Usually my local junk bin is pretty modern stuff, but today there was more variety than usual. I'm pretty happy with the Norway 1816 1 skilling species and 1925 Brazil 400 reis. Any idea what the thing on the lower left might be? From top L: UK penny 1866 Victoria Brazil 400 reis 1925 Angola 10 centavos 1949 Venezuela 5 centimos 1948 Japan 50 sen, Showa 23 = 1948 Germany 5 Pfennig 1905 ??? (Edit: UK William III Halfpenny, 1695-1701. Thanks to Lord Marcovan for ID) France 5 centimes 1863 Napoleon III Norway 1 skilling species 1816 Carl XIII Uruguay 2 centesimos 1924
Nice you did good,bottom left?looks like a spanish copper or an American colonial from the 1700's at least.
I'm reasonably confident your bottom left copper is a British halfpenny of William III. Maybe not the exact type linked, but similar. He died in 1702, so at over 300 years old, that's the oldest coin in the lot.
It's 28 mm, 8.4 g I think I can make out "IVS" so maybe a UK or imitation halfpenny. The bust looks like George II but facing the wrong way.
Wow! I think you're right. I can make out the "G" of "GVLIELMVS" by the shoulder when I turn it in the light. I guess what I thought was an "IVS" was the rest of an "MVS." I'm very happy with it now that I've had help identifying it.
While the William III halfpenny (in that condition) and the rest are not particularly valuable pieces, you definitely got your dollar's worth!
Looks like an 1865 BB (Strasbourg). Numista doesn't show a premium for either date, so I dug out my 1995 Krause guide and it looks like A (Paris) is the rarer date that year. Krause had this one at $4.00 in fine, but this is a ways from fine. I can live with 10 cents though.
Ah, I thought it might have been MA (Marseilles) from the other picture. Marseilles is a Heaton mint mark of sorts, as they provided the machinery and operators to the Marseilles mint. I haven't managed to acquire one yet.
What’s fun about the 1 skilling 1816, is that that plus the 8 skilling 1817 were the only Norwegian coins minted by Carl XIII. This happened in a time when Norway was in transition between Danish and Swedish government, after the wars of Napoleon, who got the support of Denmark. Losing the war, Denmark had to hand over Norway to Sweden. During this transition, a group of 112 men gathered at Eidsvoll to create a constitution for Norway. This constitution was the beginning of Norwegian independence in 1905. Read the full story here: https://eidsvoll1814.no/en/the-story-of-1814-in-123
