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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robp, post: 24880306, member: 96746&quot;]Nice coin. That&#039;s clearly a 19th century restrike by either Matthew Young or W J Taylor with the flaw below the bust. Interestingly it is also identifiable by the plumes in the second and third quarters which have a different stem arrangement to the 1799 struck coins, so the question is, who did it? My money would be on Taylor, he being a serial modifier of the Soho dies he acquired, and he was always trying to create varieties for collectors. I&#039;ve only just noticed this, so if anyone has looked at this before and can definitively say which can be attributed to either of the two involved, I would like to know. </p><p><br /></p><p>For comparison, I have this original proof striking in silver on a thin flan, ex Cockayne.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1597497[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>W J Davis in his book on 19th century tokens considered them to be pattern halfcrowns, but whatever, it is irrelevant as they didn&#039;t circulate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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