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??? its odd how these have found there way to me, The hammered ones that I picked up over the years and not realizing that they were from all over the world..... this is a Hungary Denier - Ferdinand II I think its 1622...but not being an expert so stand to be corrected if wrong 👍

You aren't living with his domestic terrorists (ICE) killing people for the fun of it. He's a child rapist and a thief. As for "Globalist" just use the antisemitic slurs you would rather use.

Crucifixion aside, Trump's not the danger to the Western world, quite the opposite - that's much closer to home. Look at his domestic policies: He's pushing back on the anti-meritocratic DEI, also binning the catastrophic Net Zero scam (only applicable to Western countries funnily enough, not to the world's largest CO2 emitter China), keeping physically stronger men out of womens' sports, whatever they identify as, and evicting millions of criminal illegal immigrants from the country. Why would any rational person be against any of those things? Yet the Democrats are for all those things. As the globalist-owned media can't argue with or in any way approve of his common sense policies (the BBC is up to its eyeballs in DEI for instance), they have to deflect everyone's attention by relying on non-stop character assassination. This is the only way they can attack his popularity, he's a nation state man so must be falsely framed at every opportunity. Fortunately most people in the US saw past that at the last election. Far less postal voting as well so a more robust result. At the current rate, soon our energy supplies (with electricity prices already among the highest in the world) will start failing bigtime and the UK is on a trajectory to balkanisation with competing ethnic bloc factions, as the demographic proportions become closer. Trump is taking measures to roll back on both those things in the US. He is the good guy! Look past the media spin. I noticed in the DT that Chris Whitty a few weeks ago was advising that people add bleach to drinking water in the event of a power cut! Also Southern Electric are running adverts on how to prepare yourself for a power cut. They know we're getting close. Hopefully we're out of the woods this winter. Even Ed Miliband doesn't believe in this Net Zero nonsense - he hadn't bought an EV, and I bet he doesn't have a heat pump in his house. Vanity solar panels maybe, that only produce the electricity when least needed - a Summer's day- but the timeliness does remind me of all the GSK shingles vaccine adverts we were bombarded with a a few years ago. Why was that suddenly a thing? I wonder, my aged mum developed terrible shingles on her face, massive boils around her eyes, it looked awful and guess what, it all came on with delirium and near death three days after her second Covid booster. I needn't remind everyone that the government figure for the average age of death "from" ie in many cases "with" Covid in the year before the vaccines were rolled out to a significant extent, was 82, and that was weakened 80-somethings with several co-morbidities. This first year was when Covid was supposedly at its most lethal and dangerous but even then it had exactly the same mortality profile as flu. So, spending nearly £500 billion on permanently damaging the economy through lockdowns and furlough, let's put it this way, probably wasn't a good idea. And the government knew the lack of mortality and vulnerability profile as the Diamond Princess figures were in - a cruise ship full of elderly people which got infected with Covid very early on.

Yes, @wlewisiii has it right I think. They were made in huge numbers during the 19th century. Most of the British Indian coins of that period feature the Gothic portrait of Queen Victoria. In that condition only of interest rather than value. Even high grade examples don't go for a great deal of money.

Neat. Looks like this to me: https://en.numista.com/18310 since the lettering impression seems to be short enough for Queen rather than Empress though I don't know a whole lot about British India Rupee coins. I should fix that

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone had come across a bronze gothic coin the size of a halfpenny for the colonies, maybe a one quarter anna?! I came across this coin( in very poor condition)in a bulk buy, any information would be helpful as I only collect pre decimal UK coins, this has peaked my curiosity as I have never seen a gothic obverse on bronze, It is 2.5mm in diameter,1mm thick and weighs 6 grams, many thanks

Hello Jackie, I’m afraid I have to disagree with AI, this doesn’t appear to be a deliberate design and I doubt that it is a coin. As a detectorist, as well as obsessive collector, I have over the years found similar items, some are welding spatter and others the result of molten metal spill. A couple look like silver and are certainly white metal. The pitted surface is the side that landed on the ground, the other is the result of solidification, possibly with some crystallisation . My thoughts anyway. Welcome to the forum, don’t be afraid to post your queries. Jerry

Hi Hello everyone. I've come across this unusual item it looks like a blob of silver tone blob like item. AI is saying it looks like an Ancient Ionia coin of some sort ?? I have absolutely no idea it rather thick it doesn't stick to a magnet it measures around 2.5 x 2cm. It appears to have some kind of pattern or something on one side and pitted on the other I would be very grateful for your help any suggestions you may have thank you all in advance. Jackie 😊 .

