copper123

From the finishing price I expect a few more will suddenly appear for sale

Remember a fifty pence coin in 1970 was not exactly small change, wages back then for many could be quite low , no minimum wage remember , a fifty pence back then was worth £5 or more now.

And nigel farage

I would imagine a lot of the mints silver , gold and copper would come from pulling worn older coinage from circulation , back then I think banks reluctantly did it as a service to their betters in the BOE. After all we all know there comes a time when a coin gets so worn or damaged it will not be accepted , these cruds have to be taken out of circulation some time . Remember the state of some bun pennies in the late sixties - worn smooth they were

The fact they are regular detector finds could mean they were thrown away as well but it also points to them circulating , thanks very much

I suspect these regularly circulated in certain parts of the UK , Ie London , Bristol ,portsmouth and dover and a few others , I think they were "tolerated" in these towns as the population was quite liberal because of trade and the wealth it bought .I suspect if you tried to spend one in a shop in a rural spot you would be laughed at . Shopkeepers would take coins as long as they knew the could get rid of them , a bit like a few shops now accepting bitcoin etc.

Totally agree , it might explan why 1860 bronze farthings are relatively common , they were the dies the mint had the least problem with so could release them into circulation straight away

And by the way I am pretty sure there never was a quick death to the large pennies , they remained legal tender for quite a while compared to recent recoinages. I am sure they were pulled out and melted down for their copper quite slowly, as it would have caused the mint a great expense and they did not have the capacity to mint so many bronze coins quickly

The farthings 1860 copper , less than ten are known point to a strictly limited mintage , they could have been sold as keepsakes of the old curency in 1860 , that would account for their good condition as well. It also does not make sense that so many pennies were produced compared to farthings and halfpennies , I doubt after all this time anyone really knows , unless there is something found in the royal mint archives I am pretty sure we will all never know for sure

Would grade that as attractive vf , would be higher but for the marks on the queens face , do I see a trace of lustre around the date?

I found one in a bargain bin at york for £5 in near fine a few years ago , ended up selling it for £30 no problem. 1845 penny that is

both dates are a lot scarcer than many realise

Yes I bet they fart a lot and live on council estates , LOL

Those roman coins look really nasty - proper cruds, barely even noticable as coins even

Where-wolf?

One hump or two?

Marty felman - gone too soon

Spotted a couple of coins i fancy , ta.

yuk , tastes HORRIBLE!

Another one bites the duster

A reasonable price might be £135 that mark on the cheek makes me so no

I am annoyed that every single tiny payment via paypal now goes straight into my bank account , before at least I used to save it up for a month or so and then buy something decent with the procedes

And yes I have visited it

coppied and pasted from the national trust At first glance the stunning views on the Yorkshire Coast seem like a rugged natural landscape created by time and tide. In fact, human history is as significant as natural history in the shaping of this beautiful coastline. In the 16th-century alum was essential in the textile industry as a fixative for dyes. Initially imported from Italy where there was a Papal monopoly on the industry, the supply to Great Britain was cut off during the Reformation. In response to this need Thomas Challoner set up Britains first Alum works in Guisborough. He recognised that the fossils found around the Yorkshire coast were similar to those found in the Alum quarries in Europe. As the industry grew, sites along the coast were favoured as access to the shales and subsequent transportation was much easier. Alum was extracted from quarried shales through a large scale and complicated process which took months to complete. The process involved extracting then burning huge piles of shale for 9 months, before transferring it to leaching pits to extract an aluminium sulphate liquor. This was sent along channels to the alum works where human urine was added. At the peak of alum production the industry required 200 tonnes of urine every year, equivalent to the produce of 1,000 people. The demand was such that it was imported from London and Newcastle, buckets were left on street corners for collection and reportedly public toilets were built in Hull in order to supply the alum works. This unsavoury liquor was left until the alum crystals settled out, ready to be removed. An intriguing method was employed to judge when the optimum amount of alum had been extracted from the liquor when it was ready an egg could be floated in the solution. The last Alum works on the Yorkshire Coast closed in 1871. This was due to the invention of manufacturing synthetic alum in 1855, then subsequently the creation of aniline dyes which contained their own fixative. There are many sites along the Yorkshire Coast which bear evidence of the alum industry. These include Loftus Alum Quarries where the cliff profile is drastically changed by extraction and huge shale tips remain. Further South are the Ravenscar Alum Works, which are well preserved and enable visitors to visualise the processes which took place.