Family Coins

Coin C8 is a Jersey 1/26 of a shilling, the old copper type. They were minted in 1841, 1844, 1851, 1858 and 1861. I cannot quite make out the year on yours.

In 1841 Jersey began circulating British-style coppers to replace previous French ones. As there were 26 French sou to one British shilling, this meant that there were effectively 13 "pennies" in the shilling, with your 1/26 of a shilling counting for 1 sou.

In 1866 these coins were minted smaller and in bronze, following the similar change in British coppers in 1860. Copper did not wear as well as bronze, and was becoming expensive. This would account for the dented edge on your coin. Having 13 pennies to the shilling was awkward, so in 1877 it changed to 12 to the shilling. This is why penny-sized coins are labelled 1/13 of a shilling before that date and 1/12 of a shilling afterwards, and halfpenny coins being 1/26 and then 1/24 of a shilling.

My coin catalogue (2012) rates these coins at around £50 in extremely fine. I am just a beginner when it comes to grading, but would not rate yours that high. On ebay I see them going for around £3-£10.

Hope this helps

@MikeG

I shall do the scans as soon as possible

someone else pointed out that I have two set of maundy money in there with the same toning on one set of 4 1897 coins and another set of 4 1899 coins,are they desirable sets?

I'm no expert but the 1897 set look in very good condition and the other are not too shabby either,all the Victoria maundy coins came out of the same small envelope marked London mint don't know if that's means some were bought direct from them and have not been in many peoples possesion or wether they just ended up in that envelope?

Here is the second set of maundy coins from 1899

Here is the second picture of the silver coins, I had to use the image resizer as it was just over 100kb in size

I have been told that the 1953 half crown I have was one that was meant to have been in circulation but didn't make it and it is different to the ones that were sold in unc sets,so bearing that in mind would it make it more desirable as it is in virtually unc condition.

David, it's a diamond jubilee medal issued by The Royal Mint. 25mm and from memory around 9gr silver. Until recently these could be had for around £12-14, but they're starting to fetch more on ebay recently. Possibly connected to the current queen's diamond celebrations.