Family Coins

just to add something the 1/2d model coin at the bottom was inside the two halves of the coin case next to it to the left.

I also have a copper imitation half sovereign dated 1887 whether there is any interest in these imitations I do not know.

I have some other coins as well that are not in the picture such as half farthings three hexagonal three pence coins,square balliwick of Guernsey coins,and some other mid 1900's half pennys with Victoria on,I didn't include them because I thought they were too recent to be of any interest.

yeah good thinking I shall do it in the morning and upload both original pictures to a file host as well.

you have a good eye svslav,the two roman coins are romulus and remus the founders of rome suckling from the mother wolfs teet,and the other is a two soldiers two standards.

It is an edward I penny and correct with the elizabeth and the herny viii,these are the only ones I had prior information on.

Thanks for your reply :)

Thanks Mike for the reply,

Unfortunately I dont have a scanner myself,i have uploaded the 300dpi scans of both sides of all the coins to a file host linked in the first post but thats all I can doo for now,take a look they might be of good enough quality but I'm no expert :)

If they are not good enough I shall have to go round to my friends house again and re scan individual ones of interest to people.

Darren.

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