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[Avocet]

13 hours ago, Peckris 2 said:

Those prove my point about it being easier to see on more worn examples - the ear on those is far better preserved than you'd expect looking at the obverse as a whole.

The recessed ear is a three-dimensional phenomenon, but most photographs are taken from directly above. With a coin in the hand I'm sure we all look from a variety of angles without thinking about it.

With the images above I purposely used an angle to help accentuate the contours. It might be interesting to look at a similar view of a near uncirculated coin. Not to be found in my collection sadly!

[secret santa]

There is a collection of pennies in the next London Coins auction with several rare examples that I don't have on my rare penny site. Does anyone know more details of the seller (assuming they don't want to remain anonymous) ?

[Paddy]

I wonder if it may be Father Andrew Alexander's collection?

I made contact with my old school. Father Andrew's collection was passed to his brother on his death. I asked if they could pass on my contact details to the brother, but I have heard nothing since.

 

[terrysoldpennies]

1863 Slender 3   F44     Well I just can't believe my luck on this one,  I never thought I'd ever manage to get my hands on one of these 🤩

 

[terrysoldpennies]

Obverse

[secret santa]

Where did you find it, Terry ?

[Paddy]

On 5/3/2026 at 9:42 AM, Paddy said:

This 1915 Penny looks very much to be a recessed ear variety, but seems to lack the broken tooth. Any thoughts?

(Screenshot from online so no sharper image possible.)

 

I now have the coin in my possession. Seems pretty nice condition for one of these, despite the odd mark in front of the King's nose:

[terrysoldpennies]

53 minutes ago, secret santa said:

Where did you find it, Terry ?

I'll have to pass on that question for now Richard , but I will let you know in due course

[terrysoldpennies]

35 minutes ago, Paddy said:

I now have the coin in my possession. Seems pretty nice condition for one of these, despite the odd mark in front of the King's nose:

I think the problem is Paddy that without the broken/smaller tooth above the colon , you would be had put to convince a buyer that its a Recessed ear type .     Below is my coin which has a very slight damaged colon tooth , also another picture of a worn coin which is clearly a recessed ear, but you can see that the tooth is intact but very slightly smaller than the other teeth.  

If I were you I think I would try to find one with one of those faults on the colon tooth .

 

[Paddy]

25 minutes ago, terrysoldpennies said:

I think the problem is Paddy that without the broken/smaller tooth above the colon , you would be had put to convince a buyer that its a Recessed ear type .     Below is my coin which has a very slight damaged colon tooth , also another picture of a worn coin which is clearly a recessed ear, but you can see that the tooth is intact but very slightly smaller than the other teeth.  

If I were you I think I would try to find one with one of those faults on the colon tooth .

 

 

I am confident enough that it is a recessed ear, and that is good enough as it is going into my own collection. @Martinminerva also expressed the opinion that it was right in a previous post in this topic.

I already have an example with the broken tooth in only slightly worse condition, so I will keep both to cover my bases.

Neither will be sold until I pop my clogs, by which time I won't care anyway!

 

[Rob]

23 hours ago, terrysoldpennies said:

1863 Slender 3   F44     Well I just can't believe my luck on this one,  I never thought I'd ever manage to get my hands on one of these 🤩

 

Maybe p'ing in the wind as an idea, but given the shape of the three, is it a 3 with a damaged top half, then subsequently repaired with something like a Maundy 7 punch for example? Or any other smaller denomination for that matter? The reinforcing of existing legends is well documented, so to have such an unconventionally shaped 3 is fairly illogical, given the mint officials' mentality at the time. just trying to think outside the box given the relatively conventional lower loop.

[absence of uniformity]

1 hour ago, Rob said:

Maybe p'ing in the wind as an idea, but given the shape of the three, is it a 3 with a damaged top half, then subsequently repaired with something like a Maundy 7 punch for example? Or any other smaller denomination for that matter? The reinforcing of existing legends is well documented, so to have such an unconventionally shaped 3 is fairly illogical, given the mint officials' mentality at the time. just trying to think outside the box given the relatively conventional lower loop.

 

[Citizen H]

1864 half penny, looks like it had a crude hole made in it many years ago, a touch piece ?

  

[Peckris 2]

On 5/16/2026 at 5:42 PM, Paddy said:

I now have the coin in my possession. Seems pretty nice condition for one of these, despite the odd mark in front of the King's nose:

Sorry to burst your bubble Paddy, but I'm almost certain from the pictures that it's NOT a recessed ear.