Introduction And My Coins!

I'm also doing well with farthings after picking up a couple of bulk lots cheap on ebay. Can you imagine a time that a 1/4 penny was actually worth enough to have a separate coin for? Let alone a fractional farthing! 1/3 farthing = 1/12 penny! And here in Canada no more pennies will be produced as they are no longer worth the cost of manufacture....

Love the crowns too. A coin you can hold in your hand and actually feel it's worth....

Welcome R-Dawkins.

Pennies to look for are:
1954 ( as rare as hens teeth )
1933 - dream on!

More realistically pennies minted at the Heaton or Kings Norton mints, both in Birmingham, should not be too expensive. They can be identified by tiny letters "H" or "KN" next to the date. They were only minted in certain years. As far as my sources go the years are:

H - 1875,1876,1881,1882,1912,1918,1919
KN - 1918,1919

Kuh 85, re your comments about the farthings-
During WW2 my dad was a boy from a poor working family. When he went shopping for his mum, if the change was only a farthing he was allowed to keep it. Once day he had saved 4 farthings and bought himself a big sticky bun with sugar icing as a rare treat. Unfortunately on the way home he dropped things and lost one of the pennies in change. His stepfather ( hated by my dad ) demanded to know where the missing penny was and was told ( truthfully ) that it was lost. Stepdad then found the paper wrapper from the sticky bun ( ooh-ooh) and assumed my dad had lied, spending the lost penny. He then gave my dad such a good hiding that my dad never forgot it! it goes to show even as recently as then a farthing was worth having.

LOL. That would be the exchange rate around 1940. Today you could not even buy the paper bag for that.

very well :)

i thought it would be pointless since they are mostly pennies and half pennies so it would be rather boring!

So I've picked some of the coins I really like and those that dont fit into my collection or are part of series I dont really collect...

A half penny error coin which is blank on the obverse



Napolean III Centime that I really like



1896 Penny



My 1819 Half crown



A find (shipwreck coin from the merentsjin)



AND MY FAVOURITE - THE 2 OUNCE CARTWHEEL PENNY NEXT TO MY NORMAL CARTWHEEL PENNY





As you can see, I'm not particular about grade.. I collect what I can afford and can get my hands on.

... oh and I forgot
to CCF

PS Love that half crown coin from 1819

Dawkins-

Nice 1819.

That ha'penny isn't an error, you can't strike one side of a coin. The monarch side is the obverse.

If two planchets went into the die together, both inside faces would have some transfer from the pressure, and both would have railroad rims (see glossary).

If you weigh your piece, it's prolly significantly lighter than normal, from being filed down.

I try to learn something every day.