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1853 & Three Shades of Copper

MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
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Have I ever mentioned that I like copper...... image

....the farthing with yellow/lime/golden iridescence, the halfpenny still trying to be "red", and the penny draped in pure 'chocolate block' with just a wee bit of bluish-purple about the legends, just for Spinaker.


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  • spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
    "Here I is"!!!!!!!!!!!image Nice!!!!

    Awesome 1/2d too!
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  • bosoxbosox Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    Those are superb image

    ... but that penny ... imageimageimage
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,657 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I dunno which is more spectacular, the 1/2d or the penny.

    My, my. image

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  • wildjagwildjag Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭
    Wow those are fantastic looking image
  • NumismaticsNumismatics Posts: 1,092
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    I like the middle one the most.
  • CoinAddictCoinAddict Posts: 5,571 ✭
    Gorgeous coins, Mac.image
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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,073 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You guys are killing me with all this red!
  • pythonpython Posts: 1,158
    All are nice but I really like the farthing.
  • farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
    Another vote for the farthing - the half penny is beautiful also!
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  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Luscious!! image I can't make up my mind which one I like best, so please send them all to me!

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  • rhound1977rhound1977 Posts: 2,504
    Yummy.... image
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    Nice! (I like the young head Victoria too.)
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  • TegTeg Posts: 135
    Hi,
    Love the farthing!
    It's your 1853/2 I think?
    The finest 1853/2 I know of.
    Any chance of seeing the reverse- for the
    sake of completeness.

    Thanks

    Teg
  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,967 ✭✭✭
    Great coins and pictures again!!
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  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    Teg, yes I believe it is an 1853/2, at least there appears to be a "2" undertype. Strangely, the only other 1853 I have found is also a 3/2. The one shown here was purchased as a plain 1853. image

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  • TegTeg Posts: 135
    Thanks - great coin and photos.
    For those who don't know, Obverse sovereign dies
    were used to strike young head farthings.
    In the early 1980s a sovereign over-date was
    found for 1853/2.
    Colin Cooke compared the dies and in 1984 published
    this variety. It is not that uncommon. The giveaway
    is the curl of the two under the top left curl of the
    three.
    If the "conclusive" sovereign had not been found,
    the evidence on the farthing alone might not be
    enough.

    Teg
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    image What a perfect coin!!! image

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • mongoosemongoose Posts: 589 ✭✭
    Mac, those are really serious coppers.image
    Joe
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Three gorgeous examples!image Exactly the stuff we need to see -with a nice contribution from Teg.
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