Jamaica 1958 Penny From Estate Purchase

We need more information @rcw. What type of input are you looking for? Thx.

Not sure what input you'd like, but I can give you some trivia.

Jamaica, being a British colony, used regular British money (pounds, shillings and pence) for the most part. But the colonial authorities found a curious superstition had arisen amongst the general population on Jamaica, that copper or bronze coins were bad luck or otherwise considered evil, and the locals refused to use them. They came to a simple solution to this problem: making substitute farthings, halfpennies and pennies specifically for use on Jamaica, made of something other than copper or bronze. Initially starting out with cupronickel (the same alloy that American "nickels" are made from), then later switching to brass.

Your coins are all brass, for this reason. This is also the reason why no denominations higher than 1 penny were struck for Jamaica: they didn't need to, as regular British silver coins were accepted without problems.

In terms of looking up the market value for world coins that you have fully identified in terms of country-date-denomination, a good reference site is the NGC world coin price guide: https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/ Just start typing what you know you have in the "Search Terms" box, and your coin should come up as an option in the picklist.

Most of the values there are copy-pasted from the old Krause world coin catalogues and haven't been updated, so they might be a little out of date. And there can also be some confusion if someone at NGC has decided to "update" a value with a value for a slabbed coin. But for the most part, it's still a good ballpark figure.

Here are the NGC pages for your two Jamaican coins, with mintages and market values for each date:
https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide...duid-1430551
https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide...duid-1427742

Then you just need to look up the price for the coins in the condition you've got them in, which means you'll have to make an honest guesstimate as to the grade. Your 1938 is quite well worn, let's call it Fine; your 1958 might be EF. This puts them both around the 30 cent mark - making then very typical of the coins you might find in a coin dealer's "world coins three for $1" bucket.

Nice examples!