Very nice coin! Congratulations. As ever, it is a lot more complicated than that! :) Mary was the legitimate Queen of Scotland (as her title...
I don't have my books to hand, but yes - it varies by date and denomination. Generally 18th century and earlier British coins are "Coin"...
Yes - I have been on the positive end of some of those sniper wars. (As well as some negative ones too!) One I recall was an Indian 8 Anna - the...
Yes they have! Panadol or Aspirin are available here now for as little as 1p per tablet, on supermarket shelves. However our "Nanny State"...
A few years ago I had experience of someone handling a coin which they knew their ancestor had handled. I found a 17th century token - I have...
Correct. There was quite a range of small coins issued during the Victorian era that were primarily for use in the colonies though also legal...
Just s slight correction here. Milled coins were issued prior to Charles II in England. Some were issued under Cromwell just prior to Charles II's...
Living most of my life in the UK, I would have to take exception to "there isn't a lot of Roman sites besides Bath"! :-) Roman sites are all over...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Here are a couple I had a couple of years ago - as I recal around GBP70 each at the time, so USD60 seems fine for your example.
Just to add to the above - although Maundy coins are distributed by the Monarch on Maundy Thursday, that is not the only source of them. In modern...
I could read "XX Cash" on the reverse, so I seached on Numista and came up with: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces44910.html which looks a...
If Goa doesn't come up with anything, try Sri Lanka/Ceylon? The Portuguese and Dutch were there before the British and it reminds me of some of...
I don't have my books to hand at the moment but it looks Indian Subcontinent colonial to me - possibly Goa? This was a Portuguese colony and so...
Can't see any reason why not. Single Maundy pieces are not that scarce and only command high prices when approaching uncirculated or in a matched...
In the UK "Penny" would be the most common I think. Penny Lane by the Beatles comes to mind. For a joke, how about "Dong"? The national currency...
The 20/- reads as 20 shillings in pre-decimal money = one pound. Not sure if this one is related but several years ago I had a bag full of...
Not sure that is the right shield either! :( Looks to me like the standard Portuguese Shield within a shield with the 4 components in the centre...
Thanks for the endorsement! I too have been exploring further and been through all the Portuguese colonies and associates I can think of back to...
I guess mine has been a slow building "success story" from the beginning. I started collecting again (after giving up in my teens) about 15 years...
As discussed off line, the fleur de lys definitely suggests some link to France, but the cross on the reverse is very Portuguese in style and the...
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