1862 Halfpenny - Die Letter C - New Today

Lloyd

Exceeeeeedingly rare. Rated R19 by Freeman (less than 6 exist). First I've ever seen - rarer than A and B put together. Flan crack obverse and reverse at 2 and 10 O'Clock respectively. Grades GVF or something like that. Mrs Roberts says it goes on Ebay - if it doesn't sell I keep.





Posted for a laff ....

EDITED TO ADD... some more info... easily distinguishable from a fake. The lighthouse is different to the standard 1862 halfpenny. And there are other differences (Britannia's arm is bigger etc...)

spinaker2000

forget the other giveaway, I'm in for this one!! Way Cool!!

spinaker2000

Not even a price listed in Spink!

Lloyd

Terry
It's worth more than £1,000. And to the right person, a LOT more.

L

spinaker2000

I'm glad i'm a type collector!!

wybrit

Good thing I'm a date collector! I only actively collect farthing varieties.

Lloyd

<< <i>Good thing I'm a date collector! I only actively collect farthing varieties. >>



Not many of these about Tom... and this is the highest grade I've ever seen.... (see Colon's site for more information)



L

wybrit

That's a rare one all right. I'm watching out for it here.

Lloyd

Should have added that it was a Large Date 1845 farthing, noticeable by the datal 4 which is slightly higher than the other numbers. Extremely rare in the true sense of the phrase and believe it or not, one of the highest grades around... An insult to call it GF so NVF but VERY claggy. If I was net grading (which I never would), it would drop to Fine. Colin Cooke had one on his site for £68 well over a year ago. It's a rotten nF (near fine). Still a picture there now and the price is in the url.

Lloyd