28 Weeks: 28 Centuries Of Coins

GR58 - I like your 1827! Yes, that's a very scarce date. It's believed that most of them were shipped off to Australia!

Here's some George IV gold:

1828 half-sovereign:


1821 sovereign:


... and a George IV Maundy Set:

I was thinking this thread needed more colour.

That is some lovely gold! I hope to someday own a gold coin, but for now I prefer a stack of silver or a pile of ancients when it comes time to pull the trigger on the price.

Here are a few of my more "fun" 19th century coins:


Half crown, 1816:


 

George III is not generally remembered for the nearly twenty years of his reign during the 19th century, largely because he spent most of that time sliding on the crazy scale from "not what he used to be" to "babbling nonsense for two and a half days".

France, contemporary counterfeit of 10 centimes, ca. 1810

 

 

This one could *almost* pass for real, except that Paris did not strike any 10 centimes in 1810.

Guernsey 2 doubles, 1899

 

 

Another of the Channel Islands, Guernsey also used predominantly French currency in the early 19th century, although it was never directly pressured to adopt "British" money until the 1920s when the Franc went into free fall and was no longer a viable functional currency for the Bailiwick. Copper coins produced from the mid-1800s were denominated in the "Double", being 8 doubles to the penny (Again the exchange rate was not 1:1 but there seemed to be less of a headache than on Jersey). These coins are usually lightly circulated, and almost all have very low mintage figures in the tens or low hundreds of thousands.

1834 Capped Bust Half Dime

I agree, even though starting next week I will just be an observer.

But I still have three 19th century holes to fill in the 7070.