what is this coin and is it worth anything

here it is

 

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Canadian penny...King George V.....Per Wiki; This coinage is known as the "Godless" coinage, because the abbreviation "DEI GRA",


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_Canadian_dollar

 

is it worth anything ?

 

It is English, not Canadian, it has the Dei Gra so it cannot be "godless". It is a 1936 British penny, not really worth anything Tony.

 

ok cool thanks alot looks nice at least

 

Looks highly polished or gold plated....which would remove what little value the coin did have.

 

Aside from the fact that Canadian coinage always includes the word "CANADA" in its legends, it's an extremely good idea to read the material you are linking to before misquoting it!

As a matter of fact, at least of the English speaking nations, the United Kingdom is the only country that doesn't put its name on its coins.

 

.10 or so.

 

Cool thanks

 

I have a couple of those, I think they are nice looking coins.

 

The copper in it is worth around 6-1/2 US cents.



This one weighs 9.30 grams, the copper is worth around 6-1/2 cents US.

Price of copper per pound $3.325
453.6 grams in a pound
Coin is 95% copper
9.30 x $3.325 x 0.95/ 453.6 = $0.065

 

This is my Great Britain Penny similar to your 1936 coin. It is from my Great Britain Penny type set

 

What pennies do you have in your type collection? Do you have both original and modified effigies of George V? Your one above is the former (pre 1927). The latter is 1926/7 onwards - 1926 had both, and the modified version is very rare!

 

My Penny type set only goes back to the beginning of machine made pennies. I've really only focused on one penny per major type. I do not have any Great Britain Pennies dated before 1797. I still need to upgrade a couple of mine to UNC. Here are some links depicting my type set.

http://www.cointalk.com/t83446/

http://www.cointalk.com/t107336/

http://www.cointalk.com/t47690/

 

Collect,

Very nice! I collect by date, and mostly C20th; I have all 1d coins from 1910 on in gEF or better, and a couple of other Edward VII and Old Head Victoria in Unc. I actually haven't got any copper pennies [yet!].

Here's a complete list of type coins, differentiating in monarch, portrait and reverse (George IV on). Of course, one per monarch is also good!

George IV
- copper 1825 - 27

William IV
- copper 1831 - 37

Victoria
- copper 1841 - 59
- bun head 1860 - 94 (fyi: portrait was aged twice during this series)
- (you could also add a "mint mark" type : 1874H, 1875H, 1876H, 1881H, 1882H)
- old head 1895 - 1901

Edward VII
- 1902 - 10

George V
- first effigy 1911 - 26
- modified effigy 1926 - 36
- (you could also add a "mint mark" type : 1912H, 1918H or KN or 1919H or KN - the last 4 are expensive in EF or better!)

George VI
- first 1937 - 48 (with "F: D: IND:IMP")
- second 1949 - 51 (with "FIDEI DEF")

Elizabeth II
- first 1953 ("BRITT:OMN", shallow portrait)
- second 1961 - 67 (no "BRITT:OMN", deeper relief)

For decimals - still 1p, but now worth 2.4 x the old 1d, there are the following 5 distinct types - all very easy to come by:

1971 - 81 "New Penny" portcullis design, Machin portrait
1982 - 84 "One penny", Machin portrait, smaller "1" on reverse
1985 - 97 "One penny", Maklouf portrait
1998 - 08 "One penny", Rank-Broadly portrait
2008 - now New reverse design (part of royal shield), Rank-Broadly portrait

And what collection would be complete without the diminutive Maundy penny?

 

The 1921 is a particularly hard date to get with decent strike, and it looks like you have one. For some reason, pennies of the era 1914 - 1921 were often not well struck - maybe they used dies longer, or maybe the War came into play, but whilst you can often get nice Unc coins of that range, many won't be well struck.

 

Hello andyscouse, Thanks for all the Penny type set info.

 

You're welcome! The 4 pennies I could see were very nice - couldn't see the pics on the copper (but they'd be great to see, I bet)! Any info you need, just ask (not sure what your specialty in collecting is).

 

I have never heard of a "mintmark type". Is the coin design different for coins with mintmarks? Usually a mint mark, or officiana mark, or the like do not denote a separate type. You can collect whatever you want, I was just curious if the mintmarked coins were different in any way except for the mintmark.

 

Well, it's just another coin to add to a collection, for it was only on the dates I listed that pennies had mintmarks. Apart from these, and sovereigns, for the most part modern UK coinage doesn't have mintmarks. Of course, if the point is one coin for each monarch, then mintmark wouldn't matter. In my collection, I have ignored mintmark coins, as they're way too expensive in EF or finer (some over $1,000).

For the 18xx coins, there is a small "H" under the date in exergue. For the 19xx coins, the "H" or "KN" is to the very left of the date, just under the exergue line itself. Apart from that, the basic design is the very same.

I know that when collecting sovereigns, one could do it by year only, or one per monarch, but one way that some people do it is to get one of each of the 7 mintmarks available (none = London, S=Sydney, M=Melbourne, P=Perth, I=Bombay (India), C=Ottawa (Canada), SA=South Africa).

At the end of the day, it's what each wants to make of it.