Today is St. George’s day. Post a coin or medal of the British realm
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Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
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Better-date Canadian sovereign, 1913-C, MS63 PCGS, we have been fortunate enough to buy and sell two of these in our career to date. My name is George, my fathers name is George, his father's name was George, this is Saint George slaying the dragon, and the future King of England's name is George. So I feel like I'm in pretty good company today!
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Ummm ... George!
Church and King Club, 1790, BHM 344
Conder Token Gallery https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMCiunai6NjOxoo3zREkCsAnNm4vONzieO3u7tHyhm8peZmRD_A0MXmnWT2dzJ-nw?key=Rlo2YklUSWtEY1NWc3BfVm90ZEUwU25jLUZueG9n
Gobrecht's Engraved Mature Head Large Cent Model
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Georges rock! I hope that new Royal Baby has a George or two among his names.
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Well ... you know
George does rock! Little Prince George just got a baby brother. My Dad's name was George.
And this is one of the first 'big' coin I purchased as an adult collector. I joined this forum in 2003, and bought this from @SYRACUSIAN before I moved in 2004. It was a raw coin. I was a US person, living in Japan. He, a Greek living in, well Greece. IIRC I sent a check (or maybe it was PayPal, hard to say it was so long ago). It was a leap of faith!
Later, I went on a vacation to Hawaii and there was a coin show going on and ANACS was there. I carried it there and had it graded...into one of those little white slabs as an MS-63.
I had toyed with the idea of a Widow bust Victoria set (just to have a random theme...that was back when a few folks were doing the Edward 1902 matte sets, and younger head Victorias and I was looking for 'something'). I never did go too far with the theme, but this coin is one I'm not ever likely to sell. But, not too long ago I decided on a double sovereign type set ATS, so crossed it and now it's in a 64 and it's finally in a set
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Here is another forum inspired purchase. It's from a fantasy retro set using the Wyon design that I fell for from a forumite's siggy ( @trozau ) . Love, love, love this rendition of St. George. Might have been part of the impetus to collect 'nekkid guys and horses' or just 'nekkid guys'. That was back in the day several forum gentlemen had a fondness for the BBLs (bare breasted ladies) and I felt the urge to have something equally interesting to the opposite (ie MY) gender
My current "Box of 20"
William III & Mary, 1688-1694. AR Halfcrown (34mm, 15.06 g, 6h).
Tower (London) mint. Dually dated RY primo and 1689. GVLIELMVS • ET • MARIA • DIE • GRATIA; Jugate draped busts of William, laureate, and Mary right / MAG • BR • FR • ET • HIB • REX • ET • REGINA • 16 89; Crowned coat-of-arms. ESC 503; SCBC 3434. PCGS MS64, with attractive old-time patina.
William III, 1694-1702. AR Crown (39mm, c. 30g, 6h).
Tower (London) mint. Dated 1695. GVLIELMVS • III • DEI • GRA •; Laureate and draped bust right / • MAG • BR • FRA • ET • HIB • REX • 16 95; Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms around arms of Nassau. ESC 87; MCE 807; SCBC 3470. PCGS MS63+, with light champagne patina.
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Nice! I especially like the William & Mary.
Ælfred the Great, 871-899. AR Penny (21mm, 1.37g, 12h).
Non-portrait type. Canterbury mint; Ethelstan, moneyer. Circa 880-899. +ELFRED REX DORO, small cross pattée, legend around / EDELSTAN MO in two lines, pellet above, 3 pellets between, 5 pellets below. North 638; SCBC 1069. Lightly toned, with areas of weak strike.
(The obverse needs to be rotated CCW 90º)
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George, Prince Regent, white metal Medal. Struck 1820. England Gives Peace to the World (41mm, 28.73 g, 12h). By Mills & Dubois. GEORGE PRINCE REGENT MDCCCXVI, laureate bust facing, head left / Winged female (personification of Victory) standing right, presenting the earth to Britannia seated left, holding sword, shield, and olive branch; in three lines in exergue, ENGLAND GIVES PEACE / TO THE WORLD / 1814. Eimer 1047; BHM 776; Julius 2973; d'Essling 1488.
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Mary Queen of Scots was considered by many British Catholics to be the true Queen (as opposed to Elizabeth I). This Ryal dates from her unhappy marriage to Henry Darnley. The counterstamp indicates a revaluation in 1578 under James VI.
On the reverse a tortoise (symbolizing Darnley) climbs a crowned palm tree (symbolizing Mary). Apparently, this was supposed to be a hint to him (and to everyone) that Darnley never, ever would be the king.
Sweet, thanks for sharing !!!
This royal baby (born today) will be the answer to a trivia guestion someday "Name the highest ranking male child, descended from a regnant king or queen, who upon birth did NOT go ahead of his elder sister in the order of succession to the British throne".
--Severian the Lame
Recent succession change, in keeping with the times. Prince Harry and the other royal uncles, aunts and cousins all got bumped however.
And to think, William and Kate almost never was. They broke up for a spell.
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@EVillageProwler Well yes, Harry and all the subsequent others in the order of succession to the British throne got bumped one today. Prince Andrew, who was second in the line of succession from his birth until age 22 years, is now seventh at age 58.
There are such things as Privy Counselors, which I believe Harry and Andrew both are. Also, there is a rule where the consort of the sovereign and the next four heirs in the order of succession who are over age 21 can intervene in the affairs of the Kingdom if the sovereign becomes clearly incapacitated. This should ensure some spot/importance for both Harry and Andrew for a long time to come.
Again, for the few who might care, today's royal baby boy if the first child to 'suffer' some disadvantage from the rule change from male primogeniture to absolute primogeniture.
I was looking at a graphic of the order of succession and it was pretty interesting to think about how the succession downstream would have been different if the rule change had been a generation sooner. Kind of cool actually.
https://cnn.com/2018/04/23/europe/duchess-of-cambridge-in-labor-with-third-child-intl/index.html
Wow! I didn't know until reading this thread that there is a third royal baby, very cool!
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Not a George, but a brand new purchase of a very rare coin off eBay...
Well, just Love coins, period.
George IIII (IV)
looks like his hairdo is in again today
1 Farthing 1825
Reminds me of my old mentor George Fisher Jr., who collected any coin with a George on it.
Here are a few that were handy -
Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
I have two rather nicer than this one, but this is the one that is photographed:
Do you know the specific gravity of yours? Mine is 9.5 so, if the counterstrike is authentic, it was struck on a contemporary counterfeit 8 reales.
@jgenn I'm not certain what you are asking, but I could attempt to figure out the specific gravity.
The Soho Mint struck/restruck the hell out of these for seven years. I suppose they must have run through a few fake 8 reales. Never thought much about it.
My two nicer non-holed coins are buried in a SDB and that box is some distance from my residence.
@BillDugan1959 I've gotten into the habit of measuring the specific gravity of the raw 8 reales that I collect. Since my bank dollar was a raw coin from a recent Heritage Auction and the weight was 25.67 g, I was a little suspicious (the auction listing did not include the weight). I'm just curious as to whether other collectors have detailed measurements on their bank dollars.
Or edge photos: