Type 28 Edward Farthing on eBay

[Coinery 1,157]

I've been looking at this Type 28 farthing 221728810973 purely as an attribution exercise (it's got too many flan cracks for me), and was thinking the fleurs must be struck on the band individually? I've never got this impression from reading any of the literature?

If you compare this coin's crown against the plate coin in withers' farthing book, it can be clearly seen that the gaps between the outer fleurs and the central fleur is much less on the plate coin!

[TomGoodheart 403]

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[Coinery 1,157]

Thanks, TG, here's the plate coin.