I've never looked too closely at these series but I do have a pre-Italian unification coin somewhere. Some really beautiful designs.
For Bronze farthings the Michael Freeman book is quite good but hasn't been updated in a few years....
I haven't seen one though I don't follow it that closely. In any case I didn't think the Royal Mint was striking many proofs at this time.
Yes you're not wrong - the rare pieces are certainly priced as such now.
Excellent find - beautiful condition too.
The Royal Mint has annual reports from 1870 to 1975 (I think) available online now - there might some information in there.
Wow, $1,025 USD.
I saw http://www.psindiancoins.com/ which is a new reference if people haven't already seen it.
I did a freedom of information request:
Nice. Got the cert number?
How was it struck? Normal dies on a larger planchet?
Really? I thought they were all the same alloy.
Nice, this isn't a mule that I'd heard of. So a handful known I suppose?
Nice, thank you both - it was really tough without being able to read the legend. Is this supposed to be a hammered coin? The one I have is 2mm...
This belongs to a friend of a friend - they had no idea what it was and honestly I don't have much of a clue either - it looks Roman to me at a...
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