terrysoldpennies

Just seen this one on Ebay !!! the long teeth show its a Reproduction 33 , and he found it in Norfolk http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ONE-PENNY-METAL-DETECTOR-FIND-1933-King-GEORG-IVS-VERY-RARE-ONLY-8-Known-MADE-/182785889026?hash=item2a8ee35302:g:Jy4AAOSw5ShZx7SC

That's fantastic Richard , I missed that one. Terry

Hi Barnzy , Welcome to the forum, It seems to me that most collectors stick to year sets of just say, Bronze or Silver or in all the denominations, but restrict their sets overall parameters to say, Victorian or 20th c or Hammered , milled, Pre Decimal , Decimal etc . Or, as I do, to mostly one or two denominations , in my case mostly Pre. Decimal Pennies which seems to have the most diverse number of varieties , with 1860 alone having over 80 known types . Some are caused by the mint experimenting with different dies , some caused by human error , such as over stamping, and there are also errors caused by die deterioration. New undiscovered types are still turning up today, and its possible for anyone with a sharp eye to come up with another. If though you decide to collect modern decimal coins , most of the differing types are deliberately made by the mint to be scarce, so as to encourage people to collect them. What ever you go for it can be an addictive hobby, and you my find that an increasing amount of money has to be spent to obtain that elusive sought after coin . Terry

How about this one then !!!!!! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1897-DOT-Victoria-Penny-coin-W1897a-Fair-F147-O-NE-very-RARE-/142486494758?hash=item212cdb5e26:g:fpYAAOSwIaFZMHCI

Link to Richards site http://www.headsntails14.wordpress.com/ look under Victoria reverses 1860 .

It is a 6+G

I wondered if that was you bidding Richard. Nice buy , they seem to be pretty scarce. Terry

Thanks Pete . Terry

Pete, to your knowledge have any 1860 2*+ d pennies been slabbed , as with more VIGTORIA pennies popping up all the time, I have been surprised not to have seen any more 2*+d's turning up than the existing 5 already known. Terry

Wow, you could power the British economy on that many Farts. Terry

The normal colons found on 1960s pennies are round, but a few I have found have an oval shape. So far, I have only found them on 1965s 66s and on 1967s, with the most extreme example being on the 1967 shown below. The oval types are fairly scarce, but as far as I can tell the elongated 1967 must be rare, as no other penny found by me was anywhere near as long. I'm lost as to what may cause this to occur, but I think it must be something during the manufacturing process , as It seems very unlikely that its a design change from the normal round colons. Terry

That's a really good point Pete, so I've had another good look, and there's no sign of any doubling at all . The only thing I can think of is that during the finishing off at the top of the die, the action of machining across the die, may have elongated the tiny holes, creating long colons radiate outwards from the centre. ??? The doubling of the letters in the picture is just a reflection . Terry

As a matter of interest Bernie, how much were they asking for the Edward viii penny back in the 1960s ? Terry

The two coins you show are half crowns which were worth 2 shillings and six pence . Terry

OOps sorry lads I thought most of you would have one, but I must say when a bid is placed so early on, it attracts attention anyway.

Congratulations to both you young fellers . I have five with one up to 17, born Jan 2nd 2000 just missed millennium day. Terry

It could be this Mick http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1911-One-Penny-Georgivs-V-Nice-Coin-Take-a-look-1-/252978713731?hash=item3ae6b4d483:g:yV4AAOSwfRdZErPV GoubyX. Terry

1901 narrow date penny 10.5 tooth. Gouby Aa he didn't even have a picture to show in his book. I picked one up last week after looking for about a year, unfortunately its only about VG, but at least I do now have one. Its obviously rare, but just how rare, do any of you know as it never seems to come up on here ? Terry

Now I guess your all going to think i'm a lying towrag , but during the 1960s I was given some change in a shop , some pennies, I think a trupenny bit and a shilling, I can't now even remember what I bought , but when I looked down at the shilling, I thought it was old, now at the time I was about 12 so lots of the coins to me were very old , as pre decimal coinage was still in use going right back to Queen Victoria. Well the coin had a hole in it , and was indeed old as it was dated 1696 with a king I did not recognise . I guess it was used by mistake. The shilling is still in my collection, though not readily to hand , as I collect pennies. Terry

I bought this from a friend a while back, who is a collector, but not of pennies. I guess its about GF which for this rare type seems to be exceptional . In all the years I've been collecting the only better one I've seen is Garys [Bronze & Copper on here]. its strange that this type seems prone to wearing badly in the centre of the Kings head.

Above the the DG the outer line is doubled , I don't think a proof would look like that Terry

Obv.

Talking of what was, and was not released into circulation , during the war my mother picked up in change a brass 3d piece, which to her was just a 3d bit to spend ,she at that time had absolutely no thoughts at all of coin collecting , as after all there was a war on and she was a teenager with thoughts only of spending money . Anyway, she just glancing at the coin and noticed that the tails side was different to the normal 3d, being as she said, different with more of a stylised design than normal , but then gave the coin no more thought, and passed it to the bus conductor to pay for her fare . Well, many years later , after starting to collect coins, she found out about the Edward viii 3d piece with the stylised reverse, and knew that was what she had held in her hand all those years before , she felt sick, thinking if only I had known of there existence at the time, and if only she had turned the coin over she might have noticed that it was an Edward viii 3d, and not the George vi . I believe these were all pattern coins, and were not supposed to be released into circulation. God knows what there worth today, maybe one of you on here has one , let us know. It makes me wonder what may have passed through my hands without my knowing about its rarity . Terry

Good to hear from you Matt, we all thought you had given up collecting. T