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  • HoledandCreative
    HoledandCreative Posts: 2,890 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Wow! Great coins.

  • Reveries
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    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!

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

  • Reveries
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    Looks better than a MS64.....

  • 7Jaguars
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    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":

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

  • SimonW
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    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.

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  • OnlyGoldIsMoney
    OnlyGoldIsMoney Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My newest Briish coinage.

    I wanted an English hammered coin where I could distinctly see the King's face. This Edward IV (victor in the Wars of the Roses) struck up well.

    As far are this Charles II is concerned, I have long had a weakness for toned gold.

    NO END IN SIGHT Liberty Head $2 1/2 Gold Basic Set, Circulation Strikes (1840-1907)
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    March of Time - 27 Centuries in Gold
    https://coins.www.collectors-society.com/WCM/CoinCustomSetView.aspx?s=36590
  • 7Jaguars
    7Jaguars Posts: 8,020 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Indeed a beautiful coin. I like this other farthing proof of Vicky:

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  • johnny9434
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  • tahbb143
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  • robp2
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    Picked up this week in the Noonan's sale, a shilling with a groat's worth of silver. Gary Oddie's collection of shillings was always eclectic, but this was catalogued as being on a lightweight flan. What the cataloguer failed to notice was the weight at 2.58g was typical of a groat in 1550. Although the silver weight ratios for the various denominations broke down somewhat in the debasement period, it is inconceivable that a shilling would be deliberately made that underweight. The flan is extremely thin in consequence. The other coin with identical mintmarks and sharing the reverse die was 4.72g - closer to the normal reality for the times, even if still low. Anyway, 2 Martlet/Crowned Leopard's Head bust 5 shillings struck from the same reverse die, but both valid for inclusion in the collection. Quite chuffed to get both, and remarkably cheap when compared to past sales of the two pieces.
    First is lot 13 with conventional vital statistics. ex Shuttlewood, Bole and Oddie

    Second is lot 14 with groat statistics, and the first I have seen or was aware of.

    Identifiable wrong flans are decidedly uncommon in the hammered period. There is the 3a3 halfcrown on a shilling flan with mm. Eye. There is also a Commonwealth halfcrown flan struck using shilling dies, but generally the correct flan is used. Important when the silver content represented the coin's true value.

  • D808LF
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    fka renman95, Sep 2005, 7,000 posts

  • tahbb143
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    @7Jaguars said:

    aMAZing assortment of treasures - beautiful!

  • SimonW
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    Henry VI Groat, Minted in Calais, France, an English enclave at the time.

    This is quite a common issue, these were minted by the millions to satisfy international trade and commerce in the region, a number of hoards have been discovered, most of which would have been buried troves due to concerns over the Hundred Years’ War and the War of the Roses.

    I suspect this belonged to one of these hoards.

    I bought this from Heritage, I thought it was a little better than the assigned grade of 35, so I cracked it and sent it to PCGS and they agreed for an XF40 upgrade. There’s a little weakness on the face, which I think is partly a strike thing, partly wear.

    A nice looking example in my opinion, almost perfectly round and centered, no flat spots to speak of.

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  • 7Jaguars
    7Jaguars Posts: 8,020 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    From the "non-pareil George V and VI Shilling Collection"


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