There are four puzzling aspects to this coin: 1. The letters RRN (or possibly VRRN) on the reverse. As far as I am aware, there is no legend...
According to Glen Murray in his "Casa de Moneda de Madrid, 2014, the 2 escudos de oro of Isabel II weighed 1.677 gms, the 4 escudos 3.3354 gms and...
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1913 shilling - one of the rarer dates[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
A couple of shillings which I recently purchased for only 14 euros, the 1913 in EF condition. I will send better, larger, pix tomorrow [ATTACH]
According to Gadoury, there are five variants of the Louis XIII 1643 half ecu, all minted in Paris (mintmark A, at 6 o'clock on the reverse.)...
From the Third Series, fine silver, 1551-53, with facing bust. minted in Southwark on the south bank of the Thames
"1920 8 Anna - seems to be a lot scarcer than the books suggest" The 1919 and 1920 issues of 8 annas (from Bombay) have small mintage figures:...
According to my British Commonwealth Coins, 1971, the East India Co.silver rupees from the Bengal Presidency were produced between 1793 and 1835....
The animal shown under the king's head is a fox and is the mark of of the Directeur of the Paris mint Mathieu Renard de Tasta, 1719 to 1738. The...
There were no 1866 sovereigns produced in Australia, the first ones were from the Sydney mint in 1871 and the Melbourne mint in 1872....
Whatever happened to the two messages I posted on this topic a couple of days ago?
The VM•R suggests that it is probably from the OMNIVM REGNORVM series of 1598 to 1603
To get an ID, you really need to give the weight of the coin (preferably in grams) and the diameter in mm. Without this info nobody can go much...
The British portable finds data base (finds.org.uk/database) show that two of these coins have been found by detectorists, both in separate...
According to Pellicer, the letter G of the assayer (ensayador) stands for Juan Gutierrez, 1544-1548. A real beauty, this 4 reales. I can't...
Certainly a rare Victoria silver. Similar, or rarer, silver coins that come to mind are the 1839 and 1841 half-crowns; the 1854 godless florin,...
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No mintmark? It's right after the X of REX
The last but one of the old pennies. After 1967 we went decimal and our coins became much less interesting
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