Advice On Churchill Crown

Well also until 1351, Britain only had pennies and their fractions (With a couple of glittering exceptions, a failed attempt at a Gold Penny around 1245 and Groat in 1279).

Putting denominations on coins only started in the Tudor era and that was just some coins like the 6d and 1/- amongst a few others and always in Roman numerals. Even as late as 1800 coins did not have denominations on them except a few tiny silver ones like Halfgroats and the Maundy pieces.

Even in 1816 with the new coinage, the first sixpences, shillings and up had no value on them, it was assumed you knew the value by size. Only in 1831 did shillings and sixpences get marked with values. Halfcrowns only got denominations on them in 1893 and Crowns in 1927. The Florin was marked with a value in 1849, Groat in 1836 and 3d as a circulation piece in 1887 (Earlier ones were Maundy coins). Pennys to Farthings got denominated in 1860 and fractional ones as early as the 1820s (But these were for foreign places).

So yeah, putting values on coins was generally a late Victorian innovation. Good old Victorians, inventive and full of common sense unlike those foppish Georgians, hard nosed Stuarts and barbaric medievals.

I can't see the original images but if it's the ones in this then there's so many of them around you can barely give them away.
I've got a shoebox full of these ones..

I've never really thought of them as actual money..

Gonna go count how many I have now.