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    HoledandCreativeHoledandCreative Posts: 2,882 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow! Great coins.

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    ReveriesReveries Posts: 111 ✭✭✭

    You are correct and your Florin is even a bit more rare as it has an "onc tenth" variety as opposed to the letters "one".
    Now this variety seems not as hard to find as with other Florins - but how often do these even show up? This is a very nice looking toned 1854 - hard to find this nice!

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    ReveriesReveries Posts: 111 ✭✭✭

    What grade is the 1896? Very very nice Coin. Bravo

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    ReveriesReveries Posts: 111 ✭✭✭

    Looks better than a MS64.....

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    7Jaguars7Jaguars Posts: 7,986 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 21, 2026 7:52AM

    This was a near specimen level strike of the 1953 halfcrown obverse, uniface:

    A very nice Record Proof Shilling:


    Very nice Proof Cameo 1937 halfcrown (Proof66Cam):

    A "ringer":

    Love that Milled British (1830-1960)
    Well, just Love coins, period.
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    7Jaguars7Jaguars Posts: 7,986 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1926 Pattern crown:

    1970 Proof Penny, Two Obverses. NGC will not certify even though X-ray confirmed no seams:


    Graded PL 63 at NGC, and I believe the only halfcrown so graded. Superb in hand:

    Love that Milled British (1830-1960)
    Well, just Love coins, period.
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    sylsyl Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭

    I thought that the '53 half crown must have been weakly struck as her hair looks worn. Otherwise, GREAT coins!

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    SimonWSimonW Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭✭✭

    George I, 1660-1727

    George was German, from Hanover. He didn’t speak a lick of English.

    Parliament decided that an English king could only be a Protestant, so about fifty people who more rightfully deserved the crown were bypassed, and went to Sophia (granddaughter of king James VI) but she died before the reigning Queen Anne did, so it went to George her son.

    He didn’t seem to like England very much. He spent a lot of time elsewhere. He even died in Germany and was buried there. The last English king to be buried outside England.

    Because he couldn’t speak English he relied heavily on his cabinet and aides, led by Sir Robert Walpole. This was the foundation of the role of Prime Minister, as it was later called.

    I'm BACK!!! Used to be Billet7 on the old forum.

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