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New Member
United Kingdom
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I'll be updating with more pictures shortly.   |
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New Member
 United Kingdom
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Not the best quality but the year shown is 1888
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Valued Member
United States
360 Posts |
I have some questions first. What is it made of? Where is it from? What is the denomination?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Its a British coin.. I think it is a crown
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New Member
United Kingdom
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Valued Member
United States
360 Posts |
I think they are beautiful and would love to have the 1888 and the last one in my collection of foreigns.
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New Member
United Kingdom
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Here's the front of the last coin. Posted the back image twice by mistake.  I have no true information or values of the coins...i'll try to take more pictures and upload later. |
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New Member
United Kingdom
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Top one is a Half-crown, just like mine.  |
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New Member
United Kingdom
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Oooh shiny.
Do you have any more information on it?
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New Member
United Kingdom
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The half crown is .925 sterling silver,weight 14.138 grammes. Mintage 1,176,299. I would value your coin at about £20.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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The modern crowns (post decimal day) have a face value of 25p, not manyu people know that because its not stated ont he coin and they assume its £5, which is the face of modern crowns.
They arent worth much, but in this condition, I'm sure you could sell them quite well.
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New Member
United Kingdom
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One of the first coins I ever bought as a beginner was from Westminster Collection just as your last coin is shown, 1953 Coronation Crown. Got ripped off and got wise. Sold a few of those five shilling (25p dceimal) crowns on ebay myself recently, lucky to reach £1 a piece while charging £1.25 post. By the time I paid the post,(Large letter 90p stamp) ebay and Paypal fees, it wasn't much more than the original value of the coins (25p) that I had realised from the sale!! There are just too many of these commemorative coins (Churchill, Coronation, Queen Mother, Charles & Diana etc) about to be worth any value really, so don't expect to get rich quick or sell 'em easy. The Half Crown's worth keeping, 'specially if you have more pre-1920 coins which are .925 silver - 1920 to 1946 are .500 silver - build your own silver collection now, it's appreciating faster than gold and if your Nan's given you a head start - God bless her! Doubt the 'brass' threepnenny bits are worth a lot at all - Looks like you've got the start of a nice little collection and if you've found the interest to post on here, it appears you may have the inkling to carry on with the 'collecting' bug that you Nan kickstarted eh? Best of luck. |
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United Kingdom
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Yeah they'll be kept for alot longer.
Thanks for the information...i'll try and upload more when I get time. Lots more to come.
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