Halfpenny ID check

[Zo Arms]

Evening all. I'm still alive.

Silly question time. Picked this up on eBay the other day. 1875. The wide spacing of the colon, in relation to the G of REG, would suggest obverse 13.

Thoughts on whether the T's of BRITT are sufficiently touching, to make it a 13#, sought. 

Desperate coin I know. Been delivered but working away from home at mo, so sellers photos.

[Zo Arms]

[Zo Arms]

[Zo Arms]

And a screenshot of Bernie's 13#, to show the relationship between the I and the T's.

[Martinminerva]

Think it's a penny, Bob - bust of Victoria too big and too near linear circle at top to be a halfpenny. D'oh !!

[Zo Arms]

1 hour ago, Martinminerva said:

Think it's a penny, Bob - bust of Victoria too big and too near linear circle at top to be a halfpenny. D'oh !!

Of course it is.

Listed as a half penny but I was to busy looking at the finer detail to notice the elephant.

I'm back home tonight but yes. Definitely a penny. Thanks.

[DrLarry]

In the past few months I have been working on the identification of an unusual anomaly in the 1865 half penny.  I bring it to your attention out of respect to the principle of the group to improve our knowledge.   In four examples collected since 2024 the colons are I assume then the die differs from any I have seen since I've been collecting.  The colons are not rounded but square/diamond shaped.  The closest similar colons exist on the Canadian bronze coins.  I'm sure someone else must have noticed this but I can find no other references to this.  I have it in coins which are EF to fine and in each case the arrangement of the colons is I think the same. 

I will post pictures if anyone is interested.  

Edited 3 hours ago by DrLarry

[absence of uniformity]

3 hours ago, DrLarry said:

In the past few months I have been working on the identification of an unusual anomaly in the 1865 half penny.  I bring it to your attention out of respect to the principle of the group to improve our knowledge.   In four examples collected since 2024 the colons are I assume then the die differs from any I have seen since I've been collecting.  The colons are not rounded but square/diamond shaped.  The closest similar colons exist on the Canadian bronze coins.  I'm sure someone else must have noticed this but I can find no other references to this.  I have it in coins which are EF to fine and in each case the arrangement of the colons is I think the same. 

I will post pictures if anyone is interested.  

Attached image is a 1861 HP.

Edited 49 minutes ago by absence of uniformity

[absence of uniformity]

I noticed on this halfpenny the features detailed in the attached image. I know its not B/R but I was still interested to identify the possible cause/reason.

[DrLarry]

15 minutes ago, absence of uniformity said:

Attached image is a 1861 HP.

Have you posted this in order to make a comment if so you seem to have not made one 

[absence of uniformity]

4 minutes ago, DrLarry said:

Have you posted this in order to make a comment if so you seem to have not made one 

Im making you aware I have seen the same feature on a 1861 Halfpenny.

[DrLarry]

Oh yes on occasions I have seen it but nothing resembles this . I have a least 1000 1861 half pennies i always look to see if anomalies are accidental.  A strike to a round edge flatens tht normal colon.  But in the 65 the square is consistent.   

[DrLarry]

Each of these is a different half penny 1865 the col9ns are completely different to the normal 1865 obverse and those found associated with the two types of 1865/3.