Ten Pence Coin, Any Ideas?

Not worth much due to poor quality and being fairly common.

This is a good piece of history, being in the first batch of decimal coins circulated before decimal day 15/2/71, to encourage the public to get used to them. It has the same dimensions of the florin, or 2 shilling coin, it replaced. The florin was the result of the first ( failed ) attempt to decimalise in 1849.

Its size and weight makes it feel like it was worth something, and it was! I recall in the mid 60's as a kid being given just one shilling, which was enough to get me into the kid's cinema show on a Saturday, with enough left over to buy sweets. I read recently that the 10p coin now has the spending power of a farthing ( 1/960th of a pound ) in the 1860's.

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