If you read my posts regularly, you'd know I always loved queen victoria coinage & if it wasnt for ancients, I would solely collect her. One thing I never owned was a big silver british crown & I saw this coin & HAD TO HAVE IT. I loved the toning & all. Where a coin speaks, this one shouted.
Cool coin. Crowns simply do not appear to be that common. I got one of the dude before her, (I think dated 1820), recently simply because I do not see them that often.
Mat very nice 1890 Crown . Queen Victoria coinage is one I to collect penny thru $20.00 pounds gold. She was one queen that made so many type coins before Great Britain kingdom got smaller country wise.
love the 'Vicky' crowns........plenty about and BillIV too....just search on ebay, always a few knocking about. of course, if you want to collect rare coins of the future, try and collect 'melt' grade coins as these will be 'rare' in 10 years time, especially as most are finding their way into the smelt pot.. people may even rub em a bit to grade them down..
A crown was a lot of money to the average working class man on the street in 1890. Who knows what the average daily wage was in the day? I would guess this would represent between a day's pay for a skilled worker and a week's pay for the unskilled and impoverished fortunate enough to have any work. Am I close?
I got a crown about 15yrs ago, i cracked my tooth ,very cool Mat, i saw one one these a my coin club, if its like that one it's a very large coin, i want one...
crown 1890 mintage 997,862--jubilee head crowns issued from 1887 golden jubilee year until 1892.a golden time in british history the working people would have had these,plenty of wealth at the time.compare to the reign of William iv 1830-1837 very few crowns issued,will cost thousands of pounds to buy now--this crown a very nice example will sell in uk for about £40
George 111 1760-1820,these are fairly common but nice coins--George iv 1820 -1830 not so common but still easy to get--willam iv 1830-1837 very rare cost thousands to buy now
Well I just picked mine up from the same bullion seller I bought a Ostrogothic gold piece from. He got a collection of old stuff, and had no idea what it was really. Mine is an uncleaned xf/au, which I thought was not so easy to find, and I liked the price.
