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...
Not sure but I remember reading that apparently central bank gold reserves that held sovereigns were searched over the years (presumably someone...
Not necessarily - I think some coin designs are approved with open-ended mintages (i.e. if sales are good they keep making more).
British Commonwealth coins for me.
It's definitely there for the penny and sixpence (I think) at least but Jerome Remick's book reports it for the halfpenny too.
I've read that for one of the years (1955 or 1956 maybe) that there is a very rare strapless or with strap variety - I don't remember the exact...
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