"1920 8 Anna - seems to be a lot scarcer than the books suggest" The 1919 and 1920 issues of 8 annas (from Bombay) have small mintage figures:...
According to my British Commonwealth Coins, 1971, the East India Co.silver rupees from the Bengal Presidency were produced between 1793 and 1835....
The animal shown under the king's head is a fox and is the mark of of the Directeur of the Paris mint Mathieu Renard de Tasta, 1719 to 1738. The...
There were no 1866 sovereigns produced in Australia, the first ones were from the Sydney mint in 1871 and the Melbourne mint in 1872....
Whatever happened to the two messages I posted on this topic a couple of days ago?
The VM•R suggests that it is probably from the OMNIVM REGNORVM series of 1598 to 1603
To get an ID, you really need to give the weight of the coin (preferably in grams) and the diameter in mm. Without this info nobody can go much...
The British portable finds data base (finds.org.uk/database) show that two of these coins have been found by detectorists, both in separate...
According to Pellicer, the letter G of the assayer (ensayador) stands for Juan Gutierrez, 1544-1548. A real beauty, this 4 reales. I can't...
Certainly a rare Victoria silver. Similar, or rarer, silver coins that come to mind are the 1839 and 1841 half-crowns; the 1854 godless florin,...
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No mintmark? It's right after the X of REX
The last but one of the old pennies. After 1967 we went decimal and our coins became much less interesting
PS Value I would guess is around $10 or so
During WWII, fAustralian silver coins (3d, 6d, 1/- and 2/- were minted in Denver and San Francisco. In 1942, Melbourne minted only 528,000 of...
The 1869 is a rare coin but not in the same league as the 1869 penny. The die number on this 6d is No. 9, but I don't know if that makes it...
Absolutely wonderful, splendid coins. I wasn't aware of their existence, but that's no so surprising really. I collect French coins but in...
Sorry, I must have been daydreaming. Those dates for the two Js were during the reign of Carlos III. They carried on their good work from 1789 -...
NR = Nuevo Reino de Granada, modern day Bogotá, JJ =Juan Rodríguez Uzquiano and Juan José Truxillo y Mutienx, mint master and assayer from 1780...
My source of info on ancient trading with India (and further East): The Boundless Sea, a Human History of the Oceans , by David Abulafia,...
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