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Some Rose Farthing Business
Excuse the farmer-cheek pink fingers, I’d like to present to you a pretty little Charles I rose farthing. Dating from somewhere between 27th March 1625 – 30th January 1649, this rose farthing is a ‘single-arch’ type. Single-arch refers to the crown above the rose, as well as the crown on the obverse. Double-arch, you guessed…
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Quirks, curios, collecting: The G.P.O.
Last year I started to collect mysterious little lead squares as they began to surface on foreshore trip after foreshore trip. Knowing that they were ‘something’, but not quite knowing what that something was, I popped them in my finds bag to investigate later. Those little lead curios turned out to be mail bag seals from the…
The Tide Traveller's Guide 