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Slightly out of focus but a newbie from Colin Cooke. It isn't unc but has eye appeal and ticks the type box for now

Yes, you are the "guru" that I was referring to. I'm sure there's a way to move a posting between topics, BUT I don't know how that's done, so I have to use a "brute force" method! In any event, here's another recent acquisition, an 1874 penny (Freeman 70) that been graded MS65RB. I was really glad to be the high bidder for this coin at the most recent Goldberg auction. I think it's the current highest graded NGC or PCGS specimen.

Nice coin Non. They seem a bit underappreciated, the threepence's. Might have something to do with the ugly "pre-schooler learning to write" 3 on a lot of them as well as the size. One of my favorites is a 1911 I received in a bulk lot. Little beauty it is. cheers Garrett.

A separate invoice for each coin you win, eBay style? I've never won anything in DNW, you see.

Oh, mine's a pint!

If you like a farthing, Colin of aboutfarthings is also a great guy, and running a great website!

I've bought from both Rob AND Declan, both very knowledgeable in their fields! Rob was there when they made the very first coin, and has remembered everything that's happened since, and Declan will also do you very nicely too...both know a quality coin, and won't lie to you about it! Declan's also got a pretty groovy Facebook page if you're into that sort of thing, and both have got websites!

I was told by a predecimal guru that I should move my recent posting to this topic. So here goes: I recently made some Victorian bronze acquisitions to my collection: Victorian pennies of 1867, 1882-H, and 1885.

Double florins, Arabic and Roman 1s.

1844 Third farthing. Not the best picture, but an ok coin.

On the face of it I can understand you feeling that the number of teeth/beads is insignificant ,as it shows little on the overall appearance of the coin , but that's not the whole story. Taking Pre-Decimal bronze pennies,[ my passion ], in the 107 years of mass production of circulation type dies, there were only 19 obverse, and 13 reverse pennies with differing numbers of teeth/beads. [as yet found] . Usually the number of teeth/beads changed with the changing of the image or font . But not always . In some years, notable 1860 1874 1908 1911 and others multiple changes were made to the number of teeth/beads with little change to the image or font. This would suggest that The Mint was trying out different dies for the next generation of pennies, and with only small amounts of them being released into circulation. It follows that most of the one year only tooth/bead die types are scarce or rare. This obviously is a minimal visual change, but significant in terms of the sequence of the dies used. These changes were deliberate ,and not made by error or chance, so must be part of the Historical sequence of die experimentation in coin production at the Mint. Terry