Post Your Beautiful Coppers

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William Wyon's extraordinary wonderment with Queen Victoria and Britannia on an 1854 Penny, notice that this particular piece has a curious feature in the Reg in the legend on the reverse, the bottom of the R is looped so that it appears to be a B with a tail.

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Not particularly beautiful in of in itself, but the sheer 2.5 oz size of this made for a piece which could have been used as grape shot during the Napoleonic wars, a feature which seemingly many of these might have been used for judging their often severe state of preservation these days. Nicer pieces are rather difficult to find. I have heard that patterns were prepared for copper 6d's, weighing an astounding 5 ounces. Matthew Boulton and his wonderful steam powered presses made these massive pieces possible, whereas prior to the advent of the steam press, this would have been practically impossible to produce these with standard screw presses.

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Both great coppers.