Info on two coins??? one Possible Error Dime and Half Penny

Was looking through my change jar tonight and I found a few odds and ends that I thought were sorta interesting...

1st, I have a 2000 P Rosevelt Dime thats struck off to the side

Looks pretty much like this...



Is that actually an error coin I always here about?

Worth any more than face?

Mines in a lot better shape than the one pictured above and has no scratches...

The other coin, not sure what it is...

It says Half Penny 1863 , Its about the size of a Quarter, apears to be Copper

On the side it has a person (can't tell Male/Femail assuming female) sitting with a round shield next to her and she has a long three pronged spear... Also looks like there might be a really small waving flag or sail boat in the bottom right corner???

The Reverse has some lady facing left and the text starting from the left and rotating right reads:

Victoria D:G Britt:REG:F: (actually has those colons in those places)

Looking at my ""Official Numismatic Grading Standards" by Whittman
the Bust/Face side looks like it would grade somewhere between VG-8 and F-12, the other side looks like it would grade maybe EF-40 at best...

Any ideas what its worth???

Just currious, I'm sure they are worth nothing really, but I thought they were a bit interesting and wanted to learn something new...

 

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You really need to do a little elementary reading on coins of the world and/or world history.

Queen Victoria reigned over Great Britain and the various colonies and affiliated countries from 1837-1901, and if she doesn't belong in the Guinness Book for having her effigy on the most coins of anyone in history, she is certainly close.

The legend on your 1863 1/2d translates from the Latin as "Victoria by the Grace of God Queen of Britain and Defender of the Faith". (She hadn't yet adopted the title Empress of India.) It's a very common bronze coin. The reverse shows Britannia, the allegorical symbol of Great Britain, holding her trident.

The dime you show is a badly damaged, slightly off-center example worth 10¢ at any Walmart or 7-11. Without seeing a picture of yours, there is no way to tell whether it is actually an off-center strike or has after-mint damage; but the probability is that it is also a 10¢ coin.

 

I found some pics of a simmilar Coin (off by a year) online using google...

Just copied in "Victoria D:G Britt:REG:F:" and it found a few links... I really didn't think it would come up with anything since I did really know what to call it...





Except mine says Half Penny (not penny) and the date, its a year off, mine is a 1893..

Any coin still around and readable from 1863 kinda cool to me... Even if it is ""Common""....

Thanks for the friendly History lesson....

 

it looks british to me. you got that in change? you said it was in your change can.

 

Yes, but I don't really recall when or what is was given as....

I have this tray on the entertainment center in my bedroom that I put my change in everynight...

When it gets full, if I don't feel like rolling it, I dump it in a bigger container... Then every so often I look though it for keepers and roll the majority....

I found it the other night with that dime and was like WTF???

 

i usually look in my change for keepers before i put it into a container. everyones different though.

 

Yup, and I'm lazy to boot...

 

I do the same. I look throigh my pocket change, check to see if i can add anything to my modern albums, pull out the pre-82 cents, foreign coins and anything else odd and then put them into the jar and cash them in when that fills up.