sambevan77

brilliant cheers Paddy i will have a look on there, just coming back with a quick update tried finding the "Hollandia" and i think you are correct but i can not find an exact match but some very close even the shape of the lions tail i had to give in on that (fo r now), you were bang on with the Srilankan (see attached) so thanks again for the pointers i will be continuing the quest in spare time and hopefully have updates in the future, I see you found them on the link (only just noticed the text by the link!) thanks again

Hi Paddy thanks for your comprehensive answer, nearly drove myself insane with image searches, identify coin apps and trolling through images online all to no real end but you have given me what i needed to at least look in the right direction and hopefully get a little of the history of these, although as i said in my post that i am not a coin collector i have over the years bought quite a bit of British silver and often wonder where these coins have been and what they have seen (were they at waterloo or in the trenches in WW1?) but up until now my oldest coins are tudor hammered coins so looking forward to using your info to see how old these are, where they are fom and where they have been, thanks again

H i am new to the forum and not a coin collector beyond some old uk coppers i had from my grandfather 40 years ago and the odd silver uk coins i randomly bough tover the years, bu ti bought a job lot of jewelry at an auction (case and contents) and these were in the bottom, obviously i would like someone to tell me i won the lottery but i doubt this if the rest of the contents of the box are anything to go by! but beyond this i would like to know what they are as there are some interesting and old looking coins here the centre coin in top row is 20mm across many thanks