Well It Had To Happen Sooner Or Later!

Still watching, reading, and learning about the hammered silver pieces. I still haven't purchased any, but I saw some really nice ones at the GSNA Coin Show in NJ a couple of weeks ago. There was only one dealer who had them, but most of them had very sharp portraits and he had from Henry VII through Elizabeth I.

I have one 1900 Victoria One Penny,, Does that count as a collection?

Although I do have several Irish coins and a couple of Euro's

Rick

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Originally posted by Susanlynn9
There was only one dealer who had them, but most of them had very sharp portraits and he had from Henry VII through Elizabeth I.

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Henry VII coins seem to come with sharp portraits more regularly than most of the Tudor issues. The profile issue (with the mking facing to the right) is my favourite of Henry's rather than the old fashioned mediæval style with the king facing forward.

Henry VIII well it's hit and miss, the earlier issues using Henry VII's portrait and the early Henry VIII portrait with the king facing right (as Henry VII but fatter) are sometimes found very nicely struck, sometimes a little weak. Depends on you luck really.

The later Henry VIII issues of debased silver, particularly those where he is facing almost forward are rather horrible coins all around, poorly struck (as the alloy was hard), often the real baseness of the silver shows because they'll tone horribly and Henry's nose being the obvious point of wear in circulation soon shows the copper underneath. These issues are not popular with collectors or Henry's contemporaries. They are also harder to find in decent condition due to copper's corrosion rate being greater than silver's.

Edward VI, early issue is just as bad as Henry's last issue for all the same reasons. Edward's fine silver issue however produced some splendid coins, often with nice strikes.

Mary (and Phillip and Mary) well these are my favourite coins of the Tudor bunch, although the silver content of the halfgroat and upwards was very good they suffer from terrible striking. Mary coins are truly frustrating things there's always something wrong with them. You can find a well centred coin with great legends, uncreased, unclipped but the strike will be awful and the image of Mary incomplete.

Then you can come across coins on excellent flans, extremely well struck but they'll have a chip out of the edge and some individual at the time will have shown his disapproval of Mary by scratching the obverse of the coin, or even creasing it by bending it in half and bending it back again.

The general rule is, if it's poorly struck you'll find it's not been tampered with, if it's well struck someone's usually taken a knife to it and defaced Mary.

As for Elizabeth the strike is really varying, some are very well struck indeed, her milled coinage is particularly excellent. Some of her hammered coins are truly awful. With Elizabeth (and James and Charles after her) the main thing to go for is a well struck portrait, even if the legends are abysmal. You usually find if one's good the other's not!

I have two books full with brittish coins at the moment, and a few sets, as well some piedfords, so, not so much, but still looking to increase my collection ;-)

Carl

Yes indead, most is from 1900 till date, but a few older once as well, some detectorfindings, and a few whitch I "think" they must be brittish, but I'm not totally shure of that.
Next to the coins a few medals as well, most wwI, and rememberance stuff.
For the 1/2 and 1 penny's I'm almost finished the series after 1900, just miss a few key dates, 3 pences are also well to find here, 6 pence only those with low silver and nickel, 1/2 crowns and crowns are more difficult to get here.

Do you know why not all pound pieces are listed in Krause?, I have some with differend dates from the "scottish flower" type.?!?!

Greetings, Carl

I printed out the list of dates and I will try to check it toorrow, hope I get some time for it!!

(Somedays I hardly tet to annything at all)
I know I miss the last 3 pieces, but I have some silver isseus from the older once, and one in piedford :-)

Greetings, Carl

So, I found some time, and here is what I have from the pounds;

1983 UK - Royal Arms
1984 Scotland - Thistle with crown
1985 Wales - Leek with crown
1986 Ireland - Flax Plant with crown
1987 England - Oak Tree with crown
1988 UK - Royal shield
1989 Scotland - Thistle with crown
1990 Wales - Leek with crown
1991 Ireland - Flax with crown
1992 England - Oak Tree with crown
1993 Scotland - Rampant Lion NOT IN CATALOG!!
1993 UK - Royal Arms (as 1983)in nickel/brass and in silver
1993 Coat of arms in Piedfort
1994 Scotland - Rampant Lion in nickel/brass and in silver
1995 Wales - Dragon in nickel/brass and in silver
1996 Ireland - Celtic Cross
1997 England - Three Lions
2000 Wales - Dragon

Less then I thought, but, I still keep looking for the missing once ;-) Carl

Well thank you!!, nice to here I am in the lucky condition to have a false one from GB too :-)

I believe I got it from the bulk kilo's, but am not shure of that, it's a brass type, that I can see, if there are more type's of those false, I am really interrested in them, I have a little corner with false coins in my collection, it happens that I find them, some exaples are the austrian "Maria Theresa" thalers, the gold 10 gulden pieces from the netherlands, and a few 2 1/2 and 3 gulden pieces as well.

Did you know there are "fake" 1 gulden 1999 in gold isseus as well?, always nice to "find" new fakes, it the circulation. It keeps you sharp :-)

Greetings, Carl