I think Wolf was quite helpful in correcting young noname ($10 says that noname will never make that mistake again, eh?) Oh, but I also like this place a lot more when the coin-comments are civil rather than attacking (ummm, but I know from past-experience that it is sometimes difficult to read the correct "intended tone" of a written comment, so occasionally feathers get ruffled and beaks start beakin') ... moral of this tale => coins rock (lesson learned)
Part of what I wrote to noname I am in the UK, we don't use "cent" for our coinage. If I don't have any money, I might say "I don't have a cent" but it is slang. It is not actually interchangeable. Pennies are pre-decimal. Pence is post-decimal.
It was the 1799 half pennies that got me into collecting when I was a youngster. My father was removing the staircase from an old house and found a bag of about a dozen hidden in the staircase. I still have them. How about a box made out of two 2 penny coins? I saw this a few years ago and couldn't walk away.
Mat piqued my interest so I got myself a 1d and 2d. Sellers pics, not had my pie yet. George III Coin: Cartwheel Twopence Copper 2d GEORGIUS III D: G: REX. - George III right. BRITANNIA - Seated Britannia, facing left, holding an olive branch and trident. Mint Date: Soho, Birmingham 1797 Wt./Size/Axis: 56.28g / 41mm / - George III Coin: Cartwheel penny Copper 1d GEORGIUS III D: G: REX. - George III right. BRITANNIA - Seated Britannia, facing left, holding an olive branch and trident. Mint Date: Soho, Birmingham 1797 Wt./Size/Axis: 28.30g / 36mm / - Thanks Mat
