Howdy peeps, I finally scored a St. Patrick's Farthing this past weekend (I actually scored 2 but only one has arrived) and I am tickled to death with her. I've wanted one for so long now but everyone I find, always goes way way way high and I end up sitting alone in the middle of the road, like a toad, with no coin to take home. :crying: But finally, there she was, sitting amongst a bunch of other coppers and looking pretty beat up but I spotted her the second I saw the pic. :kewl: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150366599093 There's also a weird coin we can't figure out (from the St. Pats, one down and one to the left, in the main picture) and it's made of lead. :bigeyes: I may post it at a later date, to see if anyone can figure it out. But for now, here she is: Will Nipper stopped by this afternoon and currently has her in his possession, so he could attempt to attribute it, which he did and considering there are somewhere around 300 varieties of these, I don't know how he did it but he did: I'm hoping to find out from either the current owner of that one, or previous owners, whether it has a reeded edge, like mine, since everything else matches up perfectly and by the looks of it, there are now 2 of that variety (there could be more known but at the time of the C4 auction in 2004, they didn't know of any others). Post your St. Patty's if you got'em! :thumb: Ribbit Ps: The one at auction sold for $350 + fees, so I think I did alright.
GREAT pick up Toad! :thumb: It's very hard to come by these, especially TWO in one week! I think you did really good on finding that one in that lot, it takes a lot of patience to do that type of stuff. Congrats!
I agree- that's a pretty amazing pickup out of a group of mundane-looking stuff. Great find, Toad! Will Nipper must be something of an authority on these- he devotes a lot of space to the type in his book.
Any idea where it was dug up? One of the fascinating aspects of some of the colonial era coins on back is if a detectorist found it, it might have some provenance - a definite nice thing about the Portable Antiquities Scheme in Great Britain, I have some 17th century tokens that have been recorded by the finders since they were significant finds, but also found in unusual areas which adds to the interests and the intrigues of the pieces. These St. Patricks tokens circulated to some extent in the American colonies, one wonders where this came from.
