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<p>[QUOTE="alurid, post: 4278767, member: 81991"]I have a small bag of copper cull coin that I pick through once in a while to see if I can</p><p>identify anything. My latest find has enough visible features. I could tell it said Georgius on one side and a date of 1723 on the other. A little googling and bingo. An Hibernia Halfpenny that seems to have once had circulation in pre-colonial America. I found an excellent article about the history of this coin. At 297 years old they seem to be quite valuable. Mine is worth every Halfpenny I paid for it. Not a coin I expected to see in the Redbook.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1089010[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1089011[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://npobjects.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/the-rise-and-decline-of-woods-hibernia-halfpenny/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://npobjects.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/the-rise-and-decline-of-woods-hibernia-halfpenny/" rel="nofollow">https://npobjects.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/the-rise-and-decline-of-woods-hibernia-halfpenny/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="alurid, post: 4278767, member: 81991"]I have a small bag of copper cull coin that I pick through once in a while to see if I can identify anything. My latest find has enough visible features. I could tell it said Georgius on one side and a date of 1723 on the other. A little googling and bingo. An Hibernia Halfpenny that seems to have once had circulation in pre-colonial America. I found an excellent article about the history of this coin. At 297 years old they seem to be quite valuable. Mine is worth every Halfpenny I paid for it. Not a coin I expected to see in the Redbook. [ATTACH=full]1089010[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1089011[/ATTACH] [URL]https://npobjects.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/the-rise-and-decline-of-woods-hibernia-halfpenny/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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