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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 438864, member: 112&quot;]Sorry Sherry, I have never written about English coins. But if you click - <a href="http://www.cointalk.org/forumdisplay.php?f=34" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.org/forumdisplay.php?f=34" rel="nofollow">HERE</a> - you can find a great deal of information about the coins of many countries.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, as to your questions - </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The year (if it were real) it was minted&quot; - as a general rule if a coin is undated the best you can do to determine year of mintage is to use the reign of the monarch as a range like Richard II 1377-99. But with that coin you have with Richard on it for example - Richard II never minted any gold angels (that&#039;s what the coin is supposed to be). So there is no way to answer your questions about it. Do you begin to see the problem ? </p><p><br /></p><p>I can tell you a genuine gold angel was minted in pure gold, that they basically hammered out thin sheets of the metal, then cut planchets and then struck the coins by hand using two dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I told you before, all this information would require many speciallized books. Now I have some of those books but no where near all of them. And to help you I would vitually have to write everything for you. So about the best I can do is point you in the direction to go and let you do your own research. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am not an expert on English coinage. I have only a basic knowledge of them. Every time someone ask a question about English coinage I have to do all of the research myself just to answer their questions. People have spent their entire lives studying British coinage just to find out the answers to what you think are simple questions. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you have specific questions, I&#039;ll be happy to answer them. But I am not going to write an entire book for you here on the forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>To start off, you would be best served to deal with specific genuine coins which is what I was trying to suggest before. </p><p><br /></p><p>Use the link I provided above. It will lead you to a lot of information.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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