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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3633896, member: 19463&quot;]I do not collect English coins.&nbsp; I do not collect medieval coins to any extent.&nbsp; In the last two weeks I have added four English coins to my collection but I have an excuse.</p><p><br /></p><p>I always wanted a farthing or cut quarter of a whole penny.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know why but I just thought the concept was twice as good as a cut half.&nbsp; The opportunity arose when a &quot;dealer I have used before&quot; (as eBay puts it) offered a number of early English silver fractions.&nbsp; I selected a cut quarter of a penny of John (you know, the Magna Carta king and arch villain in the Robin Hood stories) 1199-1216 AD (old enough that I don&#039;t feel I have to apologize to all my ancient coins).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]974844[/ATTACH]</p><p>I selected this one since it had enough clear reverse legend (+WA) to identify the moneyer as Walter on London.&nbsp; Not all moneyers can be defined by two letters and not all two letter pairs on this coin would be definitive.&nbsp; I would prefer if the obverse did better than REX but we can be too picky on this quarter circle sort of thing.&nbsp; These coins give a lot more portrait to lower quarters so at least I got a half face.&nbsp; The coin weighs 0.30g.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now we all know that buying one old coin is like eating potato chips so it dawned upon me that I did not have a&nbsp; full circle struck farthing and the same dealer happened to have a round farthing of Edward I (arch villain of Braveheart - asking for a John might be pushing my luck)1272-1307 AD. It weighs 0.33g.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]974867[/ATTACH]</p><p>I don&#039;t have a whole John penny but here is a relatively massive Edward I (1.32g) I have had for years. I see I was inconstant on which way was &#039;up&#039; on reverses. I am impressed that 4x0.33=1.32.&nbsp; These guys were good or I got lucky.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]974856[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone else like cut pennies?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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