[Game] World Coins Time Machine… Counting Backward by Year! (Plus Prize Coin)

Uh-oh. Red-X-itis.

 

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AUSTRIA.
1774.

 

Can't let the chain die for the want of a 1773! I didn't want to post any more of my coppers just yet but they are all I have for this date:

 

Hey, what do you know - I can play again!

1773 Mexico 8 Reales in PCGS XF45. Inverted assayer initials.

 

1773 Virginia halfpenny, Tower Mint London, Type: No Period, Seven harp strings, Newman 7-D, Breen 181, Rarity – R2 (common)



From: The Coins of Colonial and Early America, Louis Jordan, University of Notre Dame, Department of Special Collections. https://coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/VA-halfd.intro.html

Although the April 10, 1609 charter for the Virginia Plantation included the authority to mint coins the colony did not choose to exercise this privilege until May 20, 1773, when the Virginia Assembly authorized the coining of a halfpenny at the Tower mint in London. … Five tons of halfpence (about 670,000 pieces) arrived in New York aboard the ship "Virginia" on February 14, 1774 but were not distributed until written royal permission was obtained about a year later. The Virginia treasurer, Robert Nicholas, published a notice bearing the date February 27, 1775 in all issues of the Virginia Gazette printed between March 2-16, explaining that "copper money is now ready to be issued in Exchange either for Gold, Silver or any Treasury Notes." Soon after the initial disbursement of the coins commenced, the Revolutionary war broke out in Massachusetts at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. Consequently Virginians hoarded the new halfpenny, along with all other copper coins, until the end of the war. Although the halfpenny contained the portrait of the king of England, it is clear these coins were used in Revolutionary and post war Virginia, for out of fifty-nine coins found during the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg, forty were Virginia halfpence.

 

Two contemporary counterfeit British halfpennies. Both purchased from UK sellers ... so the probability that they were minted and circulated in the UK are high.

1773, 143 gn (9.27 g), 29 mm, conforms to regal diameter and weight [140 gn minimum (9.0 g)].

No date, 26 mm, light weight 90 gn (5.83 g), 64% of regal minimum weight

Comparison of both coins illustrates the small diameter of the light weight coin. Interestingly on the right coin, the bust seems to be full size ... could it be that it was minted from a die made by punching a regal coin into hot soft metal?


Well I have a 1771 British halfpenny that I can use to check the counterfeit obverses against ...

If I repair the washer, and pick the leaves up then have time for the comparison ... I'll post in 1771.

 

Here are a 74 and a 73, Holland and Zeeland

 

Here's a Denmark 1 skilling. You can see the date better in hand.

 

1773

A worse-for-wear "2 para 3 kopeck" from Moldavia & Wallachia.

 

looks like it works now? my hosting site disappeared 2 days ago

 

I see it now...and it's even in the quote I used above. Who is your host? I'm still batting around the idea of trying something new. Currently coins are hosted by CollectiveCoin, but I have to sneak pictures of my dogs in under coins (to post here or elsewhere).

 

Ooooh, I have another 1773.

How about colonial Bolivia? A 1773 1/2 real.
A tiny .903 silver coin with Charles III on the obverse.
KM# 51

 

Apparently you guys are more computer savvy than I am. I don't use any host, just keep my coin files on this computer, with backup on a thumb drive and onedrive/cloud. Maybe that is a "host"? I can access them with my phone that way.

 

I have my photos on my computer, plus a hard back up, plus online/cloud back up.

I also use a hosting service (used to be photobucket--boo on them) for coins/dogs/anything I wanted to share online.

Some sites allow direct upload. CT allows us our 'albums' (but I would have long since exceeded my size limit here I think). I can link if something is on my facebook account, but I don't want to put everything there.

For now I put coins I want to share on collectivecoin. It allows some organization and sharing links, but I don't consider it one my back ups.

I suppose there might be a way to use my cloud storage for sharing, but if so I haven't figured it out yet.

 

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May I instigate a temporal shift to 1772?
We've been 1773'ing for 30+ hours.

A 1/48 Thaler from Burgau (county), Austrian States.
Ruler: Maria Theresa
Composition: Billon
KM#9

Burgau was an Austrian possession near Ulm in Germany from 1618 to 1805 at which time it passed to Bavaria.

 

This coin was made of the captured Turkish gun.

 

I use Fotki.com I have paid for 12 years of unlimited storage and hot linking. usually I have no problems... but occasionally, the site just either stops working or disappears. they are based out of Malaysia I think. the customer service is non existent.

 

1772, duits from Gelderland and Zeeland, and a 2 stuiver from West Frisiae

 

Last one from my collection.

1772 Mexico 8 Reales in XF45

 

David Garrick laudatory medal, 1772, by J. Kirk. BHM #161.