Yes - UK coins are even more complex than US. (We have had a lot longer to get confused!) Here is one of my better ones in the same series with...
Nice coin! In Spinks this would be ref S3909, type A2 with the First head. Note the Die number of the date - 38 I think. At this time the...
Maybe stretching exonumia too far, but this cat badge was just so cute! Mintmark tells me it was assayed in Birmingham in 1945. [ATTACH]
I think you were on the wrong page in Krause. This is purporting to be a Gold Sovereign of 1817, Krause #674, about 3 pages later in my 7th...
Thanks for that Christian, certainly gets me closer. I seem to be finding examples of the reverse, but none with the matching Liberty obverse?...
Were you Special Forces at some stage? It is standard practice for the SAS and SBS in this country to carry gold coins on operations in case they...
Yes the 1951s in the boxes are nicer - still a lot of them around here. The 1972, 1977, 1980 and 1981 ones are all very common particularly loose...
I picked up this today - large French Medallion (scale in tenths of an inch). It appears to be for Courage in the fire service but I have not been...
Yes - you are right - the Five Pound coin is the same size and weight as the old Five shilling Crown. The later ones of those - from 1965 to 1981...
So would I - which is precisely why the market for the Five pound coin is dead. As the Royal Mint is still making them and trying to flog them, I...
Just a different aspect of the same problem. In the UK they have been issuing GBP 5 coins as commemoratives for some years (since 1991 I think)....
Thanks for all your kind thoughts. Can't say things have improved much but at least I can keep myself distracted with coins.
I have Krause for 17th century too - it is not really much good for British coins this early. (Much as I am sure you would not use Krause for US...
Having a bad day so I thought I would post my Saxon Penny collection, as far as I have built it, to help me feel better. I hope you like them and...
I'm sure you would! :-) Sadly this one is not for sale. They are extraordinarily difficult to come by, though a Metal detectorist friend picked up...
OK - I'll play! Here are some Tudor ones from my collection: Edward VI Shilling S2482 with "y" mintmark - 1551 Philip and Mary Sixpence S2505...
Wow - brilliant! It was just a throw in with the rest so very pleasing. I have had a check on Ebay since I posted and come up with a similar sort...
I don't usually get involved in error coins, or indeed non-British ones, so hopefully you all can help me with this one. I picked it up today...
Could well be! I still can't work out what it is about though. If it is countermarking, it was done a long time ago. To make a counter-mark so...
That's brilliant - thanks! Good news: They want USD 250 for it and that is with one coin missing. :-) Bad news - nobody has bid - not even...
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