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j_h_s Pillar of the Community United States 1934 Posts	Posted 12/19/2007 04:12 am Can anyone identify this coin for me? Thanks, Jim Report this Post to the Staff

j_h_s Pillar of the Community United States 1934 Posts	Posted 12/19/2007 04:14 am Here it is. Image: geoIII1779rev.jpg 54.7 KB Image: geoIII1779obv.jpg 52.68 KB Report this Post to the Staff
ElleKitty Pillar of the Community United States 819 Posts	Posted 12/19/2007 06:13 am I would guess a British Maundy piece? This is a good link to a bit of history and some drawings of Maundy coins. Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 12/19/2007 2:14 pm It's a George III Silver Penny KM#594, 0.925 silver. The lettering on the obverse looks unevenly spaced, croaked and weakly struck on some letters while the others are strong. I have some doubts about this coin. Report this Post to the Staff
Peter THOMAS Pillar of the Community Australia 2830 Posts	Posted 12/19/2007 10:07 pm G'day, it is a Maundy penny, the smallest silver coin minted in Britain. Copper coins had been in use for quite a while by 1779, but the Maundy sets were still produced in silver, upto the present time. The Maundy coins come in 4 denominations, 1d, 2d, 3d, & 4d. They have a very simple reverse, but the really early ones (Chas II & Jas II) have some interesting flourishes. Regarding the quality of the engraving & strength of strike: these were low volume products, and were produced before The Great Recoinage of 1816, when steam presses were introduced. As such, the "quality contral" was a lot different to what we are used to now. A bit of history: look at the legend on the reverse. It's abbreviated Latin, "Mag Bri Fr et Hib Rex" = "Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King [of]" The British continued to claim the French throne for a few decades after that. The larger coins of that era have even more titles listed. Peter in Oz (who is chuffed that he just won a Maundy 4d of 1820 on ebay) Report this Post to the Staff
j_h_s Pillar of the Community United States 1934 Posts	Posted 12/20/2007 07:50 am Thank you, all, for your responses. I am curious about the "doubts" expressed about the coin...can you elaborate? Also, I'm curious about it's value. Thanks, Jim Report this Post to the Staff
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