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Page 1 of 2 1 2 >   LinkBack Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes 09-10-2009, 10:32 PM   #1 (permalink) snaz Registry fever     Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Alberta, Canada Posts: 3,318 My Mood: Some coins from Scotland Hey guys, My mom just got back from a trip, and was kind enough to think of me while she was there, and she picked these up! I am so happy, they aren't what I collect normally, but they will be with me for a very long time. And also, I finally got in teh new lens for my camera to take macro, I've been trying to get pictures of coins with the stock 18-55mm but it just doesn't work. I'm pretty pumped to be able to take pictures again. LOVE EM! __________________ -Shawn Need your Canadian copper identified? Need your Canadian Colonials identified? Go here >>>>> http://www.canadiancoppercoins.com W.I.N.S# 743 ENS Club Member   09-10-2009, 10:48 PM   #2 (permalink) fretboard Defender of Old Coinage     Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Northern California Posts: 1,604 My Mood: Blog Entries: 2 Very cool!! I really like that 4 Pence, anything with the Brittainia. OOps, I know I mispelled that one. Do you know which coin is the most pricey? Is it the top one and is the top one silver? good for you!!   09-10-2009, 11:07 PM   #3 (permalink) snaz Registry fever     Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Alberta, Canada Posts: 3,318 My Mood: Quote: Originally Posted by fretboard Very cool!! I really like that 4 Pence, anything with the Brittainia. OOps, I know I mispelled that one. Do you know which coin is the most pricey? Is it the top one and is the top one silver? good for you!! Yes, they are all silver, and yeah, teh top one was most expensive. I'm pretty sure she over paid, but she did barter him down a bit. One has been harshly cleaned, and Im sure the other ones saw a cleaning or two in their days. Regardless. I am very happy. __________________ -Shawn Need your Canadian copper identified? Need your Canadian Colonials identified? Go here >>>>> http://www.canadiancoppercoins.com W.I.N.S# 743 ENS Club Member   09-11-2009, 12:52 AM   #4 (permalink) Mumbapuri #16443     Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: India Posts: 377 nice ones... one stupid Q how do we come to know these coins are from scotland? they look just like the ones from england, isnt the scottish coat of arms is different? right? e.g the shilling coins? irrespective they were beautiful.. like the edward the best   09-11-2009, 01:02 AM   #5 (permalink) Ardatirion FVTVE FATVM     Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha Posts: 2,969 My Mood: Technically, they're all British. Real Scottish ones are much harder to find. __________________ My Ancient Coin Collection   09-11-2009, 01:03 AM   #6 (permalink) snaz Registry fever     Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Alberta, Canada Posts: 3,318 My Mood: Quote: Originally Posted by Mumbapuri nice ones... one stupid Q how do we come to know these coins are from Scotland? they look just like the ones from England, isn't the Scottish coat of arms is different? right? e.g The shilling coins? irrespective they were beautiful.. like the Edward the best I was referring to how they came into my mothers possession, then mine. She bought them in Scotland on vacation. __________________ -Shawn Need your Canadian copper identified? Need your Canadian Colonials identified? Go here >>>>> http://www.canadiancoppercoins.com W.I.N.S# 743 ENS Club Member   09-11-2009, 02:15 AM   #7 (permalink) Fullmoonkid Member   Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 100 Quote: Originally Posted by Mumbapuri nice ones... one stupid Q how do we come to know these coins are from scotland? they look just like the ones from england, isnt the scottish coat of arms is different? right? e.g the shilling coins? irrespective they were beautiful.. like the edward the best England and Scotland being one and the same Island have long shared coinage.There has been various designs through the years with different countries represented even in modern times,notably the shilling (5p) Whats looked on as true Scottish coins would be mostly very old,ending with Queen Anne i believe who had coins minted at Edinburgh.   09-11-2009, 02:22 AM   #8 (permalink) Cucumbor Coinaholic     Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: France Posts: 556 My Mood: I quite like the Geogius III "threpenny bit" You might want to set your camera white balance to get less yellowish lightning, I guess Q __________________ In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king   09-11-2009, 04:26 AM   #9 (permalink) Mumbapuri #16443     Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: India Posts: 377 i was refering to these coins. but i guess as pointed out fullmoonkid... its quite possible that share their coinage... in a way similar to euros now.   09-11-2009, 05:25 AM   #10 (permalink) Prestoninanus Junior Member   Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 190 The Scots have their own banknotes, but the coins are the same. Although with the pound coin, each of the four countries of the UK tend to to take it in turn to have their nation represented on the reverse. And the shilling (5p) currently in use has a Scottish Thistle reverse, so technically, the reverse design used since 1969 has been exclusively Scottish....   09-14-2009, 03:36 PM   #11 (permalink) goossen Senior Member     Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Asuncion, Paraguay Posts: 475 My Mood: Love the 4 Pence!! __________________ WINS #552 My coins (with pictures): http://www.paraguaycoins.com/   09-14-2009, 04:18 PM   #12 (permalink) Collect89 Coin Collector     Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,803 Before all that trouble in North America Thinking back to 1762 in Scotland, what do you think that 3 Pence would buy? Would it cover a nice bed & breakfast in town? Just a bed? Just a breakfast? Very best regards, collect89 __________________ "All of us are smarter than any one of us"   09-14-2009, 09:13 PM   #13 (permalink) HandsomeToad Urinist     Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas Posts: 6,599 My Mood: I love the G3 3 Pence! I picked up a 1677 Scottish coin in a group of coins I bought for the 1773 Virginia half-pence in the group. Here's one like it (comparable condition too): http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=250495732620 I can't believe it's that high, considering I got mine with a bunch of others for even less: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=330351331672 But I'm constantly getting decent coins for a decent price but that group was an exceptional group, for the price. Ribbit   09-14-2009, 09:22 PM   #14 (permalink) Ripley Senior Member     Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: California Posts: 993 My Mood: Blog Entries: 1 Good Ole Mom... top one George III the creep, Middle one George IV- Gorgeous George, Last one Eddy. Nice stuff ) Traci __________________ And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse: and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.   09-15-2009, 05:01 AM   #15 (permalink) Prestoninanus Junior Member   Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 190 Quote: Originally Posted by Collect89 Thinking back to 1762 in Scotland, what do you think that 3 Pence would buy? Would it cover a nice bed & breakfast in town? Just a bed? Just a breakfast? Very best regards, collect89 The pound in 1762 would probably be worth between 150-200 times what it is now. Bed and Breakfast in Britain at a non-outrageous price would be about £50-ish. Threepence was 1/80th of a pound. Sooo... Threepence would basically be worth a couple or a few pounds in todays money, so probably not... It might get you a decent pie or a pint....   Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Bookmarks Digg del.icio.us StumbleUpon Google Would you like to support CoinTalk? Coin Talk Code of Honor 1. 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