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I agreed Martin, and here it is. Digital microscope (x140) picture of 'H' to follow. Any views please, I've struggled to classify it as a fake myself......but then what do I know about metallurgy!?

I believe there is also a rare 1890 date variety which is not documented by Gouby. The 9 is clearly higher than the numeral 8. It also seems to be rotated clockwise a little and, perhaps, has a longer tail.

Have been looking for a decent one of these on ebay for years. Have only seen a couple of lower grade ones, and I'm thinking the variety is 'rare', rather than 'scarce' as per Gouby.

It just looks like a die flaw to me, from rim to top left of E, then onwards down it's LHS.

I was hoping, and expecting, it to sell for quite a bit more than that.......although I guess I shouldn't complain as bought it on eBay about 20 years ago for £11, before variety was well known.

I recently finished cataloguing someone's excellent Victorian Copper Penny collection and, as a result, felt that I was now in a position to have a go at listing the 1843 varieties which I know of. It may not be a complete list, but I think it will be pretty close. I now know of seven different types of 1843 penny, and I have summarised these into a one page jpeg image which I now attach. The actual image on my own computer is over 6 times the size of this attachment, so if anyone wants a copy of the full image then please PM me. I thought that this may be of interest to some other members (and so did Jerry), as I am unaware that anyone has ever tried to do this with a rarer date in the YH series.

Shall we set up a 'More Farthings' thread!? Here is a penny which I found last week:-

That was my immediate thought too Jerry. I sold an F78 in similar grade to Mike Hopkins several years ago; still haven't seen any of the coins I passed to him come up for sale anywhere.....and his heirs never contacted me to confirm that his collection has been found.