Post Your United Kingdom (Great Britain) Coin Acquisitions.

You got that right!
I love those little baby coins..... I feel like I am in the land of the giants

Thanks for showing.

Excellent!


It sure does. Very nice!

I have gone crazy again in the past two weeks. I went back to the coin shop today and miracle of miracles, they actually kept the coin for me I put away back in May!

Here it is!


It is the 1898 Halfcrown, the last one I am missing of the Old Head series and fills a gap in my collection. This is a triumph, no spacefiller just straight to the cream!


This coin is actually EF, it has a slight tone and unlike my other nice coins, does not appear to be cleaned.

I also brought a lot of other stuff, but this will be shown a bit later when its processed. Its mainly sixpences, groats and a few shillings. Mostly from the Victorian era (Is anyone surprised?).

Fantastic!

Very nice HC!

More Groats (Its hard to photograph these well and my phone is in its death throes dating back to early 2018, which is like 1700BC in phone years).



1846 another barely fine coin - this one at least is a bit cleaner. The coins between 1848 and 1852 are more scarce. The last 2 years are more common.



1854 - a better coin nearing VF, a bit cleaner too. It was the last big year of minting these coins (Nearly a million!)



1855 - VG only and likely cleaned. This is a fairly scarce coin and the last date. There was a further groat in the 1860s, but this was a pattern and no groats circulated in the UK except the 1888 one off - but they took off in British Guiana being made into the 1950s.

Reasons for its demise may have been the re minting of threepence coins from the 1840s onwards. The 1830s and 1840s saw colonial mintings, but starting in 1843 coins were minted for the UK and by 1855 all Threepences were for local as well as colonial use.

Having 2 coins the same size was confusing too (Even though the 3d was a crowned 3 and the groat had Britannia) and the Groat disappeared. No doubt some people in the night pulled a fast one by paying a 3d coin and saying it was a 4d. The coin lasted just 19 years (Still 10 more than the 1½d which died a quick death in 1843)

Finally a worn (Fineish) threepence from 1905. I brought it as it cost just $3 (£1.57)



It completes my 1905 coins set (Excluding gold of course)

Nice Conder for your new collection, westcoin! You've now stepped through the portal -- or maybe it's a time warp -- to a field of collecting that can be endless in its complexities. There must be at least 80 types and varieties in Macclesfield alone, right? And that's not the only town in Cheshire that where Conders were struck, although Beeston and Chester don't even come close.

Dalton & Hamer have always fascinated me with some of the descriptions they provided, as in this case. Their take on the Rx image on this token is: "A female seated by a windlass from which a rope descends." Seems that "Industry seated left" would have covered it alright.

My D&H came from Allan Davisson also, but in 1990 when it was the first update and expansion of the 1910 original. Although my field is now the 19th century, after all these years I'm still bidding in Davisson's auctions when my kind of stuff shows up, as in the section of Dalton silver shillings at the end of their current Auction 44.

As for whether you should share Conders in this particular forum, I'll quote myself from a posting here about two weeks ago:

Tokens are people coins too!