Old English coins.

What an awesome treasure you have shared with us. I am curious if you also have collect old coins from Australia or New Zea land as well ?

 

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Yes. I have it.

 

Very Nice! Now I must look through the Hoard.. I know I have some Items.. Not sure what..

 

Siberian Man:
Outstanding collection and great photos.

I'm curious how you, living in Tomsk, find and source your coins. Local dealers? Mail? Travel? Internet?

 

I am a collector since 1980 (30 years). And I find a coins from the Internet now. When I was a boy, I bought a coins from private collections.

 

Tanner of Victoria the Queen. Minted at 1887. The single release only.

 

George V.
Penny 1936, bronze. "Small head". Probably, this coin was minted after death of the king.

 

got one of these

 

Minted during the reign of Edward VIII, quite possibly the monarch that was best abdicated and shipped off to France and then the Bahamas since he and Wallis Warfield Simpson were cozy with that certain German dictator.

 

I am an avid collector of the Victoria Veiled Head series; she looks so stout and majestic, very regal indeed. I have had a hard time finding a threepence coin with the Veiled Head pattern. Where did you acquire yours?

 

I got mine from my local dealer in my hometown. I payed about 36$.

 

Elisabeth II.
Half crown 1953. The only release with the caption "BRITT. OMN."

 

I'm sorry. I don't collect "Old English coins." I am interested in early modern milled British coins, however:



guy

 

By my definition this is Early (earliest?) Modern and Milled. I tend to separate medieval and modern coins more by their methods of production than by date.



Elizabeth I 6d 1567

Still Early Modern but back to hammered is this Half Crown of Charles I. Mine is a defective example because of the clipped flan but full many flan ones we see are even more poorly struck since the size was not easy to produce by the hammer method. Perhaps the appearance of these is what finally led to the abandoning of the hammer? Large coins take quite a bit of force and milled coins make sense as a step into the modern age.

 

my favourite thread of them all.......................

 

This is the only one I have

 

this was always one of my favourites, a commonwealth shilling from just after the civil war...................

 

Ancient Doug:

The earliest milled coinage of England was 1663 (Charles II):

http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/milledcoinage.htm

You might appreciate this link because its author, Guy de la Bedoyere, is one of the great researchers of Ancient Romano-British coins.

guy

 

Love the Old Crowns.

 

The first milled silver appeared between 1561 and 1571. The story goes that the manufacturer, Eloye Mestrelle, was then disgraced and hanged for counterfeiting on the side. The part I find most interesting is that the Frenchman was resented by the British coin hammerers who feared being put out of a job and generally disliked the French, anyhow.

http://www.predecimal.com/p7early_milled.htm

http://www.spink.com/resources/research_articles/coincollect/why.asp

http://www.cointalk.com/t22027/

http://wildwinds.com/coins/SE/SE2599.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milled_coinage