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  • The Standard Guide to Grading British Coins, Colour Edition by Derek F Allen is available direct from Coin Publications, for £20.95:

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    The Bronze Coinage of Great Britain (1860 - 1970) by Michael J Freeman is available direct from Coin Publications, for £16.00:

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      If retrograde it would require an 'Arabic 1' punch to recognise the fact, with the alternative being a normal 'Roman 1' with a missing top right serif. Retrograde usually implies a character (or legend) reading in the opposite direction to normal as frequently seen on Northumbrian stycas for example where many legends read both cw and acw. For that reason, I have always assumed retrograde letters were either defective in some way, or made from composite punches. Slanted just means a misplacement. NB. For clarity, with this terminology, normal is taken to be clockwise. 
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