Victoria 1882 Shilling

Some of your URLs are missing...

But it looks like they downloaded OK. Click on "Reply to Topic", up the top just below your username, then click on the little camera-shaped "Add Image" button below the reply screen. On the popup that pops up, click on the "My previously uploaded files" button. Find the pic you're after from the list of them that pop up, and then click "insert".

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rob asked:
...the thing that I think is unusual is that the obverse of Victoria is upside down...

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By "upside down", I assume you mean that when you turn the coin over the same way that you turn an Australian, New Zealand or modern British coin over, the portrait is upside down.

Assuming the coin dates from 1887 or earleir, then that's perfectly normal - the coin was made like that. Britain changed their silver coins from "upside down" (known as coin orientation) to "right way up" (called medal orientation) in 1887. Coins in some countries (such as the United States) are similarly "upside down". Find yourself an American coin, and see for yourself.

They're used to seeing coins like that, and when they see one of our coins, they think ours are "upside down", too!

Sap wrong name I think gem is a better name for you.
I spent ages trying to work out how to get the pic's to
come up after taking 15 pictures with the camera Victoria was about to have her first flight in Australia.thanks for the info and help.
PS the book I have doesn't tell which way is up.
still learning probably need lots of help along the way.