Colin G.

I often wondered as a farthing collector if the 1859 Ansell variety dies had ever made the transition to the farthing world like many other sovereign dies at the time...unlikely I know, but I would have liked to have ruled it out. Is there any information out there to clarify one way or the other?

Or plastic made to look like leather would be a more accurate description

Leather...ish

My brother was a banker until he retires early a couple of months ago on a 2/3 salery pension. For us mear mortals the days of big pension annuities are long gone.

I use the Lighthouse Optima albums which are slightly smaller than A4, when combined with the sleeves for 2x2 flips/paper envelopes they have been fine. The farthings still look a bit lost, but it gives you more room to write all the information down

A lot of trade weights bear a royal mark, so I would have assumed the same for coin weights that there would have been some form of official weight set

Hah, yes, indeed! Strangely I've never fancied the cabinet thing, not sure why? Whilst I don't think I shall ever find them in a grade that interests me (not that I'm even going to look for them at the moment), but there are a good number of legend variations, even for the Crown N! And then there's... I do think a full-size coin album could be pushing it though? Fascinating...cabinets have never appealed to me either...I don't even know why

Many happy returns!!

Stu in fairness I am the opposite, I tend to use Withers as my reference, and have not really looked at North/Spink in any great detail for this series, and that has mainly been due to the fact that Withers break the classifications down in to greater detail . Withers do show the dates overlapping, but the series is broken down int smaller time periods. Type 28-29 : 1300-1310 Type 30 : 1310 -1314 Using date alone the type 28 could potentially be attributed either way, however type 30 has been attributed to Edward II. Although Withers do clearly state that they feel the farthings are not that easy to classify from a date perspective because of prolongued re-use of the remaining dies, and therefore additional combinations can be found which could potentially have been produced during either reign, but for the purposes of classification they have been attributed to a specific time period.

Me too!!

I remember that one from Colin Cooke's collection...very nice!

Best way to lower that blood pressure is to buy a few farthings Always works for me....wishing you a speedy recovery!!

Someone from my home town came up with the design, so I have to like it!!! We have actually won something The inscription is on the inner rim which looks to be a new feature

I appreciate that it is an initial mark punch and not a letter punch, but it just does not seem to resemble a C as it would have been produced at that time. Is there any chance of a montage of possible initial marks for the series that you know exist for comparison? I could see it as some form of double rose...possibly if I squint and hop up and down on one leg....maybe

Sorry but I wouldn't buy the "C" theory mainly due to the shape. It is a square edged C, and whilst admittedly I am a farthings man, I cant recall seeing any C's that even closely resemble that shape at that time. I am still mulling over options and will comment further at some point

Many happy returns

Thanks for the vote of confidence Stuart !!

Welcome to the forum, glad to see you made it. I can see you are already getting some advice from the others.

The fat 8 is the more common variety, with the narrow 8 being scarcer. However neither are anywhere as scarce as the 1862 fat 8. Interesting to see that NGC have listed this minor variety.

Link added. Full time job you have as "link inserter"

It looks too even for lustre, perhaps an attempt at falsely applying lustre to a toned coin?

Welcome to the forum, I have to admit those Gothic florins are quite appealing

Really enjoyed that

Apparently this is a case of bad journalism, the finder and landowner have not waived their reward, a press release from the museum was misinterpreted Bet that made the finder panic when he saw it!!