Post Your United Kingdom (Great Britain) Coin Acquisitions.

I love the medals

I have a couple of the Canadian versians, and they're some of the favorites of my collection.
Finding them with the box AND the ribbon is a rare find, well done.

This is quite a pleasing little Charles I halfgroat, Briot issue 1631-39. It's showing a bit of wear but I bought at a local auction for a good price.

Frank

1886 Queen Victoria Sixpence .925 Silver. Just goes to show how pictures can tell 2 stories.Anyone who like myself uses a digiscope will always suffer flat looking coins or even coins showing things that don't even exist. I guess at the magnification it takes pictures at it can be detrimental to the actual coins real look. Below 2 pics of same coin

Despite its relatively worn condition, this P&M groat is one of my favourites because I dug it out of a Gloucestershire meadow about four years ago with my T2 detector and to me digging a 'hammy', regardless of its condition, is one of life's great thrills! It was about 5" deep in rich pasture, most likely rarely tilled for crops. When I retrieved the coin it was clean silver encased in soil, but since then the typical dark blue patina has developed which supports my opinion that this part of the meadow had rarely/never been ploughed, certainly for nearly five hundred years, otherwise the coin would have been slowly patinated over the years whenever the soil was turned over, thereby oxidising any buried metal.

You're 'spot-on' - I know the experience is cliched, but nevertheless that's exactly how it is. It's that moment in the field when one handles an artefact that was likely last touched hundreds of years earlier by him/her that lost it - it's in that instant that the 'connection' is made!

Frank

Hibernianscribe, I love those coins - especially your Henry VIII halfgroat and that gorgeous Briot milled piece! You obviously have an eye for early modern pieces - the portrait of that Henry 2nd coinage is amazing - really sharp showing the middle phase of the king, getting fatter - but not up to the Bloated and Bearded King Hal yet (The first portrait coinage was actually still a portrait of Henry VII rather the Renaissance Adonis he was in the 1510s!

Paralyse, I have one of those sets too - mine had split was held together by sellotape when I bought it and the 6d was gone. I had to liberate the rest of the coins, but kept the shell. So just check your plastic as it may be brittle after 67 years.

Zookeeperz, love that sixpence - the camera can lie!

There's much to be found in the study of dies and how they deteriorate.
Good work P!