1883 UK 1 Penny - Too many input lines

There are 3 entry lines for the UK 1 Penny 1883.



What is the reason for the highlighted line?

No reason at all, most probably a human error you see how man damn lines there are one mistake can happen
Unless there should be another variation and simply the comment is missing you can ask a catalog admin to merge the two lines.

If I remember correctly, I am away from my books, there are two listings for 1883 in the Freeman book...R and I of BRITT connected and not connected...I think


Just FYI

Citeer: "muygrandeoso"​If I remember correctly, I am away from my books, there are two listings for 1883 in the Freeman book...R and I of BRITT connected and not connected...I think
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​If that is the case it should be specified.

I agree, and I can submit for the change when I am home and near by books.

In the Spink 2015 they talk about a 1 penny 1883 with obverse 11 and a 1 penny with obverse 12.

And a whole description how those different obverses look like but this doesn't make me much wiser. Can anybody see a real distinctive difference?

I've always regarded the entire KM 755 series 1874 - 1894 as single issue and that's the way I have my album set up. As a general rule I only include substantial varieties which can be clearly seen without magnification. However many collectors treat this as two distinct series; Young Bun and Mature Bun. The difference is quite easy to spot, our revered Queen is a good 50 pounds heavier on the later issues and her entire facial profile extrudes much further towards the 9 o'clock margin. See how HRH's jaw recedes on the later type (as shown, 12 & 13) and her regal neck is noticeably thicker? The others are minor (but fascinating) retoolings and probably should be considered beyond the scope of the Numista catalog. * Counting the number of berries on a wreath I would suggest is not interesting to the majority of collectors.

I've recently started to take a keen interest in the hundreds of varieties of Victorian Pennies after a lifetime of ignoring them. It's very interesting and quite rewarding but time consuming. It's also going to take some very expensive reference books (Peck / Freeman) which I'm really hoping I can find second hand.


* I think it's great that Numista is dealing with minor varieties although I would suggest that they belong on a separate page, accessed by a "see also" hyperlink, rather than as a listing in the main catalog. Most people don't collect them and it's causing some false results to occur on the swap page.