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Thank you @seuk this has been most informative! - If you'd be interested in my poor examples, please PM me your address and I'll pop them in the post.

Here is the link to the other one i posted. It was one i spotted on ebay while looking around at other forgeries to see if i could find a die match to mine. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/277566687748

Another somewhat crude group C die - fairly common - Here's a better example.

This is the reverse. Apologies for the image it was the best i could do at the minute without natural daylight.

This obverse is uncommon - The only other one I've noticed is in Gary's collection. Do yours have the same reverse?

Could you please upload a photo of the reverse - I don't think I have this variation.

This is a fairly common contemporary counterfeit. J015o / I801r in my current system. It's connected to a number of other dies of various groups - it's the 7th coin in this die chain

Welcome to the forum @blake I don't know about the rest of your coins, but that one is definitely a replica. Gold washed copper and sadly virtually worthless. Real gold does not tarnish, so that is the biggest giveaway even before we look at the low quality of the manufacture. If you have others you are more confident of, please do post. Try to crop the pictures so we get the detail of the coin not acres of dull grey.

Hi can someone give me some advice. I have some coins id like valued including this gold one pictured. Dated 1752

Wow, Stu spotted it... to think is been hanging around for ever (thinking it was solid silver) so yeah its a keep contemporary forgery would be of interest to me. may thanks "H"

Yes, definitely a contemporary forgery (very common) of a silver skin clad onto a base metal core - the core is corroding and bursting through in places which is causing those greyer-looking patches and random protrusions through the silver skin. So, no scrap value at all to speak of, but an interesting bit of social history and probably worth keeping thus.

.....ah? ,,,,contemporary forgery... Now thats an Idea ......anyone up on theses?

One to isolate and keep away from your other coins. Giving me Bronze disease vibes. I wonder if it's a contemporary forgery.

I'd enjoy it but it'll be two weeks before I could do anything about it if you're interested.

Again another opinion required in regards to a worn out William III Half Crown, 16_ _ , Chester Mint ? Large Shield its very rubbed but looks like is lived in the ground, ..... is it Scrap or worth keeping? Many thanks "H"

Seemed as good a place as any as bought the Halfpenny from the last LCA with obverse 1.

Whilst flicking through the Royal Mint Museum collection I noticed that they have two of these that may as well be shared here for reference, RMM 2590 and RMM 2591:

Keep an eye on the Items For Sale topic, I have scruffy crowns and some scruffy other stuff plus nicer coins that I'll be offering here soon.

The Half Crowns I will leave for now, they need looking at before I have them scrapped👍

If you have any scruffy full crowns, I'd like to buy one as a pocket coin. If that 1817 had been an 1816, I'd want it as a placeholder. I could see that 1723 as a placeholder for that date in my shilling run to save it from the smelter.

I also have theses Half Crowns... to the pot or keep? sorry to keep asking only I can see that if I don't sort things out they will remain sat in a box in a cupboard and inevitably end up being thrown.....😟

Many thanks, I have a few worn out coins but the general thought is better to show just in case something gets missed, I tried looking on Ebay to see if one looks in the same condition....it was a space filler and as I was working through my boxes...I found another that's so much better and now added in place of this rubbed out one. Many thanks "H"

I'm afraid that this coin is basically just scrap - 1723 SSC is a very common piece (unless it is one of the rare varieties like French arms at date or C over SS in the third quarter, which this isn't) and pieces in much better condition don't cost the Earth. With the recent rise in scrap price, yours would be worth way more as a lump of silver than its recent "collector" or "book" value for a coin so poor (and I doubt anybody would want to buy it as a coin to collect), so, sadly, scrap it and put the money towards buying a better piece, be it a nicer one of these, or anything else that takes your fancy.

ahhhhhhh..........! I understand its bad form to talk "whats it worth?" for me the difficulty is the way silver prices are and how some of the lower grade older coins are able to get a realistic Idea of what the sell price should be? The George I, SSC Shilling 1723 Is something that I will be looking to move on, I don't see it as scrap but its not in fine condition....a difficult call.... many thanks for any input or guidance....most welcome. 👍

Oh yes, I see it. That's a classic die crack/flaw.