William III Sixpence In Cheap Lot (1696)

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NumisMattyUk Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2217 Posts	Posted 05/08/2008 7:56 pm I found this and a farthing of William and Mary (1688-94) in a cheap lot I bought off ebay for about 8.50 GBP - amongst the same lot were around 4 GBP in american coins including a Susan B Anthony dollar (most of the others were State Quarters, there was a Sacagawea). The remainder was probably worth at least 3 or 4 quid... The figure below the bust is the Y mintmark for the York provincial mint. According to my Yearbook this is the rarer mintmark, worth around 45 GBP if in Fine. Report this Post to the Staff

snowman Pillar of the Community United States 1840 Posts	Posted 05/08/2008 10:23 pm Nice coin. Lots of good, honest wear. Were you able to see the date in the auction pics or did you just identify it by the monarch? Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16857 Posts	Posted 05/09/2008 04:46 am I try to learn new things every day. My numismatic fact I have learned today: I had never heard of this "provincial mint" series before. Looking it up in my copy of Seaby, I believe this is the "y" mintmark - that's lowercase y with a curly base (#3525), not capital Y (#3526). Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
NumisMattyUk Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2217 Posts	Posted 05/09/2008 07:25 am Sorry Snowman, wasn't like that, I just saw a pile of coins and could not positively identify it at all -17th Century silver is all I thought and so I bought them... as well as the fact that there were plenty of US coins and a jumble of mysterious odds and bods who could have resisted?! It was only a few quid and I hadn't even seen the W & M farthing, which was a pleasant little extra :) Re. idenitifcation methods.. I use Coin Yearbook 2007 produced by Token :) to tell which king it was.. Edited by NumisMattyUk 05/09/2008 07:29 am Report this Post to the Staff
Peter THOMAS Pillar of the Community Australia 2830 Posts	Posted 05/09/2008 5:47 pm "... to tell which king it was..." - another clue might be his name, written around his effigy. Peter Report this Post to the Staff
NumisMattyUk Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2217 Posts	Posted 05/09/2008 7:33 pm G'day... Report this Post to the Staff
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