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Michael-Roo

1673 farthing, no obverse stops.

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Not an 'acquisition of the week' but certainly recent.

No stops obverse and the second reverse die showing a wider date spacing.

An example sold by LCA in December last year http://www.londoncoins.co.uk/?page=Pastresults&auc=151&searchlot=2310&searchtype=2 was described as 'possibly close to, if not the finest known example of the type'. This new one I've found is better.

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No stops rev..jpg

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Here's the obverse again, taken this time under a desk lamp.

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MMMMMMMM drool

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:) Always good to hear there are other fans of the early milled copper varieties out there!

This is the best I've seen, and certainly much better than my reverse die A example.

 

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Nice find Michael.

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Indeed Peter, a very lucky find. Colin Cooke himself stated, in all his years of collecting, the best he saw was a good fine. The example he kept for himself (reverse A) he only graded as fine, and even this might be judged a little optimistic these days. Here is my reverse A (narrower date) coin, and then the two reverses side by side for comparision.

I know you are a farthing collector too, do you have a 1673 no stops you could put up for viewing?

 

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1673 farthing, no obverse stops, reverses A & B.

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