davidrj

This is a very complicated series, difficult to see from your photo, but it is possibly 7/5 A/R, the edge markings you describe are normal for this series, weights vary greatly Here's a 7/5 Coq/Corne lots of images here (nb click numbers in right hand column) and If you can handle some basic French go to the Amis Du Franc Click on "site Dupre" - hundreds of images submitted by members and if you register you have access to the expert system being used to try and identify all the different die varieties in use for the 1c, 5c, decime & 5 francs L'an 4 to L'an 12

No, just these, no idea how many others are potentially out there

I'll look out for them, seen the encased cents on ebay, never noticed the farthings, but the I tend to put "penny" in my searches

I was originally critical of the Kitchener coin, for all the reasons we've debated above. However if this is to be the first of a series, with darker images to follow, then maybe it is OK It's historically accurate to depict the early euphoria - "a great adventure", "it will be over by Xmas", the "Pals Volunteers" etc, so maybe the jury is still out on this one

A couple of advertising tokens from coin dealers, no doubt Rob will have their catalogues on file

Yes an interesting, and cheap sideline collection A couple more Tourist pennies - the Original London Eye These appear to be from three different sources, - unmarked, Spink & MB. Anyone know more?

We don't appear to have a specific area for exonumia - so I thought I would start a thread here Tourist Pennies sold to kids in gift shops at museums etc The top two are honest straight forward souvenirs and are obviously from the same manufacturer ( does H refer to the Birmingham Mint??) Both are 30.2mm diameter, the 1987 Ironbridge weighs 8.96g, and Llechwedd 9.2g The other two are more interesting The 1901 appears to be an electrotype, seam clearly visible on the edge, 30.5mm , 6.33g The 1887 is copper washed white metal, 29.1mm, 4.6g and is marked "COPY" One wonders why? Old pennies are available by the bucketload for buttons, and the kids could take home a bit of real history

Nice one!

Happy Birthday to you both!

Brittania recast - Thai style 2 Att for Siam 1890 (this year Minted by Heaton) King Rama V (the King from the King and I) was a moderniser and Anglophile, and an admirer of our bronze pennies

Difficult to say, top picture was an archive scan, second was done last night - might be purely scanning/photohop differences - but there are still remnants of blach gunge around the lettering - nervous of going down the rose thorn route The dark field stains always there ??ink, as I said coin is much better in hand, must learn how to image shiny coins The jury may be out on using for high quality stuff, but definitely worth it for reappraising the stuff in your junk box:- Portuguese Ceitil from the 1500s

Okay, I'm getting braver this a scarce but sadly holed penny - Gouby 1860 Jd - triple entered F plus other recutting errors an ugly specimen still - but the green gunge has gone [/ URL] the coin is a lot better in hand with lustre - scanning fails in this case

Thanks all for help, similar here nearly chucked it originally

being double struck doesn't help, but just had a suggestion by andyg on CCF, http://www.icollector.com/Hall-in-S...0s_i14157642 Looks a good bet to me - German - Hall-in-Swabia hand pfennig 1300s Really love this interwebby thing, remember when we spent hours in fruitless library searches

This was covered in the muck of ages in a recent bulk lot of hammered copper very thin 0.4mm, 17.8 to 18.3mm, 0.55g, yellowish silver colour

and two more :-

Finally decided to buy some Verdi-Care Here's first go - just the wiping technique, on some low value copper Top coins are before treatment but post acetone bath Soaking experiments to follow

As a collector of world copper, I gave up worrying a while back - let's face if you find the coin in the reference works (in English or otherwise) there's only a choice of two sides! I standardize my photo pairs, the side with the date on always goes to the left - this usually being the side I want to see when sitting in a coin tray

Welcome Rich

Greek coin

High Tide not, the the P to a space is clear on a real one

This one came from circulation masquerading as a penny back in the 1960s All right it's in crap condition, but very rare (a nominal mintage of 363,000, but probably far less) current values in USD from the 2013 Argentinian catalogue B $80, MB $250 One of those "find me another" coins

Boulton restrikes?

Remember that only folk over the age of 50 have any memory of UK coins other than decimal, there is a collector base of folk who scan their change, rather than/as well, as buying RM year sets.