... and just to sort out the monetary value for you, you have seven shillings and fourpence hapenny there, as it would have been said at the time,...
Very nice coins - but I think you had a typo here! Switzerland not Sweden... :)
Hey Ed - either you or one of your cats is shedding! :)
These two arrived today - I am a sucker for these George III colonial coppers! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
1723 SSC "Real" British Crown: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I put some major investment (for me) into these two in the last week - the 1746 LIMA Crown is my first George II Old head Crown, and the 1663...
Thank you all for your assistance! So in summary, both coins are modern "Charm or fantasy" coins. The first is based on a mash up of Chinese coin...
A friend has asked me to find out more about these. I said I thought they are just tourist pieces but I thought I had better get confirmation as...
This is the best of mine: [ATTACH]
Coincidentally I picked up this one yesterday as an upgrade to my 1887 Young Head Threepence. The Jubilee head version is much more common and I...
OK - well HISP is definitely short for the Latin for Spain. It may well be for one of the Spanish colonies at that time - start with Mexico and if...
I don't think it is ancient enough for those guys! Pretty sure it is Spanish or their colonies and 18th century. This comes close to the match for...
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Ah - but, just because someone is asking crazy money for something, doesn't mean it is necessarily worth that much. I agree the deal was...
Another oddity from the recent auction. Appears to be a medallion celebrating the treaty between Germany and the Austro-Hungarian empire - a...
If you do a search on Postspaarbank in Ebay you will see a couple for sale from the US - they want $100 each for them! Theirs have numbers or...
I have done a little more research. The legend translates as Post Office Savings Bank or similar. There are a couple on Ebay at the moment with...
Found this oddity in the album I bought last weekend. Another one for @coin_nut I suspect! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
This is where I get my real joy - buying up an old album of coins and then spending days searching and researching through it. Here is one I...
Got this one as an upgrade over the weekend. I have always been a sucker for the Gothic Florin - this one 1885: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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