Princetane's Growing Collection Of British Coins

The rest of the coins from that January buy in



1826 Shilling near VF, a good example of a common date.



1881 Shilling near EF, a very nice coin and good example of the 4th Young head of Queen Victoria.



1896 Shilling - goodFine, a decent upgrade and classic design.



1914 Shilling - very nice shiny coin and a stunning early King George V coin

Let's continue with the updates.

1922 Halfcrown upgrades, basically just an upgrade of the Type 1 1922 (Shield rim touches crown) and this photo shows before and after coins.


The new coin is nice VF, but ruined by copper flecks (One person suggested melted copper shells from WW1)

Upgrading was the theme of early 2022 purchases.




1925 - A scarce date - this coin replaced one in G/VG condition and was reasonably priced. Like most 1922/26 coins the wear shows the brown coppery core underneath (these coins were 50/50 silver/copper and "biscuited")




1947 - Cupronickel upgrade and a really nice near UNC piece - these coins are not that rare but very overlooked by most collectors as they are dirt common in VF/Fine grade and few want to pay $20 or $30 for one like this. To me they are worth every cent. Cupronickel looks so awful when dull, but beautiful when its shiny like this.

There was also a penny collection of 1860s and 1870s brought in, but I will skip this and just stick to silver.



1929 Halfcrown near EF, this coin was in a job lot and is not even an upgrade, but a duplicate. It is too nice to reject and despite being more worn than my original 1929 halfcrown (My avatar piece!), this is a stunning coin that has a big place in my collection now!

Did not realise how out of date this was! Back to coins I brought in March.

These shillings are 1933, 34 and 35. I have just shown one obverse as all are the same high grade and KGV multiple times is dull.







33 and 34 are high EF, near AU, 35 is very slightly better maybe AU


Obverse from the 1934 coin.

An 1892 Halfcrown, that is my first coin for that year!




These coins are from a new seller I discovered in March!

The second quarter of 2022 has proven very fruitful so far with a good mix of upgrades and new gaps being filled.



A pair of 1920 halfcrowns which showed the portrait slight differences, big and smaller heads with lettering pointing to the the different dots.



Fortunately I already had a better example of the cleaned one on the left! For some reason, all my 1920 dated coins are heavily worn compared to 1919 and 1921 pieces, the first year of 50% silver.




Those 1920s are like the 1935 Halfcrown next to this ultraworn 1846 coin - for some reason all these 1840s Victoria Halfcrowns are in demand, even worn stuff like this. Yes I have an 1846 halfcrown now, but expect this thing to be replaced with the swiftness!




The worn gap fillers keep coming with this very average 1898 shilling, it gets better with these Edwards though.




Decent good fine 1904 shilling - not too bad here.




Less decent 1907 shilling, but still a gem next to that raggedy halfcrown from the year of Potato famines and corn laws being abolished!

Lovely additions!

Never a bad thing when you have to present a backlog of coins; it makes for a good show!

This new dealer also supplied some fresh King George VI florins to join the Halfcrowns I brought back in 2020.




1939 Florin in shiny AU




1942 Florin, a truly Uncirculated coin and a real favourite, a creamy piece!




1943 Another creamy high grade piece, this time AU.

A second buy in a bit later added this beauty




An uncirculated 1949. Interesting to compare it to 1942 and you will see that in UNC cond the silver is similar looking to the later and cheaper Cupronickel pieces like this.

Very nice additions, Princetane! I don't think I've ever seen a 1928 florin as nice as yours!



That's an interesting observation. In the 1980s, when pre-1947 50% silver shillings and florins had virtually disappeared from circulation (I used to find about 1 silver shilling per 1,500 searched and 1 silver florin per 20,000 searched), any odd George VI silver coins that did turn up were usually in EF to AU condition, whereas the average ones circulating in the early 1970s were VG to Fine. I imagine that those I found in the 1980s were stray finds from old money boxes, inside sofas or stolen from collections, and they tended to remain in circulation as they didn't look very different from the cupro-nickel shillings and florins that were still very common.