davidrj

My first guess would be a jeton from Spanish Netherlands, Philip IV, 1651

Found it! mine has the rentered 4 like your penny plus possibly a broken 7, corrosion doesn't help. Your example is much clearer and confirms at least that the 4 over 4 exists

I have a poor example showing the identical re-enterred 7 and 4, posted some years ago on here, but can't find the thread

Sorting out non-magnetic coins is a cheap automated process, looking at individual coins for errors is not cost effective Mind you I would put it past them to mint some more as "collectors coins"

A clear stripe on this 1904 penny

I agree, this is a much later product of the Royal Mint But I've seen similar on French 10 centimes and other bronze coins. When it occurs on US cents, they are referred to as woodies for wood grained toning

I have 15 & 16 recessed ears, both in good EF but still looking for a decent filled 5 1915 though. I agree 1915 is harder - V R Court figures from circulation coins were 1915 277/2425 1 in 8.75 = approx mintage of 5.4 M 1916 921/4013 1 in 4.36 = approx mintage of 16.1 M So approx 3 times as many 1916s than 1915s, and you have to search twice as many 1915s to find one by comparison for other 20th C scarce pennies Court estimates the following mintages 1903 open 3 37,300 1908 F164a 55,550 1909 F169 23,200 1911 Gouby X 188,000 1926 ME 107,750 1946 dot 384,200 He didn't find any 1922/7, and no mention of the 1909 dot Good luck folks for finding any of these in top grade!

Thanks Nordie, by deceptive I meant the picture not you! recently wasted money on what I thought were both an interesting 1862 and a possible 1863 with an usual 3, both were bog standard when they arrived. David

Did anyone here buy this 1922 penny. I couldn't make my mind up whether it was a dot on trident 1922, but once it went past £25 I decided it was probably one deceptive eBay picture too many.

I wonder what would happen if someone actually used them to pay a court fee. Who would then reimburse ther court or other recipient?

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-3390519/I-buy-Royal-Mint-commemorative-coins-bulk-credit-card-gain-airmiles-cash-bank-s-refusing-accept-them.html

And a Happy New Year to all from me too! ?

Thanks Brian, a Merry Xmas to you and all on this great forum David

I tried signing in using Facebook, got an error message saying davidrj was in use by another user

I had problem inserting a link, ending up just pasting the URL which seemed to work. Can't find a button to review what I've written before I post

My New Year resolution is to take a more active interest in halfpennies! I've ordered Mal's CD plus I found that the Apr/May/July 2004 issues of Coin News with Iain Dracott's articles are still available here - http://www.tokenpublishing.com/backissues.asp?pid=2

Looks great on my Win10 machine, not tried it on the Ipad yet

Agreed, all my new purchases get a degrease with an acetone soaked cotton bud

Discounting proofs and stuff from modern mint sealed bags, all coins have been handled by somebody, I've never had someone give me change using cotton gloves or handling every individual coin by the edge! Just serendipidy that some coins develop a fingerprint or carbon spots as they age, there's a lot to be said for nice even toning on bronze rather than chasing lustre

Done!, Many thanks Mal David

Nice pictures, the ones in Freeman are awful. How do we order your CD please?

I think I make out Henricus and civitasd???????, short cross penny

Having spent an hour studying the seller's pics, I think it's a bog standard, but interesting F39/BP1862C The obverse looked exciting due to the gap between the B and Victoria's head - there's a missing serif on the B. The obverse looks odd because there is just a trace of the linear circle below the date - this is normally well struck on these

Thoughts on this 1862 I've just bought (seller's pics) + Interesting obverse, not sure which until in hand, and possibly halfpenny date or is it because the linear circle is totally missing from the exergue???

I know I've shown this one before. My Triple F (sadly holed, but made it a very cheap Ebay pickup) is the ultimate Friday afternoon penny, legend disintegrating on both obverse and reverse. As well as the triple F, the second T of Britt is broken, the reverse has a broken E in ONE (?L over E) plus a raised dot between the E & N of PENNY similar to Gouby BP 1860 Le