One shilling and sixpence, or 18 pence, produced by the Bank of England between 1812 an 1816. There are also 3 shilling bank tokens from the same...
Not mine, unfortunately, it belongs to a friend who asked for help in identifying it. A bronze As, weighing 17.1 gms, Kelse mint (an Iberian...
I know absolutely nothing about chopmarks, but this 8R looks genuine to me. The initials I. J are correct for this coin's date, they correspond to...
It is not an exact copy of the 1820 tyoe if George IV half crown. The most obvious difference occurs on the obverse. On the 2/6d coin the end of...
My Spinks English and UK Coins specifically warns that there are modern counterfeit George V wreath crowns dated 1927 and 1933
My book on British & Commonwealth coins makes no mention of a double strike on the 1943 silver (.800) threepenny bit
As from 1923, all S. African coins were produced in the Pretoria mint, which has also produced coins for the British Commonwealth (West Africa,...
And the arms are those of the city of Nantes
Ref that French medal (not a jeton, I think), Monsieur Gellée (or Gellé) de Premion was the mayor of the French city of Bantes in 1771, before the...
Just a thought. If so many double eagles, Saints etc are melted down, doesn't that mean that in the long run those remaining logically become...
As I commented, I have absolutely no knowledge of the coins of Poland and the Baltic countries, and practically nothing either of the early...
I am not familiar with coins from Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, but on GH#75's coin I can clearly read REG, short for REGINA, queen, so we...
Ca Nl Ma stands for Ceca Nacional Manilla -National Mint Manilla
He was also very knowledgeable on the coinage of Spanish possessions in Europe (i.e.Spanish Netherlands, Italian possessions such as Sardinia,...
The book that you need is 'Ensayadores, las EmisionesMonetarias Hispánicas, Siglos XV-XXI' by Josep Pellicer I Bru, published in Barcelona in 2010...
"Technically I wasn't in Spain, I was in Catalunya" - that's like saying "Technically I wasn't in the USA, I was in Texas". But Cataluña has...
A beautiful coin in lovely condition. It looks to me like Sceatta Coinage, primary phase c. 680 to C.710. Minted in various rwgions of S.E. and E....
Your Perth 1948 penny is much rarer than the Sydney penny of the same date. Sydney = 26,625,600 penny coins, Perth = 1,533,600
.. always excepting the occasional offers for this coin at 1 or 2 euros, which I find hard to believe and treat wirh a good deal of scepticism....
Well, at the moment there are numismatists here in Spain offering almost uncirculated 1947 one peseta coins dated 19 - 56 at prices from anywhere...
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