Bronze & Copper Collector

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Here is an example of a SEVERELY ABUSED half penny that I had found, that was my first specimen of the Die Letter A to the Right of the Lighthouse... Being on a fixed income I was grateful that I had found this specimen, it's poor condition not withstanding. The lines of the A, in my opinion, I believe are too clear despite the abuse to be anything else.... I would have to be convinced otherwise.

I know of 3 letter positions for the Die Letter A (Reverse G): Two to the LEFT of the Lighthouse (one CLOSER to the RIM, the other CLOSER to the LIGHTHOUSE) and one to the RIGHT of the LIGHTHOUSE (UNLISTED in Freeman). Only 1 letter position for the Die Letter B (Reverse E): To the LEFT of the Lighthouse... And 2 letter positions for the Die Letter C (Reverse F): Both to the LEFT of the Lighthouse (one CLOSER to the RIM, the other CLOSER to the LIGHTHOUSE)

DIE LETTER A to RIGHT of LIGHTHOUSE

DIE LETTER A NEAR LIGHTHOUSE

CLOSE UP DIE LETTER A NEAR RIM

DIE LETTER A to LEFT of LIGHT HOUSE

CLOSE UP DIE LETTER B

DIE LETTER B (REVERSE E with LCW)

CLOSE UP C NEAR LIGHTHOUSE

CLOSE UP C NEAR RIM:

Die Letter C BOTH TYPES:

Doesn't seem to be the correct reverse for a Die Letter C... No Die Letter = Reverse G (EXCEPT for a few VERY RARE specimens with Reverse E without Die Letter Die Letter A (All Types) REVERSE G Die Letter B REVERSE E Die Letter C (All Types) REVERSE F See images as follows

there was one that sold at the ny international show a several years ago too

As P.T. Barnum once said, "There's a sucker born every minute".... We have often seen ample proof of that statement.... If it's too good to be true, it isn't!

You really aren't a child of the digital world, are you Rob! Anyone can have a Google account, which comes with free email address. It's not INSTEAD OF your existing provider, it's AS WELL AS. You don't even have to use the provided email address, but you can use the free online storage and especially convert your docs to PDFs. Googlemail is webmail, i.e. you access it via your web browser, not your email program. Microsoft provide their own version of it - Windows Live - complete with free storage also, so theoretically you could have umpteen webmail addresses, each one with free email addresses (which you don't have to use), free online storage, and in the case of Google, a suite of online office programs. Having converted your Word docs to pdf then you can just re-download them again if you want, to print them off. Saved me the trouble of writing all that.... Although I thought most people had more than 1 email address anyway

Freeman: F-6 Obverse 1, Reverse B Gouby: BP-1860-E

Feel free to make offers on any unsold items or on the Buy it Nows.... Looking for about $200 including first class postage to the UK for the 1903 open 3 or the 1897 F-148.... Fedex shipping is $25 (costs me $35) but is more secure although still not insured...

UPDATE.. It is an F-148 Gouby-C with Reverse X... That's where I got the X from... Sorry about that, and Thanks

You might be correct... I'm not at home to check the catalog... It's an F-148... According to my collection checklist it is a Gouby-C..... I would have bet dollars to donuts that it was an X

I've listed some items on Ebay... Including some scarce half pennies, And Pennies, including an 1897 Gouby X a 1903 open 3, and some others.... http://www.ebay.com/sch/garyschindler/m.html?item=321416557985&ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 Thanks for looking....

I don't own this coin anymore, but the picture was taken while it belonged to me... You're welcome to use it, probably best to crop the coin from the holder though... Can't seem to find a better image though....

"I don't have much knowledge on coins" Caveat emptor!! probably doesn't have much knowledge OF coins either... or maybe he does... or possibly JUST enough knowledge..

Blessed are the chosen ones..... I didn't think an unc F-90 existed today

Its a question of completing a collection ...any serious collector of bronze pennies knows that there are only a very limited number of R18+ pennies available to them and in the case of the 1877 narrow date they might only get an opportunity once or twice to buy one....and none of them are in high grade. I think Bobs was quite a high grade Although I can't say definitely, it was probably the finest known... certainly the finest I have ever seen imaged... "The exception that proves the rule."