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Time to play guess the grade then To be honest I couldn't have taken worse pics of the coin if I wanted to, but I will share the results of the exercise.

My son arrived back from the USA today with a couple of my penny purchases in his luggage. The first is a 1864 plain costing £50, which I think represents good value and looks GVF or better to me. The second is a slabbed 1862, 2 over 1. This already features on Richard's rarest pennies site as a past Ebay offering, and was also off the Bay after considerable negotiation over price. Difficult to photo, in the rather scuffed slab. The microscope fares better, and reveals some of that waxy green gunge around the lettering which I would normally remove, but as its in a slab I will simply observe for now. Nice clear overstrike however. Still haven't got round to photographing my LCA purchases, will show some in time. Jerry

These people have no morals they realise that unfortunately some people have issues ,mental,learning even just old age e.t.c. Sad really

There is nothing wrong with your coins as they are serving their purpose of educating.You can't go wrong for £19 for 2 silver coins over 300 years old. Obviously you can google and find many hammered coins to buy. I have bought from Historic Coinage (Clive), Saltford coins,Gillis,Lloyd Bennet,CC,Vosper and a few others including some US sellers. Auctions should also be on your radar although better pieces are sought after and bargains are difficult.I also often use VCOINS but you need to get in early on new listings.I don't discount ebay on new listings BIN and have sniped a few running their course. Don't forget we have online dealers on the forum who don't pay to appear on the top of google searches. I'm sure other forum members have favourites.Happy hunting.

Dont know anything about the coin but a fantastic picture

I will kick it off with the first 'varietal' buy for me, so my second example of one year but with a different die pairing - 1921 Freeman 190, dies 2 + B.