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1861 Canadian provinces (Nova Scotia) (Canada) One cent_Victoria. (Large Rosebud)   Edited by Dorado
06/28/2020 11:35 pm
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1861 Canadian provinces (Nova Scotia) (Canada) Half Cent._Victoria.   |
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1861 UK. One Penny- Victoria 2nd portrait.   |
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1861 UK. Half Penny. Victoria 2nd portrait.   |
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1861 UK. 1 Farthing- Victoria 2nd portrait; 1st type.   |
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1861 Belgium. 10 centimes- Leopold I.   |
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1861 Silver 3C   |
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1861 Canadian provinces (Nova Scotia) (Canada) One cent_Victoria. (Small Rosebud)   |
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1860 was a big year in Britain. That year the copper coinage of Pennies, Halfpence and Farthings was retired (Well they did issue copper coins dated 1860). They replaced it with a more durable Bronze coinage (Yet 100 years in circulation would produce some flat slabs with dates on them  ). Still it set in motion a consistent coin type that lasted 107 years for the Halfpence and Pennies and 96 years for farthings. The new coins were smaller and thinner than the copper ones and weighed half as much. A copper penny weighed 18.5 grams and was 33mm in size, a new Bronze penny weighed just 9.07 grams and was 30.4mm in size. The farthings shown below   Left coin is a beaded rim and right is toothed. Type one had rounded pearls between lines, but this was not very durable or easy to mint and it was replaced by a toothed border (Right). There were numerous varieties of 1860 and 1861 dated bronze coins - but I keep it simple. These are standard AU and gVF examples! Edited by Princetane
06/29/2020 01:25 am
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The halfpence are more average sorry!   left coin is apparently beaded, but so worn (aGood) and other coin is toothed - VG A decent 1860 penny too   Probably VG, suspect this is a toothed variety. It gets sparse for me before the era of Bronze coins in the UK. |
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France 1860, 5 francs, BB (Strasbourg).  1854-68 the French government minted primarily 5 francs gold coins in place of the regular 5 francs silver coins. The price of gold was under pressure due to the large findings in California and Australia (and other other places). The relative value increase of silver in relation to gold made it profitable to use any silver to buy gold for minting. So any silver coins minted were quickly removed from circulation for that purpose, leading to a severe shortage of denominations below (the gold) 10 francs. The gold 5 francs was one of the remedies, a (later) reduction of the silver content of denominations up to 2 francs (but not the 5 francs!) coins another. |
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Beautiful 5 francs from Erafjel and great selection of British bronze from Princetane! My bronze selection from the UK: Farthing:  Beaded Border halfpenny with environmental damage:  Beaded border penny - my oldest-ever circulation find:   |
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British silver for 1860: Threepence:  Shilling:  Florin:  The florin was the largest silver coin issued for circulation in the UK between 1851 and 1873. |
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1860 -- Empire of Brazil, 1000 reis:   |
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