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I don't know who was the buyer, but Martin Platt was the seller (azda's best friend! Ha,Ha). Decent example, and well worth the price, despite the scrub marks on the reverse.

Nice DF.I.....

It is especially hard to find a 1825 farthing with a sharp, un-doubled "5" in the date. Almost all of them have a doubled 5, either higher or lower than the original 5!

No MIke, That isn't mine. Yours has a little better shield, than mine had.

That might have been the 1869 (VF) that I sold him in 2015. He is a really goofy guy! Very unprofessional!

Definately a fake!

I have never personally seen one, but I have heard that they exist. Now I am trying to find out where I read it! Ha,Ha.

And the 1914 is the scarcest of the three!

Nice Penny Jerry. The broken tooth is right where it should be!

Jerry, that place is beautiful...great purchase. Sometime post some interiors of it.

Merry Christmas to all...from the Colonies!

It has either been chemically cleaned, or bead blasted with plastic beads. Either treatment will leave that "flat, matt like surface. It has been a nice coin, but must have had some issues.

Three nice pennies...especially the 75 wide date!

Not sure about that MrBad. Get on Michael Gouby's web site and go to the 1857 penny, he has pics of all of the varieties. (Michael-coins,co.uk)

9.5 tooth width to a SD, and 11 tooth width to a wide date...so it looks like a small (narrow) date. Also their is a small 7 and a long 7 in that year. The long 7 is the scarcest. The one shown is a small 7.

I can tell you it isn't the single finest MS65 from PCGS, because I also have one from PCGS also.

You are correct Colin, here is Heritage's reply to me telling about the Mule error in their auction! ... They still believe that NGC is correct with their identification of the Mule! Hello Bob, Thanks for your comment. I took a look but think that NGC got it right in this case. The rims are pretty poorly struck, but you can see in places where the beads are separate from the rim. Michael Peplinski Senior Numismatist – International Numismatics Please take a moment to browse our December Hong Kong auction at www.ha.com/3050. HERITAGE AUCTIONS 3500 Maple Avenue Dallas Texas, 75219 Direct: 214-409-1959 Email : mpeplinski@ha.com Fax : 214-409-2959 Visit our website: www.HA.com Dallas | New York | Beverly Hills | Paris | Geneva | Amsterdam | Hong Kong From: Bob Crawford [mailto:rlc35@aol.com] Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2016 8:53 AM To: Bid@ha.com Subject: Your Auctions and Bidding Question (Thread:1663505)

And don't forget Jay Leno Dave...his Mother is from Scotland!

I don't understand Utah and Idaho either 1849. The only thing though, is that both states as geographically big as they are... are sparsely populated. Idaho has 1.5 million people, and Utah has 3 million. Metro Chicagoland has more population than both of them put together.

British Ancestry in the USA.......Averages about 15%

In Heritage's (www.HA.com) December auction, they have on page 8 of the auction, two 1860 Farthings (both slabbed by NGC) as TB/BB. The first one is VF, and is correctly attributed. The second one, MS63BN, is also slabbed as a TB/BB is incorrectly attributed...it is a TB/TB...and both were slabbed by the same company! It happens all the time here. Buyer beware.

Exactly.....

This coin is a TB/TB example. Even though the reverse teeth have a somewhat rounded appearance, they are indeed toothed in reality. On a real BB example the beads are closer to the inner ring, not the outer rim. There is also a differance in the Bead count, though I don't recall what it is. Every coin dealer here in the US has a example like yours marked as a Mule, which is incorrect. I have a example I purchased from Michael Freeman on my website, if you care to see a authentic example.

H-a-r-d H-e-a-d ! jk..... Hope you can take a little kidding.....

The 1951 Pennies were released in one of the Carribean Islands (I think Bermuda), and were extremely common in the United States. In the late sixties, Gem BU examples were available for $8-$10 each.