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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;declanwmagee, post: 880376, member: 17358&quot;]OK, here goes.&nbsp; This information is from the standard work on British bronze coinage by Michael Freeman.&nbsp; I strongly recommend it, if you&#039;re going to get into this, as you may not know if you have a rarity without it.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are 3 obverses (heads):</p><p>Obv 1:&nbsp; the colon after BRITT is much closer to the T than to the O of OMN, and points between border teeth</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv 1*: the colon after BRITT is much closer to the T than to the O of OMN, and points at a border tooth</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv 2: the colon after BRITT is almost central between the T and the O of OMN, but not quite, and points between border teeth</p><p><br /></p><p>...and there are two reverses (tails)</p><p>Rev C: the E of pEnny, seems to be out of alignment - tilted clockwise slightly, so that the upright is more or less parallel with the uprights of the following N.&nbsp; Yours is one of these - take a look at that E and see what I mean.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rev D: lots of differences which you couldn&#039;t see on a coin as worn as yours, but the alignment of the E has been corrected.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the Four combinations that exist, and the numbers that Mr Freeman reckons are out there (NOT mintage) are as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p>1+C&nbsp; : 1-2 million</p><p>1*+C: 50,000-100,000</p><p>2+C&nbsp; : 3-5 million</p><p>2+D&nbsp; : 25-30 million</p><p><br /></p><p>yours is a 1+C.</p><p><br /></p><p>the published mintage for 1908 pennies in total is 31,506,048, but these figures can be misleading.&nbsp; They refer to the number of pennies the Royal Mint knocked out in 1908, not necessarily the number of pennies dated 1908.&nbsp; It&#039;s not always the same thing as they don&#039;t always use the current years date.</p><p><br /></p><p>all the best</p><p>Declan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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