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If they are listed on ebay they can fetch £40 to £200 which is not a lot even for a pos . unique coin Your best tip is to list it with a minimum bid and hope some variety collector sees it it could sell the day you put it on or it might take six months , best case scenario is two collectors take a shine to it.

So....the best of the worse of the worn out Hammer coins.... I did have a look see through Spink and warmed towards the Edward I... so its a Longcross, City of London, Edward I .....Class 4a....? it looked very close possibility to me .... Any thoughts ?

It's worth 2p. This thread is a bit old, but see the post 3 up from yours, dated Sep 3rd 2018.

Welcome @Mark Acton-Smith to the forum. The 1971 two pence is one of the commonest coins ever produced. Nearly 1.5 billion were made as part of the decimalization process, so despite the rumour mill on Ebay and some social media sites, it is worth just the 2p face value. The only proviso is that the scrap value of copper is quite high, so in bulk they may be worth more in metal content, but you have to find a scrap metal merchant interested in processing them. Also, it may still be illegal! Sorry if that is a disappointment!

I have a 1971 two pence piece what is it worth?

Indeed! 🙂

Poinciania time. Trees just coming into bloom and an eastern water dragon a common harmless lizard in SE Queensland. Grows to about 2 ft in length.

That was the father. He passed away about 4 years ago. I don't think Dennis ever got over it.

Which Dunkerton was Dennis? I bought coins from Windsor Coins in the late 70s and the Dunkerton who ran that wrote beautifully neat card enclosures for what he sold.

Everyone likes a nice bar LOL

I'm pretty sure they were struck more often than on a weekly basis.... It does exist. I know my 17th century copper well enough to confirm the letter is an I, and which is even more obvious 'in hand'. I see people listing 1700 and 1701 on ebay, stating their coins to be the rare unbarred As variety. Unbarred is the norm. As with bars are the ones to look out for.

P > S looks like unbarred A's on reverse as well

These coins are a nightmare often weekly struck and with other things wrong with them they make a wonderful life's work for anyone sorry but we need a higher grade coin to confirm it but it probably does not exist , interesting and frustrating at the same time

There are advantages to having good old-fashioned reference books!

wow. I did do a search and found a confusing mixture of information. once again many thanks for you time taken in answering my questions. cheers "H"

James I, 1603-25 Half Groats, now then.. for some reason I thought I already posted these.. i've had a good look to no avail !?!?! odd! any ways,.................. Ive found these that look like James I, Half Groats the mm. is Mullet 1611-12 all comments welcome, cheers "H"

The R beneath the wreath makes it Orleans mint. The creature beneath the bust is described as a "Greyhound running left" though it looks far more like a dragon to me! Indicates Mathieu-Pierre Combret as the moneyer, 1780 to 1788.

A interesting find amongst my hoard, turns out to be a 1786 1 Écu - Louis XVI Silver (.917) by chance does anyone know the mint mark? quite a scarce coin, 👍again bought blindly without any knowledge 30 odd years ago....

Just had an email from Lu Veissid that Dennis Dunkerton died peacefully at home earlier today. Sadly, one of life's casualties to the excesses of alcohol. He has looked like death on legs for the past year and couldn't keep off the pop. Still a nice guy though. RIP Dennis

Thank you 🙂 I have two hammered coins (and no plans to get any more) but I'm going to try and learn as much as I can about the two that I have. They're really interesting aren't they!

These almost always appear at 12 O'clock on the obverse, before the monarch's name. 🙂 Without literature to hand, looks like a Treaty period groat without French titles. Dating to between 1361-9.

Hello 🙂 sadly this coin is suffering from some bright green patches but they don't show up particularly in the photo! I think it's an Edward III groat / London but that's all I can work out at the moment. I think that cross is just hidden by a shadow at the bottom of the first photo, but am I roughly looking at the right part of the coin for this type of mark? Thank you 🙂

Errrrrrrmmmm??!!?? I do seem to have an eclectic Collection / Hoard of foreign coins mixed in with British Hammered coins.. does the cross seem to be familiar? I thought it may be a French cross....? I try not to resolve in using Google search....however I can waste hours and end up with nothing, Google did suggest Russian...then when tried again its French Denier louis VI Im also wondering if its silver or copper, the tarnish is to good to clean... many thanks for any suggestions

A recent discovery that some of my florins... below the bust you can see the Die No, makes it that much more interesting for me. 👍