British Penny

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Yup. That is indeed a British Penny.

 

Vicky ruled for almost 64 years, leaving poor Eddie only 9. Moms, think about your young 'uns.

 

Thanks for the feed.

O.K. and? you lost me on the first left turn. Can you elaborate?

 

Believe it or not, there is film of Queen Vicky. A real looker she was too. Check this film about two minutes in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=96&v=BBNwiPgknn8

Ok. Sorry for the interruption. Now back to our regular programming.

Here's another one just like yours from a year later.

 

Now this one is fit for a queen.

 

I really like the Victorian coins, even when worn flat they are lovely silhouettes

 

So do I.

 

This is what she looked like in her youth - at least on her coins:

 

A real looker indeed

 

Vicky in gold, young to old:

 

Wow, you guys are blowing me away, and I thought my coin was good. ha! Humbling.

 

Victoria Gothic florin

 

OK guys, I know I'm new a this but really, do you have these coins?

 

I do. I have been "accumulating" since the mid 1970s. I use that phrase because as a young kid I was in a coin shop and the owner there corrected my mother who was with me at the time and said that I was not building a coin collection, I was actually building a coin "accumulation" Yuck, yuck. Very funny.

 

OK, so I guess I'm going to start "accumulating"

 

Yes - I have all the coins I have posted here - and an awful lot more! I have been doing it for "only" about 20 years (ignoring the year or two as a child) and have got most quite cheaply through local auctions and flea markets.
I notice we have missed out one other key portrait on Victoria Pennies, so here is a reasonable example of one:

1860 Obverse 4 and reverse D with the progressive die cracks.

 

I guess I'll just have to look in my coins and find something else. You guy's will probably have them too.

 

I was gifted a tin tobacco box by my older brother's friend who was moving overseas when I was about twelve years old. He had an accumulation of his own with coins from his time in Viet-nam, Malaysia, and Singapore along with coins from his father and grandfather. Not a collection, but a nice accumulation. There were a lot of nice Great Britain pennies and farthings. Don't recall if both of these were from that lot but I think the earlier one was.

 

Wait, one more try.