1892/1 3 pence

[scott 144]

clearest picture of the 2 enlarged i could get.

ran this by some americans (they have loads of random pointless overstrikes on everything so if anyone can see one they can) and said it was.

now such a variaty i havn't found listed or sold, hard to spot with the naked eye due to size of the coin, however the date is a fit for other overdates in other series so why not.

[Peckris 579]

clearest picture of the 2 enlarged i could get.

ran this by some americans (they have loads of random pointless overstrikes on everything so if anyone can see one they can) and said it was.

now such a variaty i havn't found listed or sold, hard to spot with the naked eye due to size of the coin, however the date is a fit for other overdates in other series so why not.

Too much 'gunk' there to see anything clearly scott The off-putting bit is that horizontal 'spur' to the left halfway down the diagonal downstroke of the 2 - it doesn't correspond to anything you'd see on a '1'

Also, the bottom of the '1' would be horizontal not vertical, surely?

Edited June 10, 2013 by Peckris

[scott 144]

most over 1's are exactly that, a line, which is why i thought of it being so.

Edited June 10, 2013 by scott

[Peckris 579]

most over 1's are exactly that, a line, which is why i thought of it being so.

It's just that I'm looking at the first '1' in the date, which clearly has a serif at the bottom, which would make overdating with a '2' particularly simple at that point. There would be no need for an extra portion of downstroke, wouldn't you say?

[scott 144]

yea, thats the thing, I have 1861 halfpennies 1 over lower 1, and the lower in is exactly that, no serif. you can barely see it with the eye so they wouldn't have been that far off.

[Peckris 579]

yea, thats the thing, I have 1861 halfpennies 1 over lower 1, and the lower in is exactly that, no serif. you can barely see it with the eye so they wouldn't have been that far off.

Ah, but that's where they were trying to eradicate a LOWER '1' - having an extra serif there would be mighty inconvenient. But a normal '2' over a normal '1' - they would both bottom out with a horizontal, right? So basically the 2 would cover up the 1 at that point.

[scott 144]

as i said it isn't visible with the eye, I never noticed it until I looked at the pictures. so it isn't that difficult to get it off at most 1mm