I'm doing my annual review of my fairly small collection and as always, I have trouble getting prices for my older world coins. If anyone wants to take a minute and help me out, I've got the four in question up on my website World Coins. I'd surely appreciate it. These make the biggest difference in my collection, so it's always nice to see how they're doing. Thanks!
drdoak, I have several of the coins that you do but most of yours are a bit nicer.As far as I could see,all of your descriptions are correct except that the Winston Churchill crown,which is legal tender by the way,is a clad coin,not silver.Unfortunately,they were produced in such vast numbers that they are worth only about $5.00. The rest,especially the gold are worth quite a bit,especially the Heraclius solidus $250-350 http://search.ebay.com/churchill-coin-1965_W0QQfnuZ
I can help you out with the French 20 francs - it was struck in .900 gold and contains .1867 oz of pure gold. Value is about $130.
I've gotta ask... What's the Churchill actually worth (face value)? They seem to have forgotten that part. Didn't see it in the eBay auctions I flipped through. Thanks for the price hints.
Sylvester or Ian could probably be more informative but I think it was only in recent years that British coinage had the denominations on them.It makes sense in a way,how many people actually look at a dimes or quarters to see how many cents they are?
It was issued as a crown in the pre-decimal system. With the conversion to the decimal system in 1971, all crowns were deemed still legal tender, at the face value of 25 pence. This value was given based on the conversion that a predecimal crown was equal to 5 shillings, and a shilling was 1/20th of a pound. In converting to decimal, the shillings remained legal tender at the same fraction (1/20th of a pound), or 5 pence, and the crown was still equal to 5 times that... 25 pence.
Thanks for all the info. And thank goodness we decided to use the decimal system with our money! It helps the foreign tourists if the money says what it's worth I imagine. I never would have though that that was anything other than a commemorative medal...
