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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 3102072, member: 40017&quot;]A very nice haul! Condition is actually not bad for halfpennies of this age - they were very much a &quot;work-horse&quot; coin and so decent examples are rare. There are also, sadly, far fewer serious collectors for them than for the pennies and farthings.</p><p><br /></p><p>As others have said, there is a shortage of good online references and those mentioned are about as good as it gets. (There are excellent fully photographed online refs for both pennies and farthings if anyone needs them.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The Freeman book is your best bet - it has been reprinted recently with many updates and amendments and is available on Amazon (publisher Rotographic).</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are going to keep and develop the collection I recommend joining the forum at predecimal.com where there are a number of enthusiastic collectors and experts to advise you. They would certainly clarify your potential HALP - I thought this was only known on an 1861 but there have been claims of an 1862 version, so you might be lucky. (If on the other hand you are going to move them on, I might be interested... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> )[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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