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O.K. I know these are not worth much but would like to know something about them as all I know is that they are british. Any information would be interesting. Thank you.   Identified - Moved to British forum - Sap |
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These are indeed British coins with the effigy of King George II. On the reverse there is the picture of Brittannia.
You don't tell anything about the size, so they could be halfpennies (28 mm, 9.3 gram)or farthings (22 mm, 4.7 gram)
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It measures 28mm so I guess it's a halfpenny. wow! You need 4 of these to put in your Two Cents worth! |
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Of course, in the 1730's they hadn't invented "cents" yet, but back then a "penny" was not the same as a "cent". The British penny was worth 1/12th of a shilling, or 1/60th of a crown, or 1/240th of a pound. The "crown" was a large silver coin, slightly larger than a silver dollar, so a halfpenny was more or less equivalent to a cent.
In early Canada, which used a mixture of British and American coins, "cent" and "halfpenny" became basically interchangeable. Many tokens were made without any mark of denomination on them, and they were used as either a 1 cent or a halfpenny, depending on who was using them.
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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An interesting fact came my way recently with a few Gothic Florins from the UK.Decimalisation is looked on as a fairly recent occurance. Its not all that new of an idea at all though. Talk about confusing currency   |
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United States
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oohhh what coin is that wets? I never knew the Brits had coins that had decimal markings on them before decimalization!
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United States
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Here you go WD1040 , to further scramble the publics brain they saw fit to add the date in Latin..The Gothic Florin 1872,im putting together a set of these and the Godless florins.  |
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WOW! That Gothic coin is INCREDIBLE!  |
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G'day, one of the colonial governors attempted to decimalize New South Wales in the early 1800s. He used the "Spanish dollar" as his unit of currency, rather than the pound or guinea. This was followed by the "minting" in 1813~14 of the "Holey Dollar".
And I agree: those Victorian florins are a very interesting coin.
Peter in Oz
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