Susan Hicks Beach was also the model for the Britannia on the trade dollar. There was an article in Coin News in July 2024. Pages from CN JULY 2024_opt.pdf

Cool! She has a wiki page too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Susan_Hicks_Beach

I picked up this interesting piece of information from a local historian. He is a buff on the Fortescue family of Castle Hill North Devon, and when he heard I was into coins he was keen to tell me that one of the Fortescue family was used as the model for Britannia on the Edward VII Florins and British Trade Dollars. He has now provided me with a copy of a talk he gave on the subject. I attach a screen shot of the relevant paragraph, but if anyone wants the full talk, PM me and I can send it in .pdf format. Of course I only have his word for it! If anyone knows any different, please let me know.

I know this is an old post, but, as a new member I am on catchup. I to have just started collecting Two Pence coins. I have been collecting Copper and bronze Pennies, Halfpennies and Farthings for years. Then I realised that my only two pence coin comes from 1797. I just had to start with the decimal two penny coins.

That could be a good shout. My 1723 shilling has damage just at the critical point, but here is the 3 from my much better half crown. I can see that the sixpence 3 appearance could be due to a chunk missing.

"So what's King Kenny all about???" For some obscure reason my friends called me that when I was at Chippenham College in the early 1970's. My first name is Kenneth but I prefer Ken. Not very interesting but hope this helps.

I’m not overly familiar with the numerals and serifs of the series, but is there any possibility it’s die-fill, or does that throw the shape of the number too much?

Here is my best example of the later Vic florins - 1852 - for comparison. Shame about the scratches due some previous owner's over zealous cleaning. As is so often the case, they are far less visible in hand - the camera seems to pick them up.

I did note that its a degree smaller than the other florins that I have in the set... I did throw me for awhile but Diameter 28 mm is correct. unlike the others at Diameter 28.50 mm 👍

I was just comparing my various 1723 silver coins when I noticed something odd about the 3 in the sixpence date. I checked ESC, which mentions a 3 over 0, but this doesn't look anything like that. Any thoughts?

Mine is very similar to yours. Still very beautiful coins and I love how the Albert ruffled feathers with them

My favourite coin in my collection would be the Gothic Crown, but I have posted that many times before. Second favourite is much more difficult as there are many candidates, but this one is high on the list - 1723 SSC Crown. You see the shillings all the time, but the Crowns are much scarcer.

So what's King Kenny all about???

This is an example currently on ebay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/286858256262?_ul=GB&rb_itemId=286858256262&rb_pgeo=GB&ff=11&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5339059258&toolid=10044&customid=EAIaIQobChMIw4mbmJKCkwMVNZFQBh1XmwlQEAQYASABEgJPmfD_BwE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIw4mbmJKCkwMVNZFQBh1XmwlQEAQYASABEgJPmfD_BwE&wbraid=CkEKCQiA5I_NBhCCARIwAMgyZG8xxosq4BPX_CPxcGrxjS_UTjJ9HmTKiqjU2kNd9LefuQ78iABAQGBdF3BnGgLBPw&gbraid=0AAAAADA7Q_KTN7L5aJF6e68c0HDcbcgrU&adtype=pla&loc_physical_ms=9045836&loc_interest_ms=&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20511325147&gbraid=0AAAAADA7Q_KTN7L5aJF6e68c0HDcbcgrU

That would make sense - hadn't thought of a swivel mount before.

Interesting coin the 5 shilling piece the old age pension was introduced in about 1905 or 6 and all over seventies got five shillings (A crown) to live on . Over the years inflation increased its value to approx. where the old age pension is now £200 .Almost a eight hundred percent increase Funny enough £200 was about the amount I paid for the coin about a year ago , it might fetch £250 now if i was lucky. Lots of strange coincidences there though.