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Hi Dicky. welcome to the forum . The 1861 penny, as with the 1860 - 62 pennies have a wide variation of date widths , as indeed so do a good number of dates throughout the bronze pre-decimal period of production, but during these first thee years of production the variations in position of the last digit seems to be almost infinite , as it can be found up to far, down to far, rotated , and in distance from the 6. Because of this, Its thought that the last digit was punched onto the die by hand. I show a few examples of this below Terry

Newbie, starting to look at pre-Tudor hammered again ... Henry VI Calais rosette-mascle Half Groat courtesy of Rob

I would take the card into the local Chinese chip shop Brian

And rightly so! Henry VI seems to turn up a lot of nice quality coins. It's great to get hammered!

Thanks Stu, no apparent 'reduction lines' on your sixpence!