English Treasure?

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Originally posted by KLD

Hello an dwelcome to the forum.

Yes scans will allow us to give an approx grade.

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Here are the scans, front and back. Note I scanned the fronts and then just flipped each coin so the top right coin of the "front" is the opposite side of the top right coin of the "back" series.... hope not confusing (-:
The images were too big so the res is not great- had to reduce from 7.5Mb bmp to 178Kb jpg to 28Kb jpg...

Thanks.


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They sell this type of coin in Australia for around 20 cents a piece or 6 for a dollar, Unless there is a rare date or variety amongst them.
Still they make an interesting collection if you try and get a complete set of dates. I collect this type and condition of English coin if the dates are before 1911. This type of coin were used in Australia. In 1911 Australia started to produce there own penny coin.

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Originally posted by toast

They sell this type of coin in Australia for around 20 cents a piece or 6 for a dollar, Unless there is a rare date or variety amongst them.

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Hi Toast,
As far as I can tell, the 1912H, 1918H and 1919H are desirable and in UNC condition are worth UK£125, £275 and £280 respectively.
Unfortunately they are far from UNC but better than they appear in the scans....
Still, I may be able to make up a set as I have a bag of these old pennies, but I'd seperated the "H" versions.
I'll swap you for a Gold Doubloon (-:

Hi Aidan,

Yeah, the English coins were in common circulation right up until the 1990s where may shops accepted them as "penny for penny". I haven't found any of the KN coins though... I have an old booklet called "Check your Change no1" (3rd edition) which cost 2/6 at the time- it lists british coins from 1902-1968.
I've cataloged all the English pennies and half-pennies in an Excel file- tons of them! (well, quite a lot anyway (-:

Sean.

ERm dont know where you got that from 1990's!!! The only pre decimal coin I ever spent was the three pence you used to get in your crimbo pudding, at the corner shop you could get 1 1/2 p worth of sweets (6 chews in them days) but that was around 1976. I think you can still to this day bank a pounds worth (240 old pennies or 480 half pennies) at Barclays bank, although you would be mad.

crimbo pudding?

Any of you Brits in or around Watlington or Little Brickhill?

Any Irish in County Clare?

Totally off the subject of coins I know but, that's where my husbands relatives began and I'm still doing his genealogy. If any of you do this sort of thing, please e-mail me. (McMahon/Murphy/McGrath - Ireland and King - England) Thanks so much!

Now, what is crimbo pudding?

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Originally posted by Eirecoins

Hi Aidan,

Yeah, the English coins were in common circulation right up until the 1990s where may shops accepted them as "penny for penny". I haven't found any of the KN coins though... I have an old booklet called "Check your Change no1" (3rd edition) which cost 2/6 at the time- it lists british coins from 1902-1968.
I've cataloged all the English pennies and half-pennies in an Excel file- tons of them! (well, quite a lot anyway (-:

Sean.

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Well I can't speak for Ireland, but I can definately say that there was no bronze UK predecimal stuff circulating in the 1990s. When I say that I mean 'legally', rarely you would come across a farthing or an halfpenny substituting as decimal pennies and two pences respectively. I was given a lustrous 1959 halfpenny a few months ago that someone had pulled from change, so yeah they're still out there but they don't go so far.

However, predecimal florins were still circulating legally and in large numbers up until 1993, when they and their old large 10p copunterparts were demonetised. Predecimal coins then ceased to circulate, and the oldest coins became the 1969 fifty pences, which were axed in 1998, so 1971 is now the oldest dated coin you'll find in the UK.