Post Your United Kingdom (Great Britain) Coin Acquisitions.

Not bad, very shiny, rather similar to mine. My 2 arrived today, the Florin has a real brownish tone to it that is really nice. The 1935 Halfcrown has a really brand new appearance which is great.

I have managed to upgrade all my KGVI halfcrowns to 1948 (Not that concerned about 1949 to 1951 at this stage) and intend to do the same with the KGV ones. So far 1935, 32, 31, 29(2), 27, 23 and 21 are all gVF shiners or better and I now have the 2 types of 1920 coming.

Yes there was the big head and small head of that year.

And with the sterling silver Georgies, 1912, 15, 16, 18 and 19 are all gVF or EF shiners. The 1912 is AU!

Fantastic!

Sorry guys having issues with pictures here lols

1932 UK.
½ Crown - George V 4th type.
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Zookeeperz, I agree and I have those coins too. The misty finish along with the very flat effigy of the Queen almost makes those UNC coins look VF. I am saving up for a proof set myself.

They are so mediocre I actually have standard circulation examples in F/VF that look better than them!

Here is my latest purchase, a couple of Fine or so 1920 Halfcrowns. Apparently there was a "Big Head" and "Small Head" effigy on them.




The horrendously cleaned one is the Small Head and the more "natural" looking coin is the large head. The small head is marginally more scarce but neither are rare or even uncommon. 1920 was a big mintage year of 17.3 million coins and a big push to rush out base silver coins to replace the sterling silver ones.

The small head apparently has a higher relief and the large head less so. This meant the coins wore quicker as the small head was kept (It got smaller still with the 1925/27 modified effigy). It is part of the reason why so many early 1920s silver coins wear so quickly and badly.



The way to tell them apart is that the small head coins, the I in Dei points between the rim beads, on the large head coin, it points to a rim bead.

The early 1920s seemed to be a very experimental time with British coins. These 1920 pieces are the first alloy which was 50% silver, 40% copper and 10% nickel as a whitener, it would only last until 1922.

Thanks, part of the fun of collecting half crowns is learning about and getting the varieties, especially the affordable ones.

Luckily for me the existing 1920 halfcrown I had was a Small Head one and this coin is an uncleaned one in similar condition to my large head coin!

I have bought some more coins and will show them soon.

The new coins (And looking at this, you may think my most poorly used adjective ever!).




1846 Halfcrown - Fair2 (American Fair, not British Fair!), I probably overpaid for this, but needed it as a spacefiller for my 1840s halfcrowns ( I only need 1839 - 41 and 1848). In reality most early Victorian halfcrowns look like this as none were issued between 1850 and 1874, except a couple of proofs.

I mean many of my Regency (1816 - 1837) Halfcrowns are much better than my pre 1850 Victorian ones and even my Stuart and Georgians are nicer, still its an 1846 halfcrown and I love the naive placing of the 6 (The quality of striking in the 1840s the era of Dickens, Corn Laws and Chartism was dreadful). Finally there is a chance this poor coin ended up here in our frontier period and thus really took a beating. If coins could talk, this would outdo Obama's biographies for months!

But yeah as far as my Halfcrowns go, this is down there with my apalling 1817 Bull head coin and 1821 George IV ghost coin.

Its not all gleaming cream in my collection.

Great additions, Princetane! Those 1840s halfcrowns are really elusive and nearly always seem to sell for much more than the catalogue values - I was looking at ebay sold prices recently, and Fair/VG specimens were selling for more than the Coin Year Book Fine values!