Unwilling Numismatist

@Peckris 2 Just to confirm - this is a JH 6d? It almost looks like JH 1+B but there isn't enough in the images to be sure it isn't YH to add confusion.

Add them all, I'm up for a laugh - once it stops raining I'll go outside again and wont be seen for another {however long}.

Its worth looking for the varieties in the Vickies as that can add a little to the sale price. I'm no expert on the others, although I'm sure any grade of 1905 shilling would be rewarding in itself. Note that the 1887 shilling (I believe based on guesstimated size from the image) looks to be a 1+b, tricky to find and would make someone a good gap filler. Can't really see enough of the other vickies to identify them.

1200dpi in scanner terms is very intense. I think my coin scans were about 300dpi to get a reasonable size and good quality... ensure they are output as jpg files.

Thank you @seuk this has been most informative! - If you'd be interested in my poor examples, please PM me your address and I'll pop them in the post.

Sad to hear it's a fantasy piece, but also good to know to watch out for them.

or liz@celticcoins.com - She'll be a good resource on it too. EDIT: I'm going to sit on the fence with the caveat: I think it should be properly appraised by a professional. If the internet cannot provide a similar example, it's either a contemporary forgery or real. It looks struck, not cast and that would entail quite a lot of work in order to produce a fake which would not have any intrinsic or implied value without any solid provenance. It is not impossible for it to be a new discovery. Good luck.

With closer 8's - they appear slightly wider around the H.

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.