1745 U.K. Lima ??

GOLDSAINT

Here is an interesting coin I bought on Ebay over the weekend. Perhaps one of you World experts can give me a little advice on this. My question is concerning the seller’s description about the sliver being seized at Lima Peru. Why would the U.K. want to show where the silver came from on these coins? Did they do that with other issues? This is what he said,

“Great Britain UK 1745 Shilling Lima PCGS AU50. Lima below bust means struck from silver seized at Lima Peru.”

Sylvestius

Well it's not quite that straight forward, no one is really sure why 'LIMA' was used.

Althout since you ask whether they did this with other dates/coins, yes in 1703 coins were struck with VIGO under the bust, this was put there as a political statement. For the silver and gold used to coin the 1703 issues was all raided from Spanish galleons at Vigo Bay. And thus to wind up the Spanish the British made a big point of it.

As for LIMA, coins with this were struck from silver captured by Admiral Anson on his circum-navigation of the Globe, whether any of it came from Peru or not is uncertain. Maybe that is where some of the original coins had come from before Anson captured them.

coinkat

Take a good look at the capital A in LIMA and see if the crossbar is missing. That is a scarce variety. I can't tell from the picture

GOLDSAINT

Thanks for your replies.

CoinKat,
The crossbar is not missing in the A

python

Goldsaint, nice coin. Here's a scan of one of the Vigo coins.

wybrit

Nice coin!!

Aethelred

Nice looking coin, I got to this thread too late to be of any use to you.

sumnom

The Darkside is cool.

AlaBill

With coins like this I'm going to have to start looking more carefully at the ebay auctions of darkside material.

sumnom

I love these kinds of stories.