Princetane's Growing Collection Of British Coins

Old people dying and relatives clearing off all their junk to the shops. Often these include jewellery chests and knick knacks and the ubiquitous pile of coins. Some travelled and saved change, others got old coins as hand me downs.

Mostly its just copper and muck metal stuff, but occasionally you get some better stuff in. the haul I got last month was the first decent one since 2020. The ladies bring it all to me, I go through it and make an offer which is seldom refused. It's donated back to the shop (Although I suspect they take a finders/brokerage fee).

Sounds like a wonderful arrangement.

We reach the era of my dental diagnosis and the buy ins slope down a bit. This shilling came in around the time of a major toothache!


Another coin in the "Fine" condition - but heavily stained by a century plus in the sea, ground or some archaeological context.

In late October came a swap from a metal dealer who took my worn halfcrowns in for slightly better ones. These are upgrades except the 1890, which is a new add and makes up a 80 year date run (1885 - 1964, excluding varieties)


1834 Halfcrown - good Fine upgraded from gVG


1845 - this replaced a worn coin I brought back in early 2020 - its Fine but ruined by a previous jewellery mounting as a brooch


1890 gFine - a nice coin except the big edge dent, so its a filler rather than a destination piece. Still it fills an annoying gap like one left by a newly extracted wisdom tooth.


1927 a slight upgrade my current 1927, the joy of this coin is that its not cleaned.

Amazing coins!

Thanks - no offense taken - lucky you another year without dentist anxiety.
Got used to it now.