✅ SOLVED Machin Mills Head???

[valleyglen]

This British penny has a strange looking head design?
Is it regular issue or a Machin Mills copy?
Thanks for Looking...

 

[coachbedford]

Judging by the reverse, the outer rim around miss brittania seems to give it away as a george I halfpence of 1719-24. Still, the bust on the obverse doesn't quite look like George i-- normally George has a kind of pug nose whereas your bust seems tohave more of a beak like nose. Also the head doesn't seeem quite right for these. British counterfeit halfpence were common but not until AFTER George I, so if this is a contemporary counterfeit of George I, I would think that is pretty scarce. Then again, can't discount that wear and corrosion have wreaked havoc on George's bust. Would be interested to see what others have to say.

 

[coachbedford]

p.s a Machin Mill halfpence would not have that full denticle rim reverse that yours does.

 

[Iron Patch]

Ye, it is George I. You can tell by the reverse... so the obverse simply looks different from damage. Had me going for a sec because I was thinking it was some weird Queen Anne copper.

 

[Iron Patch]

Judging by the reverse, the outer rim around miss brittania seems to give it away as a george I halfpence of 1719-24. Still, the bust on the obverse doesn't quite look like George i-- normally George has a kind of pug nose whereas your bust seems tohave more of a beak like nose. Also the head doesn't seeem quite right for these. British counterfeit halfpence were common but not until AFTER George I, so if this is a contemporary counterfeit of George I, I would think that is pretty scarce. Then again, can't discount that wear and corrosion have wreaked havoc on George's bust. Would be interested to see what others have to say.

Quite possibly counterfeit, and if so, a cast counterfeit... and that would easily explain a deformed head. If it was a struck counterfeit, as you said it's an unlikely period, but the bigger oddity would be to have such a crude bust with a regal looking reverse... doesn't really happen that way. It's either very crude on both sides, or looks quite genuine on each side.

 

[valleyglen]

Thanks for the info guys, I wouldn't mind if if was some rare issue from Queen Anne's era..