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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 76179, member: 669&quot;]Hi Digga, and&nbsp; <img src="http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/schilder/142.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; to the forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>If your item #1 is a U.S. cent with no mintmark, you have one of the 156,696,734 produced at Philadelpha that year.&nbsp; &quot;P&quot; mintmarks have never been used on 1¢ coins.&nbsp; It could be worth anything from 3¢ to $5-6, depending on condition; with a very high liklihood of fitting near the bottom of that range.</p><p><br /></p><p>#2 is most likely from Great Britain.&nbsp; That woman is Queen Elizabeth II, and the top of the design on the reverse is an Imperial Crown.&nbsp; Maybe one of our Brit members can explain the rest of the design.&nbsp; The value is somewhere in the 15-50¢ range.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a &quot;New Penny&quot; because the Brits changed from a base-12 pound/shilling/pence system to a decimal pound/penny system, in 1971.&nbsp; A New Penny was 1/100th of a pound, whereas an old Penny was 1/240th of a pound.&nbsp; After about a decade they decided that most people knew their money values, and dropped &quot;New&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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