need thoughts on this 1838 farthing

[scott]

its 2 prong no . after DEF bit knocked, still scarce, what struck me as odd when it arrrived was the thickness of the numerals, so naturallyy i take a look to see whats going on, but cant help but notice the 8, it also has an interesting B in BRITANNIAR but thats not exciting.

for this picture you can see what got me interesting in investigating the date (the thin 3 compared to the others) BUT in the process i did spot that corner in the top right of the 8.

here is a zoomed in picture, you can see the angle, and i cant help but think that the 8 is over a 3 (looking at the shape of the righ side of the 8)

click it for a larger image, which shows the general shape of the 8

and i hate pressing 8 instead of 9...

Edited December 24, 2009 by scott

[Peckris]

click it for a larger image, which shows the general shape of the 8

and i hate pressing 8 instead of 9...

In my opinion it may be a recut 8 - if it is over a 3, then it's a totally different type of 3 than the one already in the date, so I'd have thought "unlikely"?