Post Your United Kingdom (Great Britain) Coin Acquisitions.

Dug coin crossed my mind too when I looked closer. Doesn't really matter since silver and copper self-sanitises, it's a clean coin in a few hours.

Nice halfcrown, Tom!

I got these from a coin shop in Tyne and Wear at the weekend - three additions to my Victoria YH collection! Two farthings (1846 and 1855) and an 1843 shilling!

Though very pleasant, some in England might consider your Charles II crown a gF.

(Nice catch)!


Bill

Another hammered shilling of Charles I for me.

OK, not a thing of beauty but a very scarce bust which appears to have been briefly used at the Tower of London mint, probably towards the end of the period 4 Jul 1639-26 Jun 1640.

Subsequently the dies were modified and used to strike a very few shillings at Aberystwyth (Obv D). However the design is mainly found on coins known to have been issued at Shrewsbury during 1642.

Possibly an example of the need to make best use of scarce resources during a time of turmoil?

Spink 2798, Sharp F6/2 Double struck and a mix of the thinner flan has caused the King's face to start weak but it's also worn.

And despite all that, it's still a considerable improvement on the last example I had!

A counterfeit 1841 penny - may be familiar to members of predecimal.com ;)


Quite interesting as the engraver uses punches for the lettering and at the same time makes so many mistakes that one wonders if the coin is really British or perhaps produced somewhere in the colonies?

Wonderfully awful seuk! Colonies makes sense as even in 1841, why counterfeit a penny?

And one from me:



Another shilling struck at the Tower of London mint during the reign of Charles I. Although since the triangle-in-circle privy mark dates it to between 15 Jul 1641-28 May 1643 and the King raised his standard at Nottingham on 22 August 1642, when this one was made it may have effectively been a 'Parliamentary issue'.

Whether the political turmoil was a distraction for the workers, or they were under pressure to produce as much coin as they could to fund the military, it appears that quality control went out the window and most coins of this period are poorly made and/or clipped.

S.2799, Sharp G1/2 You will just have to take my word for the fact that, despite the splotchy toning and irregular flan this is actually a full-weight (6.3g) example and better than most!

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Tbone, welcome to amazing world of coins minted outside of the US. My focus has been 8 reales, which circulated quite freely in the US, both before and during US mint operations.

When a beautiful design catches my fancy I find it hard to resist collecting one. Such as this British Trade dollar, minted in Bombay, with the extraordinary image of Britannia on the obverse and Asian motif reverse.

Sorry for the repeat -- I just noticed another 1898 TD earlier in the thread.

Just had this one Graded by PCGS.
http://www.pcgs.com/Cert/30430775.html
I will take a better image when it finally arrives back home, The PCGS images are pretty ordinary.