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Old Hammered UK Coins

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Could you please tell me anything about these coins including what they are, dates, mints, and values. Any insight would be helpful thank you.

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We'll need better pictures to be able to help. The legends need to be readable to get anywhere with these things. If you crop the picture and put all the coins into one image, it might help.
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I'm no good with technology could you tel me how to do that.
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Open paint on your computer (go to the start menu at the bottom right and go to 'Run' and type Paint and enter). You can use the tools int here to alter pictures.

Or, rescan the images with all the coins in one shot. It would be easier to handle with all in one image.
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#1 is Scottish; I can read "IACOB 6 D.G." - James VI, also known as James I of England.

I can't make out anything on #2.

#3 is a hammered penny. I can't read the reverse clearly enough to ID the mint; one part looks like LON DON but the other doesn't seem to match what a London coin is supposed to say. It might be a continental imitation.
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Reverse of the Scottish James VI coin reads OPPID EDINB. The size may be the best guide as to the denomination, as the coinage of James VI was rather complex.
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The third coin is of Edward I (EDWARDVS REX). The reverse legend probably looked odd to Sap, as it did to me, because a penny of the London mint should read CIVI TAS LON DON in the four quarters. This one reads LON DON IEN SIS. I think this makes it a farthing, or perhaps a halfpenny. These obverse and reverse legends, though, combined with the two spearpoints that can be seen to either side of the center fleur-de-lys on the king's crown, seem to conform only to a farthing style made only in the year 1280.
http://hammered_farthings.tripod.co...type1to8.htm
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Neat. Never thought of a farthing.
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I thought of something before Sap did. If you'll all excuse me, I can now die happy.
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