6 Different Old World Coins | Assorted Coins And Jetons

G'day,
1. Portuguese - don't know much about them, sorry.
2. seems French, but is not like any French coin that I'm familiar with.
3. Great Britain, halfpenny from the size.
4. Great Britain, farthing from the size. Note the difference in the quality of the minting of this coin, compared to the previous. That is the result of the new, steam-driven machinery installed at The Royal Mint in 1816.
5. "Hollandia" - this coin is similar to others I have seen (Batavia, Sumatra, Java), issued by the Dutch East India Company (VOC). In the 20th Centuru, there was a province and a town in Papua called "Hollandia", but I don't know what use that name had at the time this coin was minted.
6. beats me.
Peter in Oz

#1: This one's actually from the Portuguese colony of Brazil. Originally, it was a 5 reis from the joint reign of Maria I and Pedro III (1777-1786). The counterstamp, that of the Portuguese coat of arms, was officially applied later, in 1809, and doubled it's face value to 10 reis. The original coin is listed in the Krause world coin catalogue as KM# 200, the countermarked coins are KM# 263.

#2: This is a French jeton, an officially issued counting token from France. Not a coin, so you won't find it in the "proper" coin catalogues, but still numismatic, and still collectable.

#3: British halfpenny, as Peter said, though halfpennies were larger back then; this one appears to be severely clipped, and halfway between a halfpenny and farthing in size. Be aware that there are several contemporary counterfeit halfpennies around. Ones known to have been produced in the pre-independence American colonies are highly sought after by American collectors. Your fellow Americans are probably better at spotting these than I am.

#4: A farthing, as Peter said.

#5: "Hollandia" is Latin for Holland, one of the Dutch provinces; prior to Napoleon's conquest in the early 1800's, each Dutch province issue it's own coinage. This coin is a "duit", and the obverse design is that of a Dutch lion standing in a "Dutch Garden", a small fenced enclosure.

#6: Now here's something you don't see too often. A Google search of the Latin phrases came up with this page about these items. It's another jeton, but this one's commemorative in nature (so it can also be considered a medal) and it's not French. It was made in the Netherlands to commemorate the failure of the Gunpowder plot to blow up the English parliament in 1605. The four characters in the centre of the radiant crown of thorns are the Hebrew letters YHWH (normally anglicized to Yahweh or Jehovah), the name of God.

Editted to add: man, I've got to type faster. Bart beat me by an hour and a half!

Thanks for the info guys! I will probably hang on to the last one now - seems like a neat item. A REALLY neat item.