World coins. Some of my Isle of Man collection

These coins are part of a very generous gift from my father-in-law who spent a lot of his early years on the island.
Images 1 and 2 First issue penny 1709 cast. 10.08 grams 30 mm.
Images 3 and 4 Second issue penny 1733 milled 9.25 grams 27 mm
Images 5 and 6 Second issue half penny 1733 milled 5.11 grams 23mm
Images 7 and 8 Penny 1758 milled 10.75 grams 29mm
Images 9 and 10 1786 penny 1786 milled 15.31 grams 34 mm

Hope you enjoy!

 

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very cool.

 

Here are few more:

Images 11 and 12 1786 half penny 8.56 grams 27mm
Images 13 and 14 1798 half penny 10.57 grams 27mm
Images 15 and 16 1813 penny 20.62 grams 33mm
Images 17 and 18 1839 penny 18.72 grams 33mm
Images 19 and 20 1839 half penny 9.35 grams 27mm

 

might help if I attached all the files

 

what an awesome collection.

 

Nice. I've always liked the three-legged Isle of Man symbol.

 

Fantastic set of coins!

 

Thanks, me too. The triskeles has been around as a symbol for a very long time.

 

Cool coins, thanks for sharing! When I hear "Isle of Man coins", I usually think of lots of modern pieces for collectors, but obviously there was a time before that. And yes, the triskele has been used (Man, Sicily and elsewhere) for many years, but outside the IoM it does not show on coins that often ...

Christian

 

I'm trying to complete my 1/10 gold cats, and silver crowns, and that's hard enough, yours are stunning.

 

Smashing collection! Even nicer that they're an heirloom from your father-in-law, and that the coins must certainly have meant something to him.

...the "triskele" I'll remember that.

 

Thank you, yes they did mean a lot to him. He loved everything about the Isle. I've been there myself, beautiful place.

 

those are cool...the cast coin is very interesting.

 

This Isle of Man copper penny is one of only 90,000 issued by James, the tenth Earl of Derby in 1709. Isaac Newton, then Master of the Royal Mint at Tower Hill in London refused to manufacture them there as they did not bear the likeness of Queen Anne, but agreed that he could make them privately. Before this could be carried out the Earl of Derby obtained them elsewhere. They were very crudely made by cast, and not struck in the normal manner, therefore the quality is always poor. My example would be considered probably VF

 

I know this is an old post but the 1786 issues are transposed. Images 9 & 10 are the halfpenny, 11 & 12 are the penny.

Lovely stuff.

 

Good eye. After some looking I can see the triskele ( man autocorrect hates that word) alignes differently with the lettering.

 

It's easier than that. The penny has a curly tail to the 7.