No silver content, by the way; 100% copper-nickel. The design elements are Scottish, but it is an English coin, all the way, minted by the Royal Mint formerly in London, but now relocated to Llantrisant, Wales (during the 1970s).
Thank you, that's interesting information. I don't that much about coins I'm a new coin collector. I got most of my coins from my dad.
When I was a kid, and you could get worthwhile coins out of circulation, and EVERYBODY seemed to have a little box or jar of coins somewhere, few collectors gave much thought to details like I wrote, above. There were plenty of inexpensive coins to go around, and there was no time for hand-wringing over provenance -- too much baseball to play. When was the last time you saw kids playing baseball, five or six per team, on a vacant lot? Do they still have vacant lots? Are there any gloves not, Made in China?
Incidentally, numista is wrong about it being demonitised in '93, that coin was the same size as the older type of 10p coin and circulated alongside it at a decimal value, and can still be exchanged in a bank for the new size 10p coin in quantities of £5. Therefore it still has monetary value, unlike the sixpence and the half crown. No longer circulated is not the same as de-monitised, which means having no monetary value at all. (as a national coin, not numismatically)
