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| 10 Gram UK Penny Curiousity
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PaddyB
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 Posted 05/01/2025 09:07 am
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Depends a bit on the accuracy of your scales. Range of weights for these is about 9.1 to 9.7g, so 10g is not too far out.
1950, of course, is a much scarcer date, so a copy is not out of the question.
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| Need Help With Possible Error 1 Pound Coin, Incorrect Date
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PaddyB
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Posted 04/23/2025 10:16 am
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I agree, a contemporary forgery. By the time the Royal Mint switched to the later bimetallic £1 it is estimated one in 30 £1s in circulation were fake!
I used to know a collector of the fakes, but he would never give me more than £1 for any, so there was no profit in that! The banks had given up checking for them, so it was just as easy to cash them in.
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| Which Rulers Of England Didn't Issue Coins During Their Reign ?
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PaddyB
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Posted 04/22/2025 02:43 am
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We have communicated on another forum.
I too have worked on a "one from each monarch" run for GB coins for the last 25 years. I am missing only William II from 1066 onwards and have 12 of the Saxon kings pre conquest.
I shared an image of this poster on the other forum. Maybe others here might find it interesting. I believe it is still available online:
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| Queen Anne Farthings
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PaddyB
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Posted 04/13/2025 08:31 am
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They are cast, the 1714 more obviously than the 1713. It is presumed the castings were not even taken from a genuine coin as the detail, particularly in the letter sizes, does not correspond exactly to a known genuine coin.
Despite the very few issued, there are lots of varieties in copper, but all are expensive. There are also some pattern halfpennies for Anne, and these are even scarcer!
There is no mention in "English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins" of any Tin examples during Anne's reign. As before I doubt the forgers would have tried it, and if they did, none are known to survive. With the ready fragmentation of Tin coins, that probably is not surprising. |
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| Queen Anne Farthings
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PaddyB
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Posted 04/13/2025 03:24 am
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Even the copper farthings of Anne are all Rare with probably only a few thousand of 1713 and 1714 struck. There are lots of variations as well, some with completely different reverses. Most that come onto the market now are contemporary copies and even these fetch good money as they are the only option available for the type collectors.
Tin had fallen out of favour, even with the forgers, so I am not surprised there are none of those.
The Silver and Gold are all Extremely Rare, with only a handful struck.
I have a couple of the contemporary copies in my collection, both Copper:
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| A Counterfeit Florin From 1923
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PaddyB
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Posted 04/03/2025 03:23 am
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I am pretty sure this would be a contemporary forgery, made during the 1920s or early 1930s. I have seen a number before, usually florins or half crowns.
So we can't blame the Chinese for that one! Maybe Britain or Europe.
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| Post Your United Kingdom (Great Britain) Coin Acquisitions.
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PaddyB
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Posted 03/16/2025 05:55 am
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A couple of GB pickups from a recent auction. First is this 1792 threepence, the only year in which the Italic digit was used, known as "wire" money in the UK. This fills one of the last remaining gaps in my threepence collection from 1670 to 1800. (The only remaining gap is the 1765, but that is mega scarce.)
Then this 1674 Farthing. It has quite a bit of corrosion, but also a lot more detail than my previous example:
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| 1879 Shilling KM#734.4 "No Die Number" Variant
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PaddyB
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Posted 03/04/2025 05:12 am
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Both Spink "Coins of England" and Bull "English Silver Coinage" give the No die number version of the 1879 shilling as MORE common than the die number version.
Spink values No die number in Fine at £12, with die number at £20.
Bull gives no die number rarity index N for Normal, with Die Number as R2 for low end of rare scale.
This assumes both are Fourth Bust, which is difficult to be certain with the level of wear on the example. A Third bust version of 1879 Spink notes: "Uncertain to exist as Normal or Proof".
I hope that helps. |
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| Waterloo Medal: Victory | The Royal Mint
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PaddyB
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Posted 03/04/2025 03:24 am
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Very debatable. Edition is 2950, which is not low for this sort of thing. Melt value is only £50 - maybe $70, so you are relying on a massive interest from the modern collector's market, which is unpredictable. It may 10 years or more before it gets back to the purchase price on the open market, and with the world economies in such disarray, who know where we will be in 10 years? Gold is still the safer bet for investment purposes.
A dealer said to me, early on in my collecting, "Anything that is made to be a collectable almost certainly isn't."
However, every now and then an item bucks the trend...
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| Post Your United Kingdom (Great Britain) Coin Acquisitions.
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PaddyB
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Posted 03/02/2025 04:07 am
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Thanks Spyro - it is certainly one of the best I have seen. It was in an auction mainly selling stamps with just a dozen or so coin lots towards the end. I guess most coin buyers missed it as I got it much cheaper than I expected.
I have 1771 and 1772 also in pretty good condition. Still looking for 1770, 1774 and 1775 in similar grades to complete a really good run!
Herewith the 1771 and 1772:
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| A Counterfeit Half Penny, A Freak From The Revolution ?
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PaddyB
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Posted 02/26/2025 1:49 pm
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| I have the Galata/Withers token book, which list evasions, but most of them only by words, not pictures. Without the legend or date on the reverse it is impossible to home in on which this is in this list. The range with the Georgius III Rex obverse are numbers 225 to 229. (230 has the same legend but portrait facing the other way.) |
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| 54 Years Of British Decimal Coinage
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PaddyB
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Posted 02/16/2025 2:47 pm
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| I was working in the school tuck shop aged 12 at lunchtime on decimalisation day. Previously I had been paid Sixpence for my efforts, but on that day I persuaded Brother Jerome to let me have 3 1/2 New pence so I could have one of each of the new coins. (The new 5, 10 and 50p coins had been in circulation since 1968.) |
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| A Few UK Coins Found In Possessions- Honest Opinions?
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PaddyB
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Posted 02/16/2025 06:11 am
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Just to add clarification, the 5p and 10p coins are obsolete in the UK and shops do not accept them, however banks and the post office will take them at face value, but only paying into an account, not cash for cash.
On the Churchill Crowns, it is not just that they are not an attractive coin, but also that they were produced in huge numbers - something like 34 million I believe. Everybody at the time bought them at face value, convinced they would become valuable in time, but that has not happened. When I ran a coin stall they were brought to me almost every week by people convinced them were going to become rich! Many are now cashed in at face value (25p). They can sell for £1 or £2 to new collectors in decent condition.
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