Post Your United Kingdom (Great Britain) Coin Acquisitions.

Very nice!

I like them too, they serve as a link to my fellow high finctioning autistic bretheren - Sir Isaac Newton. Many historians now are of the opinion he probably jhad high functioning autism like most of the geniuses of the past (Einstein and Da Vinci are amongst others named).

The great recoinage was his idea along with King's (Also a person known to be boorish and pedantic - yet entirely compassionate). Set up by the Earl of Montagu, it was well planned and good intentioned, but turned out to be an expensive flop. They lost much money from factors such as buying and supplying new machines and dies to the provincial mints at Chester, Bristol, Exeter, Norwich and York and the fact, the number of coins made was not as high as expected. Added to that the quality of some of the provincial coins was not that high, so the experiment was dialled back to the Tower in 1698.

Still it provides some interesting coins, that have survived the test of time and one of many times English monarchs meddled with coinage.

Looking at this piece, it was likely the Bristol mint coins were better quality than those from Exeter and Chester. Already by 1696 Bristol was a growing port and vital for the West Indian and American market (Cargoes of slaves were amongst the commodities). Our Brsicoes stores got their start from a Briscoe trading there in 1704.

Very nice!

They are very nice, such cute little coins. Keep your eyes peeled for a 1945 3d in silver, those are rare (Well 1942, 43 and 44) are desirable too. They actually had both 3ds competing in that era and of course the brass monstrosity won.

Your 1921 coin is particularly nice, looks high VF or even EF, hard to get that nice.

My 3d family are less nice, haven't got to them yet, after 1920 is decent and before it is a joke with me. Plus my brass ones are nothing to write home about.

Two new additions 1797 Cartwheel Two Pence Big Bertha weighing in @ a whopping 2 ounces AEF/EF Nice honest coin and really nice rims. Excess metal is par for the course with these. And one slightly left field I am not a great lover of fantasy coins unless they are the Hearn struck coins in Silver .
This one being 1936 Edward VIII Silver proof-like Crown .925 silver Struck in 1946. I just think the design is awesome and much better than the George V rocking horse crown . As struck.

Lovely coins, never heard the name "Big Bertha" for the tuppenny cartwheels - fits though. Many of them saw use as weights for scales in early stores here.

Who was the designer on the Edward Fantasy Crown, he looks very boyish!

The sixpence are from a bulk buy just purchased them as silver so I like to pull out what I think is quite nice . There are quite a lot of shilling and half crowns. Also spotted a few coins that have lamination flaws, should place them in a 2x2?

Do you have a British catalogue?

Notes for 1920 and later coins to 1946

Put any better dates in flips. The worn coins after 1920 are really bulk melters however there are some scarcer dates where even worn coins are desirable.

3d - Check the back of your 1926 coins for Modified effigy and first effigy (Modified have a thicker rim and smaller but more intricate portrait). Any silver 3d 1942 or later is good.

6d - Any coin better than gVF is worth putting in a flip. AU/UNC are worth real money, high VF coins can look deceptively UNC

1/- 1930 is the only really scarce date, others are common in VF and lower

2/- The good date is 1932, coins of this year are scarce in any condition. 1925 is also a good year.

2/6 - Any coin VF or better is worth placing in a good flip - better years for Halfcrowns are 1924, 1925 (Scarce), 1930 (Quite rare in high grade), 1934 and 1938.

No cupronickel coins are scarce in F/VF except 1959 Scottish Shillings, but any 1947 - 1951 coin in AU/UNC meaning it shines and has no visible wear is worth a few pounds.

I noticed a lot of KGVI silver thats shiny, that means it is at least high VF, but watch out for cleaning. With the exception of 1938 Florins and 1937/38 Halfcrowns - none is that rare, but I would put the shinier ones in flips anyway as they look nice.

Let me know if you find any 1919 or earlier, in general 1910s KGV coins have silver value but unless EF or better, not much above melt as they were mostly hoarded from 1920 onwards and a lot survives in at least VF condition.