Whilst looking through my prestigious coin box I came across this and I forgot how nice it was and why it's the only penny I have in there.
I don't have a great deal of pennies but over the years you would have thought I might have a few nice ones but this is the only one I really like. Strange that it's the Widow head which I actually like even though many regard it as the poorer of her portraits, I find it a highly underrated design which cannot be appreciated in lower grades. The details are awesome !
Well with all the penny's I have . It was very easy for me . My first English silver penny. Something I have dreamed about from the 1970's. was never able to get one, for something always got in the way. And it just show up one day in the mail. A gift from a great person here on Numista. Thank you Lee, one of my top 10 dream coins. I still have on my desk and look at a lot. I have still not fully ID it. Should put up in the ID forum. All I know is it 's an early Edward II.
Glad to see you are happy with it Daryl, it has gone to a good home.
This is one of the very first rare type of Penny I got when I started collecting. It looks like it has seen intense heat which has caused a lightning type split in the centre of the coin. It is also the 1902 Low Tide type. This is one of my favourites.
Another 1902, but normal variety. Really nice deep dark lustre.
This one is a King John mule short cross Penny. My first hammered error.
Beautiful 1901 Penny with stunning Lustre.
1861 Reverse type D
1858 Victoria Penny
I have more, but these are my favourites
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Just to be sure. Do you consider Penny as coins/tokens with the exact name of 1 Penny or do you extend to Medieval equivalents, Antique ancestors, modern translations? (Denier, Pfennig...)
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This one is a King John mule short cross Penny. My first hammered error.
Wow. The moneyer must have been hammered when he struck that. (I'll show myself out)
But in all seriousness I've never seen anything like it. Makes me wonder how it got out into the public in the first place. There must have been lax standards at the mint.
Quote: "chomp-master"Just to be sure. Do you consider Penny as coins/tokens with the exact name of 1 Penny or do you extend to Medieval equivalents, Antique ancestors, modern translations? (Denier, Pfennig...)
all of them !
i have more to upload myself myself but I don't want to clutter the thread :D
Quote: "chomp-master"Just to be sure. Do you consider Penny as coins/tokens with the exact name of 1 Penny or do you extend to Medieval equivalents, Antique ancestors, modern translations? (Denier, Pfennig...)
all of them !
i have more to upload myself myself but I don't want to clutter the thread :D
Good to know.
I'll start asap with my oldest UK penny, another George III penny, as avoiding such modern Pfennig (not so useful, I guess). And I'll slowly go further with Medieval equivalents, to finish with a Roman Imperial Denier.
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Quote: "ALLRED1950"Well with all the penny's I have . It was very easy for me . My first English silver penny. Something I have dreamed about from the 1970's. was never able to get one, for something always got in the way. And it just show up one day in the mail. A gift from a great person here on Numista. Thank you Lee, one of my top 10 dream coins. I still have on my desk and look at a lot. I have still not fully ID it. Should put up in the ID forum. All I know is it 's an early Edward II.
Yours Daryl
This has to be a topic designed for you if ever there was one
Quote: "Fluke"
This one is a King John mule short cross Penny. My first hammered error.
Wow. The moneyer must have been hammered when he struck that. (I'll show myself out)
But in all seriousness I've never seen anything like it. Makes me wonder how it got out into the public in the first place. There must have been lax standards at the mint.
hahaha.... Visually impaired due to high intoxication and low standards, I remember those days.
Very unusual and I find the obverse a little disturbing, like a cult symbol.
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For the record I'd like to state that a Penny is a large and very beautiful British coin made from copper, bronze and sometimes silver. Occasionally we allowed our deported convicts to make some and they are quite nice too.
They are not to be confused with the cheap, Euro-Friendly and totally worthless Pence and New Pence introduced by the Illuminati to undermine Western Civilisation and bring about the 4th Reich.
Anything else is a cheap gimcrackery used by those foreign johnnys.
Now post a US Cent, and tell me it's a Penny.... I dare you.
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Quote: "pnightingale"Now post a US Cent, and tell me it's a Penny.... I dare you.
In Ireland, it's now the same for 1 Euro Cent. Crazy, isn't it?
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Quote: "Fluke"
This one is a King John mule short cross Penny. My first hammered error.
Wow. The moneyer must have been hammered when he struck that. (I'll show myself out)
But in all seriousness I've never seen anything like it. Makes me wonder how it got out into the public in the first place. There must have been lax standards at the mint.
hahaha.... Visually impaired due to high intoxication and low standards, I remember those days.
Very unusual and I find the obverse a little disturbing, like a cult symbol.
There is something a tad unsettling about the disembodied mouth and beard on the reverse.
Quote: "Fluke"
This one is a King John mule short cross Penny. My first hammered error.
Wow. The moneyer must have been hammered when he struck that. (I'll show myself out)
But in all seriousness I've never seen anything like it. Makes me wonder how it got out into the public in the first place. There must have been lax standards at the mint.
hahaha.... Visually impaired due to high intoxication and low standards, I remember those days.
Very unusual and I find the obverse a little disturbing, like a cult symbol.
There is something a tad unsettling about the disembodied mouth and beard on the reverse.
We serious numismatists call it the "Glory Hole" obverse type III.
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
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This is my favourite penny, which I have owned for many years. Picked it up at a flea market for just a few pence as it was in a dish with other Victorian pennies.
All of my other Victorian pennies are rubbish in comparison I'm afraid, but this one keeps me smiling.
Quote: "COINMAN1"This is my favourite penny, which I have owned for many years. Picked it up at a flea market for just a few pence as it was in a dish with other Victorian pennies.
All of my other Victorian pennies are rubbish in comparison I'm afraid, but this one keeps me smiling.
I'm smiling with you!
This is exactly why I love coin collecting. Any nub can get out the credit card and scoop up hundreds of coins on eBay but REAL men go out and find their own. A coin that I sourced myself and rescued from the ignominity of the bargain bin is always going to mean far more to me than a higher grade specimen that I got by simply clicing on the "BUY" button.
It's not only cheaper but it's more satisfying and it increases the overall stock of quality coins by one. You saved yourself a wad of cash and contributed to the general health of numismatics, well done!
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
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The Bahamas Penny is my favourite of them all.. Although halfpenny sized. The obverse is the same as the UK homeland coinage of the time. It's a really nice coin but the best I can do with it in the slab.
The Gambia is another nice one although more modern than the other 2
I don't really collect pennies; they are based on the old non decimal British coinage. I collect cents, which is similar but is based on the decimal system. A cent being 1/100th of a dollar-100 cents.
You don't say, that sounds rather interesting. Could you tell me more about this ... eh metrical-system? Don't you also use something different than body parts to measure things ... very unusual.
Sorry didn't want to be mean ... I just found it funny that an american teaches something about the metrical system (or is today opposite-day than I am truely sorry for butting in your joke)
Quote: "Idolenz"You don't say, that sounds rather interesting. Could you tell me more about this ... eh metrical-system? Don't you also use something different than body parts to measure things ... very unusual.
Sorry didn't want to be mean ... I just found it funny that an american teaches something about the metrical system (or is today opposite-day than I am truely sorry for butting in your joke)
Yes, you got me on that one. lol We Americans have clung to the inch, foot, yard system like a dog that hangs onto his bone. We'll growl too if you try to use the metric system. Or just sit there with our heads turned to one side. The metric system is used in science and hospitals here but that's a bout it.
It a star ziny penny 
Love that Jamaica coin. 
