A Tiny Bit o' Bronze ...... FDC Full Lustre

MacCrimmon · October 6, 2007 2:07PM

.....as the Brits would say.

A brutally common farthing in an uncommon blazing red.

Once again, kudos to Mark for the stellar imaging!!

bosox · October 6, 2007 2:09PM

Red Victorian copper. My favorite!

theboz11 · October 6, 2007 7:23PM

laurentyvan · October 6, 2007 10:59PM

How is an item like this stored for 145 years at varying levels of technology and yet retain such lustrous glory? Simply love it!

Udo · October 6, 2007 11:42PM

WWW · October 7, 2007 12:14AM

A beautiful example.

SYRACUSIAN · October 7, 2007 12:34AM

Absolutely stunning.

MacCrimmon · October 7, 2007 12:49AM

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How is an item like this stored for 145 years at varying levels of technology and yet retain such lustrous glory? Simply love it! >>

Laurent, I do not know for certain, but I would guess that it was placed between sheets of cotton batting and kept inside a metal box. Maybe someone put together an entire birth year set of denominations, and made the makeshift storage using the cotton/box idea. And then, it laid undisturbed for at least 100 years waiting for this poor church mus to come along.

Anyway, I was instantly smitten when I first saw it.