Michael-Roo

Here's one I found last year, GV over B on the obverse. Extremely rare in any grade.

Indeed! 🙂

I'm pretty sure they were struck more often than on a weekly basis.... It does exist. I know my 17th century copper well enough to confirm the letter is an I, and which is even more obvious 'in hand'. I see people listing 1700 and 1701 on ebay, stating their coins to be the rare unbarred As variety. Unbarred is the norm. As with bars are the ones to look out for.

Here’s a recent find I thought I should share with the group. 1701 halfpenny with an obverse reading of IERTIVS for TERTIVS and, as far as I know, previously unrecorded. My initial, and obvious, thought was die fill on the crossbar of the T, but on closer inspection I see no evidence of a bar, and the letter is an exact match for the I in GVLIELMVS but not the second T in TERTIVS.

Halfpenny varieties also no longer loads.

https://www.colincooke.com/ccc_frontpage

Agreed, PMD. It has clipped the outer curve of the upper loop too.

Terry, Here's something I came across earlier this evening which I thought may interest you.

Thank you!

I have a 13 width. How unusual is this?

Prick.

Not funny.

Me too. £3, wins or no, is neither here nor there.

'Minor'? Ridiculous. How many confirmed examples do we now have, seven, eight? They've included the 1694 MVRIA halfpenny for many years even though, until a recent fourth came to light, only three were known. And if we're talking about early milled minor varieties, and whether or not they are deemed worthy of inclusion, just one 'off the top of my head' example of many, I'd suggest they might like to reconsider would be their 1675 farthing, no stop after CAROLVS. Again, been listed for years, and given a value, yet has anyone here ever seen one? I haven't, nor am I aware of anyone who has.

Same design as the old halfpenny trial dies. I have the 1957 one.

How about this for 'extra metal'.

The most common.

Standard 2/B, and not a proof.

Sachin Tendulkar, surely?

Strike a light!

I've a large bag of tulip bulbs in the shed. A grand a piece to anyone who wants some.

I can't imagine what their ugly coins might look like.... https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/72366/i.html?_ssn=coin.empire&store_name=coinempirenumismatica&_oac=1

'Ollies' were your regular marbles. The larger ones and ball bearings were 'Bullies'.

Yes, I thought it a tad mushy looking too.

'Light tooling'? Whitby Goth eyeliner. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374212849519?mkevt=1&mkpid=2&emsid=e90001.m43.l1123&plmtId=700008&mesgId=3024&mkcid=8&ch=osgood&bu=44013324433&trkId=edbf371e-b52f-493a-9f67-a641c0f92a12&cnvId=700003&recoId=374212849519&recoPos=1