1860 Penny F10

[davidrj 194]

It's not often I get excited by a penny with a hole in, but what do folk here make of this one ??? :-

Obverse is similar to Gouby 1860 Jd - F in FD triple struck, but differing in that the last T of BRITT has lost it's horizontal bar

Reverse has a raised dot in between E and N in PENNY which looks identical to Gouby's 1860 Le (Freeman 13)

A definite Friday afternoon job

£12.84 plus £2pp

David

[Gary 7]

It's not often I get excited by a penny with a hole in, but what do folk here make of this one ??? :-

Obverse is similar to Gouby 1860 Jd - F in FD triple struck, but differing in that the last T of BRITT has lost it's horizontal bar

Reverse has a raised dot in between E and N in PENNY which looks identical to Gouby's 1860 Le (Freeman 13)

A definite Friday afternoon job

£12.84 plus £2pp

David

Thats one heavily repaired obv die! Seems that there are other letters that need looking at closely, E of PENNY and maybe other double struck or recut letters. Nice find David, pity about the hole

[davidrj 194]

Thats one heavily repaired obv die! Seems that there are other letters that need looking at closely, E of PENNY and maybe other double struck or recut letters. Nice find David, pity about the hole

Agree about the E, not 100% sure about the dot, may be crud but it looks identical to the Bamford one illustrated in Gouby

Maybe a soak in olive oil is called for

If the hole wasn't there, possibly the errors would have been spotted and the coin out of my price range

And then those of us who collect varieties can't be too picky on grade

The triple F shouted even in the seller's poor picture, but the Rev was a bonus I only noticed when I scanned it

Edited February 1, 2011 by davidrj

[Bronze & Copper Collector 412]

The Triple F was obvious.... I was going to place a low bid on it, but it slipped my mind as I had some other pressing obligations to take care of.....

I did not notice the other oddities....

[davidrj 194]

Thats one heavily repaired obv die! Seems that there are other letters that need looking at closely, E of PENNY and maybe other double struck or recut letters.

Even more of a disaster of a die pair than I first thought, here's the E of ONE

This one definitely not in Gouby