I fully agree that many coins would have disappeared due to recoinages but this is what makes those left behind after being dropped and lost in...
Hi SensibleSal, Thanks for your kind comments. Out of interest, how old is your half reale and what realistically are the oldest coins you could...
PaddyB, thanks for the potted history lesson. Very interesting. I hadn't realised that there was no regal silver coinage issued over that rather...
I have found several cut quarter hammered coins while metal detecting here in the UK. Are there any specialist collectors or websites for such...
Just wondering if silver tokens such as that shown would have passed as common currency in daily use? I assume that they were used alongside...
Mike, many thanks for the link above. It helped me to rearrange a couple of loose pages in my copy back into the correct order. My copy came with...
The oldest coin I've found was this M Furius republican denarius dated 119bc with Janus on obverse and woman with sacrificial implements on the...
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...
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