terrysoldpennies

We should look up to our politicians, Pillars of society yeah Right.

Lukas is claiming this to be a D* 2* ITS NOT it has a 143 teeth and is a D Freeman 2 not the D* 2* with 145 teeth I have informed him https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1860-Penny-Unrecorded-Gouby-Obverse-D-or-G-A-Of-Victoria-Points-To-Tooth-RARE/332960341847?hash=item4d85fb9f57:g:t0QAAOSwj-RcF8nw:rk:162:pf:0

Well, It is '' Free for all to see '', But your right , I was so wrapped up in it I failed to notice. Smacked wrist.

Its GROUNDHOG Day

I could be wrong , but I could have sworn its 1908 Penny. Nice coin though

Yes indeed , unlike officers who got it because of there birth status.!!!

That smaller symbolic type Gorget shown in the picture you posted John was worn as part of cavalry officers uniforms throughout the 18th and 19th century

RUBBISH what's a farthing anyway ????

I was having another good look at the pictures of this New type 1847 with no colons after REG, and noticed that instead of a gown with the elaborate lace neck line, which you find on all the other reverse Victorian copper types. This one has what looks like a Gorget breastplate , with the embossed head of Medusa set into the centre , its difficult to be sure though as it could be a chainmail neck piece with the embossed head of Medusa on a solid piece of metal set into the chainmail . Small breastplates like this were used on armour going back as far as the Romans, and has been used for decoration on some military uniforms right up to the present day . Pictured below is a Gorget worn be the German Military Police during the WW2, which I think looks remarkably similar to Britanniar's neck piece on this newly found type.

Vote ROB for PM .

It could be ???

Talking of poor strikes during the war years, this one has to be the worst I have ever seen. And its uncirculated

It certainly difficult to be sure as to whether its a 4 or 5 , but I would favour a 5 as the outer ribbon just below the bow narrows sharply on a 5 ,and they have an in cut groove forming a fold , not to be found on the 4. The narrowing is still clear, but the fold has worn away on this example . As to the over letter, i'm not convinced, its quite common for a die crack to appear around the legend at the bottom or the top of the lettering , and if it were a crack , with the extreme ware present on this example it would not now show as that part of the coin has worn away ??

Hi Lucy, Welcome to the mad house

To me Ian it looks like a smaller sized 4 has been used, and then overstruck with the correct sized 4 ??

Sorry Richard I think its an F13 3+D but still just a standard coin

Its Rare alright , would it be possible to find one in a worse condition. There is a worse 1865 !!! . I think its got woodworm

This is the 1877 he's selling, it has the two 7s closer together , it is pretty rare though.

It seems to be a clumsy repair to just the one , and has no sign of any repair on the rest of the coin, it does though also have a slightly wavy exergue . As far as I can tell this is the last year that any of the pennies underwent any kind of repair to the legend . Any thoughts ???

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1974-1p-British-new-penny-VERY-COMMON-Mintage-330-892-000-Circulated/283165649142?hash=item41edfce8f6:g:zOEAAOSwlUhblpkN

Sorry both are type 3+c , the most common type , value, it would be 1-480th of a pound if you could get a bank to take them, which im afraid they won't , they are though solid bronze, not steel dipped in bronze as with todays 1p & 2p

Don't you mean a Lukaszative sale

It is an F15 Jerry you can clearly see the signature under the bust making it an obverse 4 and the reverse D has the longer teeth which do have a similar look to beads in some photographs.

By Experimental I mean different image designs on the coin to perhaps eliminate the ghosting which had been a problem on pennies back to Edward vii, and can still be seen on pennies in 1922. Elements of the different designs my be totally indistinguishable to the naked eye, such as the portrait being cut deeper into the die , slight changes may have been put into the visual appearance so as to be able to track the coins progress during circulation. The M E may well have been a trial die , and the fact that they moved to the small head portrait from 1927 on, and which as far as I can tell never had any problems at all with ghosting. The same may be the case for the other Reverse dies used on the 1926 types , but perhaps only a few escaped the meltdown after the small test runs carried out at the mint. We will never know for sure, so its all just conjecture .