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I believe it is interesting when coins were cut also, how consequentially diminutive they would become. I have what purports to be a half of a penny which is smaller in fact than what by the nature of it's cutting to be a farthing. In essence I would believe that in fact these coins continued to circulate, some being accepted based on the need of the recipient, but others may have in fact duly been discounted because of their diminutive status. I have numerous, several dozens in fact, of cut halfpennies, and farthings. They would be quite interesting to study with an accurate to 1/100th of a gramme scale.

Which is something I find with latter day references on Scottish, they tend to lump, overlook varieties etc. Coincraft made a reasonable attempt, but still overlooked some covered in earlier treatises. It would be interesting to get all the Eddie the I pennies out and weigh them to see the variances though.

I have some 1950's era references on Scottish coins, funny how the illustrations were usually hand drawn and almost cartoonish by comparison to our nowadays colour images at high res.

So are you telling me you will sell me your Tealby Pennies for a mere Quid?

Filled dies are very very common, I have a pile of coins on my desk now from circulation and a few of them have filled dies, mostly the pennies. I would doubt that you would get much more than the quid it is worth.

Hard to tell from the blurry image, but it could be a filled die error, this is where grease or something gets in the cavity that forms the letter in this case the E of one. This is the more likely, as I don't think it would be optimal to forge the Gibraltar coins, because they more likely get looked at and are not as easy to pass off as the British coins.

BTW welcome back Syl

There were standards in grains that they had to conform to. But you have to factor that even within one mint there were variables, and then after the coin left the mint the real fun began with sweating(shaking in a bag) or just plain outright clipping of the edges to remove the silver. It would thus be rather impossible to ascertain an accurate weight range for the coins. I have some pennies from Edward I that have been clipped free of all legends.

That sure is unfortunately the truth too. But I even find that with my Scots stuff. Quite often very rare or unique stuff is not even bothered with.

Somewhere in some bank, I have a bunch of Edward I pennies from the first coinage ca. 1272-1280 that were minted in Canterbury. During that coinage, I believe the pennies were either minted in London or Canterbury only and none of the other regional mints.

'Tis an Eddie the I, Canterbury mint.

Someone along the line, probably more recently, wiped it with a cloth to take off dust etc and rubbed some of the patina away.

I agree, just let Scotland go free and you keep Gordie, okay? Deal?

I cannot convince my wife to buy me the Lenticular Pig coin, so I am not even going to try for Spudnik.

Nah, it is just a Scottish sponsored plot in the BRM to discredit HRH and make her let Scottyland go free. Saorstat Albanaich!

I have done the same with Russian fakes on ebay, and so have numerous others. But the auctions are still present, doesn't hurt that the sellers are powersellers and ebay loves them.

Like ohmygawd, fleaBay actually removed a fraudulent auction. Record that one for the books, that so rarely happens.

This example is .925 silver, they went .500 after 1920, then cupro-nickel after 1947. Neat example of a WWI era tanner.

Well the language would have to be Latin, but the lettering could be abbreviations including down to one character for a word. The piece is not gold, but bronze.

Not British, but English namely Angevin era token. The fun part of these pieces is you see them from time to time for sale and not much is known about them. A few types are more common and seem to have originated in what is now Germany, but others originated in the Low Countries or France. I suggest the Angevin link because of the Fleur De Lis device on the reverse. This piece is most likely 14th-early 15th century in time frame. The enigma of them is that many times they have seemingly meaningless legends which may have meant something contemporarily but are indecipherable now. What is perplexing is the Fleur De Lis and the ship on the obverse which suggests a contemporary Noble gold coin. Because these are found from time to time, but so little is known about them they really do not command much interest or price. Which is unfortunate, because in my estimation they are most fascinating pieces. BTW feel free to post these inquiries at will, it makes the forum interesting.

Just posting the image so I can hork up everybodies bandwidth Definitely not an English coin, perhaps a token?

She can come grade my coins anytime.

I am sure they are all mostly middle aged balding pot bellied guys, and not some Czech supermodel with an 'ova at the end of her name.

I have had other people's mail deposited in my mailbox many times, my PO number is one off of a dentists office address, so I get their mail all the time. I usually just put it back in the post box in the hopes they will deliver it as addressed, but they don't, it comes right back to me. So I finally took a short stack of these up to the clerk at the window and pointed them out, they are not my address etc. When the post office gets handwritten unbarcoded letters they go through a manual sort, they are then barcoded with whatever information the person entering it puts in. So if it is wrong, it gets the wrong delivery bar code and ends up in my post box. So now I have to block off the ridiculous bar code to insure it will not try to cozy up with my mail in my post box.

Ah the snoopy doopy Postie clerk that has to know everything?