Pocket Change

DesertRat · February 24, 2007 4:15AM

My wife has travelled extensively throughout the world (pre-EU) and when she would get home she would throw her "pocket change" leftover from the trip in a jar. Not a lot of stuff and mostly 1975 and above dates and again this was before the EU formed.

I was just looking through the jar and found this coin and another like it dated 1955.

Given that I am new to this stuff, can you tell me what metal these were struck in? It seems to have very nice definition for a circulated coin.

I'm assuming this is a British coin?

wybrit · February 24, 2007 4:21AM

It's a cupro-nickel British florin, or "2-bob bit." The coins have essentially no value in VF or less, but are worth a buck each in EF. All British "silver" coins were struck in Cu-Ni from 1947 onwards, with the exception of maundy money.

DesertRat · February 24, 2007 4:34AM

Thanks.

In the coin above, there are virtually no signs of wear on the reverse with all the details readily visible on the flowers? The obverse has a only a few hits on the bust and one in the field at 9:00. Otherwise I would say this coin is easily higher than EF or would be MS (?).

wybrit · February 24, 2007 5:30AM

It's hard to discern from the pictures. The Mary Gillick portrait of EIIR is notoriously weakly struck so it's tough to tell. Mint state valuation is around $6 for the '63 and $10 for the '55.

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