Unwilling Numismatist

I said to Pete that I thought there should be evidence of the H as the bottoms of the 8's are visible, and using rarestpennies images I mocked up where the H should be - there are no remnants which would normally be visible, so its either altered very carefully or it wasn't an H to start with. The gap between 8's does look too narrow too. Edit: mock-up isnt exactly to scale but is a good representation.

And there was me having a very similar chat with Peter yesterday. The wrong obverse according to the "law" but absolutely no sign of an H ever existing.

Most of the stuff I buy seems to look like that

Even thicker, I have an 1819 in this box too!

This one definitely looks brass with a silver wash, given its state I decided a clean wasn't going to harm its value too much!

Certainly.

To be fair, the chaos doesn't ever seem to subside. Sometimes you need to part ways with it for a while to regain the will to try and overcome it.

Its so scabby I weighed it. Its only a little bit light 5g exactly. Fake 100% but I think contemporary rather than modern as it came from a neighbours fathers estate a few years ago.

Good day, hive mind. Is there an example anyone can point me to for reference of the said variety? I have one I would call "similar" but it would appear as it is quite abraded more potentially to be a H over Horizontal N. I have considered and referred to as many abraded 1820 shilling coins as I can find on the likes of Ebay, past and present and all of them show clear spacing between the bars of the H, even when almost flat, so I believe this one is different. I would appreciate any thoughts on this.

Update - Denver Mint type 1, lovely and lustrous. Not my cup of tea, but I'm sure it'll find a new home on Ebay soon. Being a Denver mint, it should be copper cored clad. I don't see any evidence of the copper line I see referenced, but Silver / Silver clad should be mintmark S from what I've read. I could be wrong. Only another couple of thousand coins to look through!

I've had this rolling around the bottom of a box for ... a few years. I was today old when I realised it might not be completely crap. Thoughts please!

Thanks, much appreciated!

One is ON the truncation (Rare), the other is UNDER the truncation (Common)

7 Million for 3rd (Veiled) portrait, 1300 for 2nd (Jubilee head) portrait.