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My pic of the Sandwich token, the best of the three

The description on the card is ambiguous. Difficult to say if it says pattern shilling nef, or pattern shilling not.

Sorry - I think you misunderstood me? When I said "chucked into the hopper", I meant the bin of output coins ready to be bagged up and sent to banks. After all, as far as the Mint were concerned, the experimental reverse would have been a kosher 1922 reverse, and possibly didn't think anyone would even notice the difference. They may even have had a few knocking around in employees pockets with strict instructions not to spend them, just to see how they would wear compared to the normal reverse.

Sorry to be a bit late to this. I'd say that a type set's scope is defined by an individual collector and their interests. For example, when it comes to silver, I'm not particularly interested in silver varieties (which are anyway "micro" varieties), and would settle for one of each denomination. As far as bronze is concerned, any variety collecting would start - and possibly end - with the LT as those were very definitely a first 'type', replaced by the high tide. For halfpennies and farthings, that's pretty much it. For pennies you could go down a very long road, starting with an 'open 3', the 1905s, all those 1908-9 rarities, etc. There's nothing to stop you having a basic type set of each denomination, then constructing a full set of pennies if that takes your interest.

I have always used the phrase "intentional design change" because I think that is where I found myself being led when looking at farthings. There will always be anomalies, but you have to try and least define thresholds for inclusion.