1854 British Farthing

Grade and value? Would appreciate all comments & opinions. Thanks.





The copper/blue (!) toning is hard to capture in photos.

 

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It's harshly cleaned and damaged, deduct for that. NGC Price Guide has it at 4,946,000 minted, $18-90, at VF-EF.

 

In the UK the current catalog price is £4 for Fine. which is the lowest grade.
Yours looks like its been hacked to death.
You would be lucky to get 20 Pence for it (about $0.33)

 

F15 details $1.50

 

Just keep it and enjoy having an old coin in your collection.

 

Thanks everyone!

Can you recommend a site for researching European coins?

Last week I was at a hole-in-the-wall arts & crafts (!) sale:





I know almost nothing about foreign coins. But for $10, I couldn't resist.

 

You got that much for $10? You put the Jessie James to somebody. I'm just looking at some of those dates you got, that's a good score.

 

The term World Coins is used rather than foreign.

Here is a site that lists all UK coins back to the 17th century, the prices are in £ and the grading is British grading standards.
(By Tony Clayton)
http://www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk/values/

 

Yup, it felt like a steal.

Of course it didn't include the magnifiers.

 

"World Coins" it is. And thanks for the site.

To research these, it looks like I'll need a history lesson too.

 

You sure know enough to scoop a great deal when it comes along,congrats!

 

Can you show us the rest of the Canadian coins?

 

Sure. A few minutes...

 

Here's a Canadian reference site:
http://www.coinsandcanada.com/coins-prices.php
Prices (in $CAD) are higher than reality as with most, but it's a good reference/grading site

 

Canadian coins:


I did a quick search for the 1953. I'm far from an expert, but I think my two coins are the common far leaf/non-shoulder fold variety.

 

I would love to see photos of everything you ended up with if you don't mind sharing.

 

I'll post group photos by country. Maybe in an hour or so.

Then let me know if there's an individual coin that deserves attention. Like this:

 

Nice finds from what I've seen you got a great deal for $10

 

I appreciate any help you can provide, identifying possibly important coins:















I haven't yet researched these, so don't know where they're from:

 

The 1937 Czechoslovakian coin is a 20 Haleru with a mintage of 40,000,000. The 1921 right below it is a 20 Haleru with a mintage of 8,208,000. If you can identify the country you can identify the coins off the pictures here which links to the NGC Price Guide on the coins as well as to eBay auctions:

http://worldcoingallery.com/index2.htm