I just recieved some beautiful British coins from a friend today, and was wondering if someone could tell me the mintage of the 1839 one and one half pence coin, as well as the value for it in AU and Unc. I also have some Maundy coins I was wondering about. Could anyone tell me the mintages for these coins? 1870 maundy penny, 1846 maundy penny, 1846 maundy twopence, 1841 maundy twopence Thanks, and I will try to post some pictures of them this weekend. They're beautiful coins, almost all of them are Unc.
Wow, I didn't have any idea that they made that many of the 1839 one and one half pence coins. They were made for circulation right? The only one pence and two pence silver coins made in those years were the maundy ones, correct? Also, do you have the mintage for the 1838 twopence, and 1836 fourpence? edit: Oh, I don't think that the 1836 fourpence is a maundy coin. Thanks, rexesq
The threehalfpence coins were struck for circulation in Jamaica and Ceylon. I quote F.Pridmore in "The Coins of the British Commonwealth of Nations - Part 3 - West-Indies":Like the threepence, the 1 1/2d was first approved for Jamaica by Treasury letter dated 12th September 1834 and each subsequent order received separate approval. In Jamaica this denomination passed under the name of "quattie" or equivalent of the old Spanish 1/4 real. Royal Mint records show that the 1 1/2d coinages were sent to the same colonies as the threepence, except Malta who only received the threepence. Pridmore gives as mintage for 1839 760,320. Krause always rounds off its figures. The twopence of 1838 was used as a circulation coin in British Guiana where it passed as 1/2 bitt. Mintage for 1838 is 1,045,440 The fourpence of 1836 with Brittannia on the reverse, which, according to Krause, has primarly been used in British Guiana, has a mintage of 4,253,000 . This is a Krause figure, as Pridmore doesn't include any fourpence prior to 1888.
In UNC I would be saying way more than $75. Many major British dealers have them on lists as BU £150.
I don't think that it's quite uncirculated, here are some pics, let me know what you guys think. I didn't want to take the coin out of the flip I have it in, so I did my best to get pics through the plastic. I'll try to get some pics of the maundy coins soon. Also, thank you all for the mintages and values, it is very much apreciated. On the reverse of the coin, there is a small string of metal above the crown, linking the crown to the rim. Very small, skinny piece, you can kinda see it in the pics. It looks like a scratch, but it's not, it's raised above the coin surface very slightly. What is it? and why is it there?
Any date of the 3 Halfpence coin,other than 1838 & 1843,are quite scarce.I was lucky to have picked up an 1862 1-1/2d. with a hole in it.The 1870 is a Proof-only issue,which is unobtainable. They are cute British coins that are easily confused with Maundy coins,because of the reverse design. Aidan.
I think it is at least EF. It's hard to see the details in the pictures. My camera is not all that great, and it's hard to get good pics through a plastic flip. I just picked up an 1835 maundy 1 pence yesterday, sadly it has a hole in it. It looks like it would grade AU+...without the hole that is. Tis' a shame that such a nice coin had to be harmed by someone making a necklace. But I found it in the 'foreign silver bin' at the coin shop, and got it for only .25cents. They have a small bin that they throw all their lower quality foreign silver into, and sell all of it for its silver value. I've found some great coins in there. Sadly some of the nicest coins I've found in there have had holes in them. Some of them would be $50 coins without the holes. I guess necklaces with maundy and other small coins on them must have been very popular. Anyway, I was also wondering what the mintage was for the 1835 maundy 1 pence. I'll try to take some pictures of my non-holy maundy coins sometime this week, if I have time. rexesq
