I dug all of the coins in my collection including the quarter laurel and the Henry 8th groat. In fact, I found 2 Henry 8th groats during the same...
I too sold my gold to help pay for my wife's stairlift. I sold a James 1st quarter laurel, Victoria half sovereign and many gold rings and other...
Just looked at your link and WOW, WOW WOW..... What a collection! My first instinct was that the George Guinea was a lookalike gaming token but...
T Thanks for your kind comments. Do you know if there is a "holy grail" of coin books that everyone is searching for?
Shown below is a photo of 2 coin books I inherited from my grandparents. The first is dated 1888 and the second 1905. I was wondering how common...
Why have some hammered coins been pierced? Was it so that they could be put onto a chain or to deface them for some reason? [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Finding it difficult to decide whether this is a John or Henry short cross. Help please?[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Those books look interesting. Personally, I tend to buy the Spinks coins every few years (both the English and Scotland and Ireland versions) and...
More than happy to oblige. Let me know what types of coins/artifacts you are interested in and I'll try to post some on the site. I don't collect...
It's surprising just how far some coins travel in their lifetimes. On a local farm here in Somerset, I have found a silver coin of Louis 14th of...
I hadn't really considered the potentially very long period of time that such coins might have remained in circulation and that my coin could have...
Thank you for confirming my suspicion that the pennies are rarer and 3rd issue examples like mine in particular. I found my example here in...
I found it on the outskirts of Bath, Somerset. Thanks for your comments. Normally, the love tokens I find are basically very worn William 3rd...
The EMC is a great repository of information on early medieval coins. I used it recently to help me identify 2 cut quarters of Ethelred 2nd that I...
Not in great condition but still a very welcome find.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I regularly use the online EMC hosted by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to record any early medieval coins I find and as a visual reference...
Very true. I had always considered that the coin would have been contemporary with any associated transportation, but maybe not.
Lovely Alexander penny Lordmarcovan. Did you find it or buy it? All of the coins in my collection have been found over the last 37 years using a...
I tr I tried searching Numista but only first and second issues appeared. No third issues. Thanks anyway. It was worth a try.
At that time convicts were sent to America. Australia was much later.
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