Post A Trio Of Coins.

Nice trios, kbbll and GLB49!

@GLB49, when I first started collecting in the late 1960's, the vast majority of my collection was found in circulation. I found a lot of silver Roosevelt dimes in change, but never once did I find a Merc. So, an early purchase using my lawn mowing money was a roll of mixed date Mercury dimes. I was in heaven searching through those and filling holes in my new Whitman folder!

Nice trio, kbbpll!

That's an excellent trio, Dearborn.

Beautiful trio of gold coins, Dearborn!

My 3 favourite silver coins from Canada.

1967 Canada $1 - Goose


2006 Canada $1 - Timber Wolf


2009 Canada $5 - Thunderbird

Great additions, triggersmob.

Thanks guys.

The three different types of penny issued in the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria:


1. Young Head Penny 1839-60. These are massive copper coins weighing in at two-thirds of an ounce. When you read about a character having a penny in an early Victorian novel by Dickens or the Bronte sisters, this is the coin they are talking about. They were demonetized in 1869.
2. Bun Penny 1860-94. These and later pre-decimal pennies weighed one-third of an ounce and are about the size of a Kennedy half-dollar. They got their name from Victoria having her hair in a bun. They circulated in diminishing numbers right up to Decimalization in 1971, and are very popular with collectors. For me as a kid, finding one in change was always exciting! They have been studied more intensely than any other British coin, and specialist catalogs are available listing a whole host of varieties, in addition to die letters, mintmarks, overdates and subtle portrait changes.
3. Veiled Head Penny 1895-1901. When I started collecting coins, older people called these 'Widow of Windsor Pennies', but I haven't heard that expression used for years. Like their predecessors, they could still be found in change right up to 1971. Unlike the Bun Penny, however, there is only one major variety in the series - a scarce type of 1895 penny where there is a larger gap than usual between the 'P' of 'PENNY' and Britannia's trident.