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"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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Beautiful Conder token, westcoin.  |
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Just got my Ada Lovelace bimetallic £2 coin. Very hard to photograph.  Also my first 2024-dated coin - Year of the Dragon £5:  |
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Nice examples! |
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Very nice! |
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 Beautiful. The Ox moves slowly, but the Earth is patient.
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...and an interesting die crack from the base of the neck to the rim, below Gratia?
Lovely piece, zookeeperz!
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@daltonista unfortunately our coinage is rare if it doesn't have die cracks or repunches lol   Edited by zookeeperz
11/08/2023 7:32 pm
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Zookeeper great coin! I find RPDs, die cracks, Cuds, and other "errors" to be more interesting at least. Lots of them in the Provincial coinage series. "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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The 1812 British Naval Halppenny [sic], featuring Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson and (presumably) the ship, HMS Victory, that he commanded in the notorious naval Battle of Trafalgar, is an "anonymous" token, meaning the issuer is unknown.
This patriotic token appeared seven years after Nelson's death to encourage young men to enlist in the navy to help take down Napoleon and his expansionist plans for a Continental Empire. This explains the obverse legend: ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY.
More often than not the typographical error in the denomination slips by unnoticed -- or at least unremarked -- in dealers' listings and auction catalogs.
Non-local 1812 Halfpenny, Withers 1590.
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11/12/2023 11:08 pm
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Another great token Daltonista, You know, I had a good look at it before I read your back-story, and did not notice the mis-spelling.  The Ox moves slowly, but the Earth is patient.
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11/12/2023 11:17 pm
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And when the error is mentioned it will usually be described as P for F in HALFPENNY, though it is actually P over F.
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Great token, daltonista - and a superb copper penny from zookeeperz!  Quote:
unfortunately our coinage is rare if it doesn't have die cracks or repunches - Especially with those Victorian coppers of 1838-1859! |
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