This, by the way, is my oldest actually British coin (as opposed to Romano-British): [ATTACH] Athelwulf penny - he reigned in Wessex from 839 to...
I picked up a pile of these tokens today at a local auction. The Co-op in the UK is a socially aware society that in the early days helped out...
.. and just to clarify, from around 1662 all milled (machine made) coins were dated, but there are many dated coins before that in Britain. I...
Yes - but until the 20th century International trading was not usually done on the basis of foreign exchange but on bullion value, so marked...
Ah yes - denominations are much more complicated! Over the centuries we have had dozens of different sizes of coins, many of them short lived and...
You are right to some extent. Very early hammered coins have no means of dating accurately, although some indication can be got from the...
The Victorian Gothic coins are all dated, but in line with the "gothic" fashion the date is in Roman Numerals and appears on the obverse in the...
The rest: [ATTACH] Queen Anne 1713 Crown [ATTACH] George I 1723 SSC Crown [ATTACH] George II 1748 Halfpenny Now, do we need to go back prior to...
Certainly marvellous but a long way from an "unbroken span"! Here are the missing monarchs between Elizabeth I and George III. (I can't help with...
Gone a bit quiet here so I thought I would add some more examples: [ATTACH] 1902 Edward VII Crown, Matt proof version [ATTACH] 1905 Edward VII...
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I've picked up an interesting collection of 19th century British tokens, so I thought I would share some pictures of the better pieces: [ATTACH]...
Found this one in my "spares" box today. Pretty good nick but one or two edge knocks and marks: [ATTACH] Victoria 1887 Jubilee Crown
Picked up this from a local jewellers scrap pot this morning: [ATTACH] Norway 10 Kroner 1964 0.900 Silver KM# 413 single year issue.
Of course if your collecting of British coins extends to the British Empire, then you could get something like this: [ATTACH]
How about this one - one of my oldest - Athelstan king of England from around 930 AD: [ATTACH]
I would suggest this is a good example of artistic AND Kings and Queens: [ATTACH] Gothic Crown 1847, Undecimo edge. :-)
Yes British coins are brilliant to collect - I have them back to around 850 AD (Saxon kings). But to clarify on the Maundy - they are not just...
Thanks for the support! The reverse is just a horizontal fixing pin with no marks. I do not have a picture to post. By the way whereas the US...
It is actually a badge of some sort, so a bit borderline to this forum I suppose. I just saw "dragon slayer" and remembered this one. I did quite...
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