Post Your Coins from Jersey!

I think this is a neat coin ... The Bailiwick of Jersey (one inhabited island) and the Bailiwick of Guernsey (seven inhabited islands) are in the Channel Islands archipelago between southern England and northern France, remants of the Duchy of Normandy. They are British Crown Dependencies, hence the portrait of George VI.

Enjoy!

Best Regards,

George

Jersey 1947 1/12th Shilling MS64RB PCGS

 

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This might be a good time to ask something I've wondered for awhile: Do the people on Jersey and Guernsey actually use these coins? I'm guessing they do because many seem well circulated, but I would think they would just use British coins and the other coins would be for collectors.

 

Here's one of mine from a previous thread:

 

Wow, that's a great-looking coin!

Best Regards,

George

 

I had bough this coin, simply because it had a great design. The Coin is described as a Coriosolite Amorican Celtic Stater....approx. 20mm and 6.20g The piece is a Billon coin of "debased silver" The coin features a stylized head of Apollo? facing right and on the reverse a stylized Charioteer and Horse Boar below. This coin had been in a previous collection for over 25 years, but a very recent and wildly huge hoard was found on the Island of Jersey in the Channel Islands, located between Modern France (Brittany) and England....

See the Article here...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...friends.html

Also I found a great work shop software here....
http://www.writer2001.com/exp0002.htm

I played around with this for quite a while and I learned alot about what I am looking at when I look at Celtic coins, this also helps you with attribution, chronology and to understand the development and significance of the style of these great coins. These coins where circulated as Julius Caesars Army moved West, driving the Gauls towards the Sea.

 

Great post AN, but do you have a microscope I can borrow to see your coin?

 

I have a big collection of Jersey's coins.
Queen Victoria...
1/26 of a shilling 1861.

 

1/13 of a shilling 1861.

 

1/13 of a shilling 1866.

 

1/24 of a shilling 1894.

 

1/12 of a shilling 1894.

 

King Edward VII.
1/24 of a shillinf 1909.

 

1/12 of a shilling 1909.

 

King George V.
1/24 of a shilling 1913.

 

1/24 of a shilling 1926.

 

1/12 of a shilling 1913.

 

1/12 of a shilling 1923.

 

1/12 of a shilling 1933.

 

King George VI.
1/12 of a shilling 1945.

 

1/12 of a shilling 1946.