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New Member
United Kingdom
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Hi all,
I've recently been going through my grans house and cane across a bag of old coins, there must be at least 6/700 in total from over the world. I've picked out the old One Penny and Half Pennies so far so was wondering if there is a guide as to the values.
The list I have is as follows;
ONE PENNY x 80 - 26 separate years
6 x Victoria unreadable
1860 x 1 very poor 1875 x 1 very poor 1883 x 1 very poor 1890 x 1 ok 1896 x 1 ok 1899 x 2 good x 1 ok 1900 x 2 ok
1908 x 1 ok 1912 x 8 good 1 ok 1 poor 1916 x 1 good 1 ok 1917 x 1 good 1 ok 1918 x 7 good 4 ok 1919 x 5 good 2 ok 1921 x 1 ok 1927 x 1 ok 1928 x 2 good 1936 x 1 good 1 ok 1937 x 1 good 1938 x 1 good 1946 x 1 good 1947 x 1 good 1 poor
1963 x 2 good 1964 x 2 good 1 poor 1965 x 2 good 1966 x 1 good 1967 x 11 good 1 poor
HALF PENNY x 129 - 36 separate years
1861 x 1 poor 1897 x 1 very poor 1899 x 1 very poor
2 x Victoria unreadable
1904 x 1 poor 1916 x 1 poor 1917 x 1 ok 1 poor 1918 x 1 poor 1919 x 1 poor 1922 x 1 good 1 poor 1923 x 1 ok 1924 x 1 poor 1929 x 1 good but flat spot 1938 x 2 good 1942 x 3 good 1 ok 1943 x 3 good 1 ok (dent) 1944 x 5 good 1945 x 1 good 1946 x 1 ok (dent) 1947 x 3 good 1948 x 2 good 1949 x 1 good 1950 x 1 good 1952 x 1 good 1954 x 3 good 1955 x 3 good 1956 x 2 good 1957 x 3 good 1958 x 2 good 1959 x 10 good 1 ok 1960 x 2 good 1962 x 3 good 1963 x 2 good 1964 x 7 good 1965 x 22 good 1 ok 1966 x 17 good 1967 x 10 good
Obviously my interpretation of quality may be off, I've gone good if it could read both sides perfectly, ok if there was some damage and poor if there was fading.
The other coins I have are from, South Africa, France, Ireland, Philippines, Holland and many others not had time to really go through them yet, they are mainly 50, 60 and 70's coins.
Any feed back and advice on how best to go about valuing / selling the coins would be much appreciated.
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Valued Member
United States
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Hello Le_Coin  to CCF! You're on the right track getting everything separated. What I'd suggest with regards to grading is to post some pictures of coins here so the pros can tell you what they think. Once you have a better idea about grading, you can go to numista.com for their world coin price guide to get the retail values. However, the thing to remember is that you're not going to get close to full "retail" from a local coin shop. I'm sure the CCF members will have some ideas with regards to maximizing your profit.
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New Member
 United Kingdom
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Thanks, yes I'll get round to taking some photos and will post, just so many of them at the moment it's a bit daunting getting it all started. Thanks again
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Valued Member
United States
213 Posts |
I googled "UK coin grading examples" and found some helpful sites.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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I've used Tony Claton's site for about a zillion years
for a general idea of worth.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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In case you don't already know, don't clean your coins! And 
Edited by thisistheshow 06/08/2019 1:41 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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 and I hope you enjoy going through your gran's coins.
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Pillar of the Community
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You can find the value for all of these coins by going to the ebay website and doing a "sold items" search. You then compare your coin to ones of similar condition. There will always be a range of selling prices. Here is the 1890 Victoria Penny: https://www.ebay.com/sch/Coins-Pape...enny&_sop=15This result was obtained by typing "Great Britain 1890 Penny" in the search window. When the results come up, you can sort by price.
Edited by tdziemia 06/08/2019 2:59 pm
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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1860 with a beaded border (instead of toothed) and 1875 with a H mintmark (located under the date) are scarcer versions of the 1860 and 1875, however in the condition you described you'd probably have trouble getting much for them. 1918 and 1919 are also rarer with KN and H mintmarks (in particular the KN), located to the left of the date. Exact condition really does matter though - would need to see scans. Can't see anything in the halfpennies that might be valuable. If you're really wanting to sell them, you'd probably be better selling them in lots (perhaps except any that are scarce or in particularly excellent shape, though the latter is probably only worthwhile for any George V and before). Personally I'd keep them as a bit of a memento - but it's entirely your call of course. 
Edited by Collector28 06/08/2019 3:17 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 My advice is to keep them all as a token and rememberance of your grad parents.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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 a wonderful adventure. Although it's possible to find coins in such a hoard that has value, the majority will be common. If you think you spot a winner show us photos and you will get good free opinions. You might even decide to use those coins as the basis for a coin collection of your own.
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