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Farthing Memorial for Colin Cooke - post your farthings

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A FINAL TRIBUTE IN FARTHINGS.......

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  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,952 ✭✭✭
    After seeing that farthing, it's hard to follow!!

    Sorry it's a scan, but it was one of my last corespondences with Colin.

    According to Spink, the 1862 with Large '8' is extremely rare. Colin believes this to be a large '8' variety, though pictures can be deceiving.

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    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    I have no farthings to show, but just wanted to comment on how lovely those presented are. Mac, is that about an MS-68? image

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  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,051 ✭✭✭
    CA! Very sweet 1/3 f....love it!image

    Wybrit! Looks like a 'large 8' to me. Nice find. image

    68? Please Jester, no such animal exists......it might go 65 on a 'giving' day. But who cares, it's raw and colourful. I call it Indian Summer. image

    more! more!
  • I own a few farthings, none of them particularly fantastic since i've never focused on this area.

    Although i feel it appropriate to post a picture of that 1684 tin farthing i mentionned in the other thread that Colin assisted me in dating. It was my most expensive base metal coin, i held onto it for about a year but eventually sold it due to the corrosion, it was a nice high grade specimen though regardless, alot of detail remained. The edge corrosion didn't bother me too much, but the green tinge on the copper plug concerned me, i didn't want it to spread to the rest of my collection (as they are all in a cabinet) so it got sold.

    Excuse my terrible photo... (it's the only one i've got left).



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    09/07/2006
  • Not a pretty coin maybe.
    I got to show this to Colin just before Christmas.
    I handed it to him and asked what he thought.
    He looked at the obverse for a minute, and said 'I could write a book
    about this coin.
    He looked at the reverse and his jaw dropped.

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    This coin is the first evidence of a 1700 / 1699 overdate.
    This posting is the first publication of this variety.
    Colin did not offer to buy it then. He later told me that he thought
    I would enjoy having a farthing that he didn't.
    Later he offered to buy it saying it "deserved" to be in his collection.

    Teg
  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    My favorite, 1821 ...

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    My OmniCoin Collection
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    Tom, formerly in Albuquerque, NM.
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,051 ✭✭✭
    Syl, very fitting tin farthing, and quite nice surfaces. I'll never forget some of the superb tin 1/4d. Colin sold from the Nicholson collection.....National Treasures.

    Teg, somehow I think Colin especially likes seeing that 1700/1699 in the group.....nice World Preview!!

    theboz11 and AF, looks like those two 1821s were side by side picking up those great colours for a few years.

    Cosmic, Colin said to mention, "you S#*K"! image

    Any other varieties???


  • << <i>Syl, very fitting tin farthing, and quite nice surfaces. I'll never forget some of the superb tin 1/4d. Colin sold from the Nicholson collection.....National Treasures.

    Teg, somehow I think Colin especially likes seeing that 1700/1699 in the group.....nice World Preview!!

    theboz11 and AF, looks like those two 1821s were side by side picking up those great colours for a few years.

    Cosmic, Colin said to mention, "you S#*K"! image

    Any other varieties??? >>



    So Colin speaks to you from the great beyond, eh?image
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • mongoosemongoose Posts: 589 ✭✭
    Here are a few of mine. I wish my photography skills were better.image


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  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,445 ✭✭✭✭
    That's nice Teg.


    Sorry that the halfpennies appear in the same photos.

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    Dimitri



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  • No need to "dis" the 1/2ds!! image Nice set!!
    Terry

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  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,445 ✭✭✭✭
    Thanks. They come from Colin Cooke too, with the exception of the first George V and the 1956 that came from wybrit. image


    Here's one more that I had until a couple of weeks ago.Nothing that can compare with the beauties that you guys posted so far, but still a nice little farthing.



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  • farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
    Two of the farthings I've purchased from Colin

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    R.I.P. Wayne, Brad
    Collecting:
    Conder tokens
    19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
  • Better late then never........

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