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    1 Shilling - George II Young bust 1739

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    I would say Poor/NF 

    The reason it's so worn is that no silver was struck for currency between 1758 and 1816 (you can forget rarities like the Northumberland shilling, and the 1787 shillings and sixpences were special issues for certain banks customers which is why so many exist in high grade as they mostly didn't circulate). So the poor old George II shillings got so much use before 1816 that it's no wonder they got worn!

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    2 hours ago, Paddy said:

    I think it is a half crown rather than a shilling, but for that the weight should be 15.05g, so still light and therefore dubious.

     

    I agree - it looks kosher so probably a misdiagnosed denomination. But I'd say $150 is still B bit on the steep side for the most common 2/6 in the series.

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    1839 Victorian Penny

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    1 minute ago, Dave Everitt said:

    I see everyone laughing! But to be totally clear, please bear with me and help correct my Cu-era Vic coinage ignorance LOL - I presume that’s a ’38 halfpenny?

    Looking at the size of the legend characters I would say it's a farthing (though not so easy to tell from an angled picture) . A halfpenny is just a bit smaller than the later florin, the farthing is roughly the size of a 6d.

    1839 Victorian Penny

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    23 hours ago, Paddy said:

    Something is wrong here I think. There shouldn't be any 1838 pennies? 

    Are you perhaps looking at a halfpenny instead? Both farthings and halfpennies for 1838 exist. (The changeover from Copper to Bronze means the copper halfpenny is larger than the corresponding bronze halfpenny, so an easy mistake to make.

     

    Definitely a halfpenny. The easy way to tell is to look at the size of the legend characters in relation to Victoria's bust - on the halfpenny they're proportionately much bigger than on the penny.

    The Royal mint 10 sterlings

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    On 2/16/2026 at 12:42 AM, wlewisiii said:

    I'm new to this game and so the 2025 was my first real book about English coinage. It actually confused me at first when people referred to it as Spink 🤣

    Believe me, it was the same in the 90s after Spink took over, but some collectors still referred to it as 'Seaby'!

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    The Royal mint 10 sterlings

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    On 2/12/2026 at 12:18 AM, Rob said:

    You can also get this year's Standard Catalogue of British Coins, otherwise known as Coins of England (COE) 2026, the title now owned by Sovereign Rarities, but before that Spink and before that Seaby's to avoid confusion down the line.

    OMG, I didn't know that. When did it stop being Spink? :o

    3 Pence Hoard 1885 - 1919

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    It's possible they were hoarded for silver value, but if that was the only reason you'd expect the majority to be George V 1911-1919. I don't know when your grandad was getting these, but certainly in the 1920s (when silver hoarders were rife) actual coin collectors didn't rate George V (or even Edward VII) as collectable, as they were 'too modern'. There seems to be a strong element of that here.

    ( <--- irony : "Coin Hoarder" :lol: )

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