One minor correction: metal detecting is not illegal in Spain. There is one national law (Ley de Patrimonio Historico) which forbids metal...
Can't be bad - once you have separated the wheat from the chaff, you can probably sell the rest in a flea market for a minimum of 5 or 10$ each.
Paddy, I could be wrong, but I think that your 1881 H may turn out to be one of the rarest bun-head pennies. According to my Spinks, there are...
The coinage of this territory which officially became a British Protectorate in 1888 (when Britain took over the North Borneo Chartered Company)...
The 1951 6d is not a rare date, with a mintage of 1.8 million pieces, compared for example with the 1942 6d with 360,000. My handbook of British...
Since Belgium did not exist as a nation in 1807 they were hardly likely to mint one cent coins with that date.
Yes! The last six are definitely Portuguese cetils from the reign. of Alfonso V. There are a number of varieties but they all consist in a castle...
I think these are all Portuguese cetils, worth one sixth of a silver real, reign of King Alfonso V (1438 to 1481)- but better individual photos...
On the question of pricing, the first consideration is to determine which variety of 1889 penny this is. The Victorian bronze coinage of 1860 to...
Five pound notes were VERY rare indeed. My father occasionally had some, and on one never-to-forgotten day, he actualy gave me one - this would...
It looks to me as though the top line ends with the figures 39.
As always, it's a question of knowing what to look for!
That's quite a nice specimen of the 1787 Sixpence. According to my 2016 copy of Spink's Coins of England and the United Kingdom, this sixpence is...
I was born in 1941 and began collecting Queen Victoria copper coins - pennies , ha'pennies and farthings when I was about 11 years old and...
Not quite the same category, but the British silver 4- penny piece issued in 1837 and 1838 was minted for a very special reason. The standard cab...
The assayer, according to Pellicer, is probably Juan Infante 1760-1767. Ensayadores, Las Emisiones Monetarias Hispanicas (Siglos XV - XX), Josep...
Hi VGO-DVCKS - No, I'm afraid there's almost certainly no family relationship. I chose the name Bardolph for two reasons: first, I once played the...
(Pressed the send button in error). ... 16th to 18th Century. The average weight for a vervel is just under 1 gram while harness pendants are...
The term vervelles may be used as you say, and in fact is, but it is incorrectly applied. I am a member of several metal detectorist websites, and...
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