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Thankyou for pointing that out Paddy. Yes, I wanted to provide the option, but didn't want to go over intrusive like e.g. the massive message on Wikipedia every year, and no one should feel obliged to donate! So far though, a total of £200 has been donated towards the approx annual forum running costs of £1,000. And I'm more than happy with that.

One I didn't have either. I still look out for the 1887 pattern shilling by Bohem. The only one I know is in the Royal Mint Museum.

This just sold at auction for 160,000 Swiss Francs, so I guess with commission just over that in pounds...Sorry no pictures here for now. Very rare and right up my alley but WAAAY out of my affordability range. I have the die module/trial for the reverse gotten some years ago but not nearly as exciting as this one.

Whilst sorting through others I found these mixed in as well, worth showing today, Rose & XII value mm. y & tun ( several bust varieties ) any comments or information greatly welcome. all the very best "H"

another worthy show of one of todays historical finds...boot fair circa 1990's some of the letters / numbers look miss shaped, letter I A have merged would this been due to the die being used when milled? any views & comments always welcome. 👍

I have thin planchet struck pennies, threepence, shillings, and I think halfpennies - all this much more common in the late '50s to '60s. So legit specimens do exist and probably not all that valuable but interesting none-the-less.

I think i've found another amongst the hammered ........... Medieval Spanish / Portuguese Type of thing....Doh

I agree, it’s either die wear or very possibly the power of the strike, a reduced impact affecting the metal flow into the recesses of the die. Other detail such as the rocks and the lines on Britannia’s shield also seems reduced. I really don’t know who’s given her the finger though. Jerry

I don't think that's a variety. If you look at the bottom image, everything - the lighthouse, the rocks, the hand and fingers - is narrower implying die wear on the upper example. One thing I've never noticed about that design though, is that there appears to be an extra finger below the hand, on the edge of the shield!

Spotted that…not recorded in the Galata Guide.

aha, very interesting to find errors wondering how many others are out there like this one? Many thanks for taking the time for helping out, all the very best "H"

Interesting one, as looks to have an error in the mint reading where the LON and DON have been swapped: DON LON IEN SIS instead of LON DON IEN SIS. Looks to be Edward I, class 3d.

From the pile of worn out hammered previously shown....... Ive spent a lot of time looking through them and have decided that most are to far gone.... 😔 this one has the most details remaining .......in take of breath, Edward II Farthing, longcross, Class 1a -3de ? on the reverse i make out SIS londrien,sis ?

The royal mint produced many coins for other countries could it be a foreign flan that mistakenly got fed into a domestic brass threepence batch - there is a similar sized coin of canada I think or it could be from many other african countries as well more likely commonwealth countries than not

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OK, this one is just unser 2mm. It doesn't look like damage. I'll try to get pics. Possible it could be a magicians gimmick coin? One that fits inside another coin or something. It's size is that of a normal 3d though, just under 2 mm thick.

Me with also trouble basic English syntax am having.

QEII Lighthouses David, in "The Identification of British 20th Century Bronze Coin Varieties" 1967 Penny Mentions page 117 2. "that on a small percentage of specimens, the lighthouse is thicker, particularly at the top" & 1965 Penny Mentions page 116 "4. There are reports of the lighthouse having nearly a square upper section" I've looked but, I don't think book contains an illustration of the lighthouse types (I have said to David if he is ever able to issue a updated version I'll be as close to the front as I can get, in the long queue to buy a copy) I wondered if I've found an example from 1967. The "Normal" type is on the right and possibly the left hand example is the thicker type (not sure if its a "square" at the top) Look forward to your thoughts Best Regards

If the die iswhole, and held in a collar, there can only be one axis of rotation, the centre. All details will be affected, and all doubling will show the direction of die rotation to the same extent. This is not what is happening to this 1967 date. The doubling of the 6 is on the die!!!!!!!!!!

It is from the die [skip] rotating about an axial radius and can affect other areas depending on the axis.

I still don't get it. If the die moves, all the coin is affected. If the die is held and can only rotate, then the effect is geater near the edge. Surely this is the case? So a doubling of just the date can't be down to the die moving- the doubling is already on the die...?????

I've also heard it called "die chatter".

I think some have called that "skip" with the die slipping on strike...Something of that sort...Comes with a shelf-like appearance at the date and occasionally other devices.