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  8. Posted

    3 hours ago, DrLarry said:

    Perhaps you might want to add it to your rare dot "varieties" I certainly think (although I am biased please note) it should be added

    I'm not inclined to add it to the "Dot" pennies because virtually all of these have perfectly circular raised dots about which Paul Holland has offered a plausible explanation for their origin and I'd prefer to keep them together as a single "phenomenon".

    Possibly another page could be created for coins with extraneous extra metal such as this ? Let me think about it.

    Richard

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    At the time of buying the coin, Barker, of Hull, said he was “over the moon” when he discovered how unique it was.

    So, how unique is it ? Rather unique ? Quite unique ? Very unique ? A trifle unique ?

    I'm afraid that the word "unique" is going the way of "literally" and "amazing" - i.e. becoming meaningless.

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    3 hours ago, 1949threepence said:

    In fact I'm not sure the detached clover is a reliable indicator as there are a number of other varieties and dates which also have it, including my 1860/59, several 1858's and going back, even my 1853 proof penny has a detached clover. 

    Ditto for me - I agree that the die crack looks to be a definitive identifier for the obverse. I'll look a little more at the reverse.

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    12 hours ago, alfnail said:

    A long time ago I realised that, like some other overdate pennies in the YH series, it is often possible to identify an 1858/6 without being able to see the date. All of my 10 coins have had the same features on both obverse and reverse which indicates that this type is always struck from a single die pairing.

    A cursory examination reveals a die crack on the obverse from the C of VICTORIA to the rim and, on the reverse, the colon after DEF is misaligned.

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    12 hours ago, 1949threepence said:

    Just bought a couple of upgrades from Asprey Coins, based in Havant. In doing so, I had a good long chat with the owner, Mark Horton, on Monday Evening. Easy to talk to and a real coin enthusiast. Anyway, we got round to talking about varieties, and he drew my attention to something - possibly a mini variety - which I've never come across before. Namely slight differences in the E of PENNY in 1900 pennies. Mark had observed that the lower bar of E in penny was straight in some examples, and slightly curved in others. I checked mine, which was curved.

    Mark sent me an e mail with some illustrative pics. They're a bit big to use on here, so instead I started looking at 1900 penny examples on e bay, and outsorted a couple of examples.

    Straight lower bar of E in PENNY

    Slightly curved lower bar of E in PENNY

    I've used the direct links as you can employ the zoom feature and see more easily. But he's right, there is a noticeable difference.

    Thoughts?

    Mark was very happy for me to raise the issue on here and use his name.

    I've mentioned this with pictures on my varieties website for Edward VII pennies but haven't noticed it on 1900 pennies.

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