a 1 sol de oro from peru, quite common and worth around 50 pence
very early on in the colonies numismatic history, but in this case all were minted in london, and if any were minted locally they would have had...
some nice coins in there, try putting them in an album to prevent any damage,
there are no recorded examples of this type of overstrike, as all hong kong coins were struck at the royal mint in london so my educated guess is...
can't this thread be locked? it is getting oh so childish..................and nothing to do with coins!!!
they were tokens used as a local currency before the 1920's issues. a full set of 3 usually knocks you back around £180
here here.........................leave the lad alone!!!
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nonsense, detecto appears to be the butt of everyone's venom at present. have you ever stopped and wondered how old this lad may be??
nice one davey, right up to the end of imperial coinage the half crown was always called a half dollar.
further on this point, a friend of mine who is an eminent collector of uk pennies has recently found a 1967 penny struck on a brass...
come on give the guy a break, he obviously posted in the heat of the moment, some of the comments on this thread amount to cyber...
a novelty piece which someone decided should be minted...............
the first ever decimal coin was issued in 1849 with the introduction of the florin which also carried the legend 1 tenth of a pound...............
i had a superb 1913 copy of a half sovereign which was made of copper and dipped in gold, i only recognised it was a fake because the dip had...
they are not counter stamps so to speak but more like the milled edge of another coin being imprinted on the soft copper coin.
if it was silver you could name your own price for the coin..................................but alas, it is cupro-nickel and worth around 75 pence.
not really mate, they are usually found in the 10 pence box over here............
what exactly does this have to do with coin collecting????????????
it's a british token................................
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