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[Peckris 579]

Just found that 18kn I was talking about, it didn't sell, the seller just relisted it..

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1918KN-PENNY-BMC-2254-A-UNC-A-TRACE-OF-LUSTRE-/171254482636?pt=UK_Coins_BritishMilled_RL&hash=item27df9006cc

£900, however..

Strange colour - you'd expect a KN to have the characteristic red colour. That one looks like my 19H, except mine has virtually no hair detail, the die was so worn!

1919H penny obv:rev.jpg

Nice!

Is it ever the case where the London mint supplied planchets to the either Heaton or Norton or is this just true the other way round?

I'd not heard that they did, though I don't know enough about the Heatons/Royal Mint relationship in the 19th Century. However, given that Heatons were employed to take the strain off the RM, it wouldn't make much sense for the Mint to then undergo the huge effort of making planchets.

Certainly if London supplied Kings Norton, they wouldn't mostly have that red terracotta colour.

[Nordle11 564]

Just found that 18kn I was talking about, it didn't sell, the seller just relisted it..

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1918KN-PENNY-BMC-2254-A-UNC-A-TRACE-OF-LUSTRE-/171254482636?pt=UK_Coins_BritishMilled_RL&hash=item27df9006cc

£900, however..

Strange colour - you'd expect a KN to have the characteristic red colour. That one looks like my 19H, except mine has virtually no hair detail, the die was so worn!

1919H penny obv:rev.jpg

Nice!

Is it ever the case where the London mint supplied planchets to the either Heaton or Norton or is this just true the other way round?

I'd not heard that they did, though I don't know enough about the Heatons/Royal Mint relationship in the 19th Century. However, given that Heatons were employed to take the strain off the RM, it wouldn't make much sense for the Mint to then undergo the huge effort of making planchets.

Certainly if London supplied Kings Norton, they wouldn't mostly have that red terracotta colour.

Yes that is certainly a good point. Strange then, perhaps they had a batch which used the same composition of metals as did the Royal Mint.

I've also done a few searches for the bun pennies you've mentioned, they look relatively affordable in comparison to some of the others, so thank you for the advice there..