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Henry VI Groat Annulet Issue c.1422-1427 Calais Mint Incurved pierced cross mintmark.

mrbadexample...chingford....pleased to meet you..... pwa.....i'm very disappointed. prep

Yes, that's the thing. Once you've got the regular items, you move on to the rarer stuff, and the cost keeps going up and up !!! .......but it becomes very addictive, and you can't help yourself.......

that first one? was the guy adding it drunk?

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

OK so this is milled, but I'm still sticking it in the hammered section! I've always believed the lines on the obverse to be adjustment lines, but some have suggested that it's likely that they are in fact lines to deface the king's portrait made by an anti-royalist. What do people think?

Do link us to the thread on your forum when you put it up! There are some collectors of French coins on here who'd be delighted with your link.