Penny Acquisition of the week

[Bernie]

20 hours ago, Mr T said:

Is there a .pdf of the Bernard Workman Collection auction available by any chance? I found https://auctions.sovr.co.uk/index.php?option=com_timed_auction&auction_id=26 but wanted something more offline.

Auction details of collection, starting at page 11, lot 186 online.

Sovereign Rarities

Edited February 2, 2025 by Bernie
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[jelida]

A nice penny from Ebay, 34 Euro including postage. Considerable residual lustre that doesnt seem to show in the pics - nicer in the hand!

Jerry

[jelida]

And I was surprised to spot this in a little tub of coins in my local auction at the weekend; somebody else must have too, as it went for £170 plus commission. But a bargain I think.

Jerry

[PWA 1967]

They were two good buys Jerry, well spotted 👍.

[secret santa]

On 2/2/2025 at 12:14 AM, Mr T said:

Is there a .pdf of the Bernard Workman Collection auction available by any chance?

Steve Hill of Sovereign rarities sent me a nice 4 page Word document containing pictures of most of the coins as a pre-auction publicity release. If you let me have your email address, I'll mail it to you.

[Rob]

There was a printed catalogue of the pennies only. They might still have some copies if you ask.

[Mr T]

Excellent, will do secret santa.

I'll look into that Rob though hopefully being in Australia won't an issue.

Thanks all.

[alfnail]

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.

 

[PWA 1967]

I think there are a couple of date types in Gouby that are rare rather than scarce and maybe not knowing how many will turn up in the future.Most that are scarce in low grade will be much harder ( rare) in higher grades, 1890 being one of them 👍.

[Peckris 2]

On 10/12/2025 at 12:21 PM, alfnail said:

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.

I'm surprised - I find that 1887, 1889-1892 are by far the most common buns even in high grade.

[alfnail]

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. 

[Peckris 2]

Ah, you're talking about varieties (the post above didn't mention that)? The regular 1890 is as common as muck.

[blakeyboy]

i've been looking for a good 1890 'dropped 90' for ages.

My only example is a VG one found for me by Mike Hopkins....

[secret santa]

I bought an F33 with I over I in BRITT at Noonan's last week.

It's my second example, but with a different overstrike:

And the previous one:

[jelida]

Finally, after a month of challenge getting BT/Open Reach to repair my landline I at last have acceptable broadband and can post some recent acquisitions.

First an example F10 new obverse 2*, £20 at Ebay auction.

[jelida]

Then a decent 1863 'open 3' , £30 at Midland Coin Fair.

 

[jelida]

An 1874H F69, £17.10 on Ebay.

 

[jelida]

An 1889 F127 narrow date,13.5 teeth £200 on Ebay.