##### Help with a William III coin. Now with pics!!! #####

Hello,
I picked up a silver 1696 William III coin at a local shop because it was too cool looking to leave behind. I dropped a whole $5 on it and felt it was worth it for the cool factor alone. It measures just over 8/10ths of an inch. Is it a sixpence? Anyone know the Krause number? Thanks, Frank
I picked up a silver 1696 William III coin at a local shop because it was too cool looking to leave behind. I dropped a whole $5 on it and felt it was worth it for the cool factor alone. It measures just over 8/10ths of an inch. Is it a sixpence? Anyone know the Krause number? Thanks, Frank
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Sorry, I don't have the Krause number, but I believe it's a Spink 3527. I would wait for a confirmation on that from someone else, though.
Nice pickup - Congrats!
<< <i>a Pirate Era silver coin >>
Too bad Willie got hit with a blunderbuss!
Does anyone have a guess at it's value? I am just curious. I love it and it isn't going anywhere. Thanks for the Spink number. Is that a more common catalog system for this? As you can tell I am used to Krause.
<< <i>as cheap as a bottle of coke - wow u got any William III for $5 >>
Wow, SwK, Coke must be expensive on your side of the pond!
But yes, a very cheap and worthy purchase! I suspect the two holes are where somebody made a very crude button out of it, or mounted a pinback on it. He might have even given it to his sweetheart- you probably know the little wedding ditty about the sixpence in the shoe.
Makes y'wonder, doesn't it?
Its difficult to speculate a value being holed as you'll know.
Re Spink versus Krause, both do what they say on the label. Krause is World Coins and as a general reference is fine as far as it goes whereas Spink is Coins of England. As always, if you want a greater depth of detail in any country's currency the best bet is invariably the local tome - wherever you are in the world. The greatest concentration of collectors of any specific currency is likely to be in that country. They will put in the research effort, collate the results and publish them. You can always find even greater depth in a subject once you bypass the general references and narrow the scope of the coinage.
I haven't dealt much in the earlier silver, only copper issues so far.
I guess we all get to learn something today!