I like them both and my decision would be based more on the isuing mints - have you made up your mind which mints they are from? The top one...
I thought I would post some of my 17th Century Crowns for your delectation! 1677 Charles II Crown - he was the son of Charles I who was beheaded...
Thanks for adding the pictures. I have just spent a happy (?) hour going through Krause 19th century (168 pages!) and got no good match. There are...
Sadly no picture...?
That is one stunner of a medallion! The artistry that allowed them to get such a range of colours in the copper is wonderful and rare. Even though...
Yes - very beautiful. I was fortunate enough to be at University College, which is housed largely in the Castle and known to everyone else as...
I would happily be trading with you if I had any Durham tokens! Sadly not a single one, even though I was at University there in the 1980s.
I scanned this in response to a message on another thread so I thought I would put it up here too. [ATTACH]
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.
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