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On a quick look I see nothing special, they are all copper or bronze or copper-nickel, might be a low mintage or two and the condition looks nice. Silver was dropped from British coins at different times for different denominations so some of the early ones might be silver, or did you show all that you had? AT my LCS (Local Coin Shop) they were not interested in this type of thing at all, but you might get a few bucks for them, sorry to disappoint.  |
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I love old British coins.
I quite literally have hundreds, maybe thousands of coins similar to those that I've found in lots.
Unfortunately those are really not very old or valuable.
From what I can see they look all to be quite common dates and in low grade circulated condition which really hurts they're value.
IMHO, the winner of the bunch for me is the 1896 large penny but its value is only a few dollars in that grade.
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Aw, bummer. But thanks for the replies.
There are a lot more coins in the bag, but I think all the silver colored ones are from post 1900. How could I know if they had silver in them?
There's one other copper colored one from 1899, but it's not in good shape either...
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04/29/2014 12:14 am
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 Pictures and a list of date and denomination, they were still using silver into the 1950's on some coins. It get's confusing but we can help you sort them  |
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The Brit Silver coins were Stirling Silver up to 1920 when it was debased to 50% Silver.
In 1946 Silver was stopped and replaced with copper nickel coins .
I'm pretty sure that there is NO silver in circulating Brit coins dated 1947 onwards.
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1934, 38 six pence each .0455 oz of silver each
1912 3 pence .0420 oz of silver
1931, '37 and '38 One Shilling .0909 oz of silver
1947 and after are not silver but just what you are showing is .4057 oz of silver, not bad.
Any others from 1946 or before that look silver?
I've always liked the old Queen Vic pennies, the 1896 in the first post is nice and the 1899 is not in bad shape, I have some that look like they were ground down to nothing with a sander.
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Thanks again for the info. I think that's all of them. I guess not worth a lot, ah well.
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this one is from 1896, it seems to say One Penny/Victoria Dei Grn Britt Regina Fid Def Ind Imi (all caps).
Posted 04/28/2014 11:03 pm
