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Found 3 Edward pennies in the immediate area, bout 15 sq m, maybe a purse loss, if so my first medieval one

Not watching it Jon, just flashes in front of my radar every time I scour e bay Victorian pennies.

The thing with trial strikes is that they are a bit of an unknown. If you look at the decimal patterns of the late 1850s, many of the flans laminated. The striking pressures will be different for the previous issue of copper pennies compared to that required for the thinner bronze equivalent. In the case of the 1/20th of a shilling pattern halfpenny, all known examples have this defect as does the unique F689 and probably other things struck on a flan of similar thickness. What cannot be known or appreciated by the layman is the number of unpublished failures suffered before they got it right. Anything that failed to make adopted status will be frozen in time, so a cracked die remains just that.

Same coin, with arguably dubious credentials of uniqueness, has now been on e bay offer since about 2011. Is this a record? link here

Couple of nice trial strikes.

It's been a while since I posted on here and meant to come on months ago!!! This I'm guessing was an auction lot for one of our sales last week? I don't do any of the grading or cataloguing for the auctions, consultants are used. I do the grading on the retail side, though any coins on the website which were there before I started were done by the old team.

was 10 pm as i was walking of the field last night in the Moonlight, love them last signal on the way back to the car hammy's, nice Sixpence of Elizabeth I, Mint mark is not clear, Went back this morning but no luck, there's always this evening though ;0)

Should anyone newish to the forum a copy of England's striking history is thoroughly recommended. Available from Chris (Predecimal), Amazon,good book shops and Coin Fairs. Sorts classes out nicely.

little edward I farthing, CIVITAS LONDON

The best way of cleaning coins is not to clean them. You can do untold damage quite unintentionally.