copper123

Left on the shelf?

Your copper penny is in fact NOT COPPER its made of an alloy called bronze

Must have been really hard up to forge a Ell penny

looks like someone was trying to make an undated one .......

Rare ? No chance there was about 60 million made

found in my change today 2025 by the way

bar stewards

don't try eating it afterwards lol

a cocktail stick could poss improve it but be careful

seen a lot worse , scarcer date as well.

And that would make me really cross , all that history down the drain Makes you want to not claim to be sparticus

It was often said if you took all the pieces of the true cross from around the med and you could build a boat out of them

pretty sure they stopped selling them in the early eighties it coincided with a 20% -30% drop in the collectable coin market at a guess 1981 or 1982. They have never been for sale except in the second hand market since.

In the mid to late seventies whitman folders retailed around 25p to 50p range its now virtually impossible to get them for less than a £5 note. On their own they have been a great investment

And the threepence by far the most common victoria date