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1862 penny - VIGTORIA or not?
secret santa replied to Voynov_BG's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
I agree. -
Penny 1862 2 over 1 Gouby BP1862G (J+g)
secret santa replied to Voynov_BG's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
I have now added this coin to my website - I hope this is OK with you Voynov ? -
Can you identify this please ?
secret santa replied to secret santa's topic in Confirmed unlisted Varieties.
That's because they are ! -
Can you identify this please ?
secret santa replied to secret santa's topic in Confirmed unlisted Varieties.
Many thanks for the responses to this. -
Can you identify this please ?
secret santa replied to secret santa's topic in Confirmed unlisted Varieties.
Thanks Rob - who's the baby ? (BM = British Museum ?) Was it issued in 1897 ? -
1877 pennies exist in a variety of widths. It's pity that you can't count the teeth on your examples. Gouby's Victoria penny book shows good examples. Here's a wide one.
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Spread of coins between grades
secret santa replied to MickM's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Well, he did say Freeman 8 closer ribbons above. -
Spread of coins between grades
secret santa replied to MickM's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
I think he means the F77 and 78 varieties with obverse 8. They are both rare in high grades. -
Spread of coins between grades
secret santa replied to MickM's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Tim, do you mean G reverses, or a different obverse ? -
This is the penny that was sold by Heritage last year for £150K - this guy needs reporting !!!
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Our friend Lukasz has put an E over P on Ebay but it's a beaded border penny, i.e. unrecorded. Do I smell a rat or is this an exciting new find ? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Victoria-Penny-1860-E-Over-P-Variety-Very-RARE/332425153468?hash=item4d66154bbc:g:WdsAAOSwT2dZ8E9b
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Baldwins of St. James's 9
secret santa replied to Rob's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
First of all, the coins are poorly presented, apparently in random order. I checked the pennies and they don't seem to be in any sequence, e.g. date, which makes checking them tiresome. Secondly, they have a bog standard F10 covered in verdigris at £200 - totally unrealistic. Frankly, I'm surprised and disappointed. -
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VICTORIAN-BRONZE-PENNY-KING-GEORGE-1917-VARIOUS-DATES-AVAILABLE-SEE-BELOW-/382253764824?hash=item59001990d8:g:VYsAAOSwFjlZuOSU Title says it all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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1873 penny. very wide colons after F D: touching the inner line and rotated to point towards the tooth
secret santa replied to terrysoldpennies's topic in Confirmed unlisted Varieties.
Here's a photo of an obverse 7 with that colon dot missing. Maybe they added it back in later and there may be obverse 7 coins with a mis-aligned colon ? -
Sadly there's no photo in their archive.
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Do you what lot number this was Pete ?
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here's Laurie Bamford's example.
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Can someone please tell me how to produce this overlaid picture ? I can flip the reverse photo in Paint but don't know how to superimpose a rotated picture onto the obverse.
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Pete sent me the following picture which nicely illustrates the source of the "crow's foot". It's interesting that, although the crow's foot is always in the same place, it's caused by a clash with another coin's reverse at an angle of around 30 degrees whereas I would have expected the reverse to be vertical.
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This particular clash on Victoria's neck occurs quite often on coins from the 1860's and 70's and has been referred to as a "crow's foot". If you search the posts for this you will see several mentions and examples. I have one on an 1877 penny. As Rob says, almost certainly caused by the folds on Britannia's dress.
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I actually bought it from Michael Gouby 14 years ago.
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1890 Penny Obverse Legend Difference
secret santa replied to zookeeperz's topic in Confirmed unlisted Varieties.
The trouble with early bronze coins is that date width differences occur so often that they are too numerous to catalogue and, because the final date numeral was often hand punched onto "blank" dies, the actual die variety does not differ between coins of a particular year and therefore does not, arguably, constitute different coin varieties. Michael Freeman didn't record date width differences within a given die type (with different Freeman numbers) but Michael Gouby did allocate different identifiers for a few "select" years with date width variations in his first book "The British Bronze Penny", e.g. 1889 narrow date, but then went on to record further variations in his follow up book "The British Bronze Penny 1860 to 1901". Collectors often collect these different date width variations but shouldn't really expect them all to be given different reference identities. But arguments as to what constitutes a "variety" will continue ad infinitum. -
Goodness me, Baldwins
secret santa replied to Coinery's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
I believe that Michael Gouby helps with the cataloguing of bronze coins for Baldwins, for example. -
If we keep it open, can we rename it more appropriately - "repos" is pretty meaningless.
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1890 Penny Obverse Legend Difference
secret santa replied to zookeeperz's topic in Confirmed unlisted Varieties.
I mention this in my description of Gouby Obverse R on my pennyvarieties website (see below).