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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HammeredCoin, post: 2226846, member: 75598&quot;]Ok I am bored and can&#039;t sleep.&nbsp; I may just be entertaining myself with these posts with the delusional thought that others find this stuff as interesting as I.....but hey, I&#039;m bored so what the heck, here is another one!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an example of a penny from the Berwick-Upon-Tweed mint.&nbsp; The coins from this mint are a specialty in of itself within the early Edwardian penny collectors and researchers.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is due to the fact that while all the other mints (both royal and Archiepiscopal) procured their dies for production from the Exchequer in London, Berwick was the only mint to produce their own dies.&nbsp; This was especially true of the punches made for the bust and crown on the obverse, but even in the case of some lettering.</p><p><br /></p><p>The results can be seen by the generally poor quality and strange looking portraits of the king.&nbsp; The major thing that one notices is the strange form of the eyes.&nbsp; Another result of this quark in production from Berwick is the difficulty in narrowing down the date of production and the order in which the different styles were produced.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a nice example of a Berwick penny.&nbsp; I also put a side by side comparison so you can really see the difference in the portrait relative to a common coin produced in London.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]437204[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]437205[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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