Home› World & Ancient Coins Forum

1952 Halfcrown

wybritwybrit Posts: 6,961 ✭✭✭
in World & Ancient Coins Forum
No, not this one, unfortunately!

image

This one:

image

Presto - instant space filler!
Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.

Comments

  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    OK, I'll take 'em both!

    imageimageimage
    .....GOD
    image

    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • GDJMSPGDJMSP Posts: 799 ✭

    image I love the reverse on the second one image
    knowledge ........ share it
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Wybrit, educate me as to the 1952 half crown please.

    And yes, the 21/2 S is a beauty!image
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • LovelyDarkAngelLovelyDarkAngel Posts: 134
    sweetimage
    3 Chili Peppers
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Laurent, they're both the same denomination; 2.5 shillings = half crown. The first is from England, and the second from South Africa. I think Wybrit is trying to show us he's finally stepped into a darker zone of the Darkside!

    The British one is one piece of artwork! What a high grade coin!!!

    imageimageimage
    .....GOD
    image

    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,961 ✭✭✭
    To the best of my knowledge, the 1952 British halfcrown is found in the British Museum. The second known example, a circulated piece probably VF, I think is in a private collection somewhere. I read a story in one of my very old price guides about it being found in change by a chap named Horace Burrows. One of the dealers in London I met mentioned he had handled that same second piece and "put his fingerprint on it."image

    In other words, this is a coin I'll never own.
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
Sign In or Register to comment.