are both denominations notably lacking in rarities florins, shillings, and sixpences carried on in circulation until 1992, 1990, and 1980 respectively; probably nearly all still in circulation got withdrawn - higher % than for 1971 I would say as there would have been little interest (and 'of interest') by then only pennies and 3d bits were withdrawn in 1971; probably the majority of 3d's were withdrawn as the scarce dates would have been collected. This leaves pennies which as always leave more questions than answers finally an unknowable but probably quite substantial (judging from the many rubbish lots at W&W in the 90s) quantity of postwar predecimals was saved in tins, pots, jars, Whitman folders, cheap albums, boxes, and god knows what else, as keepsakes by non-collectors.

I believe a high percentage of pre. 1946 [ half silver ] and pre. 1920 [ full silver ] was withdrawn much earlier, but whether it was replaced in large quantities by the cupro-nickel before the final withdrawal I don't know.

I'm sure the mint would have figure - possibly in old coin magazines of the day? Certainly in their annual reports. There are pretty accurate figures for pre-1937 coinage withdrawal in British West Africa in Vice's book.

Thanks Terry, that's an interesting site. I've discovered that it holds a 3rd specimen of the QEII pattern penny (122 beads) stating that it was struck on 17 September 1952, backing up the Royal Mint's comments to me when I had my example authenticated.

Link below Richard. https://www.rct.uk/collection/443672/edward-viii-pattern-penny

Hmmm, bizarre. I wonder how many times a year it was polished to cause that degree of wear.

Its those Bunny Pennies Again, they just won't go away.

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

And it's the rarer open 3 variety!

Redcliffe update. We've had a cool change today 26 degC max. with rain. Tomorrow's forcast 22 to 25 degC with rain, 100mm. Sea temp. 27 degC.

Yes, I paid a fortune for this 1961 penny with the date upside down.

They are, along with the 1882 no H and the 1860 mules, among the most recognisable true rarities which brings the "glamour". I think that if I weren't building up the population with pictures on my website, they might well be still thought of as a single figure population.