I found this Henry 3rd VLC cut half yesterday while metal detecting. It doesn't appear to have a sceptre and the reverse seems to suggest that it...
I tried Numista but couldn't find one with the same reverse figure.
A detecting friend found this coin/token yesterday but is struggling to identify it. Dated 1575, it looks similar to a Douzain of Henri 3rd but...
Thanks for your feedback Scottishmoney. When you say that not as many were minted, are there contemporary records to support this view? I agree...
At last night's detecting club monthly meeting a couple of coins were on display that I'd never seen before. Both were hammered halfpennies, the...
Out of curiosity I tried placing one of the four uncleaned 1924 sixpences from the above photo into my ultrasonic cleaner for 20 seconds. I'm...
Hi Cladking, thanks for your reply. After reading it I went through the sixpences shown in the photo and found that 23 of them were from the 1920s...
I'm aware that the 1888 silver threepence shown above is a less common coin because only 518000 were minted that year. Normally around 3 million...
As a collector of BU coins you probably wouldn't appreciate having grey looking silver or green coloured copper coins in your collection.
Bardolph, thank you for giving us your interesting perspective on collecting. As I have said in some of my other posts, I have a collection but I...
I have found lots of the .500 silver coins dating from 1920-47. Here is a photo of some of them. These are all sixpences.[ATTACH]
Many detectorists, including myself, often find coins that date to Victorian or more recent times. Generally we consider such coins to be...
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