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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ARguy, post: 955371, member: 16047&quot;]Nerarities,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Boy, now that&#039;s a beauty of a Pitt halfpenny! Completely original, well-centered, well-struck. Wish I had been the buyer!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think we&#039;re on the same page with the silvering. It would be nice to find some early reference to it.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I was not aware of the Hibernias with a silver wash, though I know of some variations of early halfpennies that had it.&nbsp; They are contemporaries of the copper-plugged tin halfpennies, when some experimentation was obviously taking place.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>With the exception of fire gilting, I&#039;ve always assumed that early silvering/gilting was done by chemical deposition as opposed to an electrolytic process.&nbsp; Is that true?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks,</p><p>ARguy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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