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Rookie Looking For Help Valuing And History On The Below - Appreciate The Support!   *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. *** |
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Bedrock of the Community
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 to the CCF, Coincollector113! Can you provide some information about your coin, such as the weight in grams to 2 decimal places, the diameter in mm, and what it appears to be made of? It's hard to tell from your pictures. Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Pillar of the Community
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OK - you appear to have an 1896 Crown (unless the colour lies, and it is gold, in which case you have a half or full sovereign!) Condition is typical well circulated. I would expect to sell at auction between £20 and £30. For interest, examine the edge. You should see ANNO REGNI followed by either LIX or LX - the former is slightly scarcer, but probably won't make too much difference to the value in that condition. Looking at the proportions of the date, it may well be a sovereign - what is the diameter? Is it gold or silver? If it is a Sovereign you have bullion value of around £350, or half that if it is the smaller half sovereign. |
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It's gold, 19mm wide and 1mm thick
The outer words read: VICTORIA DEI GRA BRITT REGINA FID DEF IND IMP
Yet to weigh it but similar to a 5p
A local shop offered £125 to melt it down but more interested in the history
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Pillar of the Community
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That's too small for a genuine sovereign, and if it is genuine you'd be daft to accept £125 scrap.
Edited by Hogarth
11/15/2023 4:56 pm
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Ahh right, how big would a genuine sovereign be?
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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22mm x 1.5mm and weighing just under 8g.
Today's spot price for scrapping one pays around £360.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Ah, I see Paddy has already mentioned half sovereigns.
The size of your coin is pretty much correct for those.
Scrap would be around £175, so you were still offered too little for it.
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Great, thanks. Assuming no value in holding onto it for longer?
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It's value is primarily in the gold content - assuming it's a genuine half-sovereign, it's got US$230 worth of gold in it. So assuming you don't have any other reason to keep it, whether to keep or sell depends on what you think the gold price might do in the future, and on how badly you need US$230 right now.
However, I'm not entirely convinced it's genuine. There are details on the St-George-and-dragon side of the coin that don't quite match what I'd expect to see, though it could just be the poor photographs. Now, it might be a "jewellery copy", not a genuine coin but still made of gold. The weight would tell you: a half-sovereign weighs 3.99 grams. A 5p coin weighs 3.25 grams, so it's kind of in the same ballpark, but a more accurate weight is required.
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
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Photos with better lighting would help.
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