Can anyone help identify these 'half penny and one penny' coins?

Found this in a lot from an estate sale. Can anyone help me identify them, and let me know if they might be worth anything? They seem to be in some acrylic thing... So i'm thinking selling as a lot would be much easier than trying to get the coins out?

 

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Welcome Adrian! Acrylic and coins... not good

 

The florin is 50% silver, so a couple of dollars or so scrap, the rest I could probably duplicate in that condition from my piles of coppers in the shed.

I'd say if anyone would buy it, it would be as a novelty showing the older British coinage, or some of it, and you'd be doing as well as you could expect at $10.

 

Agreed, all are British and you wouldn't likely get much for it, sorry.

 

All the coppers look like they've been cleaned within an inch of their lives. One or two had natural luster and might run $2-3, but right, it's a $10 lot overall, and a difficult resale.

edit// 1929 florin, common date, 0.18 Troy ounces of silver, about $3 melt.

 

Even if you could get the coins safely out of that stuff, they'd probably worth more together in that set up. There's just not much value in those coins. They are more interesting as a novelty piece

 

i hate it when they do this to coins..

 

I got a couple British Large pennies like that. I got them for a dollar a piece in a junk bin, along with a draped bust cent corroded with no date.

 

They are not large pennies, they are just pennies. I wish I could get a dollar apiece for the thousands I have piled up.

 

I bag old Pennies, 10 Kilos at a time and take them to a scrap dealer. On a good day I get £3 per Kilo.

 

Are we correct in assuming you check them for scarce dates first?

 

Yes I do, although I have not found a 1950 or 51 in the last 10 years. Once in a while i find a GVI with a bit of mint lustre. All Vicky and EVII are too badly worn to have any numismatic value, besides who buys them these days? Children have no interest these days and British collectors bought theirs years ago. Churchill Crowns are 25 Pence. You do well to get £2 for a 1953 Crown and the Festival of Britain Crown is only slightly better.

 

That is really interesting inside info, thanks. I remember collecting these by date almost immediately after the Whitman folders came out, can't even guess what year that was; 1960s? I bought all the albums up through the shilling. Don't think they ever had a Type Set folder, I could be wrong...

From church and parish records, our family genealogy tracks back to the Midlands in the 1680s, but I've only been to London, and that was almost 50 years ago.

The British, Canadians, and Australians are the best friends we have in the entire world, people you can COUNT on.

 

The British pennies look large to me compared to modern British pennies? Why are they not "large"? I don't have a pic right now of the other I bought in a dollar bin. The one I have a picture of has damage. Anyone know how to tell the 1922 penny with reverse of 1927?

 

The coppers have been the same size since 1860, up till 1967 so they are just known as pennies. The smaller modern coins are known as decimal pence. Unlike US large cents or Canadian large cents no one refers to pre decimal pennies as 'Large' although they may say pre-decimal. They do not, unlike the US and Canadian cents, represent the same amount of money, the old pennies are 1/240th of a pound and the small ones are 1/100th of a pound.

 

Anyhow, whatever they are called, I got my British pennies in a dollar bin at a show along with a dateless draped bust large cent and worn to nothing Matron head.

 

Many brit pennys after 1900 are very common and only have decent resale value in high grades. I collect Pre 1901 brit coins. It would be nice to stick in a album but for resale probably not get much.

chris

 

ottotornesi wrote:
"...besides who buys them these days? Children have no interest these days and British collectors bought theirs years ago."

Yes, along with Doug5353, interesting!! In your opinion what is the current state of the coin collecting situation in GB? Do you have many local coin shops? Is there lots of market activity? For example, if I were selling an extra-fine 1940 three pence, would there be Brits wanting to buy? And finally, are there coin clubs for children there, any in the school systems?
Thank you,
GSDykes

 

In my opinion the market is as strong and diverse as it ever was, but it has always been an old man's game, if they all die off first maybe I will be able to buy stuff at lower prices. Medal prices have risen a lot in the last few years, as have good 19th C and earlier coins.

I have no interest in modern coins (anything after 1950) so I can't speak for them.

Foreign coins are almost as much collected as British,we tend to be cosmopolitan collectors with many overseas interests and links, historically and currently.

One area that does not get much attention is US coins. This is probably because the US market slurps up all that appear over here. If I ever do happen across some decent older coins from USA or Canada they always wind up going to US or Canadian buyers,