It is always a shame to see a coin holed, but you have to remember these pennies were exceedingly common at the time, and still are now. In that...
Well if we are going to turn this "penny" thread into a parade of Victorian coins, here are a few more: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] 1843 Threehalfpence...
Yes - I have all the coins I have posted here - and an awful lot more! I have been doing it for "only" about 20 years (ignoring the year or two as...
This is what she looked like in her youth - at least on her coins: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Ah - what you need is one of these: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The only time I have seen anything similar is with the tin farthings and halfpennies issued in England from 1684 to 1692. These had a copper plug...
No problem. As far as I am aware they both aim really at dissolving the organic material on the coins - grease, wax, fats etc, which have...
Acetone is different from Rubbing Alcohol. The latter is Ethanol - the same stuff people drink - but mixed with other chemicals to make it...
In 2013 and 2014 the Royal Mint produced a series of One pound coins with flowers representing the Home Nations (England, Scotland, Wales and...
You always have such marvellous coins @tibor I really don't know what to say! I collect British coins, and they don't start being dated until mid...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Pleased with this one from a recent auction - Ionian Islands Obol from 1819. A lot of people don't realise that Britain had the...
No they were posted. I paid online on Thursday afternoon and they arrived on Saturday morning. DNW are always very prompt with their postage and...
I have been a bad boy and I deserve to be punished! I saw this group of 5 Germanic Crown size coins as one lot at an auction, and I couldn't...
Picked up a small handful of William III Sixpences at auction. I had planned to sell them on, but they were too nice to part with! Here are a few:...
Got a couple of new ones: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
S4153 is the Spink catalogue number for all Brass Threepences 1954 to 1970. This is the standard reference for English coins. 3D is the usual...
1 inch wide is in between two coins! at 23mm it would be a Cent, and that is closer to the 25.4mm of 1 inch. The 2 1/2 Cent is 31mm. So probably a...
Yes - Netherlands East Indies from the second half of the 19th century. Could be Half, One or 2 1/2 cent - need the size to be sure which. Can be...
Not all these might work - some might not have done any silver, some are not Sovereign nations, being dependencies or amalgamations of multiple...
Sadly it has been that way for a long time, just not everyone realises it. In the UK we have to pay extra to get our listings visible in the US...
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