Any Experienced Farthing Collectors Out There?

[Coinery]

Anyone have links to any published information on the C2 copper farthings, the mints, the coins, the milling, etc. (BNJ?).

Also, just as a starting point, can anyone stab a guess at how many obverse and reverse dies there may have been for each year (including minor legend varieties)?

What would be the BCW equivalent for a C2 copper coin?

Edited June 26, 2012 by Coinery

[Peter]

Anyone have links to any published information on the C2 copper farthings, the mints, the coins, the milling, etc. (BNJ?).

Also, just as a starting point, can anyone stab a guess at how many obverse and reverse dies there may have been for each year (including minor legend varieties)?

What would be the BCW equivalent for a C2 copper coin?

Your not asking for much The best information for CH 11 would be Colin Cooke catalogues and web site where you can see two major collections.

Pecks book will also assist.

[Coinery]

Anyone have links to any published information on the C2 copper farthings, the mints, the coins, the milling, etc. (BNJ?).

Also, just as a starting point, can anyone stab a guess at how many obverse and reverse dies there may have been for each year (including minor legend varieties)?

What would be the BCW equivalent for a C2 copper coin?

Your not asking for much The best information for CH 11 would be Colin Cooke catalogues and web site where you can see two major collections.

Pecks book will also assist.

Thanks, Peter!

[Colin G.]

Anyone have links to any published information on the C2 copper farthings, the mints, the coins, the milling, etc. (BNJ?).

The problem is that it has not formally been done yet!! There have been catalogues that have detailed known varieties, but to my knowledge no detailed study of the series has been undertaken other than the information released by Colin Cooke in his farthing lists.

As a result the best chance we had of a detailed study was the work being undertaken by Colin Cooke, but whether it will now ever become a publication is not known.

[Coinery]

Anyone have links to any published information on the C2 copper farthings, the mints, the coins, the milling, etc. (BNJ?).

The problem is that it has not formally been done yet!! There have been catalogues that have detailed known varieties, but to my knowledge no detailed study of the series has been undertaken other than the information released by Colin Cooke in his farthing lists.

As a result the best chance we had of a detailed study was the work being undertaken by Colin Cooke, but whether it will now ever become a publication is not known.

Gosh, what a shame and a waste it would be if his efforts didn't fruit in the way he likely intended!

[Peter]

Anyone have links to any published information on the C2 copper farthings, the mints, the coins, the milling, etc. (BNJ?).

The problem is that it has not formally been done yet!! There have been catalogues that have detailed known varieties, but to my knowledge no detailed study of the series has been undertaken other than the information released by Colin Cooke in his farthing lists.

As a result the best chance we had of a detailed study was the work being undertaken by Colin Cooke, but whether it will now ever become a publication is not known.

I think with Colin Cookes collection and Peck(maybe Bramah)it could become quite definitive.

You will have to draw a line on varieties somewhere.Early copper is so hit and miss.Quality William 111 is so thin on the ground I have just tried to get reasonable examples.

Before Colin died he had covered several series and published his catalogues with notes.Peck missed stuff Bramah had picked up before.Colin swept it all up.Aboutfarthings have taken the post 1771 coins another step forward

[Colin G.]

I think with Colin Cookes collection and Peck(maybe Bramah)it could become quite definitive.

You will have to draw a line on varieties somewhere.Early copper is so hit and miss.Quality William 111 is so thin on the ground I have just tried to get reasonable examples.

Before Colin died he had covered several series and published his catalogues with notes.Peck missed stuff Bramah had picked up before.Colin swept it all up.Aboutfarthings have taken the post 1771 coins another step forward

I agree, there is some great information there in the lists, but you know the book would have been a step further and would have been complimented by the accompanying knowledge that would have been included within the text

[Coinery]

Can I ask for your thoughts about this: http://jonblyth.com/coins/coin-details.aspx?id=1475

The first three letters of CAROLO are obviously pointing towards a corroded/knackered die so, in view of the lustre and high grade, is the weak britannia reverse (although unconnected to the obverse, strictly speaking) also about die integrity?

Would you say it's twice the market value with the price?

[Peter]

You have to be really keen to buy that.It isn't nice

[Coinery]

You have to be really keen to buy that.It isn't nice

I have to confess that I did...quite some time ago! It has been slabbed since then ( not by me) and I paid a lot less. I was so attracted to the colour! I couldn't get over how a piece of copper could look as good as a B&Q compression joint olive!

I was surfin' to see how the 4's typically looked on the type, as I spotted a coin on eBay with a 4 that looked so much like a 5/4 I was going to buy it just to see...I just couldn't justify it on this occasion! It was then that I stumbled upon this surprising link!

I will be selling it on, now I've realised my interest in copper goes back another two generations!

I have to say, though, it's an amazing area for someone to research, I've barely seen a die the same! O's all over the place, there must even be an O as an earring somewhere?

[scott]

i have a couple of farthings i have identified from colin cookes collection, into william III, there is probably more to discover.