Post Your United Kingdom (Great Britain) Coin Acquisitions.

Just received a couple of coins this morning that I bought from Corbitts' annual auction:

A type gap filler - a George I 1716 crown. Prior to this I had no crowns between Queen Anne and George III:


... and, not so nice, a gap filler and a scarce coin in any condition - an 1827 penny. Usually found with corrosion and verdigris caused by seawater exposure during shipment to Australia!

Excellent adds!

Thanks, this group are starting my SHILLINGS collection. They are pretty worn and below average examples, but the price was so attractive!




Silver coins - worn but I paid UNDER melt value for them - the worn Victorian coin is 1882, a less common one and the KGVI era stuff is decent. Those 1920 - 22 shillings are nightmarish though.


The Cupronickel coins - some duplication, but most of these dates I don't have.

The joy of the silvers is that they fill gaps until I get some "quality" examples and then can be resold as melters or to another collector for what I paid for them!

Every great collection starts somewhere. My halfcrowns and florins started off with some humble pieces and look what happened!

Nice haul, Princetane!

Hi Otto - nice halfcrown - yes there is a huge gulf in condition with these, they remain very dull up to Good Fine and then from gVF onwards they are barely different from UNC.

My opinion is that your coin is the highest levels of VF, pushing towards EF - I will say aEF (British grading, NOT sheldon in which its easily AU50).

The hair on the forehead below veil is flat meaning its not EF, but there is a lot of detail on the lower part of the coin with medal etc. The otherside looks good but you can see clear and quite moderate wear on the garter buckles, the belt clip and on the various devices, lion faces, harp strings and the like.

These can have weak strikes, but the wear is fairly even on your coin. Still this is a very nice example and usually the best these coins get outside of 1887 (The year everyone saved one, despite the lowish mintage).

I don't own many British coins, but you all might like to see this:
1953 QEII proof set.

The photos of the individual coins are the penny & crown out of the set.

Nice additions, otto and Coinanthebarb! Agree with Princetane about that lovely halfcrown.

The Royal Mint seems to have reached their peak of case production with the 1953 proof set: I've never seen one with the original case where the coins are badly tarnished. On the other hand the 1950 and 1951 sets were in much shoddier cases, and there were problems too with the inserts in the plastic cases used for the 1970s proof sets.

Excellent!