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Bought this from a collector in Russia - very interesting experience. Emails go through electronic interpretation smoothly and officially they are not allowed to export any coins (and maybe other objects) older than 50 years (or something like that) but it all worked pretty smoothly. He contacted me via my rare penny website.

1915 proof halfcrown anyone?!? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283927617418?hash=item421b679f8a:g:9QsAAOSwtABe9a1p

Here's an even better one - the exceptionally rare 1799 over 1806 farthing - and yours for only £2 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/353869251507

Good definition and lustre gosh take my eyes out 😆 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1799-George-III-Farthing-Rare-Good-Lustre-Definition-/115239255627?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

Next time he'll roll it in glitter....

and they say you can’t polish a turd

Nice one Richard, hardly seen any of those!

I'm glad this wasn't a penny of the same date.

by Arthur Daily...?

It was up for sale a couple of weeks ago Mr T on a forum, was trying to find out if it was genuine before I took the plunge. Thanks anyway bud 👍

Ahh, yes, a good and logical shout, thank you

Your second coin is real, just dirty. The micro lettering is very clear on your close-up. It wouldn't be like that on a counterfeit.

Die chatter and double struck are two different things. If a coin is double struck, it has entered the coining chamber a second time or failed to be ejected after the first strike. It would then get struck a second time. Sometimes the second strike is off centre and sometimes it's centred but every time it effects both sides of the coin. Die chatter is now referred to as Machine Doubling Damage in the US error market. Alan Herbert, a giant in US error circles, wrote, "The evidence is very clear that MDD occurs after the strike. The coin design is complete, meaning the die pair has done its job. The bouncing/chattering die moves metal that has already been formed. Struck metal has a different appearance than the metal shoved or moved by the bouncing die. Because of this difference it is possible to trace anything that occurs during the minting process. Anything that happens after the strike cannot be traced as to time or place." MDD is characterised as flat, shelf-like doubling. It is almost always on only one side of the coin and it is almost always the hammer die.

Funnily, in my opinion, the obverse looks good, but not so sure about the reverse, that looks too good.

Weight seems okay and from my phone at least nothing is jumping out as suspicious, but there are a lot of good fakes. Maybe do a search on the forums for previous discussions of fakes and see if there is anything to look out for.