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[Michael-Roo]

1 hour ago, Coinery said:

Definitely not the genuine article, but will definitely be the coin in that little group that will catch the highest bidder out, as there’s nothing else in there they could possibly be wanting!

Same seller:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/287323936829?itmmeta=01KRX7WT4HCDJK4FW405YX1FA8&hash=item42e5d7583d:g:Zh8AAeSwC1ZqAMTQ

[Peckris 2]

4 hours ago, Michael-Roo said:

Same seller:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/287323936829?itmmeta=01KRX7WT4HCDJK4FW405YX1FA8&hash=item42e5d7583d:g:Zh8AAeSwC1ZqAMTQ

That's supposed to be silver?? 

[Michael-Roo]

48 minutes ago, Peckris 2 said:

That's supposed to be silver?? 

Possibly silver, I don't know. A genuine Anne farthing? Not likely. 😁

Edited May 18 by Michael-Roo

[Peckris 2]

6 hours ago, Michael-Roo said:

Possibly silver, I don't know. A genuine Anne farthing? Not likely. 😁

I'm not an expert on the Anne pattern farthings!

[wlewisiii]

There was a copper farthing in 1714 with Anne on it. According to https://en.numista.com/13073

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Only struck in the year of Queen Anne's death (1714), they did not circulate widely, to the extent that rumours started saying that they were of great rarity. Indeed Peck states that they were never officially issued and Spink lists them as Patterns. The following is an excerpt from the Department of Special Collections at the University of Notre Dame Libraries:

"In the last year of her reign the London mintmaster, Isaac Newton, oversaw the production of a few farthings, most of which were proofs, but a few may have been made for circulation. These coins were slightly smaller than William's farthings but of a much higher level of craftsmanship. Newton produced a more uniform product with less of a weight range between examples and sharper reliefs on the images."

There are no silver pattern coins listed. So, yes, I would say that that was an easily discovered fake and that the seller should be considered unsafe. 

[Michael-Roo]

2 hours ago, wlewisiii said:

There was a copper farthing in 1714 with Anne on it. According to https://en.numista.com/13073

There are no silver pattern coins listed. So, yes, I would say that that was an easily discovered fake and that the seller should be considered unsafe. 

There are silvers for both 1713 and 1714, but the portrait on the ebay coin is all wrong. Numista is never reliable. https://www.colincooke.com/ccc_queenanne.

Edited May 19 by Michael-Roo

[Rob]

Plenty of silver types, of which I am looking for a specific one. Without trying to state the obvious, it has cast copy 'written' all over it in the form of casting pits. Even if it was genuine, desirable it ain't.

[Michael-Roo]

5 hours ago, Rob said:

Plenty of silver types, of which I am looking for a specific one. Without trying to state the obvious, it has cast copy 'written' all over it in the form of casting pits. Even if it was genuine, desirable it ain't.

I see someone has bought it.

[Coinery]

Good, problem-free, example…😳

https://ebay.io/m/lSqVOm

[Rob]

9 hours ago, Coinery said:

Good, problem-free, example…😳

https://ebay.io/m/lSqVOm

I'm afraid I will have to agree with the vendor here. It is problem free - because the coin is too flat to see them.

[wlewisiii]

Heh. I think if I were in the market for an ... inexpensive ... 1696 William III crown, I'd spend about £40 more...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/267680267467?_skw=william+III+crown&itmmeta=01KTXMYXP9ZX8YEWMM0R42PBG9&hash=item3e52fcbccb:g:-BgAAeSw-7BqFFkB&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA0GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xAC2siVMxwuEmIkSb09NzHjbAJylzcku4DTGlSMlkrvowGK8wAOFrKxMBOleKQopG6Ahv7Uly1Rp72Syf%2BIdobKYcmhmWvHcdzP8f2lOUkxaa9pUcirOphDQYAt361LlEBzgeuRhmrZZQd%2BFzxLXRG7Pk%2BU0p7LwPV%2BJmklVMb1r4POn1XnuEM0LHTOHi0vRcx3OgewKJuCxy%2BwZ98j6zY4dYScrcjJjRv47Cd8YoYR5wB8Sfb0jfUBtQ%2B7wOKcD8A%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR6jb-7TXZw

[Coinery]

On 5/18/2026 at 9:20 AM, jelida said:

My thought’s exactly! There seems to be an influx of fake Lizzie halfpennies at the moment, I wonder about this one too with the key over woolpack facing the wrong way and a very uneven border.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/287335422050

Jerry

https://ebay.io/m/iWzR6k
 

😳

[jelida]

9 hours ago, Coinery said:

https://ebay.io/m/iWzR6k
 

😳

Yup, that’s another one. 
 

Jerry

[wlewisiii]

So one of my other areas is French coins. I love their big silver coins. From 1974 to 1980 (killed by the Hunt Bro's attempt at cornering the market) they had a 41 mm & 30 gram .900 50 Francs coin. I still need a 1979 for that series and was looking on ebay. Now melt for them today is $60 USD and I see one at $72. Ok, reasonable. But bad feedback. Look at his other listings and lots of obvious fakes - an 1812 Napoleon 5 Francs for $65 (!) and even more humorously, a Kingdom of Hawaii 1883 (46,538 remain of 499,000 minted) in seemingly UNC condition. If real, an easy $1600 coin. $65 as well. Yeah, I think I'll get my 50 Franc coin somewhere else... 

The original I looked at: https://www.ebay.com/itm/800122943117 

Clicking on the seller's other items is when the "fun" begins.