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Thank you, everyone!! I greatly appreciate this insight and I will keep my eyes open for those signs. I suspect most of my collection is made up of pretty ordinary old pennies and half-pennies, but wanted to make sure I didn't overlook something worth keeping

Currency 1938 halfpenny. It is worth noting that the rims are not as good on the KGV coins as the later ones, but it was only with the introduction of the smaller head in 1926/7 that they started to make serious numbers of sets on a regular basis.

Not KGV pennies, but to demonstrate what I mean, a couple of 1938 halfpennies. Proof first

Cleaned. Proofs have features not often seen on currency coins such as sharp rims/edges, sharper milling. Reflective fields (with a few exceptions) which have no hairlines which would indicate cleaning. Lettering is sharper and more precise in terms of angles and everything about them tends to scream 'special strike' when compared side by side with one from your pocket.

Not proofs I'm afraid - they've been polished, which occurs a lot. Unfortunately that reduces the value a great deal, but those aren’t high value coins so that's a back handed way of saying you haven't lost a lot!

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Ok - I cropped and reduced the quality of the picture to get something I can post Let me know what you think or if I need to try to get a better picture.

Thank you! I am on Windows and will look at trying to crop with that software and post a couple pictures.

Blame those dastardly monks. I was gifted a bottle of buckfast. I decided to open it last night. I was somewhere between wide awake and half cut when i posted that 🤣 Regretting opening it now based on how i feel today but at least i didn't wait and ruin Christmas 😭 Stu.

This has been great , I really did put a lot of time and effort in getting this right, although 3d1 was wrong.. But Hey its been a great journey reading in to this and the Rod Blunt has been a great reference place to read up on things...once again a many thanks for all your time helping out, 👍🏻

Apoligies H..correction London mint. It was pretty late when i replied Half asleep lol. You can compare the IM stars here on this site and probably tie it down. I can't decide if its 3a1 or 3ab1. I am not seeing a pellet around Rex or III so maybe 3ab1 but it's not always present on 3a1 coins. https://www.rodblunt.com/long-cross-pennies-class3-ct

Yes sorry. Late night mate

Ar you sure that's not an L for London, Stu? Looks too square to be a C to me.

I found this penny recently when metal detecting. The reverse legend on these coins sometimes reads BRISTOLIE or BRISTOLE. Mine reads Bristolie. Does anyone know which is the rarer type and whether one version was issued earlier than the other?

Welcome @bensharp27 to the forum! We do need to see pictures. You need to crop and/or resize your photos to a max 500Kb. How you do this depends on what system you are on. I am on Windows and use Photoscape X, which is free, to manage my pics. If you tell us what system you are on, others can advise. As to telling Proofs from business strikes - there is no simple catch all approach and much depends on experience. Unfortunately in this modern era of Ebay and AI, many coins are being described as proof or proof-like when they are nothing like that good!

I have been collecting coins for 15 years or so since my grandfather left some coins to my father (who gave them to me). I love researching them and learning the history, significance and value of them. I have been picking up some British coins along the way and am only now going through what I have. I noticed a couple of the Pennies look different than the rest and I am not sure what I am looking at. It appears there were Bronze proof coins made these years, but I would not presume that to be likely since I didn't get these from a dealer or anything (they were just among others in a collection I picked up at an auction some years ago). They are 1927 and 1934 one penny coins. I would upload images, but not sure how (keep getting an error about the files being too large to upload)? How can I tell if they are something worth more of a look or relegated to sale on ebay as cleaned coins (with a lower value than the others)? Also, is there anything I should be looking for in 1900 and up one penny coins? Thank you all for your time!

It is Henry III , Nicole at Canterbury. It's got IM star 3. Class 3d1 would have IM star 4. I think it's probably class 3a1 or 3ab1.

Ive been looking into this for awhile since rediscovering mixed in with really worn Hammered coins..... that Ive avoided as I really need more experience of Edwards. after spending much time thinking on this I believe that this might be..... 1248-1250, Henry III Class 3d1 ? could it be read as NIC/OLE/ONL/VND Nicole of London?

I have these two Victorian stamps with description: “1892. S.G. 206 and 2060. 4 1/2d used. 2 distinct shades. CAT £695.” Any ideas on the relative rarity or validity of the description?

Yes, the IM mark would be where the O in GOLD is in the above example. Here’s a reasonable example of GOLDHAVOC on CAN for reference purposes only.

I have this top ticket (the Ed III florin 1d), and was hoping to find a match through the very distinctive Lombardic Ns, but to no avail. However, I have found these Elmore Jones tickets to be in a very similar style, and layout, with the serifs on the capital Ds and the the upper-tail on the Ps to be a reasonable match? Would anyone else have some Elmore Jones tickets for comparison? Any thoughts?

Looks like it might be a Spanish Netherlands '2 Mite' coin issued by Phillip II, c16th https://en.numista.com/120395 Still not sure of the exact variety yet

The central cross limbs would be level with the IM mark if it was an IM mark. I think it is a T as Rob stated. Your orientation is incorrect for known tealby pennies. Stu.

I appreciate the legend style I have drawn is incorrect also the spacing, heres roughly how I would assume the name fits give or take.