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New Member
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hi Folks Could you please identify the attached coin for me please. Is it worth anything after some eejit putting a hole through it? also I have approx two hundred English 2 shilling coins mostly from the 1940's at a glance...are they worth anything much? Is ebay the best(only) way of getting rid of these?  |
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It's a token or card counter of some sort, made to resemble a British gold "spade" guinea. Some were made as counterfeits, to deceive. Others were simply card counters or play money, often with a legend like yours, OR "IN MEMORY OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS". It may even have been manufactured with the hole already there, and sold as a cheap souvenir medallion. Worth a couple of dollars to a token or curio collector. As to the florins, ebay is one possibility. You could always haul them off to your local coin dealer if there's one in your area. You might get more for them on ebay, you might get less, but you won't have the hassle of shipping such a heavy parcel. If you take them to a dealer, might be best to sort them, at least into 1946-and-earlier and 1947-and-later piles, to save them the effort of separating the silvers from the cupronickels. 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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 Ireland
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Thanks sap
I'll go in search of token collectors!
Some time ago , you gave me a valuation on an Old Victoria head Sovereign. It was an LVIII variety
I have another one now but it has neither LVII or LVIII around the rim. It just has a lined pattern common to any other coin.
What should I sell this as? Is it worth as much as the LV varieties?
thanks again
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Australia
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That was a silver crown, not a sovereign - sovereigns are small, made of gold, and don't have lettering around the rim.
What's the date on this second coin? Crowns of the 1887-1892 period have the "Jubilee head" (with a tiny crown perched on top of her head) and no regnal year around the rim. There were also 4-shilling or double-florin coins during the same period, which are only slightly smaller than the crown, but they don't have the St-George-slaying-dragon design.
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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New Member
Ireland
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You're right of course. It was a crown. This coin is from 1892 so you probaly right about it being a regal head etc. thanks In relation to my coin/token , I cant find anything similar in ebay or even google. what sould I be searching under? Is is worth the hassle I wonder? thanks again |
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Australia
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I believe something like "counter" or "evasion" is the technical term, but most folks selling them would proabbly just call them "coins". If you did a search for "guinea" you might find a few being sold as real guineas.
They probably should only sell for a few dollars; I can't see anyone paying more than that for one, unless it had a particularly notorious story to go with it.
I'm at work again at the moment; I'll look up the CV for an 1892 crown for you when I get home (unless someone else wants to beat me to it?)
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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Australia
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Sorry, forgot to look this one (the 1892 crown) up for you yesterday; my apologies.
CV for an 1892 British crown is $40 in VF condition - much the same value as your previous one (in similar condition).
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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