Post Your United Kingdom (Great Britain) Coin Acquisitions.

Nice additions everyone!



You never know, zookeeperz. The best places to look for them will probably be outside the UK, where dealers and collectors are unlikely to have specialist catalogs and would be unaware of the different varieties. I once purchased an 1865 over 3 penny in NVF/GF condition in France for 50 centimes (then about 5 pence)...

@arkancharles
Regarding the 67 penny, is that the actual colour of the coin in hand, or is the lighting making it look silvered?
You might want to squeeze the staple ends flat with some long nosed pliers, or sure as anything, one day they will bite into another coin and cause some damage.
With the 56 shilling, are those scratches in the window, or on the coin itself. ( yeah I know, is this Twenty Questions?)

Anyway, thanks for sharing

Just arrived I'll class this in the minor variety of sorts category . A rather smart 1897 Bronze Penny with re-punched 9 in date and missing colon after T in T.B.

The T resembling more to an I than a T prob caused by a Grease Filled Die this anomaly appears on coins dated 1896+1897

Very nice example, Zoo. I've just got one and will be picking it up at the London Coin Fair this Saturday.

@arkancharles. That's a nice shilling. It's the rare Scottish one (only one lion). The English shilling has 3 lions.

Well I finally found the one I've had on my radar since I got interested in Conder/Provincial tokens. A St. Michael's Church Penny from Warwickshire, Coventry, UK, Shown here on the obverse is an overview of the whole church and the reverse shows the interior of the cathedral. The DH-38a was struck in copper and in silver. A Peter Kempson token/medalet, the die sinker was Thomas Wyon. This was struck around 1797. In my opinion one of the most beautiful items in the Dalton and Hamer catalog of Provincial Tokens of the 18th Century.

This particular one is in an NGC tomb. for now, it's protected at least. I really looked for awhile to find one that wasn't covered with carbon spots and stains. Pennies are big and they also seem to attract a fair number of dings, so finding one that I could be happy owning was an almost 2 year ordeal, this one was the 3rd example I looked at. They don't come up for sale all that often, and when they do, they tend to sell fast, case in point the last one before this that I looked at, I passed on but then thought about it for 10 minutes, called the dealer back thinking I should get it at least, as I could always sell it when I found a better one, but it had been sold within that 10 minutes, (it was a lot more stained than the one I have now). This will do until a better one shows up or one shows up in silver which I can afford.



Here is a painting by William Crotch from around the same time the penny was produced of St. Michael's church...



and the chapel/chancel interior...



I think the little Penny captured it quite nicely.

Fantastic token, westcoin, and a great reminder of what St Michael's Coventry (later Coventry Cathedral) looked like before its destruction in WW2.

Ruins of the old cathedral (St Michael's)

The new cathedral, designed by Sir Basil Spence and opened in 1962. It has an item of numismatic interest inside, as a number of freshly-minted 1962 pennies were let into the floor to mark the route for religious processions. After 50 years of feet passing over them they are mostly now just highly polished blank bronze discs.