hi can anyone help

[coin fanatic 0]

hi all im new here and was wondering if anyone could help me, rite i have a coin its 1844 now im not sure if its a farthing or a halfpenny, and also it has a error on it i think, but i carnt load a picture up as it says file is to larger is there any othere way i can load the pic up, thanx bry

[Chingford 166]

hi all im new here and was wondering if anyone could help me, rite i have a coin its 1844 now im not sure if its a farthing or a halfpenny, and also it has a error on it i think, but i carnt load a picture up as it says file is to larger is there any othere way i can load the pic up, thanx bry

Coin diameter; 34mm Penny, 28mm Halfpenny and 22mm Farthing

[coin fanatic 0]

hi all im new here and was wondering if anyone could help me, rite i have a coin its 1844 now im not sure if its a farthing or a halfpenny, and also it has a error on it i think, but i carnt load a picture up as it says file is to larger is there any othere way i can load the pic up, thanx bry

Coin diameter; 34mm Penny, 28mm Halfpenny and 22mm Farthing

THANX BUT HOW DO I MEASURE THE COIN, AND HOW DO I UPLOAD A PIC AS ITS SAYING FILE TO LARGE, THANX BRY

[declanwmagee 122]

hi all im new here and was wondering if anyone could help me, rite i have a coin its 1844 now im not sure if its a farthing or a halfpenny, and also it has a error on it i think, but i carnt load a picture up as it says file is to larger is there any othere way i can load the pic up, thanx bry

Coin diameter; 34mm Penny, 28mm Halfpenny and 22mm Farthing

THANX BUT HOW DO I MEASURE THE COIN, AND HOW DO I UPLOAD A PIC AS ITS SAYING FILE TO LARGE, THANX BRY

best way is to put the pic on a third party photo hosting site like Photobucket or flickr, then when you post you can put the URL of the photo in using the little picture frame button at the top...

Measure the coin at it's widest point with a ruler - doesn't have to be massively accurate (it won't be anyway!) but you should be able to tell easily whether its 22, 28, or 34mm across.

[RobJ 0]

Hi Coin Fanatic,

Welcome to the Forum.

If it is of any help to you in trying to identify your coin, as a very rough guide, if it is slightly larger than a 1p Coin then it will be a Farthing. If however, it is slightly larger than a 2P Coin it will be a Half Penny.

I hope that is of some help to you.

[coin fanatic 0]

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[coin fanatic 0]

picture one is the picture I think is an error by the DE and picture two is the rear of the coin.thanks Bry

[RobJ 0]

I am not an Expert on such matters, far from it infact. However it looks as though it may be a partial 'Brockage.'

That would occur when a coin sticks to the Die, and then when the next coin is struck, it leaves an inverted impression of the coin that is stuck.

In the case of your coin. It looks as if the Reverse of a previous coin was struck onto the Obverse of your coin. Thus the partial inverted impression of 'BRIT' is clear to see.

'Brockages' can range from examples similar to your coin to a 'Full Brockage' where the whole face of one side of a coin has an inverted impression.

[Peckris 579]

Looking at the proportions of portrait and legend to flan, that's a farthing (the halfpenny has a legend where the lettering looks much bigger and the bust smaller, while the penny - which yours isn't - is different yet again.).

This difference only applies to copper coins - from the bun bronze series onwards (1860) it's much more difficult to tell the denomination unless you know the dimensions.

[Colin G. 147]

It looks like it may not be a partial brockage, but may be the reult of a bit of post mint trickery. I have seen similar coins made to look like a brockage by squeezing one coin against another in a vice. The result is that the coin gets damaged/thinner at that point, the edge gets damaged and the design on the other side of the coin gets weakened by being squashed (which in a true brockage should not happen).

I am by no means an expert on errors, but that would have been my first impression on that one.

[declanwmagee 122]

It looks like it may not be a partial brockage, but may be the reult of a bit of post mint trickery. I have seen similar coins made to look like a brockage by squeezing one coin against another in a vice. The result is that the coin gets damaged/thinner at that point, the edge gets damaged and the design on the other side of the coin gets weakened by being squashed (which in a true brockage should not happen).

I am by no means an expert on errors, but that would have been my first impression on that one.

I think you're right, Colin. the font, although reversed, looks more like that from post 1860 bronze than the BRITT on that 1848 farthing.

If it was a brockage, it would have been pressed against an identical coin...

[declanwmagee 122]

damn we're good

[coin fanatic 0]

so would u say that someone has done it on perpose?, i brought it a a "coin dealer" for £120, think i was ripped off.

[azda 979]

so would u say that someone has done it on perpose?, i brought it a a "coin dealer" for £120, think i was ripped off.

Short answer, yes

[coin fanatic 0]

think i will go bk and see him today to get my money back. I also have a 1841 farthing which looks like inverted v's for a's, is this common, will upload a pic when i get bk from hospital, cheers have a good day all of u

[Peter 615]

so would u say that someone has done it on perpose?, i brought it a a "coin dealer" for £120, think i was ripped off.

It is a £2 scrap coin which I would not entertain....why spend so much on a coin when you clearly have no knowledge....buy the books first.

[coin fanatic 0]

so would u say that someone has done it on perpose?, i brought it a a "coin dealer" for £120, think i was ripped off.

It is a £2 scrap coin which I would not entertain....why spend so much on a coin when you clearly have no knowledge....buy the books first.

i do have a book but it didnt meansion anything in there about errors, thats why i asked. And u learn by your mistakes. cheers

[Peter 615]

ande wile yur at it lern to rite

[Rob 3,152]

It is a £2 scrap coin which I would not entertain....why spend so much on a coin when you clearly have no knowledge....buy the books first.

If I could get £2 for things like this I would be rolling in it, but needless to say negligible demand combined with the time and effort required to sift and list means they sit in a pile for binning. The scrap value is about 3p at today's spot price, which for anything other than a significant rarity is not far short of its value.

[Peter 615]

I must have 20 odd 1903 1d's to check if they are an open 3...please help me and not slip into a penny collector....unless she is Kelly Brooke

[azda 979]

I must have 20 odd 1903 1d's to check if they are an open 3...please help me and not slip into a penny collector....unless she is Kelly Brooke

Send them to Munich Peter, i'll gladly sit here for a few hours sifting

[azda 979]

so would u say that someone has done it on perpose?, i brought it a a "coin dealer" for £120, think i was ripped off.

Was the dealer wearing a mask at the time you bought it?

[Rob 3,152]

so would u say that someone has done it on perpose?, i brought it a a "coin dealer" for £120, think i was ripped off.

Was the dealer wearing a mask at the time you bought it?

Yeh, he was dressed in green and traded just outside Nottingham.

[Peter 615]

I know him well and his buddy little John