coin identification?

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 44,355 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 20, 2005 3:06AM

  British sixpence, 1787.
  
  Worth anything? Yeah- a little. (I don't have my 18th century Krause book handy but somebody will chime in).
  
  Nice piece.

  Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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• WhiteLighnin Posts: 883 ✭

  February 20, 2005 3:07AM

  That's one o them 'Bugeyed" DUDE coins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 44,355 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 20, 2005 3:09AM

  George III, weems. He's the bugeyed dude we fought the Revolution against, to gain our indepence, in the US of A.

  Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 44,355 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 20, 2005 3:10AM

  BTW, I have a 1787 sixpence just like that- almost identical in grade- except mine was holed and somebody gold-plated it to try and pass it as a half-guinea, I guess. I wear it on my Holey Gold Hat, right next to a genuine gold half-guinea piece of the same era.

  Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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• python Posts: 1,158

  February 20, 2005 3:11AM

  LordM, how do you know it's a sixpence?

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• MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭

  February 20, 2005 3:20AM

  
  
  << <i>George III, weems. He's the bugeyed dude we fought the Revolution against, to gain our indepence, in the US of A. >>
  
  
  
  He doesn't look JOLLY on that SIXPENCE....get it? Jolly?....sixpence? You know "I've got a sixpence a jolly, jolly sixpence"...... Never mind

  Omnicoin

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• WhiteLighnin Posts: 883 ✭

  February 20, 2005 3:31AM

  
  
  << <i>
  
  << <i>George III, weems. He's the bugeyed dude we fought the Revolution against, to gain our indepence, in the US of A. >>
  
  
  
  He doesn't look JOLLY on that SIXPENCE....get it? Jolly?....sixpence? You know "I've got a sixpence a jolly, jolly sixpence"...... Never mind >>
  
  

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• mrfred Posts: 718

  February 20, 2005 4:11AM

  
  And to pick up a thought from an earlier thread, a while back: yes, it seems he really did look like that!

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 44,355 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 20, 2005 4:53AM

  
  
  << <i>LordM, how do you know it's a sixpence? >>
  
  
  
  Intuition?
  
  

  Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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• weems Posts: 19

  February 20, 2005 5:26AM

  Thanks for all the replies guys. It's much appreciated. Was an old coin so it stood out, thought you guys would know what it was, and I'm glad you did
  
  

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• Askari Posts: 3,713 ✭

  February 20, 2005 8:45AM

  Pop in anytime, Weems -- you're always welcome!!

  Askari
  
  
  
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