M. D. ETR = Magnus Ducatus Etruriae. The "Grand Duchy of Etruria" was a sovereign state which existed from 1569 up until 1859, with a break...
Duchy of Etruria
OOOPps 1885
Your St Helena coin was issued by the East India Company - the island was important for sailing ships on the way to or from S. Afria and the East...
I can't find your coin in my 1971 edition of British Commonwealth Coins, in the pages on Indian Native States. As to the price, why not sell it...
I am no expert on early medieval English coins, so this is a shot in the dark, but I think this could be Spinks No. 1349. If so, my 2024 edition...
Somewhere, somewhere, I have two-shillings worth of BU 1928 pennies i.e. 24 of the first Irish Free State coins, plus 24 BU ha'pennies, again...
Not Santa Fe de Bogota but Nuevo Reino de Granada, JV are Juan de Chavez y Victoriano del Valle respectively, 1759 to 1760
PS I meant my great grandchildren might one day appreciate some 30, 40 or 50 yr old BU Euro coins - my Irish pennies and halfpennies went years...
I began collecting post 1860 Victorian pennies over 70 years ago as a schoolboy - they were plentiful, though not in good condition, and we all...
How on earth did you get that at a bank? Are banks now selling demonetised UK coins? If so please let me know how I can buy/bid for the coins and...
And just a small correction, the Admiral Gardner sank en route to India, which is why it was carrying a large quantity of uncirculated EIC...
Hi Daffyd I'm not sure what you mean when you say that you believe your 8 reales to "be a Mexican". It is clearly- as you say - minted in Lima in...
Not quite right. The three lions are the arms of England, the "lion in the shield" is in fact the royal arms of Scotland: Or, a lion rampant...
I don't know Brad Yonaka's work, but I find that the "Guia de las Cantidades Acuñadas, Cecas de Potosi y Lima" by Dr Glen Murray has everything...
I agree with SensibleSal, this is most likely to be a Chinese chop mark. My Spinks, when referring to the 1887 Jubilee gold £5 and £2 coins, says...
Major Fred Pridmore was the expert on British colonial coins ad tokens. http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?topic=12718.0
The reference book that I use is Pellicer's Ensayadores - Las Emisiones Monetarias Hispanicas (Siglas XV - XXI)
In my youth, these pennies (and ha'pennies too) were known as Honolulu pennies....
In all probability, it is a florin from any place except Florence. Florins were imitated by other states in for example Savoy, in Geneva, in...
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