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Oh GREAT!!!....been looking for one for years, but wanted to spend nothing- other fish being fried as we speak. £1.76 inc postage. I think a bargain...:) That's a gap filled, and completes my 1874 set of the 13 basics ( according to Michael Gouby).....

Met brian blessid a couple of times, 😊

Thanks- I wasn't sure...It's the first thing I do on Ebay, is the 1874's... Lower grade pennies that aren't supposed to have the sea cross the linear circle get tricky and blurred. I have most trouble like this with low grade 1861's.....

Very nice find Blake. I sometimes trawl the ebay pennies, but i feel like i am going crosseyed after a couple of hours. And i have never found a convincing rare penny going cheap. Well done for completing your set.

Wow - I thought when I paid £54 for mine, it was a bargain. Neat capture. One for Richard's rarest penny site anyway.

Definitely a F76, Blake. Quite apart from other pointers, look at the taller helmet plume. It's a surefire giveaway. Is it yours?

I would say F76 as well, the colon after G of D:G: does appear to point directly to a tooth, ie Freeman obverse 7, rather than to a gap as on Obverse 6. The reverse is certainly Freeman reverse I, wide date H below and sea does not cross inner circle. Neat find! Jerry

As you all know I am new to these and not very good, but I would say F76 - Obverse 7 reverse I. Now someone tell me I am wrong! 🙂

I know this post is related to pennies for once - unusual for me- but could the Eagle Eyes look at this and decide what it is? Thanks!

I tried to write out all the permutations and eliminate. All the RR or GG for student 2 have been eliminated and so I would make it RG for student 2. RR RR GG GG RR RG RG GG RR RG GG RG RR GG RR GG RR GG RG RG RR GG GG RR RG RR RG GG RG RR GG RG RG RG RR GG RG RG RG RG RG RG GG RR RG GG RR RG RG GG RG RR GG RR RR GG GG RR RG RG GG RR GG RR GG RG RR RG GG RG RG RR GG GG RR RR

Obviously there would be more than one matrix, and it must be that 8/6 was an error on one such. It's entirely possible that a matrix could be ill prepared, as reduction equipment didn't come in until 1883 at the earliest, quite possibly later, so the engravers were working with lifesize designs.

I tend to use it when a slight pause in the continuity would sound better if spoken.