Post Your United Kingdom (Great Britain) Coin Acquisitions.

Thanks, will have a look for that one.
This is one example a dealer has. It's not (to my eyes) a particularly nice looking coin.. But it is interesting.

Totally and for you sir - do you have a listing for the Trademe auction of the Bahama mule?

Gainn - That pattern is bizarre. The shield shows a Kangaroo, a seal along with an elephant. Was this someone's idea to issue a Empire based florin for use in Canada, India and Australia too (which would be strange given the first two did not use sterling and Australia's coins were sterling silver whilst English were 50% muck metal)

That coin is definitely a complete fantasy and probably would not even date from 1936. The designs of the KE8 coins by Kruger Grey were not that different. The Crown is similar to 1937 along with Florin (Just change the GR to ER). The halfcrown had square rather than shaped shields, the shilling was Scottish only and the 3d and 6d were the connected rings design.

It is in my 1980(!!!) Seaby catalogue. Also issued was a slightly different brass 3d along with standard one. The copper was unchanged, it was all to be modernised anyway regardless of who was king.

To be relevant - I also added a high VF 1912 shilling and silver 1920 3d (The sterling one, not 50%er) and a gFine 1921 shilling replacing a goodPoor one!

Nice coin Paul, however it is not uncirculated. There is all over wear on Britannia and some on Victoria's hair and cheek.

I would say your coin is between gVF/EF (XF45 - AU50 Sheldon). Overall still an excellent piece as most YH Victorias are VG to Fine in this era.

Lustre can survive down to VF with many British coins.

Outstanding!

Sorry to be the bearer of that news. Just if the seller told you it was uncirculated and charged you an uncirculated price, I would be getting my money back.

But if you paid what you thought was a reasonable price for it and it kind of looked UNC to you that's different.



These two would grade bare EF (1863) and close to AU (1865), both have light to almost no wear, but notice individual hairs in Victoria's head and the individual leaves of wretah come through. Some Brit face detail too, yet the gowns are quite flat and her breasts are too. Apart from those 1890 bet coins - I suspect fully unc Bunhead farthings are scarce as hen's teeth.

Here is an almost UNC (Very high AU) 1891 Halfpenny.


Notice almost complete gown detail on Britannia and the shield has all lines sharp.


Otto - The colour and serifs on this coin look like sterling as opposed to half silver and 1920 sterling 3d's are quite common, about 30% of the 1920 coins were in the old silver combination. Also notice smaller numbers on date, the small rounded 0 vs long 0 and the coin has a sterling ring as opposed to base metal thud.


The sterling coin - notice yellow silver colour, although gFine/VF condition, usually they are green and gungy. The crown and 3 shape are like 1919 coins rather than 1921s.

Here is my 50 percenter 1920 for comparison.



Same grade (Fine +) but that green gungy wear and black wear you see on base silver.

Also a new coin, this mid VF grade 1912 shilling

The Royal Mint Museum website has photos of all the Edward VIII patterns in its collection which I think covers all of the coins in the book that NumisRob mentioned.
That florin appears to be a fantasy anyway - there are lots of Edward VIII fantasy crowns but I haven't seen a florin before.

Did I not read something about you buying too much silver and having to slow down?

And true to form, my latest shilling additions.




1868 shilling EF with toning and unsightly marks on the Queen - however 1860s silver is scarce as hen's teeth in my collection, no halfcrowns and florins that elude me. The only coin that cost a wee bit here (Nowhere on the level of recent purchases).



1879 cleaned fine/ sellers photo so not sure of any die numbers here, it is a die number example (1879 shillings without a die number are scarce).




1922 almost EF/toned - this was cheap and great to get as the early 1920s stuff is hard to find in decent condition, also brought a 1921 last week, but this coin is slow to arrive.




1921 Florin, EF and toned - yes toned to death but at $28 too good a deal to pass up and all my 1920s Florins other than 1929 are worn messes.

I brought a few more cheapies but will show these when I get them