Geo III Farthings & 1/2p's - Need Id's, Vlack #s, Etc.

All the pictured coins are contemporary copies.
Colincooke.com has good references/pictures for regal coins.Look in the collections area.

One problem you will have finding attributions is that the Vlack work only covers counterfeits made in the US, but most of the counterfeit half pennies etc were made in Emgland and I don't believe there is a reference for those. Best source is probably the site paralyse listed.I have his CD but it only shows the images with no descriptions. The website is probably better since the sale listing do give descriptions.

#4 - Regal or non-regal 1/2p ? Die clash above Britannia's arm (from ribbon on reverse)

Exoguy,
It seems that the 30 year guarantee for the sump pump is a lie. It wasn't so much that the door was flung open; it was more a seepage through the mailbox among the hundreds of Canadian coins, Tiffin, Nova Scotia, PEI and other Cdn. colonial coins, Roman uncleaned, Medieval British silver pennies, and King Charles to King George III farthings & halfpennies, that poured in after ebay started. The sand in the sandbags used to staunch the flow turned to mud instead, and without help to take the mud off, I'll never be able to get out of this quagmire. If there was A book, at a reasonable price, I would buy it. The most I paid for any of the 55 coins was $16.50 Cdn. The price of trying to buy all the books necessary to identify them would be way more than the cost of the coins, and the books are not available anyway. I've looked online and zilch.

I have been collecting since 1962 and have too many interests and have to cut down my areas of collecting. I want to concentrate more on the above parts of my collection and have no time to research another area. In my earlier collecting years, I never heard of Vlack ( wouldn't know from Aflack,quack), or counterfeit 1/2p's, or even Canadian colonial tokens, so never studied them. This site is supposed to be to help collectors, but more often than not, the responses are, "Go help yourself". I was just hoping someone here could go, snap, "I know that one". That's what I do on the Canadian coin section of this site.

The problem is counterfeit British half pennies is a very thinly collected field. As you have found references are few and far between. Somewhere I had a link to an the varieties of the Canadian Blacksmith tokens, but I believe it is on my other computer. I don't think there has been much new written on them since Howland Woods work in 1910. For the American made counterfeits there is William Antons The Forgotten Coins of the North American Colonies (Both the original and the 25th anniversary edition that go for around $60. The anniversary publication has not received great reviews though.)

Vlack is probably still the standard reference for the Counterfeits struck in America. He published a book in 1965 (which I have not been able to locate) and in 1974 he published a set of photographic plates that showed all the known marriages at that time. An actual copy of the plates is difficult to come by but they are available on line here at links at the of the page.
https://coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoi...n.intro.html
There have been new discoveries since then, to trace them you would need to go through back issues of The Colonial Newsletter.

For counterfeits struck in England I am not aware of much in the way of references, but a new one was published last year by the Colonial Coin Collectors Club (C4) Contemporary Counterfeit Halfpenny and Farthing Families (volume 1) (available on abebooks.com) In order to make identification easier it breaks them down into families of related pieces (families being pieces that are stylistically or punch linked.) Volume 1 discusses and illustrates some 54 different families.

As you can see it is a very broad field, and there aren't a lot of specialists. It makes getting an "I know that one!" response unlikely. I'm just beginning to dabble in the field myself.