Catalogues

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Click this icon to view a picture of the coin The Oxford Collection of Farthings is one of the finest collections of its type ever assembled, having been amassed by an avid private collector over the past 25 years.

It concentrates primarily on currency issues with most dates featuring including all the well known varieties. Proofs and patterns complete date runs where currency issues are unavailable. The collection covers the entire milled period from Cromwell to the present date, many with significant pedigree.

The coins are all exceptionally high quality and feature the most rare and unique farthings available to commerce including the 1877 proof, 1860 copper, two Pingo 1788’s and nine different Anne farthings including the only 1693 Corbet issue farthing available to commerce and the Cromwell 1658 portrait farthing. This is a fantastic opportunity to add some major rarities to your own collection.

Each coin and its accompanying description has a corresponding full colour picture available for viewing online and in the printed catalogue, which is available on request (will be sent automatically in due course to those on our mailing list).
£14.99
Click this icon to view a picture of the coin The Alderly Collection of Pennies & Elizabeth 1st Pledge Coinage.

Carefully selected over a period of more that 20 years, each coin in this collection now bears the Alderly Collection pedigree.

The Alderly collection is one of the most complete and impressive collection of Pennies and also the extremely rare Elizabeth 1st pledge coinage. The pennies range from 1797 up to present date with many of the extremely rare bronze and copper proofs. All the dates are covered and many of them are the finest known examples. The highlights of the pennies include an 1827 BU Full Lustre, lightly toning Penny (slabbed as MS65 red) and the 1933 1d Pattern by Andre Levrillier.

The Elzabeth I pledge coinage includes 2 Pledge halfpennies (of which only four are available to private commerce), two of the silver pledge pennies, one pledge penny in copper (it is the actual coin pictured on the dust jacket of Pecks book) and finally a pattern groat in copper (one of only two known).

Each coin and its accompanying description has a corresponding full colour picture available for viewing online and in the printed catalogue, which is available on request (will be sent automatically in due course to those on our mailing list).
£9.99
Click this icon to view a picture of the coin The Colin Cooke Collection of Farthings

Carefully selected over a period of more that 40 years, each Farthing in this collection now bears the Colin Cooke pedigree. Farthings were Colin's passion and he will be sorely missed as the foremost expert in this field.

Each coin and its accompanying description has a corresponding full colour picture available for viewing online and in the printed catalogue, which is available on request (will be sent automatically in due course to those on our mailing list).

Colin was a respected schoolteacher at Marple Hall Grammar School from the 1960s to the mid 1980s, and from the earliest period, much of his leisure time was spent hunting for missing dates, varieties and top quality examples of farthings to augment his growing collection.

In the 1970s many good specimens were acquired from A. H. Baldwin who assisted Colin in his "hunt".

Star coins from some remarkable collections: Dr. Johnstone, C. W. Peck, Mrs Norweb, Roger Shuttlewood, King Farouk, Selig and Montagu were duly purchased and are offered here. Coin shows, coin auctions, dealers' lists and collectors' offerings were scrutinised by Colin in his relentless search for new acquisitions.

The collection presented here represents the results of his endeavours. The following pages list over 1600 of some of the most choice, rare and exciting British farthings grouped together in an unsurpassed collection.
£19.99